HC Deb 25 June 1973 vol 858 cc254-5W
Mr. Pavitt

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the salaries in the reorganised National Health Service for the chief administrative, finance and nursing posts in England for regions, areas, single-district areas and districts with population banding where appropriate.

Sir K. Joseph

The salaries, which are regarded as provisional, which were notified to employing authorities on 21st May 1973 are:

and at each successive increase in contribution.

Sir K. Joseph

The National Insurance Scheme has long been financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, and contributions are not allocated to specific benefits. The best that can be done is to estimate by considering the income from each source and the expected outgo on the various benefits over a short period, a notional apportionment of the elements making up the total contributions.

Using these methods of allocation the employed man's contributions relating to old age or retirement pensions, assuming that since 1961 maximum graduated contributions have been paid, are as follows:

Year in which contribution commenced Contribution for pension paid by employed man and his employer £per week
1926 0.02
1936 0.03
1940 0.04
1946 0.13
1948 0.16
1951 0.18
1952 0.21
1955 0.32
1958 0.44
1961 0.90
1963 1.20
1965 1.40
1967 1.52
1968 1.56
1969 2.08
1971 2.87
1972 3.48

The total amounts of the pension part of the contributions paid up to mid-1973 are £634 for the employee and £653 for his employer. Throughout the scheme's existence the Exchequer subvention has varied as to form and amount, although in recent years the subvention has been maintained at about 18 per cent. of the contribution income from insured persons and employers.