§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the amounts spent on remuneration of staff in (a) patient care services and (b) administration and general services in (i) the hospital services, (ii) community health services, (iii) family practitioner services and (iv) all other services in 1975–76 and 1976–77.
§ Mr. DeakinsI regret that the information is not available centrally since the financial accounts submitted to my Department which analyse expenditure under these headings do not separately identify staff and non-staff expenditure.
712WThe only source of information about occurrences is the estimates of cases treated in hospital with a main diagnosis of illegal abortion. These figures, which are set out in the following table, fluctuate and do not show a trend. Other available figures which may be indicators of the rate of occurrences following the implementation of the Abortion Act in April 1968 and in the previous two years are also included in the table. Figures published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" show a considerable decline both in the number of persons found guilty of offences of procuring illegal abortion and in the number of such offences recorded by the police.