NHS (Catering and Cleaning Services)

HC Deb 30 July 1982 vol 28 cc843-4W

Mr. Hordern

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing the cost of catering and cleaning services in the National Health Service in 1960, 1970 and in each of the last five years to

	Catering services	Domestic-cleaning services
	Expenditure £ millions	Proportion of total NHS current expenditure	Expenditure £ millions	Proportion of total NHS current expenditure
		%		%
1976–77	207.0	5.9	229.6	6.5
1977–78	226.5	5.7	250.1	6.3
1978–79	243.3	5.5	277.4	6.3
1979–80	281.0	5.3	322.0	6.0
1980–81	381.4	4.6	379.8	5.5

Figures on a comparable basis for years prior to National Health Service reorganisation in 1974 are not available.