§ Mr. John Hannamasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what percentage of the annual expenditure of each regional hospital board was spent on its mentally handicapped hospitals during the past three years.
§ Mr. AlisonThe approximate percentage of each regional hospital board's annual revenue expenditure spent on hospitals for the mentally handicapped in each of the last three financial years was as follows:
1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 Regional Hospital Boards Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Newcastle 6.0 6.8 6.8 Leeds 6.7 6.5 6.7 Sheffield 7.0 6.9 7.2 East Anglian 6.8 7.1 7.6 North West Metropolitan 7.6 7.6 7.8 North East Metropolitan 5.6 5.8 6.2 South East Metropolitan 5.4 5.5 5.9 South West Metropolitan 9.2 9.5 10.6 Oxford 7.0 8.1 8.3 South Western 8.9 9.1 9.4 Birmingham 6.5 6.5 6.7 Manchester 7.4 7.6 7.8 Liverpool 2.9 3.9 4.0 Wessex 4.8 5.0 5.3