§ Mr. Kenneth Clarkeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will publish a table showing the total current and capital expenditure per head of population in real terms on health services in each of the regional health authorities in each year since reorganisation, showing the percentage change up or down each year in each case.
Expenditure per head of population at 1977 survey prices Percentage change Regional Health Authority 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1974–75 to 1975–76 1975–76 to 1976–77 £ £ £ Per cent. Per cent. Northern … … 97.55 99.90 101.87 +2.4 +2.0 Yorkshire … … 95.83 99.75 100.20 +4.1 +0.5 Trent … … … 88.85 93.31 95.43 +5.0 +2.3 East Anglia … … 94.98 97.81 97.19 +3.0 -0.6 North-West Thames … 119.29 121.87 119.68 +2.2 -1.8 North-East Thames … 122.06 121.30 122.27 -0.6 +0.8 South-East Thames … 114.74 120.73 121.29 +5.2 +0.5 South-West Thames … 117.34 122.23 120.22 +4.2 -1.6 Wessex … … … 94.00 96.86 97.74 +3.0 +0.9 Oxford … … … 100.02 98.64 97.52 -1.4 -1.1 South Western … … 98.67 98.70 100.15 — +1.5 West Midlands … … 91.44 94.78 94.10 +3.7 -0.7 Mersey … … … 106.64 109.28 110.25 +2.5 +0.9 North Western … … 98.52 101.84 103.63 +3.4 +1.8 Notes:
1. Regional health authority expenditure does not include expenditure by postgraduate Boards of Governors situated in the Thames Regions and their expenditure has not been included in the calculations.
2. The costs per head of population are influenced by the payment where appropriate of London Weighting allowances to staff and by the incidence of additional expenditure in the provision of facilities for clinical teaching of medical and dental students.
3. The population figures that have been used are mid-year estimates of resident population. No adjustments have been made for people resident in one region who receive treatment in another, or for differences in morbidity and age/sex structure of regional populations.