§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for each district the expenditure on contractual arrangements for patient care in 1983–84.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeFollowing are the figures shown by the annual accounts of district health authorities for 1983–84:
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Expenditure on contractual arrangements for patient care—1983–84 District health authorities £ Northern region Hartlepool — North Tees — South Tees 5,708 East Cumbria 256,400 South Cumbria — West Cumbria — Dariington 572,127 Durham 5,250 North West Durham — South West Durham 9,035 Northumberland 334,194 Gateshead 6,747 Newcastle upon Tyne 80,473 North Tyneside — South Tyneside — Sunderland — Total 1,269,934 Yorkshire region Hull 4,516 East Yorkshire — Grimsby — Scunthorpe 30,803 Northallerton 1,232,353 York — Scarborough — Harrogate 11,349 Bradford — Airedale — Calderdale 39,532 Huddersfield 109,572 Dewsbury 17,683 Leeds Western 23,798 Leeds Eastern 84,227 Wakefield 6,275 Pontefract — Total 1,560,108 Trent region North Derbyshire — South Derbyshire 14,167 Leicestershire 37,176 North Lincolnshire 19,387 South Lincolnshire — Bassetlaw — Central Notthinghamshire — Nottingham 2,297 Barnsley 41 Doncaster — Rotherham 50,054 Sheffield 615,255 Total 738,377 East Anglian region Cambridge — Peterborough 51,500 West Suffolk 161,794 East Suffolk 96,594 Norwich 104,666 Great Yarmouth — West Norfolk and Wisbech — 333W
District health authorities £ Huntingdon 8,920 Total 423,474 North West Thames region North Bedfordshire — South Bedfordshire — North Hertfordshire 59,523 East Hertfordshire 682,473 North West Hertfordshire 14,358 South West Hertfordshire 128,976 Barnet — Harrow — Hillingdon 1,514,847 Hounslow and Spelthorne 87,944 Ealing 6,993 Brent — Paddington 354,021 Hammersmith and Fulham 82,669 Victoria 150,947 Total 3,082,751 North East Thames region Basildon and Thurrock 4,425 Mid Essex 335,087 North East Essex 464,251 West Essex 3,585 Southend 38,979 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 496,636 Hampstead 201,233 Bloomsbury 475,988 Islington — City and Hackney 1,292,433 Newham 5,525 Tower Hamlets 68,514 Enfield 650,465 Harringey 293,453 Redbridge — Waltham Forest 76,458 Total 4,407,032 South East Thames region Brighton 102,068 Eastbourne 208,339 Hastings 14,282 South East Kent 39,908 Canterbury and Thanet 51,780 Dartford and Gravesham — Maidstone 12,239 Medway 16,909 Tunbridge Wells 58,759 Bexley — Greenwich 129,147 Bromley 406,701 West Lambeth 37,252 Camberwell 52,169 Lewisham and North Southwark 318,020 Total 1,447,573 South West Thames region North West Surrey 236,136 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 274,095 South West Surrey 1,138,748 Mid Surrey 194,833 East Surrey 131,230 Chichester 912,906 Mid Downs 346,999 Worthing 774,231 Croydon 126,484 Kingston and Esher 129,225 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 719,307 Wandsworth 634,344 Merton and Sutton 301,346 334W
District health authorities £ Total 5,919,884 Wessex region East Dorset 462,969 West Dorset 11,447 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 493,554 Southampton and South West Hampshire 89,637 Winchester 78,220 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 115,844 Salisbury 16,474 Swindon 7,915 Bath — Isle of Wight — Total 1,276,060 Oxford region East Berkshire 190,300 West Berkshire 8,205 Aylesbury 28,250 Wycombe 40,535 Milton Keynes 117,172 Kettering 24,670 Northampton 523,094 Oxford 234,595 Total 1,166,821 South Western region Bristol and Weston 70,612 Frenc hay 51,012 Southmead 26,663 Cornwall 1,790,985 Exeter — North Devon — Plymouth 230,486 Torbay 100,560 Cheltenham 5,300 Gloucester 52,001 Somerset — Total 2,327,619 West Midlands region Bromsgrove and Redditch 22,238 Hereford — Kidderminster 1,962 Worcester 38,807 Shropshire 86,069 Mid Staffordshire 91,720 North Staffordshire 188,409 South East Staffordshire 67,620 Rugby 20,916 North Warwickshire 668,670 South Warwickshire 451,178 Central Birmingham 23,569 East Birmingham — North Birmingham 14,873 South Birmingham 47,692 West Birmingham — Coventry 114,631 Dudley 73,891 Sandwell 50,111 Solihull — Walsall 33,968 Wolverhampton 60,000 Total 2,056,324 Mersey region Chester — Crewe 8,463 Halton — Macclesfield — Warrington — Liverpool 1,427,850 St. Helens and Knowsley —
District health authorities £ Southport and Formby 513,114 South Sefton 1,200 Wirral — Total 1,950,627 North Western region Lancaster 348,663 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde — Preston 901,586 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley — Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 23,081 West Lancashire — Chorley and South Ribble 702,225 Bolton — Bury — North Manchester 712,784 Central Manchester — South Manchester 630,041 Oldham 40,000 Rochdale — Salford 401,853 Stockport — Tameside and Glossop 95,000 Trafford 87,782 Wigan 34,500 Total 3,977,515