Competitive Tendering (Hansard, 30 June 1986)

§ Mr. Dobson
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) for each health authority, what is the saving achieved to date by competitive tendering as a percentage of the total savings achieved;
(2) for each health authority, what is the saving achieved to date through competitive tendering as a percentage of the district's total expenditure on ancilliary services.
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§ Mr. Whitney
The information requested, based on estimated savings reported for 31 March 1986, is shown in the table. The total expenditure figures refer to catering, domestic cleaning and laundry services for 1983–84, the year in which our competitive tendering initiative began.
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Districts Total expenditure on these services for 1983–84 Estimated savings achieved from tendering Savings as percentage of district expenditure on these services Savings as percentage of national savings from tendering

(£000) (£000) (£52.0 million)

Northern Regional Health Authority

Hartlepool 1,556 42 2.7 0.1

North Tees 2,340 14 0.6 ^*

South Tees 5,055 167 3.3 0.3

East Cumbria 2,869 156 5.4 0.3

South Cumbria 1,980 257 13.0 0.5

West Cumbria 2,281 1 ^* ^*

Darlington 2,626 300 11.4 0.6

Durham 2,451 54 2.2 0.1

North West Durham 1,632 141 8.6 0.3

South West Durham 3,429 nil nil nil

Newcastle 9,720 1,025 10.5 2.0

North Tyneside 1,888 176 9.3 0.3

South Tyneside 2,286 271 11.9 0.5

Sunderland 5,873 24 0.4 0.1

Northumberland 6,449 108 1.7 0.2

Gateshead 3,022 375 12.4 0.7

Yorkshire Regional Health Authority

Hull 5,082 173 3.4 0.3

East Yorkshire 3,675 298 8.1 0.6

Grimsby 2,107 223 10.6 0.4

Scunthorpe 2,276 289 12.7 0.6

Northallerton 975 16 1.6 ^*

York 4,833 645 13.3 1.2

Scarborough 1,758 54 3.1 0.1

Harrogate 2,483 41 1.7 0.1

Bradford 5,953 318 5.3 0.6

Airedale 2,688 28 1.0 0.1

Calderdale 3,003 530 17.7 1.0

Huddersfield 4,293 597 13.9 1.1

Dewsbury 2,356 397 16.9 0.8

Leeds Eastern 7,049 nil nil nil

Leeds Western 7,513 272 3.6 0.5

Wakefield 3,675 369 10.0 0.7

Pontefract 2,412 485 20.1 0.9

Trent Regional Health Authority

North Derbyshire 3,692 546 14.8 1.0

South Derbyshire 7,965 85 1.1 0.2

Leicestershire 12,124 783 6.5 1.5

North Lincolnshire 4,859 194 4.0 0.4

South Lincolnshire 4,188 168 4.0 0.3

Bassetlaw 999 25 2.5 0.1

Central Notts 4,584 453 9.9 0.9

Nottingham 12,100 306 2.5 0.6

Barnsley 3,089 258 8.4 0.5

Doncaster 3,835 195 5.1 0.4

Rotherham 2,998 33 1.1 0.1

Sheffield 13,993 455 3.3 0.9

East Anglian Regional Health Authority

Cambridge 4,721 481 10.2 0.9

Peterborough 3,442 115 3.3 0.2

Huntingdon 1,018 493 48.4 1.0

Great Yarmouth/Waverley 2,779 304 10.9 0.6

West Norfolk/Wisbech 2,432 399 16.4 0.8

Norwich 8,387 1,038 12.4 2.0

West Suffolk 3,361 160 4.8 0.3

East Suffolk 5,702 42 0.7 0.1

North West Thames Regional Health Authority

North Bedfordshire 2,954 146 4.9 0.3

South Bedfordshire 3,749 285 7.6 0.5

North Hertfordshire 2,308 18 0.8 ^*

North West Hertfordshire 5,280 219 41 0.4

South West Hertfordshire 4,350 194 4.5 0.4

East Hertfordshire 1,792 nil nil nil

Barnet 7,118 8 0.1 ^*

Harrow 3,832 295 7.7 0.6

Hillingdon 3,912 457 11.7 0.9

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Districts Total expenditure on these services for 1983–84 Estimated savings achieved from tendering Savings as percentage of district expenditure on these services Savings as percentage of national savings from tendering

