Health Services: Training

Mr. Lansley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what (a) funding for training purposes was provided to and (b) expenditure on training was made by each strategic health authority in 2006-07;

(2) pursuant to the answer of 8 May 2007, Official Report, column 162W, on the NHS: training, what funding for training purposes was allocated to strategic health authorities (SHAs) in 2006-07, broken down by SHA; and what the actual expenditure on training was in each authority.

Ms Rosie Winterton
The funding provided to strategic health authorities for training and education in 2006-07 is shown in the following table.

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|Strategic health authority (SHA)|Total MPET allocations (£000)|
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|East Midlands SHA               |276,532                      |
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|East of England SHA             |291,090                      |
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|London SHA                      |898,301                      |
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|North East SHA                  |199,527                      |
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|North West SHA                  |499,511                      |
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|South Central SHA               |256,782                      |
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|South East Coast SHA            |201,456                      |
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|South West SHA                  |308,193                      |
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|West Midlands SHA               |350,911                      |
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|Yorkshire and Humberside SHA    |484,048                      |
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|England Total                   |3,766,349                    |
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The actual amount spent on education for 2006-07 is not yet known.

The Department of Health is in the process of collecting returns relating to expenditure on education and training in 2006-07. Validated data are expected to be available by the end of June 2007.