§ Mr. Patrick Jenkinasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will tabulate, by region and by area, the management costs of the NHS in England
Managerial Staff Costs Non-Staff Total £'000 £'000 £'000 Northern … … … … 13,591 840 14,431 Yorkshire … … … … 15,293 914 16,207 Trent … … … … 19,050 1,132 20,182 East Anglia … … … … 7,837 484 8,321 North-West Thames … … … … 17,854 1,104 18,958 North-East Thames … … … … 19,577 1,236 20,813 South-East Thames … … … … 19,303 1,130 20,433 South-West Thames … … … … 14,860 1,026 15,886 Wessex … … … … 11,612 832 12,444 Oxford … … … … 10,518 624 11,142 South-Western … … … … 14,070 892 14,962 West Midlands … … … … 22,366 1,360 23,726 Mersey … … … … 11,293 625 11,918 North-Western … … … … 17,955 1,071 19,026 England … … … … 215,179 13,270 228,449 Notes: Costs relating to Wales are the responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. Staff costs relate to numbers in post at 31st March 1976, and include employees' superannuation and national insurance contributions but exclude London weighting. Non-staff costs are estimates based on the accounts for 1975–76. They are not included in the current standstill arrangements. Managerial works staff costs—of £1.837 million—and non-staff works costs are not included in the above table.