(£000) (£000) (£52.0 million)

Ealing 4,504 526 11.7 1.0

Hounslow/Spelthorne 4,679 1,412 30.2 2.7

Riverside (Hammersmith/Fulham) 4,562 1,053 23.1 2.0

Paddington & North Kensington 5,851 853 14.6 1.6

Riverside (Victoria) 7,928 1,385 17.5 2.7

Brent 5,116 nil nil nil

North East Thames Regional Health Authority

Barking 6,881 565 8.2 1.1

Basildon 4,783 109 2.3 0.2

Bloomsbury 11,516 176 1.5 0.3

City & Hackney 7,520 136 1.8 0.3

Enfield 2,977 292 9.8 0.6

Hampstead 6,269 26 0.4 0.1

Haringey 3,598 334 9.3 0.6

Islington 4,619 7 0.2 ^*

Mid Essex 3,389 734 21.7 1.4

Newham 3,385 358 10.6 0.7

Redbridge 3,705 130 3.5 0.2

Tower Hamlets 5,800 271 4.7 0.5

Waltham Forest 6,862 120 1.7 0.2

West Essex 3,016 184 6.1 0.4

Southend 4,442 383 8.6 0.7

North East Essex 5,504 218 4.0 0.4

South East Thames Regional Health Authority

Bexley 3,665 279 7.6 0.5

Brighton 4,467 90 2.0 0.2

Bromley 5,781 904 15.6 1.7

Camberwell 6,384 56 0.9 0.1

Canterbury/Thanet 5,739 403 7.0 0.8

Dartford/Gravesham 5,253 nil nil nil

Eastbourne 3,628 152 4.2 0.3

Greenwich 6,022 nil nil nil

Hastings 2,603 67 2.6 0.1

Lewisham/North Southwark 9,312 nil nil nil

Maidstone 3,459 496 14.3 1.0

Medway 2,758 326 11.8 0.6

South East Kent 3,306 337 10.2 0.6

Tunbridge Wells 4,781 nil nil nil

West Lambeth 8,256 217 2.6 0.4

South West Thames Regional Health Authority

North West Surrey 3,749 462 12.3 0.9

West Surrey/North East Hampshire 4,024 94 2.3 0.2

East Surrey 4,475 620 13.9 1.2

Mid Surrey 4,869 107 2.2 0.2

South West Surrey 3,104 233 7.5 0.4

Mid Downs 3,467 337 9.7 0.6

Chichester 2,348 389 16.6 0.7

Worthing 2,406 240 9.8 0.5

Kingston/Esher 4,594 564 12.3 1.1

Croydon 6,526 180 2.8 0.3

Richmond/Twickenham Roehampton 3,734 799 21.4 1.5

Wandsworth 8,261 903 10.9 1.7

Merton/Sutton 7,021 1,170 16.6 2.2

Wessex Regional Health Authority

East Dorset 5,369 626 11.7 1.2

West Dorset 3,699 nil nil nil

Portsmouth 6,622 407 6.1 0.8

Southampton 8,205 261 3.1 0.5

Winchester 2,266 75 3.3 0.1

Basingstoke 4,057 36 0.9 0.1

Salisbury 2,390 377 15.8 0.7

Swindon 2,805 73 2.6 0.1

Bath 5,418 150 2.8 0.3

Isle of Wight 1,833 15 0.8 ^*

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Districts Total expenditure on these services for 1983–84 Estimated savings achieved from tendering Savings as percentage of district expenditure on these services Savings as percentage of national savings from tendering

(£000) (£000) (£52.0 million)

