What we spend and how we spend it
Staff and board members' allowances and expenses
Details of salaries and allowances are detailed within annual reports
Allowances and expenses claimed by staff are underpinned by the Agenda for Change framework
List and value of contracts awarded and their value
This section is limited by the following:
(i) The statements of accounts must have been published by the PCT when the request is made; this occurs by 31 July in the calendar year after the end of the financial year in question. For example, the statement of accounts for the financial year 2006/07 ending 31st March 2007 will only be available from the date it is published - on or before 31 July 2007. Persons requesting a copy before the statement is published will only be entitled to the preceding year’s statement (2005/06).
(ii) The PCT will not publish detailed financial information from the current financial year prior to the publication of the annual statement of accounts or information related to uncompleted tendering processes or contract negotiations.
(iii) The PCT will not publish information that the Director of Finance considers prejudicial to the conduct of public affairs (e.g. audit systems reports). This is exempt information under Section 36 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Budgets and variance reports
Financial audit reports - details to follow
Standing financial instructions
Capital programme - not yet determined
Staff pay and grading structures
Funding - The Government decides how much funding the Department of Health receives and in recent years this amount has been set in three year spending reviews undertaken by HM Treasury. PCTs receive funding in two forms, revenue through a Revenue Resource Limit (RRL) and capital through a Capital Resource Limited (CRL).
Revenue funding covers costs for the commissioning of health services in primary, community and hospital care settings.
Capital funding, which is relatively small for most PCTs, provides for expenditure on assets with a useful life expectancy in excess of one year and with a value greater than £5,000, such as land, buildings and larger pieces of equipment.
Details of PCT allocations are published by the Department of Health in an 'exposition book' which is publicallyl available.
PCTs have the following statutory financial duties:
- not to overspend against capital and revenue finance limits;
- not to breach the cast limit;
- to return 3.5% on net assets employed;
- to demonstrate recovery of all of its costs for its provider services.
In addition PCTs have an obligation to pay 95% of its invoices within 30 days of receiving valid invoice or goods received (whichever the later).
Procurement and tendering procedures - details of tendering and procurement are outlined within the standing financial instructions
Competition and co-operation dispute resolution process
Contracts currently being tendered
Supply to health (for all major NHS contracts)
