§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Mr. Arnold) on 2 December 1982, Official Report,c. 269–70, concerning privatisation in the National 457W Health Service, if he will publish the figures given as percentages of the total expenditure of each region; and if he will bring the figures up to date.
Contracted services as percentage of total expenditure 1981–32 £000's Northern Yorkshire Trent East Anglian North West Thames North East Thames South East Thames South West Thames Wessex Oxford South Western West Midlands Mersey North Western BG and SHA Totals England Catering Total expenditure 21,901 25,596 29,246 12,681 27,596 28,264 28,967 23,704 17,480 12,701 21,557 34,911 18,308 30,734 5,825 339,470 Contracts 22 — 70 — 27 63 28 72 — 7 31 34 2 2 382 740 Percentage 0.1 — 012 — 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 — 0.1 0.1 0.1 — — 6.6 0.2 Laundry Total expenditure 3,647 5,044 5,323 2,466 4,653 5,679 5,976 4,910 2,702 3,061 4,290 6,321 4,851 5,731 894 65,551 Contracts 226 423 221 15 858 972 992 698 283 641 809 375 160 538 456 7,667 Percentage 6.2 8.4 4.2 0.6 18.4 17.1 16.6 14.2 10.5 20.9 18.9 5.9 3.3 9.4 51.0 11.7 Domestic and Cleaning Total expenditure 26,846 29,258 35,587 14,132 37,936 41,851 39,052 29,499 19,651 15,082 22,858 34,095 22,255 32,336 7,275 407,714 Contracts 222 540 346 907 895 962 624 631 182 972 166 481 231 544 827 8,531 Percentage 0.8 1.8 1.0 6.4 2.4 2.3 1.6 2.1 0.9 6.4 0.7 1.4 1.0 1.7 11.4 2.1 Engineering Maintenance Total expenditure 14,892 15,119 17,494 7,292 18,604 20,938 19,458 16,010 10,237 7,938 14,952 25,466 11,797 19,074 4,813 224,083 Contracts Engineering 2,406 3,084 2,766 1,408 5,110 5,813 4,531 3,809 1,896 1,834 3,669 4,056 2,753 5,181 1,425 49,740 Medical/Surgical equipment 480 759 1,495 231 1,031 973 949 643 861 292 742 1,201 625 900 290 11,472 X-ray equipment 460 223 553 175 539 715 631 569 381 114 390 595 380 424 364 6,513 Lab equipment 247 190 525 147 369 512 381 212 152 147 295 401 241 510 73 4,405 Total 3,593 4,256 5,339 1,961 7,049 8,013 6,492 5,233 3,290 2,387 5,096 6,253 3,999 7,015 2,152 72,128 Percentage 24.1 28.2 30.5 26.9 37.9 38.3 33.4 32.7 32.1 30.1 34.1 24.6 33.9 36.8 44.7 32.2 Building Maintenance Total expenditure 10,254 11,595 12,423 4,455 13,981 14,352 12,260 10,607 6,833 4,831 10,409 14,771 7,714 16,391 3,357 154,234 Contracts 3,710 5,164 3,930 1,727 5,642 6,564 5,101 4,108 2,492 1,558 3,566 5,326 3,076 6,884 1,300 60,147 Percentage 36.2 44.5 31.6 38.8 40.4 45.7 41.6 38.7 36.5 32.3 34.3 36.1 39.9 42.0 38.7 39.0 Gardening and Farming Total expenditure 1,404 1,789 2,399 874 1,621 1,686 1,507 1,584 1,237 818 1,659 2,498 1,274 2,372 230 22,953 Contracts 67 303 164 40 384 258 253 425 98 170 117 280 208 499 35 3,301 Percentage 4.8 16.9 6.8 4.6 23.7 15.3 16.8 26.8 7.9 20.9 7.1 11.2 16.3 21.0 15.2 14.4 Notes:
1. Columns may not cast precisely to totals because of rounding.
2. Contract expenditure reflects services carried out by non-NHS contractors; they do not include services provided by one health authority for another.
3. Total expenditure figures for catering, laundry and cleaning do not include either maintenance costs or other general overheads such as power, beat, light or steam raised for laundry purposes (a large item of expenditure) whereas contracts expenditure does. To this extent the percentages quoted are overstated. The accounting system does not reallocate such expenditure to user Departments.
4. Total expenditure on "domestic and cleaning" includes also domestic hardware such as cookers, washers, freezers, etc., other than those used in catering departments, e.g. in wards, residences, etc.
5. Total and contracts expenditure on "engineering maintenance" includes the maintenance and repair of all hospital equipment, including laundry, kitchen and domestic appliances. The figures headed "Engineering" will cover contracts on all equipment not otherwise specified in the tables.