§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish, on the same basis as his answer to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr on 18th November 1976, Official Report, column 738–9, the total amount of bad debts incurred by pay bed patients which were recovered by each regional health authority in 1976–77 following instigation of legal action.
§ Mr. Moyle,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 15th November 1977: Vol. 939, c. 133–4], gave the following information:
The total amount of debts incurred by pay bed patients which were recovered by each regional health authority in 1976–77 following instigation of legal action is as follows:
£ Northern 3,146 Yorkshire 29,253 Trent 8,154 East Anglia 1,971 NW Thames 97,849 NE Thames 4,463 SE Thames 19,227 SW Thames 9,343 Wessex 3,680 Oxford 5,264 South Western 2,996 West Midlands 14,300 Mersey 4,379 North Western 6,637 Total 210,662