HC Deb 19 December 1983 vol 51 cc58-63W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for each district and for each year since 1979 the total expenditure on laundry and the expenditure on services provided by private laundry companies;

(2) if he will give for each district and for each year since 1979 the total expenditure on catering and the expenditure on services provided by private catering companies;

(3) if he will give for each district and for each year since 1979 the total expenditure on cleaning and the expenditure on services provided by private cleaning companies.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

The annual accounts submitted to the Department by district health authorities in England for 1982–83 show the following information. Figures on a district basis for the earlier years (that is before NHS restructuring) are not held centrally.

Catering Domestic/Cleaning Laundry
District Health Authority Total expenditure Private contracts Total expenditure Private contracts Total expenditure Private contracts
£ £ £ £ £ £
Southern Derbyshire 3,824,712 1,460 3,549,492 66,429 529,688 5,763
Leicestershire 5,084,744 3,181 6,004,626 63,920 726,956 15,802
North Lincolnshire 2,108,956 2,579,507 31,898 306,394 29,186
South Lincolnshire 1,791,749 2,002,574 11,349 301,630 12,199
Bassetlaw 438,967 425,166 8,354 98,651 306
Central Nottinghamshire 2,120,089 2,288 2,180,593 12,980 270,618 5,592
Nottingham 3,862,753 2,383 6,647,234 44,564 1,149,057 16,222
Barnsley 1,322,315 6,337 1,479,183 20,391 252,195 20,237
Doncaster 1,918,398 1,484,106 7,561 261,833 3,054
Rotherham 1,277,411 45 1,369,104 16,982 228,725 13,872
Sheffield 5,026,200 3,898 7,649,295 41,001 734,231 50,107
East Anglian Region
Cambridge 1,928,716 2,148,737 709,405 437,149 5,260
Peterborough 1,597,503 1,526,935 8,616 275,129 573
West Suffolk 1,403,952 1,493,588 35,118 361,884
East Suffolk 2,301,728 2,747,391 11,125 478,605 794
Norwich 3,634,200 4,191,089 41,133 397,363 15,892
Great Yarmouth 1,214,618 1,210,192 10,010 236,110 1,573
West Norfolk and Wisbech 914,046 1,193,609 9,021 186,786 602
Huntingdon 269,125 466,526 21 80,364
North West Thames Region
North Bedfordshire 1,106,218 1,585,221 12,227 232,605 2,488
South Bedfordshire 1,379,125 1,856,134 21.115 387,626 259,826
North Hertfordshire 949,646 1,179,701 21,796 128,436 1,513
East Hertforshire 626,800 890,011 78,734 216,374 32,280
North West Hertfordshire 2,416,039 2,338,110 19.715 392,982 3,816
South West Hertfordshire 1,717,913 2,166,382 18,928 277,021 33,935
Barnet 2,874,006 11,840 3,813,626 47,230 570,059 2,061
Harrow 1,441,473 2,175,038 43,220 205,875 136,620
Hillingdon 1,296,614 2,430,569 17,751 272,762 2,114
Hounslow and Spelthorne 1,655,905 2,664,789 15,292 418,989 180,952
Ealing 1,754,325 2,279,767 43,269 308,681 19,844
Brent 2,207,549 2,347,954 2,951 257,778 1,470
Paddington 2,074,787 3,378,280 43,582 175,898 34,625
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,413,579 2,749,217 70,445 379,762 66,576
Victoria 3,131,349 4,351,424 229,255 560,713 367,172
North East Thames Region
Basildon and Thurrock 1,679,871 2,653,343 26,190 402,444
Mid Essex 1,074,900 12 1,678,114 22,697 429,440 14,232
North East Essex 2,501,503 2,628,909 42,767 436,622
West Essex 1,217,330 45 1,533,570 42,532 215,659 3,586
Southend 1,904,065 2,066,882 25,002 320,319 262,225
Barking/Havering/Brentwood 2,721,236 3,722,372 28,288 539,132 32,519
Hampstead 2,578,311 3,298,220 25,459 413,539
Bloomsbury 4,444,271 6,319,200 106,056 808,906 488,208
Islington 1,906,401 3,528 2,545,654 22,205 259,809 6,192
City and Hackney 2,561,563 4,438,082 118,458 322,380 18,674
Newham 1,157,809 3,186 2,001,500 15,923 269,863 5,923
Tower Hamlets 1,752,287 11,368 3,389,936 109.156 423,067 14,863
Enfield 892,414 1,840,957 220,318
Haringey 1,072,273 2,116,480 21,684 367,353 71,368
Redbridge 1,467,121 1,915,857 404,763 274,819 803
Waltham Forest 2,758,305 3,992,166 30,109 351,474 14,493
South East Thames Region
Brighton 1,824,938 2,299,194 30,823 274,189 23,685
Eastbourne 1,416,096 1,877,345 6,848 381,033 48,844
Hastings 1,102,880 351 1,196,161 8,455 269,181 5,564
South East Kent 1,094,475 1,696,589 31,161 418,981 12,289
Canterbury and Thanet 2,236,372 2,756,721 44,759 610,322 6,383
Dartford and Gravesham 1,994,725 2,936,981 24,212 397,388 8,796
Maidstone 1,326,598 1,887,638 26,326 274,913 21,268
Medway 1,004,125 1,296,955 242,629 221,424 5,337
Tunbridge Wells 1,783,280 2,555,342 20,280 401,947 33,118
Bexley 1,501,882 1,983,486 13,752 272,161 25,191
Greenwich 2,563,637 3,299,028 10,598 309,176 15,988
Bromley 2,239,800 3,095,353 11,022 472,263 20,982
West Lambeth 3,096,720 4,600,988 58,933 394,985 280,251
Camberwell 2,616,121 3,326,892 37,068 424,304 30,623
Lewisham and North Southwark 3,256,608 35,370 5,158,165 86,513 523,212 23,280

