To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2007, Official Report, column 1118W, on departmental public expenditure, how much (a) near cash, (b) non cash and (c) capital expenditure was moved from each year; and to which year it was moved in the reprofiling of the Department’s budgets. (178012)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 3 September 2007, Official Report, column 1867W to the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban).

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to paragraph 6.2 of his Department’s resource accounts for 2006-07, for what reason the setting up of individual budget pilots was delayed, and by how long. (178272)

The individual budgets underspend reported in the Department’s resource accounts was not due to any delay in setting up the pilots as mistakenly stated. Unspent funds in 2006-07 were carried forward for use to 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to paragraph 12, page 33 of his Department’s resource accounts for 2006-07, which risks were (a) added to and (b) removed from his Department’s high-level risk register in 2006-07. (178276)

The “Department of Health Departmental Report 2007” contains examples of key risk areas included on the Department’s risk register during 2006-07. A copy of the report is available in the Library.

The Department’s risk register is a live document which is continuously updated and informs advice to Ministers from senior officials in the Department, and discussions between the Department and top management in the national health service and social care about key issues in policy, resourcing and service management and development. The risk register is not a public document.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to paragraph 10, page 60 of his Department’s resource accounts for 2006-07, if he will break down the other non-cash items charged to operating expenditure. (178283)

Other non-cash expenditure of £5,548,000 credited to operating expenditure can be analysed as follows;

credit of £5,750,000 in respect of an investment in Partnerships for Health previously charged to operating expenditure in 2005-06;

credit of £37,000 in respect of additional staff loans being brought onto the Department’s balance sheet; and

charge of £238,000 in respect of consolidated fund extra receipts receivable incorrectly included in the 2005-06 accounts and amended in 2006-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to paragraph 10, page 60 of his Department’s resource accounts for 2006-07, what stock items his Department was required to write-off; what bad debt expenses occurred; and what the value of each item was in each category. (178284)

The stock write-off and bad debt expenses of £3,728,000 can be analysed as follows;

£2,096,000 stock write off is in respect of childhood vaccines that had date expired or were damaged and unusable.

£1,515,000 write-off of development costs for seven national decontamination of surgical instruments schemes

99 minor claims totalling £117,000 have been abandoned on value for money grounds.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the publication of the NHS in England’s Operating Framework for 2008-09, how much of the addition to his Department’s baseline expenditure in 2008-09, set out on page 207 of the 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, has not been allocated to primary care trusts, broken down into resource and capital resources. (178291)

The following table shows the current disposition of additional funds for 2008-09.