HC Deb 18 October 1982 vol 29 c65W
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 the latest convenient date, and the proportion that these services represented of the annual current expenditure of the National Health Service in each of these years.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

[pursuant to his reply, 30 July 1982, c.843–4]The figure of £381.4 million for catering services expenditure in 1980–81 should read £318.4 million.