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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (a) how many staff are employed and (b) what the total budget in 2003-04 is for the (i) Commission for Health Improvement, (ii) National Institute for Clinical Excellence, (iii) Food Standards Agency, (iv) National Care Standards Commission, (v) General Social Care Council and (vi) Health and Safety Executive. [128332] Mr. Hutton: The Health and Safety Executive is an executive non-Departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions. The other information requested is shown in the following table: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Body Number of staff Total budget for 2003-04 (£ million) Commission for Health Improvement 347 35 National Institute for Clinical Excellence 43 17.8 Foods Standards Agency Meat Hygiene Service 738 119 1,597 28 National Care Standards Commission 2,400 133.3 General Social Care Council 115 52.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: (i) The staff numbers are the latest available figures expressed as whole-time equivalents. (ii) The Total Budgets shown are estimated plan forecasts. (iii) The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is a non-Ministerial Department, governed by a Board, and accountable to Parliament and the devolved administrations through Health Ministers. The Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) is an executive agency of FSA.) (iv) The total budget of the FSA includes £8.277 million from the devolved administrations and payments to the MHS in respect of specified risk material (SRM) (v) FSA staff figures are on a UK basis and include all workers (eg temporary contract workers).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

128332; 410 c973W;410 c971W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Finance Health and Safety Executive Food Standards Agency General Social Care Council Public expenditure Staff National Care Standards Commission National Institute for Clinical Excellence Department of Health Commission for Health Improvement

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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