The information requested is provided in the following table. This gives a total figure in 2006-07 by strategic health authority (SHA) economy for each SHA and its primary care trusts.
£000 North East SHA 357 North West SHA 18,223 Yorkshire and The Humber SHA 17,211 East Midlands SHA 6,034 West Midlands SHA 14,006 East of England SHA 2,201 London SHA 15,237 South East Coast SHA 7278 South Central SHA 2020 South West SHA 5180 Total 87,747 Source: Department of Health financial returns
The following table gives a breakdown of the Department's £128 million revenue underspend as stated in paragraph 6.4 of the 2006-07 Resource Accounts.
Budget £ million £ million Reasons for under/(over)spend Demand Led European Economic Area (health costs of United Kingdom citizens abroad) 53 — — Welfare Foods 8 — — Family Health Services Dentistry 4 — — Pharmacy -23 — — Total Demand Led budgets 42 Demand led budgets—difficult to accurately predict volume of activity/cost Technical/Provisions — — 2005-06 Accounting Adjustments 20 As part of the year end review of balance sheet codes a number of adjustments were made. These included the reduction to zero of some creditors no longer required in respect of Deposits and Advances, £3.6 million, and health authority impairments £10.9 million. In addition following a review of Partnership for Health published accounts a credit of £5.750 million was made to expenditure in respect of an investment in Partnerships for Health charged incorrectly to operating expenditure in 2005-06. Skipton Fund (Hepatitis C compensation claims) 14 — Level of provisions dependent upon expected level of claims, which was lower than forecast. Ex-Regional Health Authority Retirements 11 — Review of methodology and assumptions for calculating provisions resulted in an underspend against budget. National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group 7 — Review of accounting methodology to bring treatment in line with National Health Service resulted in an underspend against budget. English National Board provisions 4 — Review of methodology and assumptions for calculating provisions resulted in an underspend against budget. Injury Benefits -69 — Review of methodology and assumptions for calculating provisions resulted in an overspend against budget. -13 Other Underspends — — Arms Length Bodies 63 — Underspend due to, in the main, revision of NHS Blood and Transplant corporate strategy, and lower than expected requirements for transition costs funding. Payment by Results 6 — Personal Social Services (PSS) Regulation 5 — £2.5 million due to delays in expansion of domiciliary workers and £2.5 million on various other social care budgets. Healthy Choices 5 — Replanning of website development activity. Communications 4 — Value for money achieved through cheaper advertising. Individual Budget Pilots 2 — Replanning of new PSS Grant in year. Other underspends 14 — Several small variances on many small budgets including £1.5 million arising from exchange rate movements on World Health Organisation budget, £1 million on PSS Grants budgets (dependent upon receipt of valid invoices). — 99 — — Total Central Programme Underspend — 128 —