HC Deb 05 July 1982 vol 27 c28W
Mrs. Dunwoody

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table in the Official Report showing the hospital and community health services cash allocation for 1982–83 by regional health authority, the estimated cash sum that each regional health authority will have to save in order to pay for that portion of the current Health Service workers' pay offer, which is above 4 per cent., the estimated percentage growth in real terms of funding for each regional health authority and the estimated percentage growth in funding in real terms for each regional health authority when the savings for the pay offers in excess of 4 per cent. have been subtracted from the original cash allocation.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

The following table shows:

Columns 1 and 2. The Regional revenue cash limits for 1982–83 and percentage growth over the 1981‒82 planned levels as published in the Official Report on 22 January 1982.

Column 3. The comparable Regional revenue cash limits as subsequently adjusted for pay offers to nurses and other staff groups announced on 8 March, the pay award to medical and dental staff and the reduction in the National Insurance Surcharge.

Column 4. The amounts that health authorities will have to save to meet their share of the cost of the March pay offer and the pay award to medical and dental staff. Provided that health authorities succeed in making these efficiency savings, growth rates will be unaffected.

Nationally, health authorities will be required to contribute a further £32.2 millions (England) in respect of the revised pay offers announced on 22 June. Revised regional revenue cash limits have yet to be determined.

England (1982–83 Cash Prices)
Regional Health Authorities 1 2 3 4
£ millions per cent. £ millions £ millions
1. Northern 524.0 2.45 525.2 1.8
2. Yorkshire 584.9 1.95 586.1 2.0
3. Trent 702.4 3.00 703.7 2.4
4. E Anglia 292.1 3.25 292.6 1.0
5. N W Thames 650.7 0.30 651.9 2.1
6. N E Thames 758.8 0.33 760.1 2.3
7. S E Thames 693.1 0.34 694.2 2.2
8. S W Thames 544.6 0.46 545.4 1.8
9. Wessex 417.8 2.79 418.7 1.5
10. Oxford 334.2 2.20 334.9 1.2
11. S Western 509.9 2.36 511.0 1.8
12. W Midlands 811.3 2.20 813.0 2.8
13. Mersey 432.4 1.13 433.4 1.5
14. N Western 724.7 2.79 726.3 2.6
Total 7,980.9 *1.73 7,996.5 27.0
* Excludes effect of restoring the squeeze of 1981–82 cash limits.