§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the per capita spending on health services in each year since 1960 in the United Kingdom; and, from information available from international sources, if he will give comparable figures for each of the other EEC countries, Canada and the United States of America.
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§ Dr. OwenExpenditure on health care is not recorded on a strictly comparable basis in the national accounts of the various EEC countries, Canada and the USA and there are widely varying definitions of "health services". There are therefore serious difficulties in expressing such expenditure on aper capita basis so as to allow meaningful comparisons to be drawn.
The publication "National Accounts of OECD countries—1962 to 1973" gives complete figures of expenditure (public and private) on health services only for the USA and Italy and then only for some of the years rekuired.
U.S.A. $ (per capita) Italy Lira 1960 … … … N.A. N.A. 1961 … … … N.A. N.A. 1962 … … … N.A. 20,400 1963 … … … N.A. 24,600 1964 … … … N.A. 29,100 1965 … … … N.A. 32,900 1966 … … … N.A. 37,000 1967 … … … N.A. 41,700 1968 … … … 243 45,500 1969 … … … 271 51,100 1970 … … … 301 60,800 1971 … … … 331 67,300 1972 … … … 364 77,700 1973 … … … 397 90,500
(per capita) United Kingdom* £ 1960–61 … … … … 18.2 1961–62 … … … … 18.8 1962–63 … … … … 19.6 1963–64 … … … … 21.1 1964–65 … … … … 23.0 1965–66 … … … … 25.2 1966–67 … … … … 27.4 1967–68 … … … … 29.9 1968–69 … … … … 31.9 1969–70 … … … … 33.6 1970–71 … … … … 39.1 1971–72 … … … … 43.9 1972–73 … … … … 49.9 1973–74 … … … … 56.4 1974–75 … … … … 74.1 * Public expenditure only.