National Health Service (Guillebaud Report) (Hansard, 8 February 1961)

§ Dr. Stross

asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he will extend Table 4 in the Report of the Guillebaud Committee, which demonstrates the cost of the National Health Service in relation to national income for England and Wales, so that comparison may be made for each full year since 1948–49;

(2) Whether he will publish in HANSARD an extension of Tables 6 and 7 of the Guillebaud Committee's Report to cover each year from 1948–49 to the last available year;

—	1949–50	1950–51	1951–52	1952–53	1953–54	1954–55
Gross National Product at factor cost (£m.)	10,036	10,502	11,752	12,709	13,532	14,333
Gross Cost of health services (£m.)	381.2	392.8	401.2	452.3	434.8	455.2
Gross Cost as percentage of Gross National Product	3.8	3.7	3.4	3.6	3.2	3.2
Gross Cost at 1949–50 Prices (£m.)	381.2	358.3	343.3	383.1	360.9	366.8
Gross Cost per head of population at 1949–50 Prices	£8 14s.	£8 3s.	£7 17s.	£8 14s.	£8 4s.	£6 8s.
Net Cost of health services to Exchequer (£m.)	298.8	330.3	334.5	370.8	351.9	370.9
Net Cost as percentage of Gross National Product	2.98	3.15	2.85	2.92	2.60	2.59
Net Cost at 1949–50 Prices (£m.)	298.8	301.3	286.2	314.0	292.1	298.9
Net Cost per head of population at 1949–50 Prices	£6 16s.	£6 17s.	£6 11s.	£7 3s.	£6 12s.	£6 15s.

—	1955–56	1956–57	1957–58	1958–59	1959–60
Gross National Product at factor cost (£m.)	15,384	17,021	17,466	17,978	19,010
Gross Cost of health services (£m.)	508.5	575.9	602.4	641.7	689.0
Gross Cost as percentage of Gross National Product	3.3	3.4	3.4	3.6	3.6
Gross Cost at 1949–50 Prices (£m.)	390.8	430.6	438.6	467.2	501.6
Gross Cost per head of population at 1949–50 Prices	£8 16s.	£9 13s.	£9 15s.	£10 7s.	£11 1s.
Net Cost of health services to Exchequer (£m.)	407.4	482.0	481.8	484.4	521.2
Net Cost as percentage of Gross National Product	2.65	2.83	2.76	2.69	2.74
Net Cost at 1949–50 Prices (£m.)	313.1	360.4	350.8	352.7	379.5
Net Cost per head of population at 1949–50 Prices	£7 1s.	£8 1s.	£7 16s.	£7 16s.	£8 7s.
NOTE:
1. All figures are for England and Wales.
2. The Gross National Product figures have been arrived at by taking 89 per cent. of the total for the United Kingdom.
3. The cost figures include both capital and current expenditure. No adjustment has been made for certain changes in the content of the services.
4. The adjustment to 1949–50 prices is based on the price index of consumers' expenditure.

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(3) Whether he will publish in HANSARD a completion of Table 5 of the Guillebaud Committee's Report on the National Health Service up to the last available year; and what would have been the gross cost of the service in that year in terms of prices ruling in 1949–50.