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NHS: Finance

Volume 461: debated on Wednesday 20 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the estimated cost to the NHS is expected to be of implementing agenda for change in each of the years to 2011-12. (135767)

The estimated cost to the national health service of implementing agenda for change in each of the years up to 2007-08 is:

£ million

2004-05

590

2005-06

1,060

2006-07

1,390

2007-08

1,780

Estimates beyond 2007-08 are not available at present.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of funding for the NHS was spent on staff whose roles do not involve providing care for patients in the latest period for which figures are available. (139800)

The information is not collected in the format requested. However, it is possible to illustrate the total amount spent on the pay of non-clinical national health service staff as a percentage of the total NHS budget. The total pay bill for non-clinical staff in 2005-06 (the latest year for which we have data) was £6,824 million which was 9.3 per cent. of the total NHS net spend of £73,677 billion for that year.