§ Mr. Maurice Macmillanasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will publish a matrix showing the current revenue devoted to the hospital service by category of hospital, using the categories of Table 72 of the current annual Report of the Department of Health and Social Security plus an extra category for long-stay hospitals, and by age of hospitals using six 25-year categories from 150 to nil years; and whether he will do the same for capital expenditure.
§ Mr. CrossmanRevenue expenditure in 1968–69 on the hospital service by type of hospital is shown below. I regret that 85W similar information about capital expenditure is not available centrally, but Regional Hospital Boards are estimated to be spending about £14 million out of their capital allocations of £78.9 million in 1969–70 on long stay services. Many hospitals have been substantially altered Or added to over the years, and it is often not possible to ascribe an age to a whole hospital in the way implied in the question.
REVENUE EXPENDITURE ON THE HOSPITAL SERVICE BY CATEGORY OF HOSPITAL GROSS EXPENDITURE LESS DIRECT CREDITS—ENGLAND 1968–69 £ million Type of Hospital Hospital Management Committee Hospitals Boards of Governors' Hospitals Acute 190.092 74.905 Mainly Acute 69.538 2.254 Partly Acute 28.979 0.770 Mainly Long Stay 16.235 1.035 Long Stay 15.679 0.643 Chronic 15.615 0.092 Pre-convalescent 2.518 0.641 Convalescent 0.758 0.171 Rehabilitation 0.718 — Isolation 0.677 — Maternity 15.454 3.124 Mental Illness 84.941 2.028 Mental Handicap (Subnormality) 36.058 — Orthopaedic 5.249 1.372 Tuberculosis and Chest 8.384 1.968 Tuberculosis, Chest and Isolation 1.399 — Children's Acute 4.922 6.496 Eye 1.853 2.904 Others (Including Clinics etc.) 32.406 15.386 Totals 531.475 113.789 Note: The above figures exclude expenditure of £80,439 million representing administrative and other expenditure of Regional Hospital Boards, Hospital Management Committees and Boards of Governors not allocated to particular hospitals, and the salaries of senior medical staff employed in Hospital Management Committee hospitals.