To ask the Secretary of State for Health which trusts are part of his Department’s turnaround programme for organisations in particular financial difficulties; and how much funding has been allocated to pay for turnaround teams in 2007-08. (163366)

There is no central turnaround programme in 2007-08. The Department, in conjunction with strategic health authorities, continues to apply best practice learnt from the turnaround programme in recent years and applies this through the usual performance management functions. No central funding has been set aside to pay for turnaround teams.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much of the multi-professional education and training levy allocated to strategic health authorities in 2006-07 was not spent on workforce development in (a) cash terms and (b) as a percentage of overall strategic health authority budgets, broken down by strategic health authority. (163367)

The amounts of the multi-professional education and training (MPET) levy allocated to strategic health authorities (SHAs) in 2006-07 that was not spent on workforce development in cash terms and as a percentage of overall strategic health authority budgets, broken down by strategic health authority, are shown in the following table.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much of the NHS surplus in 2006-07 was accounted for by lower than expected expenditure on items classed as non-cash or capital; and how much of the surplus was used to cover pay costs. (163389)

The Department did not expect the national health service to plan or manage its expenditure on a separate near cash and non-cash basis in 2006-07. Instead, the NHS was expected to live within overall expenditure limits and at least achieve financial balance. The net surplus of £515 million recorded in the audited accounts for 2006-07 represents a revenue surplus only, and is reported after full account was taken by the NHS for pay costs.