§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what would be the relative financial
Region Hospital services expenditure Community health and family practitioner services Other services expenditure Total expenditure by health authorities £ £ £ £ Northern 148.10 72.06 19.15 249.31 Yorkshire 143.93 70.76 17.74 232.43 Trent 135.29 66.17 15.94 217.39 East Anglian 135.72 69.96 17.69 223.37 North West Thames 161.05 75.35 19.02 255.41 North East Thames 191.42 71.66 20.86 283.94 South East Thames 168.84 74.39 21.43 264.66 South West Thames 162.99 75.12 21.47 259.59 Wessex 135.63 72.17 16.77 224.57 Oxford 121.40 68.20 17.55 207.15 South Western 136.61 72.24 17.87 226.72 West Midlands 135.54 69.13 16.58 221.24 Mersey 158.70 71.66 18.29 248.65 North Western 161.92 76.44 20.66 259.03 ALL REGIONS 150.37 71.72 18.60 240.69 Notes
1. The expenditure figures used are taken from the annual accounts submitted to the Department by regional and district health authorities.
2. Other services expenditure includes the cost of the ambulance, blood transfusion, mass radiography and various other services and headquarters administration.
3. The figures do not include the cost of certain services provided centrally (for example, by the Dental Estimates Board and the Prescription Pricing Authority); nor expenditure incurred by the Lcodon Postgraduate special health authorities and preserved boards of governors.
4. The figures will reflect regional influences, the major one being the effect of London weighting allowance in the four Thames regions.
5. Family practitioner committee expenditure has been included in the region of the health authority which accounts for that expenditure. However, a few family practitioner committees' catchment areas straddle regional boundaries and will have marginally distorted some of the figures.
6. The population figures used are the mid-year estimates of resident population for 1982-the latest available. It is emphasised that these figures make no allowance for people resident in one region who are provided with health care by another region or for the differences in morbidity and age/sex structure of particular populations.