Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority

HC Deb 04 March 1980 vol 980 cc126-8W

Mr. Best

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the total number of staff employed by the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham area health authority at 31 March 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and the latest available date; and, at each date, what was the total number of administrative and clerical staff and ancillary staff, respectively, what was the total expenditure for each category of staff, and the overall total; and what was the total expenditure of the area health authority.

Dr. Vaughan

The information available is set out below:

	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(g)
	Admin. and clerical	Ancillary and Maintenance	Total directly employed staff	Admin. and clerical	Ancillary and Maintenance	Total directly employed staff	Total expenditure of Authority
						(£)	(£)	(£)	(£)
1975–76	…	…	2,388.7	3,580.1	15,435.0	8,145,546	16,020,247	61,830,660	108,753,412
1976–77	…	…	2,742.6	5,261.0	18,181.2	9,848,062	19,222,083	73,260,831	119,874,857
1977–78	…	…	2,770.6	5,280.9	18,573.8	10,484,098	20,670,572	78,776,452	134,938,094
1978–79	…	…	2,683.6	5,179.9	18,568.1	11,525,243	22,581,777	86,305,495	148,119,387
1979–80	…	…	2,855.7	5,160.2	18,677.8	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Notes

Colu n(s)

(a)—(c) Show staff in post—(whole-time equivalent)—at 30 September of each financial year; figures for 31 March are not abailavle. Figures for staff in post in 1975–76 and 1976–77 are not directly cojparable with those for later years because of possible undercounting.

(d)—(f) Show salary and wage costs by category of staff for each financial year, commencing 1 April.

(g) Shows the authority's total expenditure, including expenditure on family practitioner services.

(c) Includes whole-time equivalents of hospital and community health medical staff except locums, hospital practitioners, part-time medical officers, clinical assistants, general medical practitioners participating in hospital staff funds and occasional secsional staff in community health service.

(a) & (d) Includes support staff managers.

(b) & (e) It is not possible to separate figures for ancillary staff from maintenance staff.

Sources

Staffing figures: Figures for total non-medical and dental staff, administrative and clerical staff and ancillary and maintenance staff for 1975, 1976 and 1979—South East Thames RHA. All other figures—DHSS.

Expenditure Figures: Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham AHA(T)'s annual accounts and financial returns.

As the staffing and expenditure figures derive from different sources they may not be directly comparable.