The National Health Service Bodies (Summarised Accounts) Order 2012

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2012-11-06
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Made: 6th November 2012

Laid before Parliament: 7th November 2012

Coming into force: 29th November 2012

Accordingly, the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000, make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and application

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Summarised accounts of NHS bodies other than Special Health Authorities

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Paragraph 7 (requirement to prepare summarised accounts) of Schedule 15 to the National Health Service Act 2006[^f00005] does not apply to the NHS bodies listed in the Schedule for the financial year ending on 31st March 2012.

SCHEDULE — Bodies Specified for 2011-12

Strategic Health Authorities

Primary Care Trusts

National Health Service Trusts

Signed

Desmond Swayne — Stephen Crabb — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 6th November 2012

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

In respect of each financial year paragraph 7 of Schedule 15 to the National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41) (“paragraph 7”) requires the Secretary of State to prepare summarised accounts relating to NHS bodies which are not Special Health Authorities and to transmit those accounts to the Comptroller and Auditor General (“C&AG”) no later than the end of the month of November following the financial year to which the accounts relate. The C&AG is required to examine and certify the summarised accounts and lay copies of them and his report on them before both Houses of Parliament.

Paragraph 7 was repealed by paragraph 125(4) of Schedule 4 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7), but by virtue of article 11(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional, Savings and Transitory Provisions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1831 (C.71)) the repeal does not apply in respect of accounts relating to any financial year up to and including the financial year ending 31st March 2012.

For the financial year ending on 31st March 2012 this Order provides that the requirements in paragraph 7 do not apply to the bodies listed in the Schedule (“the specified bodies”). For that financial year the accounts of the specified bodies will be incorporated into the Department of Health’s resource accounts, which will be audited by the C&AG. Consequently, the Treasury consider it unnecessary for the Secretary of State to also prepare summarised accounts for the specified bodies and for those summarised accounts to be audited by the C&AG.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 c.20; section 5 was amended by Part 9 of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c.14), S.I. 2004/2947, S.I. 2008/948 and section 43(3) of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c.25).

[^f00002]: Section 14 was amended by paragraph 44 of Schedule 8 to the Health Act 2006 (c.28) and paragraph 96 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7). The amendments made by paragraph 96 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 do not apply in respect of accounts relating to any financial year up to and including the financial year ending 31st March 2012; see article 11(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional, Savings and Transitory Provisions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1831 (C.71)).

[^f00003]: 2006 c.41.

[^f00004]: Special Health Authorities are established by orders made under section 28 of the National Health Service Act 2006.

[^f00005]: Paragraph 7 was repealed by paragraph 125(4) of Schedule 4 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The repeal does not apply in respect of accounts relating to any financial year up to and including the financial year ending 31st March 2012; see article 11(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional, Savings and Transitory Provisions) Order 2012.

[^f00006]: On 1st March 2012 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children National Health Service Trust became Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

[^f00007]: On 1st November 2011 North East Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust became North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

[^f00008]: On 1st August 2011 Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital National Health Service Trust became the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

[^f00009]: On 1st March 2012 South Central Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust became South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

[^f00010]: On 1st October 2011 Southampton University Hospitals National Health Service Trust became University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

[^f00011]: On 1st December 2011 West Suffolk Hospitals National Health Service Trust became West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

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