§ Mr. Ellis Smithasked the Minister of Health whether he will indicate in a table, for each financial year since the inception of the National Health Service, the total capital and revenue expenditure, actual and estimated, per head of the estimated population for the areas covered by the Stoke-on-Trent and Salford Hospital Management Committees.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithThe area covered by a particular hospital management committee is not necessarily a defined geographical area; any estimate therefore—especially in a densely populated urban area—of the population served by the 27W hospitals in a group, is subject to a wide margin of error. With that reservation,
Year Stoke-on-Trent H.M.C. Salford H.M.C. Capital Expenditure Revenue Expenditure Capital Expenditure Revenue Expenditure s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. 1949–50 … … 8 2 7 7 1 10 3 10 10 1950–51 … … 2 2 9 9 2 3 3 12 4 1951–52 … … 5 2 13 1 3 3 3 19 6 1952–53 … … 6 2 17 8 2 7 4 5 0 1953–54 … … 10 3 0 0 1 3 4 10 1 1954–55 … … 10 3 3 4 1 8 4 12 3 1955–56 … … 6 3 7 10 1 3 5 2 2 1956–57 … … 2 3 15 6 1 4 5 12 5 1957–58 (provisional) … … 10 4 0 3 4 8 5 18 6 1958–59 (estimated) … … 3 3 4 1 5 5 9 5 18 8