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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS hospital trusts (a) did not have a balanced budget in the fiscal year 2008–09 without one-off balancing items; and (b) carried forward historic debts into the current financial year. [HL4745]
The number of National Health Service trusts that did not have a balanced budget in the fiscal year 2008-09 without one-off balancing items is not available from the accounts. Information about carried forward historic debts into the current financial year is given in the following table. This information is taken from the 2008-09 unaudited NHS trust summarisation schedules.
£000 Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust -2,423 Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust -103,553 Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust -37,190 Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust -17,834 Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust -53,949 Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust -1,107 Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust -619 East Cheshire NHS Trust -4,386 Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust -996 George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust -3,727 Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust -38,874 Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust -8,365 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust -3,073 Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust -26,110 Newham University Hospital NHS Trust -3,744 North Bristol NHS Trust -31,573 North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust -5,214 North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust -4,897 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust -21,589 Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust -19,729 Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust -48,438 Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust -38,465 Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust -42,768 Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust -22,674 Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust -7,438 Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust -18,721 Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust -22,921 South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust -7,717 St George's Healthcare NHS Trust -30,380 Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust -47,098 The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust -9,337 The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust -2,930 The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust -892 Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust -2,289 University Hospital of North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust -7,625 West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust -4,513 West Middlesex University NHS Trust -16,786 West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust -5,016 Weston Area Health NHS Trust -13,826 Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust -24,207 Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust -2,001 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust -22,179 Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust -5,035 Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust -20,430
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2008-09 NHS Trust unaudited summarisation schedules.