Oxford Regional Health Authority

East Berkshire 4,578 61 1.3 01

West Berkshire 6,014 118 1.9 0.2

Aylesbury Vale 3,138 526 16.7 10

Milton Keynes 532 98 18.4 0.2

Wycombe 1,913 134 7.0 0.3

Kettering 2,521 140 5.5 0.3

Northampton 4,412 52 1.2 0.1

Oxford 7,706 705 9.1 1.4

West Midlands Regional Health Authority

Mid Staffordshire 2,746 244 8.9 0.5

South Warwickshire 3,670 146 3.9 0.3

Kidderminster 2,457 90 3.7 0.2

Shropshire 5,169 247 4.8 0.5

North Staffordshire 7,458 136 1.9 0.3

Coventry 4,329 8 0.2 ^*

Bromsgrove and Redditch 1,595 100 6.3 0.2

Herefordshire 1,877 147 7.8 0.3

Rugby 690 10 1.4 ^*

North Warwickshire 2,614 74 2.8 0.1

Solihull 2,200 459 20.9 0.9

Wolverhampton 4,467 116 2.6 0.2

Walsall 3,721 72 1.9 0.1

North Birmingham 3,014 105 3.5 0.2

Dudley 3,823 297 7.8 0.6

Sandwell 2,672 nil nil nil

East Birmingham 2,384 154 6.5 0.3

Central Birmingham 6,132 810 13.2 1.6

South Birmingham 5,077 334 6.6 0.6

South East Staffordshire 3,029 219 7.2 0.4

Worcester 3,422 21 0.6 ^*

West Birmingham 5,862 nil nil nil

youth Western Regional Health Authority

Cheltenham 2,139 31 1.4 0.1

Gloucester 4,353 86 1.9 0.2

Frenchay 5,009 76 1.5 0.2

Bristol/Weston 5,869 226 3.9 0.4

Southmead 4,510 145 3.2 0.3

Somerset 6,458 588 9.1 1.1

Exeter 6,983 nil nil nil

North Devon 1,612 131 8.1 0.3

Torbay 2,579 188 7.3 0.4

Plymouth 5,171 60 1.2 0.1

Cornwall/Isles of Scilly 6,373 770 12.0 1.5

Mersey Regional Health Authority

Southport/Formby 2,403 155 6.5 0.3

South Sefton 4,598 48 1.0 0.1

St. Helens/Knowsley 4,936 808 16.4 1.5

Wirral 6,050 560 9.2 1.1

Liverpool 11,885 nil nil nil

Macclesfield 3,272 398 12.2 0.8

Halton 997 47 4.7 0.1

Warrington 4,749 708 14.9 1.4

Chester 3,678 1,086 29.5 2.1

Crewe 3,683 577 15.7 1.1

North Western Regional Health Authority

North Manchester 5,597 7 0.1 ^*

Central Manchester 4,252 323 7.6 0.6

Wigan 3,431 157 4.6 0.3

Stockport 4,241 240 5.7 0.5

Tameside/Glossop 2,222 2 0.1 ^*

Bolton 3,224 nil nil nil

Bury 1,860 429 23.1 0.8

Chorley/South Ribble 1,017 15 1.5 ^*

Preston 5,694 nil nil nil

Lancaster 4,241 41 1.0 0.1

Blackpool 3,973 7 0.2 ^*

Burnley 5,176 nil nil nil

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Districts Total expenditure on these services for 1983–84 Estimated savings achieved from tendering Savings as percentage of district expenditure on these services Savings as percentage of national savings from tendering

(£000) (£000) (£52.0 million)

South Manchester 6,149 19 0.3 ^*

Trafford 2,273 189 8.3 0.4

Oldham 2,345 13 0.6 ^*

Salford 6,479 189 2.9 0.4

West Lancashire 1,880 4 0.2 ^*

Blackburn 5,858 nil nil nil

Rochdale 1,927 16 0.8 ^*

Special Health Authorities

Bethlem and Maudsley 1,479 87 5.9 0.2

Eastman 137 nil nil nil

Hammersmith 4,320 969 22.4 1.9

Hospital for Sick Children 2,590 nil nil nil

Moorfields 847 30 3.5 0.1

National Heart and Chest 2,194 50 2.3 0.1

National Hospital for Nervous Children 1,202 nil nil nil

Royal Marsden 1,589 206 13.0 0.4

^*less than 0.1 per cent.

