§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for 1983–84 for each region the figures for payments to outside contractors for support
Medical and surgical equipment maintenance X-ray equipment maintenance Laboratory equipment maintenance Catering Laundry Cleaning Region £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. Northern 984 5.44 514 48.61 339 9.03 12 0.05 228 5.70 282 0.99 Yorkshire 795 4.11 337 22.77 212 4.55 20 0.07 254 4.98 688 2.24 Trent 1,321 5.31 794 46.43 666 11.09 66 0.21 133 2.48 375 0.97 East Anglian 231 2.17 235 38.44 188 8.90 Nil Nil 24 0.93 1,016 6.50 North West Thames 1,036 5.37 615 34.72 375 6.45 46 0.17 926 20.26 645 1.76 North East Thames 1,002 3.69 906 39.65 659 6.40 71 0.22 789 13.41 1,049 2.24 South East Thames 1,025 3.89 943 55.08 482 9.67 35 0.12 625 10.63 840 2.07 South West Thames 741 4.76 795 62.39 249 8.45 101 0.42 694 13.53 658 2.23 Wessex 932 6.59 578 57.74 211 8.57 — — 266 9.04 195 0.93 Oxford 731 6.87 168 41.93 169 5.96 9 0.07 651 22.69 553 3.63 South Western 833 5.06 534 37.00 807 18.20 34 0.15 373 9.25 149 0.61 West Midlands 1,420 4.99 602 39.49 471 7.52 18 0.05 433 7.10 475 1.31 Mersey 782 5.71 605 60.46 374 11.26 — — 63 1.32 242 1.05 North Western 1,027 4.09 712 49.73 822 14.91 Nil Nil 577 9.90 492 1.43
Engineering maintenance Building maintenance Grounds etc. maintenance Vehicle maintenance Computers―contract services Contractual arrangements for patient care Region £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. £'000 per cent. Northern 2,856 16.58 4,167 36.39 98 6.55 575 25.34 26 2.73 1,270 0.28 Yorkshire 2,980 17.85 4,394 39.49 225 12.14 282 9.73 47 3.67 1,733 0.34 Trent 3,471 15.86 4,418 31.48 139 5.51 761 22.73 194 22.09 738 0.12 East Anglia 1,812 20.26 1,870 39.70 120 12.14 302 13.52 172 19.29 426 0.17 North West Thames 5,753 29.58 5,568 44.82 291 20.02 554 15.71 550 58.18 3,083 0.57 North East Thames 6,639 25.83 7,341 46.70 285 16.24 510 12.18 655 20.11 4,407 0.63 South East Thames 4,928 21.28 5,727 44.06 206 14.24 443 11.24 422 58.44 2,102 0.35 South West Thames 4,005 23.95 3,660 37.16 427 29.29 629 18.99 227 12.44 5,926 1.32 Wessex 2,069 18.24 2,372 31.20 121 9.61 384 16.60 119 20.24 1,276 0.35 Oxford 1,835 20.82 1,896 35.52 201 24.82 496 23.02 67 10.50 1,201 0.43 South Western 3,264 20.27 3,645 34.57 49 2.81 950 26.62 127 7.30 2,328 0.54 West Midlands 4,794 16.48 6,732 38.82 310 11.73 452 10.33 153 6.35 2,056 0.30 Mersey 3,051 22.80 4,011 43.04 268 19.97 223 9.97 17 1.79 1,951 0.52 North Western 4,992 26.19 5,284 34.37 283 13.32 303 8.19 120 12.45 6,261 1.02 Notes to the table:
1. All figures are for current expenditure: capital is excluded.
2. For contractual arrangements for patient care, "total expenditure on the relevant service" is taken as total current expenditure on hospital services.
3. Payments to doctors, pharmacists, dentists, opticians and others contracted to the NHS to provide family practitioner services are excluded.
4. Minimal expenditure and percentages (ie less than £500 or 0.01 per cent.) are indicated by the use of a dash (—).
5. Information in the table has been prepared on as consistent a basis as practicable but comparisons of percentages between services may in some cases be misleading as the bases of the total relevant expenditure figures for different services are not completely uniform.