Catering Domestic/Cleaning Laundry
District Health Authority Total expenditure Private contracts Total expenditure Private contracts Total expenditure Private contracts
£ £ £ £ £ £
South West Thames Region
North West Surrey 1,619,520 1,969,887 21,299 186,830 17,405
West Surrey/North East Hants 1,680,073 2,053,323 16,763 347,086 541
South West Surrey 1,122,443 1,573,701 16,922 247,557 212
Mid Surrey 2,171,652 2,133,546 40,176 386,406 37,074
East Surrey 1,987,231 366 2,036,501 171,331 484,153 11,937
Chichester 1,121,466 1,062,778 16,303 78,820 4,200
Mid Downs 1,590,582 526 1,688,814 24,428 289,629 57,229
Worthing 858,502 479 1,281,595 12,424 161,365 7,827
Croydon 2,422,273 3,269,026 18,208 730,533 6,009
Kingston and Esher 1,811,478 26,722 2,356,403 54,984 437,198 16,755
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 1,249,374 1,952,226 34,244 509,969 312,088
Wandsworth 3,426,115 11,184 4,511,386 21,723 438,222 115,289
Merton and Sutton 2,601,720 17,289 3,721,159 74,417 829,841 22,177
Wessex Region
East Dorset 2,211,836 2,566,486 15,224 326,606 18,545
West Dorset 1,567,386 1,649,347 5,181 292,163 13,458
Portsmouth and South East Hants 2,850,550 3,263,596 17,666 424,160 17,797
Southampton and South West Hants 3,211,468 4,259,338 31,260 462,948 5,792
Winchester 947,486 1,123,328 36,158 178,173 124,333
Basingstoke and North Hants 1,584,926 2,119,682 16,171 211,220 13,853
Salisbury 1,184,940 993,083 4,135 175,073 4,127
Swindon 1,284,578 1,240,061 1,980 197,105 990
Bath 2,555,466 2,465,514 16,078 382,832 226
Isle of Wight 820,781 846,735 5,481 145,762 33,056
Oxford Region
East Berkshire 1,989,841 8 2,130,676 24,555 374,869 55,568
West Berkshire 2,619,302 3,295,122 31,755 412,669 12,165
Aylesbury 1,222,460 1,768,446 181,686 327,871 265,741
Wycombe 792,470 897,097 3,874 219,977 213,943
Milton Keynes 193,752 252,077 1,838 71,789 37
Kettering 960,285 1,225,773 5,481 318,512 784
Northampton 1,882,220 2,050,130 12,188 698,139 6,703
Oxford 3,166,194 8,078 3,687,761 322,075 629,609 5,302
South Western Region
Bristol and Weston 2,649,458 6,813 3,033,075 5,972 344,841 13,303
Frenchay 2,316,850 4,010 2,324,432 15,447 344,132 1,921
Southmead 1,761,360 3,684 2,204,679 12,178 600,864 404,626
Cornwall 2,908,831 2,666,741 27,129 571,866 82,037
Exeter 3,505,408 262 3,069,716 26,302 406.883 5,750
North Devon 668,379 718,767 3,208 157,825 2,998
Plymouth 1,989,212 2,590,947 33,195 514,614 6,224
Torbay 938,386 1,152,502 5,633 187,675 732
Cheltenham 851,060 977,565 2,006 306,318 246,485
Gloucester 1,945,344 2,180,496 12,539 270,257 11,225
Somerset 2,948,265 15,530 3,002,021 24,189 396,313 2,849
West Midlands Region
Bromsgrove and Redditch 868,972 779,002 1,452 16,830 5,183
Hereford 1,066,987 731,997 4,593 166,314 260
Kidderminster 1,209,860 907,289 6,286 324,997 4,491
Worcester 1,500,689 1.057 1,559,850 25,019 272,996 14,600
Shropshire 2,296,944 2,307,042 14,825 426,647 857
Mid-Staffordshire 1,140,334 1,206,357 16,362 216,410 7,542
North-Staffordshire 2,992,317 3,890,458 28,509 453,519 21,397
South East Staffordshire 1,634,939 1,153,180 11,468 267,924
Rugby 340,020 296,660 2,825 98,779 95,676
North Warwickshire 1,228,374 2,142 1,075,426 8,234 270,647 5,935
South Warwickshire 1,699,169 1,695,959 19,364 261,058 14,710
Central Birmingham 2,494,020 357 2,925,680 78,310 387,151 13,729
East Birmingham 1,107,398 1,177,917 4,646 25,688 2,647
North Birmingham 1,474,322 1,026 1,200,750 13,763 345,832
South Birmingham 2,369,663 5,599 2,555,524 19,519 171,599 2,155
West Birmingham 2,666,194 4,863 2,740,920 31,480 400,811 8,107
Coventry 2,388,358 1,743,928 17,725 264,024 100,587
Dudley 1,610,858 1,771,800 24,984 306,822 3,010
Sandwell 1,036,339 1,234,550 9,909 339,291 5,788
Solihull 929,778 1,004,092 22,185 236,627 4,040