§ Mr. Meacher
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information he has as to (a) efficiency savings, and (b) savings from competitive tendering achieved by (i) each regional health authority and (ii) each district health authority in each financial year 1979–80 to 1985–86.

§ Mr. Whitney
I regret that information on savings from competitive tendering is not recorded in the form requested. However, for the latest savings estimates I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Chope), and to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) on 23 June at columns71–84.
I will reply as soon as possible on efficiency savings.

Districts	Total expenditure on these services for 1983–84	Estimated savings achieved from tendering	Savings as percentage of district expenditure on these services	Savings as percentage of national savings from tendering
	(£000)	(£000)		(£52.0 million)
Northern Regional Health Authority
Hartlepool	1,556	42	2.7	0.1
North Tees	2,340	14	0.6	^*
South Tees	5,055	167	3.3	0.3
East Cumbria	2,869	156	5.4	0.3
South Cumbria	1,980	257	13.0	0.5
West Cumbria	2,281	1	^*	^*
Darlington	2,626	300	11.4	0.6
Durham	2,451	54	2.2	0.1
North West Durham	1,632	141	8.6	0.3
South West Durham	3,429	nil	nil	nil
Newcastle	9,720	1,025	10.5	2.0
North Tyneside	1,888	176	9.3	0.3
South Tyneside	2,286	271	11.9	0.5
Sunderland	5,873	24	0.4	0.1
Northumberland	6,449	108	1.7	0.2
Gateshead	3,022	375	12.4	0.7
Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
Hull	5,082	173	3.4	0.3
East Yorkshire	3,675	298	8.1	0.6
Grimsby	2,107	223	10.6	0.4
Scunthorpe	2,276	289	12.7	0.6
Northallerton	975	16	1.6	^*
York	4,833	645	13.3	1.2
Scarborough	1,758	54	3.1	0.1
Harrogate	2,483	41	1.7	0.1
Bradford	5,953	318	5.3	0.6
Airedale	2,688	28	1.0	0.1
Calderdale	3,003	530	17.7	1.0
Huddersfield	4,293	597	13.9	1.1
Dewsbury	2,356	397	16.9	0.8
Leeds Eastern	7,049	nil	nil	nil
Leeds Western	7,513	272	3.6	0.5
Wakefield	3,675	369	10.0	0.7
Pontefract	2,412	485	20.1	0.9
Trent Regional Health Authority
North Derbyshire	3,692	546	14.8	1.0
South Derbyshire	7,965	85	1.1	0.2
Leicestershire	12,124	783	6.5	1.5
North Lincolnshire	4,859	194	4.0	0.4
South Lincolnshire	4,188	168	4.0	0.3
Bassetlaw	999	25	2.5	0.1
Central Notts	4,584	453	9.9	0.9
Nottingham	12,100	306	2.5	0.6
Barnsley	3,089	258	8.4	0.5
Doncaster	3,835	195	5.1	0.4
Rotherham	2,998	33	1.1	0.1
Sheffield	13,993	455	3.3	0.9
East Anglian Regional Health Authority
Cambridge	4,721	481	10.2	0.9
Peterborough	3,442	115	3.3	0.2
Huntingdon	1,018	493	48.4	1.0
Great Yarmouth/Waverley	2,779	304	10.9	0.6
West Norfolk/Wisbech	2,432	399	16.4	0.8
Norwich	8,387	1,038	12.4	2.0
West Suffolk	3,361	160	4.8	0.3
East Suffolk	5,702	42	0.7	0.1
North West Thames Regional Health Authority
North Bedfordshire	2,954	146	4.9	0.3
South Bedfordshire	3,749	285	7.6	0.5
North Hertfordshire	2,308	18	0.8	^*
North West Hertfordshire	5,280	219	41	0.4
South West Hertfordshire	4,350	194	4.5	0.4
East Hertfordshire	1,792	nil	nil	nil
Barnet	7,118	8	0.1	^*
Harrow	3,832	295	7.7	0.6
Hillingdon	3,912	457	11.7	0.9