§ Mr. Mike Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish figures showing the changes in hospital current expenditure at constant prices, on inputs other than staff, broken down by convenient categories for 1980 and 1981.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThe following table shows expenditure on various categories of non-staff expenditure by health authorities in 1980–81. It is not possible to separate expenditure relating to hospitals from community health services in this detail. Expenditure in 1981–82 is not yet available.
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Analysis of 1980–81 non-staff revenue expenditure £ Drugs 185,279,797 Medical Gases 8,365,914 Dressings 37,258,897 Medical and Surgical Equipment—Purchases 180,717,089 expenditure, current and capital, at constant 1978 survey prices for 1979–80 and 1980–81, provisional, as percentages of total covering services for primary care, general and acute hospital and maternity, the elderly and physically handicapped, the mentally handicapped, the mentally ill, children and other.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergApart from certain centrally financed services, funds are not allocated centrally to particular programmes. Our estimate of health and local authorities' spending are valid for monitoring broad trends, but not for making close comparisons between individual programmes or between one year and the next. The most readily available figures are at November 1980 prices, and are attached. They are net of charges, and indicate changes in programme shares within an expanding overall total. Figures from 1976–77 presented on the same price base have been included to show the trend across a longer period.
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£ Medical and Surgical Equipment—Maintenance Contracts 8,952,807 X-Ray Equipment and Materials X-Ray Film 27,938,038 X-Ray Equipment and Chemicals 8,296,474 X-Ray Equipment—Maintenance Contracts 5,424,001 Patients' Appliances 46,995,730 Laboratory Equipment—Instruments and Materials 38,769,139 Laboratory Equipment—Maintenance Contracts 3,569,027 Laboratory Services provided by non-NHS Bodies 8,452,809 Occupational and Industrial Therapy Equipment and Materials 4,132,718 Fluoridation Payments to Water Authorities 416,401 Provisions—Purchases 154,172,176 Provisions—Contract catering 977,645 Staff Uniform and Clothing including contracts for making up etc. 23,180,775 Patients' Clothing 14,143,721 Fuel, Light and Power Coal 19,777,023 Oil 90,749,677
£ Electricity 61,748,013 Gas 50,936,848 Other 1,217,047 Water 16,534,859 Laundry—Equipment and Materials 5,867,691 Laundry—External Contracts 7,176,811 Cleaning—Equipment and Materials 24,758,500 Cleaning—External Contracts 9,638,192 Furniture and Furnishing 18,158,621 Hardware and Crockery 8,820,304 Bedding and Linen 38,836,614 Engineering Maintenance—Equipment and Materials 41,326,488 Engineering Maintenance—External Contracts 43,098,000 Building Maintenance—Equipment and Materials 21,112,417 Building Maintenance—External Contracts 46,977,151 Gardening and Farming—Equipment and Materials 2,611,711 Gardening and Farming—External Contracts 2,808,803 Office Equipment 21,678,852 Printing and Stationery 35,730,113 Postage 13,264,345 Telephones—Rental 22,188,469 Telephones—Other, including calls 21,031,260 Advertising 8,675,749 Transport Purchase of vehicles 5,606,025 Fuel and Oil 15,464,272 Maintenance—Equipment and Materials 5,428,181 Maintenance—External Contracts 6,615,053 Hire (including Hospital Car Service) 13,039,649 Other 1,239,750 Travelling and Subsistence Expenses 86,454,590 Removal Expenses 11,180,855 Joint User Agreements (Part III NA Act 1948) 4,992,733 Contractual arrangements for Patient Care 28,541,239 Rates 82,206,120 Rent 17,222,676 Patients' allowances 7,835,648 Student bursaries 6,538,868 All other expenses 93,607,799 TOTAL 1,777,740,174