Catering Domestic/Cleaning Laundry
District Health Authority Total expenditure Private contracts Total expenditure Private contracts Total expenditure Private contracts
£ £ £ £ £ £
Walsall 1,643,242 6,923 1,701,126 40,938 271,657 48,446
Wolverhampton 2,159,323 1,995,843 19,383 306,611 24,334
Mersey Region
Chester 1,635,758 1,780,507 16,989 199,886 12,908
Crewe 1,553,368 1,776,228 19,386 321,120 12,928
Halton 425,068 451,182 6,701 105,211 39,392
Macclesfield 1,403,502 19,507 1,464,877 13,814 329,000 6,363
Warrington 2,181,835 2,014,822 1,903 508,392 5,726
Liverpool 4,151,438 6,627,668 71,798 1,285,071 18,747
St. Helens and Knowsley 2,115,349 2,265,871 29,587 437,117 7,330
Southport and Formby 918,830 1,217,186 4,430 254,876 973
South Sefton 1,910,028 367 2,269,572 7,198 321,968 38,883
Wirral 2,731,598 2,974,008 9,378 1,104,110 64
North Western Region
Lancaster 1,997,344 1,925,533 16,044 326,830 7,033
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 1,807,080 861 1,828,705 14,401 305,211 612
Preston 2,634,503 2,520,522 4,313 499,888 76,893
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 2,592,854 2,560,007 24,259 512,222 3,856
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 2,430,228 2,396,913 14,347 376,509 13,312
West Lancashire 764,134 776,391 3,519 220,189 50,181
Chorley and South Ribble 413,315 490,178 4,609 95,686 3,296
Bolton 1,420,815 1,445,958 24,104 292,959
Bury 758,156 813,668 8,188 270,671 247,151
North Manchester 2,452,533 2,681,117 35,460 287,155 7,758
Central Manchester 1,864,445 2,263,480 33,680 268,089 4,801
South Manchester 2,613,617 3,256,339 67,767 448,507 13,094
Oldham 862,251 1,213,261 231 389,974 299,275
Rochdale 1,004,475 807,489 16,701 146,746 5,319
Salford 2,922,246 3,017,724 106,334 545,363 12,536
Stockport 1,819,508 1,856,399 32,793 380,113 40,822
Tameside and Glossop 892,547 1,178,176 22,923 112,279 2,597
Trafford 1,004,226 1,006,265 18,371 284,990 4,583
Wigan 1,545,146 1,484,179 8,686 329,403