§ Mrs. Dunwoodyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much each regional health authority overran its 1981–82 cash limits.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeFinal figures for each region's over or underspending will not be available until authorities' audited accounts for 1981–82 are received later this year. Provisional figures are as follows for each region's over or underspending against their capital and revenue cash limits respectively.
The total capital overspend represents 0.6 per cent of regions capital cash limits. The total net underspend on revenue represents 0.3 per cent. of their revenue cash limits.
Regional Health Authority Under/(Over) Spending £ million Capital Revenue Northern 0.5 0.9 Yorkshire 2.2 2.1 Trent (2.6) (0.5) East Anglian (0.2) (0.9) North-West Thames (0.7) 5.1 North-East Thames 1.1 0.5 South-East Thames 3.7 1.8 South-West Thames (3.0) 5.2 Wessex 3.4 3.9 Oxford 1.1 1.2 South-Western 1.2 1.9 West-Midlands (3.9) 0.6 Mersey — 1.8 North-Western (6.8) 1.9 TOTAL (4.0) 25.5