§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the annual administrative costs of each district or area health authority in England in cash terms and expressed as a percentage of the gross annual budget of each authority, using the most recent available figures.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeIt is very difficult to answer this question in any meaningful way as it is not possible to define "administrative costs" with any precision and the budgets of some health authorities include costs incurred on behalf of other authorities.
The expenditure incurred in 1981–82 on HQ administration alone expressed as a percentage of total expenditure including family practitioner services in the budget of each area health authority in England was as follows:
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Area Health Authority £000s Per cent. Northern Region Cleveland 3,545 3.21 Cumbria 3,031 3.43 Durham 3,524 3.12 Northumberland 1,607 2.59 Gateshead 1,287 3.75 Newcastle on Tyne (T) 2,672 2.37 North Tyneside 1,035 3.89 South Tyneside 928 3.82 Sunderland 1,450 2.38 Yorkshire Region Humberside 5,186 3.27 North Yorkshire 3,684 2.98 Bradford 2,847 2.85 Calderdale 987 2.82
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Area Health Authority £000s Per cent. Kirklees 2,195 3.12 Leeds (T) 4,180 2.54 Wakefield 2,343 3.31 Trent Region Derbyshire 4,745 3.36 Leicestershire (T) 4,850 3.27 Lincolnshire 3,249 3.19 Nottinghamshire (T) 5,669 2.90 Barnsley 1,122 3.02 Doncaster 1,383 2.98 Rotherham 1,220 3.14 Sheffield (T) 3,557 2.51 East Anglian Region Cambridgeshire (T) 3,462 3.00 Norfolk 4,069 2.79 Suffolk 2,845 2.81 North-West Thames Region Bedfordshire 3,336 4.13 Hertfordshire 5,310 3.20 Barnet 2,736 4.58 Brent and Harrow 4,887 3.03 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T) 5,719 4.30 Hillingdon 1,214 2.67 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (T) 7,655 4.26 North-East Thames Region Essex 8,433 3.32 Barking and Havering 2,456 3.18 Camden and Islington (T) 6,075 3.74 City and East London (T) 7,586 4.00 Enfield and Haringey 2,665 3.09 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 3,676 3.45 South-East Thames Region East Sussex 4,477 3.32 Kent 9,069 3.14 Greenwich and Bexley 3,570 3.55 Bromley 2,004 3.30 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (T) 9,604 3.84 South-West Thames Region Surrey 7,048 3.10 West Sussex 3,462 2.91 Croydon 1,995 3.04 Kingston and Richmond 1,775 3.11 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth (T) 6,139 3.24 Wessex Region Dorset 3,615 3.19 Hampshire (T) 6,811 2.55 Wiltshire 4,638 3.61 Isle of Wight 1,068 4.42 Oxford Region Berkshire 3,987 3.05 Buckinghamshire 2,706 3.04 Northamptonshire 3,195 3.40 Oxfordshire (T) 2,709 2.50 South-Western Region Avon (T) 5,741 2.96 Cornwall 2,227 2.86 Devon 5,701 2.75 Gloucester 2,200 2.45 Somerset 2,075 2.64 West Midlands Region Hereford and Worcester 4,042 3.35 Salop 1,476 2.14 Staffordshire 4,144 2.43 Warwickshire 3,200 3.68
Area Health Authority £000s Per cent. Birmingham (T) 6,493 2.46 Coventry 1,571 2.50 Dudley 1,477 3.02 Sandwell 1,482 3.45 Solihull 1,220 4.08 Walsall 1,520 3.54 Wolverhampton 1,252 2.42 Mersey Region Cheshire 5,708 3.21 Liverpool (T) 3,920 2.60 St. Helens and Knowsley 1,441 3.08 Sefton 2,242 2.95 Wirral 2,179 2.93 North-Western Region Lancashire 8,302 2.66 Bolton 1,503 3.34 Bury 1,198 4.29 Manchester (T) 4,260 2.24 Oldham 1,281 3.60 Rochdale 1,203 3.54 Salford (T) 2,026 2.82 Stockport 1,526 2.90 Tameside 1,160 3.29 Trafford 1,361 3.92 Wigan 1,510 3.05 Notes:
1. The figures are derived from annual accounts submitted to the Department by area health authorities. Information held centrally does not permit an analysis by district.
2. Expenditure on administration relates to headquarters at both area and district levels. General administrative expenditure at operational level is excluded.
3. Total expenditure includes all revenue expenditure (including family practitioner services expenditure) and capital expenditure by area health authorities. Capital expenditure by regional health authorities (which accounts for the bulk of NHS capital expenditure) is not included.
4. NHS staff based at Wembley administer the family practitioner services for Barnet, Brent and Harrow, Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow and Hillingdon Area Health Authorities. The expenditure on family practitioner services administration and the associated family practitioner services expenditure for those four areas are included in the figures for Brent and Harrow Area Health Authority.
5. (T) denotes an Area Health Authority (Teaching).
Number of Unemployment Benefit Recipients at 13 May 1982 Weekly rate of personal flat-rate benefit All rates Standard rate (£22–50) Three-Quarter rate (£16–88) Half rate (£11–25) Camberwell All cases 2,530 2,470 60 — Males 1,860 1,840 30 — Females: Total 660 630 30 — Single/divorced 440 440 — — Married/separated 220 190 30 — Widows — — — — England and Wales All cases 863,990 813,830 18,610 15,520 Males 619,150 582,970 10,970 10,010 Females: Total 244,830 230,870 7,640 5,510 Single/divorced 102,630 97,350 2,990 2,230 Married/separated 140,470 132,500 4,610 3,260 Widows 1,730 1,020 40 20 Notes:
(1) Source: Five per cent. sample survey of claimants to unemployment benefit or credits. Total figures shown may not equal the sum of the components, because of rounding.
(2) Figures include persons receiving increases for dependants and/or earnings-related supplement in addition to personal benefit at the stated rates.
(3) In addition to the numbers shown in the last three columns, there were 16,020 cases (none in Camberwell) where benefit was reduced by the provisions for overlapping benefits or abatement for occupational pensions.