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Health Authorities (Uncollected Income)

Volume 83: debated on Monday 22 July 1985

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the health authorities where estimates of annual income uncollected have been given by statutory auditors, giving the estimate for each health authority.

In their reports on the audit of the accounts of health authorities for 1983–84 statutory auditors gave estimates of income uncollected. However, these figures do not cover income in respect of private patients alone. They also include income from other unrelated non-NHS activities and due under the Road Traffic Acts. The estimates were as follows:

£
Bradford DHA5,500
Darlington DHA20,000
Sheffield DHA9,000
Nottingham DHA24,377
Lewisham and North Southwark DHA21,360
Camberwell DHA55,650
Merton and Sutton DHA1,450
National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases SHA133,646
Oxfordshire DHA7,918
Coventry DHA45,000
Torbay DHA1,000
North Birmingham DHA11,154
Shropshire DHA2,110
Durham DHA3,600
Calderdale DHA24,941
Airedale DHA800