AQW 24408/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the cost of administrating the payment of Direct Payments.
Asked by Nuala McAllister MLA on 13 March 2025
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 13 March 2025
- Answer due by
- 31 March 2025
- Answered
- 31 March 202518 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The cost of administering Direct Payments would be a cost to each of the Health and Social Care Trusts and my department would not hold this information.
The amount paid out by each HSC Trust in the last quarter of 2024 is listed on the table below:
| TRUST | AMOUNT PAID DURING QUARTER OCT- DEC 2024 |
| BHSCT | £3,312,658.51 |
| NHSCT | £3,492,656.81 |
| SEHSCT | £4,471,473.93 |
| SHSCT | £3,890,005.22 |
| WHSCT | £5,863,182.47 |
| TOTAL | £21,029,976.94 |
(These amounts include one-off payments which ceased during the quarter)
The total amount paid at quarter end on the 31st December 2023 was £18,511,214.63 and at quarter end on the 31st December 2022 was £16,665,518.64, therefore indicating a rise in the uptake of Direct payments regionally.