Hospitals (Costs and Expenditure)

HC Deb 04 March 1982 vol 19 c229W

Mr. Michael Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what proportion of Health Service expenditure is currently spent on hospitals;

(2) what is the current level of (a) total and (b) general costs in National Health Service hospitals;

(3) how expenditure on hospital and community health care for the current year is made up in terms of (a) capital expenditure, (b) catering, (c) portering and (d) domestic services.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The annual accounts of regional health authorities, area health authorities and boards of governors in England for 1980–81 show:

	Hospital services	Community health services	Family practitioner and other services
	£ million	£ million	£ million
REVENUE EXPENDITURE
a Direct patient care services	3,564.4	472.2	2,663.6
b General services
(i) Catering	315.9	0.2
(ii) Portering	125.9	0.5
(iii) Domestic/cleaning	364.1	10.7
(iv) Other	7,233.3	113.8
(v) Total	2,039.2	125.2
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE	439.8	34.9	88.5
Total	6,5043.4	632.3	2,752.1
	percentage
	64.1	6.7	29.2