§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing the relevant figures in table 14.1 of Cm. 288-II adjusted by the hospital and community health services pay and price deflator.
§ Mr. Newton[holding answer 26 January 1988]: The figures requested are given in the table for the years from 1982–83 to 1986–87. No forecasts of pay and price movements have been made for subsequent years. In addition health authorities had the benefit of recurrent savings of the order of £400 million over this period at 1986–87 prices from cash-releasing cost-improvement programmes.
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Hospital community health and related services £ million 1982–83 outturn 1983–84 outturn 1984–85 outturn 1985–86 outturn 1986–87 outturn Current expenditure Gross 10,355 10,364 10,356 10,368 10,421 Charges 90 96 96 99 101 Net 10,264 10,267 10,260 10,270 10,320 Capital expenditure Gross 835 846 915 940 961 Receipts 23 39 57 90 149 Net 812 808 859 850 812 Note: The above figures are at 1986–87 price levels, after adjusting for HCHS current and capital pay and price inflation.