Written question asked by Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 3 February 1999, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 February 1999. It was answered by Baroness Jowell (Labour) on Monday, 22 February 1999 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list his Department's expenditure on the health technology assessment for each year from 1992 to 1998. - Inc table and ref to Annual Report of the NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme 1998.

Answer: Dr. Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list his Department's expenditure on the health technology assessment for each year from 1992 to 1998. [69781] Ms Jowell: Expenditure in the National Health Service Health Technology Assessment Programme from 1992 to 1998 was as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year £ million 1992-93 nil 1993-94 nil 1994-95 nil 1995-96 1.8 1996-97 4.4 1997-98 3.8 1998-99 {1}6.3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Estimate Copies of the "Annual Report of the NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme 1998" will be placed in the Library. This report gives details of expenditure by project.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 69781; 326 c128W
Session: 1998-99
Subjects: Finance NHS Medical treatments Medicine Research Health Technology Assessment Programme
Contains statistics: Yes