§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will arrange area health authorities in order of listing consequent upon dividing the 1975–76 expenditure of each area health authority in England by the population figures for each area.
§ Mr. MoyleThe information is as follows:
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Area Health Authority 1975–76 revenue expenditure per
head of population
£ Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (T) 192 Camden and Islington (T) 155 Liverpool (T) 148 Manchester (T) 140 Kingston and Richmond 138 Newcastle on Tyne (T) 135 City and East London (T) 134 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (T) 132 Merton, Sutton and Wands-worth (T) 119 Greenwich and Bexley 104 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T) 100 Sheffield (T) 100 Birmingham (T) 100 Avon (T) 99 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 98 Hillingdon 97 Salford (T) 97 Brent and Harrow 94 Wakefield 91 Oxfordshire (T) 89 Bromley 89 Somerset 87 Leeds (T) 85 Northumberland 85 Croydon 83 Barking and Havering 83 Devon 82 Lancashire 82 Kent 81 East Sussex 81 Cambridgeshire (T) 80
Area Health Authority 1975–76 revenue expenditure per
head of population
… £ Suffolk … 80 Hertfordshire … 80 Isle of Wight … 80 Hereford and Worcester … 80 Barnet … 79 Cheshire … 79 North Yorkshire … 79 Sunderland … 77 Hampshire (T) … 77 Cumbria … 76 Surrey … 76 Cleveland … 75 Wirral … 75 Nottinghamshire (T) … 75 Durham … 75 Bradford … 74 Dorset … 74 Northamptonshire … 74 Enfield and Haringey … 74 Lincolnshire … 73 West Sussex … 73 Berkshire … 73 Sefton … 73 Salop … 73 Warwickshire … 72 Kirklees … 72 Coventry … 72 Wolverhampton … 71 Humberside … 71 Essex … 71 Buckinghamshire … 71 Wiltshire … 71 Cornwall … 71 Norfolk … 69 Gloucester … 68 Calderdale … 68 Derbyshire … 65 Stockport … 65 Doncaster … 64 Staffordshire … 64 Bedfordshire … 64 Gateshead … 64 Bolton … 62 Leicestershire (T) … 62 Dudley … 60 Rochdale … 59 Trafford … 59 Solihull … 59 South Tyneside … 57 Oldham … 57 Bury … 57 Wigan … 56 Barnsley … 56 Walsall … 56 Rotherham … 52 St. Helens and Knowsley … 48 North Tyneside … 51 Sandwell … 48 Tameside … 48 "T" denotes a teaching area health authority. Expenditure figures are expressed in terms of the 1975 provisional mid-year estimates of resident populations; the figures are influenced by the payment of London weighting allowance to staff and by the incidence of additional expenditure 678W in the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students.
The population figures used take no account of people who are provided with treatment outside their area of residence nor are they adjusted for differences in the morbidity and age/sex structure of area populations.