§ Mr. Mike Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East on 24 February, Official Report, c. 522, he will identify separately for each year from 1978–79 to 1983–84 the expenditure or estimated expenditure on (a) the hospital and community health services, (b) the family practitioner services and (c) central health and miscellaneous services; and for each category, what growth in (i) resources and (ii) services the total increase in expenditure over the period represents.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke[pursuant to his reply, 22 March 1983, c. 397–8]: The following table gives the information requested.
Expenditure figures are gross and for England; figures for 1978–79 to 1980–81 are based on those in the 1983 Public Expenditure White Paper; those for later years are from the Estimates submitted to Parliament on 15 March 1983.
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£ millions cash 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1978–79 to Resource Growth per cent. 1983–84 Service Growth per cent. NHS capital 365 407 552 673 705 722 17.1 17.1 Centrally financed* services current 236 288 364 413 478 530 29.9 29.9 * Note: this table excludes about £10 million a year spent centrally on personal social services. The figures in the table amount to real growth in services, in the NHS as a whole, of 7.5 per cent. between 1978–79 and 1983–84. the increased economic cost of this growth, when measured against past or estimated movements in the retail price index is 17.5 per cent.