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Written question asked by Lord Lansley (Conservative) on Thursday, 17 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 21 November 2005. It was answered by Liam Byrne (Labour) on Monday, 6 February 2006 on behalf of the Department of Health.

NHS Finance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health further to her statement of 15 November 22005, Official Report, column 849, on NHS finance, if she will publish the analysis from which her statement was derived, with the cost increase between 1999–2000 and 2004–05 broken down by (a) medical secretaries, (b) record keepers, (c) health educators, (d) IT technicians, (e) financial managers, (f) caterers, (g) launderers, (h) cleaners and (i) all other staff; and what proportion of the total NHS budget was spent on administrative staff, as defined in her statement, in (i) 1999–2000 and (ii) 2004–05.
Answer

Information on cost increases for the specific staff categories requested is not collected centrally.The analysis of administration as a proportion of the total national health service budget calculated to 2003–04 is shown in the table.

£000
1999–2000 2003–04
Administration spend 2,158,000 3,345,000
Total NHS spend 40,201,000 63,001,000
Administration as percentage of NHS spend 5.4 5.3

Administration spend includes administration costs in health authorities and primary care trusts and management costs in NHS trusts¹.NHS Administration Cost figures for 2004–5 are not directly comparable due to a change in collection methods²."Sources:"¹ Audited summarisation schedules of health authorities, strategic health authorities, primary care trusts and NHS trusts for 1999–2000 and 2003–04 as appropriate. ² Admin and Clerical figures from Admin and Estates Staffing Costs (cash terms).

2004–05 (£ million)
Administration spend 3,412
Total NHS spend 69,706
Administration as percentage of NHS spend 4.9

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
442 c980-1W;442 c980-1W; 31098
Session
2005-06
Related items
NHS Finance
Tuesday, 15 November 2005
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons
Administrative Costs
Monday, 6 February 2006
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Administration Finance Expenditure NHS
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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