§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is (a) the revenue and (b) capital amounts spent by each area health authority per head of population in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Dr. VaughanThe information requested is shown in the following table:
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Area Health Authorities—1979–80 Revenue and Capital Expenditure per Head of Population Revenue £ Capital £ NORTHERN REGION Cleveland 135 13 Cumbria 132 8 Durham 129 8 Northumberland 148 5 Gateshead 120 7 Newcastle on Tyne (T) 275 18 North Tyneside 103 5 213W
Revenue £ Capital £ South Tyneside 109 3 Sunderland 148 7 YORKSHIRE REGION Humberside 129 10 North Yorkshire 129 5 Bradford 149 7 Calderdale 128 4 Kirklees 132 6 Leeds (T) 160 11 Wakefield 160 14 TRENT REGION Derbyshire 111 10 Leicestershire (T) 120 8 Lincolnshire 132 5 Nottinghamshire (T) 138 14 Barnsley 122 7 Doncaster 115 3 Rotherham 114 6 Sheffield (T) 189 17 EAST ANGLIAN REGION Cambridgeshire (T) 138 12 Norfolk 145 17 Suffolk 121 6 NORTH-WEST THAMES REGION Bedfordshire 113 10 Hertfordshire 120 6 Barnet 178 7 Brent and Harrow 156 6 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T) 175 5 Hillingdon 175 11 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (T) 341 13 NORTH-EAST THAMES REGION Essex 123 5 Barking and Havering 140 6 Camden and Islington (T) 313 12 City and East London (T) 228 18 Enfield and Haringey 133 8 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 168 7 SOUTH-EAST THAMES REGION East Sussex 146 6 Kent 140 7 Greenwich and Bexley 182 6 Bromley 151 8 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (T) 243 10 SOUTH-WEST THAMES REGION Surrey 160 8 West Sussex 128 7 Croydon 146 7 Kingston and Richmond 138 6 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth (T) 221 11 WESSEX REGION Dorset 132 8 Hampshire (T) 125 7 Wiltshire 169 11 Isle of Wight 142 10 OXFORD REGION Berkshire 136 4 Buckinghamshire 115 5 Northamptonshire 126 5 Oxfordshire (T) 145 9 SOUTH-WESTERN REGION Avon (T) 148 7 Cornwall 127 8
Revenue £ Capital £ Devon 149 9 Gloucester 126 8 Somerset 134 7 WEST MIDLANDS REGION Hereford and Worcester 137 6 Salop 132 6 Staffordshire 118 9 Warwickshire 131 6 Birmingham (T) 185 6 Coventry 135 6 Dudley 120 20 Sandwell 98 6 Solihull 106 5 Walsall 115 8 Wolverhampton 140 13 MERSEY REGION Cheshire 134 12 Liverpool (T) 210 13 St. Helens and Knowsley 91 4 Sefton 179 8 Wirral 147 15 NORTH-WESTERN REGION Lancashire 150 15 Bolton 120 12 Bury 109 10 Manchester (T) 270 18 Oldham 114 9 Rochdale 112 4 Salford (T) 194 18 Stockport 125 8 Tameside 110 6 Trafford 113 9 Wigan 113 11 Notes:
1. "T" denotes an area health authority (teaching) and the relative expenditure figures are influenced by additional expenditure on the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students.
2. The figures are influenced by the payment of London weighting allowance to staff employed in those areas concerned.
3.The expenditure figures used have been taken from the annual accounts submitted by the authorities for 1979–80.Capital expenditure included in the accounts of regional health authorities which is identified as appropriate to specified areas has been included in the expenditure per head of population of those areas.
The residual capital expenditure and all revenue expenditure of each regional health authority has been regarded as appropriate to that region's entire population and an identical amount per head has been included in the figures for the areas contained within each respective region.
Such expenditure varies between regions but amounts on average to some £3 per head for revenue and about £1 per head for capital.
4.The population figures used are the mid-year estimates of resident population for 1979—the latest available. It is emphasised that these figures make no allowance for people resident in one area who receive treatment in another or for the differences in morbidity and age/sex structure of particular populations.