§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the Official Report a breakdown by region of hospital expenditure on administration and medical care separately for the year 1974–75.
§ Dr. OwenProcessing of the accounts received for 1974–75 is not yet completed, but provisional figures for that year are shown below. Boards of governors, which are not administered by regional health authorities, have been shown separately, for information. The figures in the column headed "Administration" cover both salaries and other expenses of 191W local administration in hospitals, but exclude expenditure on district, area and regional headquarters. Those under "Medical Care" represent remuneration of medical practitioners in hospitals and exclude the cost of nursing and support services and of medical personnel employed on administrative duties at district, area and regional headquarters.
Regional Health Authority Medical Care Administration £ £ Northern 11,597,385 5,754,062 Yorkshire 11,437,717 6,647,847 Trent 12,328,145 7,537,215 East Anglian 5,538,013 3,499,724 North-West Thames 15,370,266 11,263,030 North-East Thames 16,926,006 11,405,263 South-East Thames 14,241,350 10,121,163 South-West Thames 10,702,180 8,407,162 Wessex 8,145,099 5,061,086 Oxford 7,270,963 4,618,292 South-Western 9,077,284 6,443,929 West Midlands 17,107,956 10,620,477 Mersey 8,909,114 5,255,103 North-Western 13,877,340 8,447,005 Total 162,528,818 105,081,358 Boards of Governors 4,589,645 2,849,633 Grand Total 167,118,463 107,930,991