Administrative Costs, Birmingham

HC Deb 30 April 1953 vol 514 c113W

37. Mr. Baird

asked the Minister of Health the percentage cost of administration in the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board in the years 1950 and 1952.

Mr. Iain Macleod

The cost of administration in the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board (including the central offices of Hospital Management Committees) was 2.08 per cent. of total expenditure in 1950–51, 2.33 per cent. in 1951–52 and is estimated at 2.33 per cent. in 1952–53. I regret that figures for the cost of administration at the unit hospitals are not available.