Written question asked by Lord Lansley (Conservative) on Tuesday, 8 February 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 9 March 2005. It was answered by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Labour) on Wednesday, 9 March 2005 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget of the Counter Fraud and Security Management Service and its predecessor the NHS Counter Fraud Service has been in each year since September 1998. - Inc table and figures.

Answer: Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget of the Counter Fraud and Security Management Service and its predecessor the NHS Counter Fraud Service has been in each year since September 1998. [216142] Ms Rosie Winterton: The budgetary allocation for national health service counter fraud service is shown in the following table. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Budgetary allocation resource from the Department1 1999-2000 4.15 2000-01 4.25 2001-02 5.44 2002-03 6.10 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 This was increased in 2003-04 to £14.71 million when responsibility was assumed for the security management service.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 431 c1904-5W;431 c1898W; 216142
Session: 2004-05
Subjects: Corruption Fraud Finance NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk