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Efficiency Review

Volume 450: debated on Thursday 26 October 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether her Department has delivered the £2,500 million efficiency review savings expected by 2005-06; and if she will break down by workstream the savings which have been made. (92380)

By the end of March 2006 the Department had delivered £2,799 million of efficiency savings, around £300 million more than the expected figure at this time. The breakdown of efficiency gain is as follows:

£ million

Procurement

l,297

Productive Time

l,210

Social Care

179

Corporate Services

38

Public Funding and Regulation

75

Total

2,799