Primary Care Trusts
Health
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much purchaser protection adjustment she expects to be lost to each primary care trust in each of the next three years.
Liam Byrne (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Birmingham, Hodge Hill, Labour)
holding answer
The 2006–07 payment by results transitional adjustments for commissioners are based on giving primary care trusts 50 per cent. purchaser parity. No decision has yet been made on these adjustments beyond 2006–07.