§ Mr. Cyril Smithasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the budgets and expenditure to year ended 30th March 1975, and the budget and likely expenditure to year ended 30th March 1976, for each area health authority; and what steps he proposes to take to make sure that, comparatively speaking, an area health authority that kept within its budget is not penalised as a consequence of overspending by another.
§ Mr. MoyleThe allocation of funds to an area health authority in England is a matter for the regional health authority, 141W and details are not available centrally of the allocations made to each area health authority on a basis which permits direct comparison with its actual expenditure.
With the introduction of revenue cash limits health authorities were informed that in 1976–77 any authority's under-spending, normally up to 1 per cent. of its allocation, or any overspending would result respectively in a corresponding addition to or a deduction from its revenue cash limit for the subsequent year.