§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the proportion of Health Service expenditure which was spent on administration in 1968 and 1978, respectively.
§ Mr. MoyleThe proportion of Health Service expenditure attributable to head-quarters administration in England in 1977–78, the latest financial year for which figures are available, was 4.24 per cent. The proportion for 1967–68, calculated as 2.59 per cent. is not a strictly comparable figure as it does not take into account expenditure on medical, dental, nursing and other professionally qualified administrators whose salaries, prior to the reorganisation of the National Health Service on 1 April 1974, were not treated as administrative expenditure.