Health and Welfare Services (Rate of Growth)

HC Deb 07 March 1966 vol 725 cc412-3W

61. Mr. Snow

asked the Minister of Health what is the planned rate of growth of expenditure on the health and welfare services; and what is the rate of growth assumed in the National Plan for the output of the country as a whole.

Mr. K. Robinson

For health and welfare services 4¼ per cent. per annum: for the output of the country as a whole 3.8 per cent. per annum: in the White Paper published in December, 1963, the annual rate of growth shown for health and welfare services was 3.3 per cent.