Health Service (Catering)

HC Deb 22 May 1990 vol 173 cc122-3W

Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the cost of catering provisions per patient per day in each Welsh health authority in each year since 1979, expressed in cash and constant prices.

Mr. Grist

The available information is shown in the following table, for 1987–88 and 1988–89. Figures for the years before 1987–88 are not readily available.

	1987–88	1988–89
	actual £	constant1 £	actual £
Clwyd	1.49	1.60	1.63
East Dyfed	1.64	1.76	1.50
Gwent	1.64	1.76	1.77
Gwynedd	1.66	1.78	1.73
Mid Glamorgan	1.85	1.98	1.83
Powys	1.46	1.56	1.69
South Glamorgan	1.49	1.60	1.57
West Glamorgan	1.63	1.75	1.83
Pembrokeshire2	—	—	—
Wales	1.60	1.71	1.67
1 Revalued to 1988–89 prices using the GDP deflator.
2 Not available as catering is 'contracted out'.