§ Dr. Glynasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give figures showing at 1978 survey prices the total amounts devoted to hospital capital expenditure for each of the years from 1946 to 1977 inclusive.
§ Mr. Moyle,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 13th July 1978] gave the following information:
The table below shows capital expenditure incurred in England on National Health Service hospital building work, including fees and equipment purchased centrally but excluding acquisition of land and building, from the initial accounting period of the National Health Service to 1973–74, together with capital expenditure for the years 1974–75 to 1976–77 assessed on a broadly comparable basis. Expenditure figures are given at 1977 survey prices, the latest public expenditure survey price level currently available.
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Year 1977 Survey prices £ million 1948–49 (part) 33 1949–50 52 1950–51 52 1951–52 54 1952–53 40 1953–54 37 1954–55 48 1955–56 48 1956–57 56 1957–58 71 1958–59 81 Barony, Crossley and Cranford Lodge have geriatric beds only.
Information on population is not available in the precise form requested. The latest (1976) estimates of the population aged 75 and over in each health district, together with projections for 1986 are as follows:
1959–60 79 1960–61 105 1961–62 133 1962–63 131 1963–64 200 1964–65 224 1965–66 246 1966–67 262 1967–68 305 1968–69 311 1969–70 327 1970–71 361 1971–72 421 1972–73 472 1973–74 438 1974–75 405 1975–76 379 1976–77 338