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Mr. Cousins
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what practical and financial assistance he proposes to offer to health authorities in the compilation of asset registers.
Mr. Freeman
Health authorities have been given details of the pilot studies of asset recording as noted in paragraph 4.2 of working paper No. 5 "Capital Charges" together with details of asset register software which is available to them free of charge. The Department is forming a capital charges unit, headed by an experienced and professionally qualified financial manager seconded from the NHS, which will be available to advise authorities.