§ Mr. Ellis Smithasked the Minister if he will set out in tabular form in the OFFICIAL REPORT, the amount spent on new hospitals per thousand of the population between 1950 and 1965 in each region, respectively, the same figures for extensions, and the same figures of the estimated expenditure between 1965 and 1975.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonIn a programme which consists largely of replacement, it is not easy to define a new hospital. Expenditure on schemes which are the whole or part of entirely new hospitals or of the virtual reconstruction of old hospitals has been included in the second column of the table below; expenditure on all other hospital building is in the third column.
As I informed the House on 8th February, the future hospital building programme is under review. I am therefore unable to reply to the second part of the Question.
Region (including teaching hospitals) Capital expenditure 1st April, 1950–31st March, 1965 (estimated) £ per 1,000 population New hospitals Other hospital building Newcastle 2,871 6,409 Leeds 3,139 5,258 Sheffield 1,926 4,116 East Anglian 2,296 5,877 North West Metropolitan 3,538 5,688 North East Metropolitan 1,662 5,446 South East Metropolitan 1,014 5,383 South West Metropolitan* 1,836 6,192 Wessex Oxford 3,622 6,524 South Western 1,393 5,780 Birmingham 1,852 4,357 Manchester 1,359 4,183 Liverpool 1,472 5,935 Welsh 3,535 5,732 * Wessex did not function as a separate hospital region until 1st April, 1959.