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NHS: Loans

Volume 468: debated on Monday 26 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 29 October 2007, Official Report, column 890W, on NHS: loans, when his Department estimates that the £777,881,000 in loans issued to NHS trusts in the UK on 22 March 2007 will be paid back. (167852)

The loans issued to NHS trusts on 22 March 2007 will be repaid in accordance with the loan terms shown in the following table:

Organisation name

Loan value (£000)

Loan term (years)

Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust

14,700

6

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

5,000

5

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

17,500

4

Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust

4,500

3

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

29,322

6

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

6,250

2

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

7,800

5

East Cheshire NHS Trust

7,000

3

East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust

4,000

4

Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

14,000

3

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

6,800

5

Heatherwood and Wrexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust

3,000

4

Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust

3,279

3

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

10,896

5

Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust

1,500

2

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

23,400

7

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

6,604

2

Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust

11,000

3

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

23,400

5

North Bristol NHS Trust

52,000

20

North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust

8,800

3

North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

12,000

15

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

15,000

5

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust

10,000

1

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

23,830

5

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

5,600

2

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

9,600

3

Nuffield Orthopaedic NHS Trust

1,000

2

Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust

19,986

6

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

2,500

4

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

8,415

2

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

13,650

5

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Trust

6,300

3

Rob Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS Trust

3,400

3

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust

38,000

20

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

9,000

2

Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust

7,646

5

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

12,299

3

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust

1,115

2

South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust

28,000

4

South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust

18,500

8

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

25,000

4

St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust

34,000

5

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

56,000

25

The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust

23,000

14

Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust

1,700

3

United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust

20,300

20

University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust

6,500

3

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

11,200

5

West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust

1,950

3

Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust

36,094

9

Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust

5,000

4

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

25,000

5

Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

5,632

5

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust

17,005

8

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

2,908

1

Total

777,881

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts propose to declare interest payments on the loans given on 22 March 2007 on their end of year balance sheets in future financial years. (167888)

National health service trusts declare interest payable on the loans issued on 22 March 2007 in their annual financial statements under the ‘Interest Payable’ heading on the face of the Income and Expenditure Account, and provide a more detailed breakdown of this figure in the associated note to the financial statements.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts in receipt of loans issued on 22 March 2007 (a) included the loans on their end of year balance sheets for the financial year 2006-07 and (b) propose to include the loans on their end of year balance sheets for 2007-08. (167889)

Under national health service accounting policies, as set out in the NHS finance manual, NHS trusts are required to include the outstanding value of loan principal on their balance sheets from the time the loan is issued until such time as the principal is fully repaid.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total annual interest payable on the £777.881 in loans issued to NHS trusts on 22 March 2007 will be. (167890)

The total interest payable in 2007-08 on the £777.881 million of loans issued to national health service trusts on 22 March 2007 is £38.705 million. The interest payable each year is calculated on the outstanding value of loan principal, and therefore reduces in future years as loan principal is repaid.