General Medical Services (Hansard, 17 May 1984)

§ Dr. Roger Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what were the budgetary and outturn data

Year	General medical services	Pharmaceutical services	General dental services	General ophthalmic services	Appropriation in aid	Family practitioner services Total
	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million
1973–74
Budget provision	181.000	227.000	^*85.500	^*13.800	^* 1.439	505.861
Increased by Supplementary votes to	188.500	227.000	94.000	14.500	1.921	522.079
Outturn	188.151	226.935	94.456	14.356	1.889	522.009
Under/(over) spend	0.349	0.065	(0.456)	0.144	0.032	0.070
1974–75
Budget provision	192.000	255.500	97.200	18.300	1.640	561.360
Increased by Supplementary votes to	211.600	284.500	124.600	20.700	1.442	639.958
Outturn	210.861	278.307	122.589	19.740	1.566	629.931
Under/(over) spend	0.739	6.193	2.011	0.960	0.124	10.027
1975–76
Budget provision	222.000	†310.000	129.000	24.000	1.342	683.658
Increased by Supplementary votes to	281.000	367.500	168.000	46.500	5.938	857.062
Outturn	280.387	368.442	168.925	45.362	6.092	857.024
Under/(over) spend	0.613	(0.942)	(0.925)	1.138	0.154	0.038
1976–77
Budget provision	297.000	421.000	159.000	35.500	1.600	910.900
Increased by Supplementary votes to	315.000	471.500	183.000	44.500	2.295	1,011.705
Outturn	314.025	461.045	181.864	42.764	2.494	997.204
Under/(over) spend	0.975	10.455	1.136	1.736	0.199	14.501
1977–78
Budget provision	329.000	498.200	169.500	43.500	1.714	1,038.486
Increased by Supplementary votes to	335.000	584.500	186.500	46.000	5.323	1,146.677
Outturn	332.881	577.376	178.671	43.896	5.488	1,127.336
Under/(over) spend	2.119	7.124	7.829	2.104	0.165	19.341
1978–79
Budget provision	345.500	635.000	188.300	50.300	1.711	1,217.389
Increased by Supplementary votes to	380.500	698.500	229.300	51.500	5.433	1,354.367
Outturn	379.842	686.677	223.781	49.804	5.539	1,334.565
Under/(over) spend	0.658	11.823	5.519	1.696	0.106	19.802
1979–80
Budget provision	440.400	‡765.100	256.900	61.400	2.095	1,521.705
Increased by Supplementary votes to	472.000	769.800	263.000	64.700	7.272	1,562.228
Outturn	468.275	759.386	266.807	62.384	8.124	1,548.728
Under/(over) spend	3.725	10.414	(3.807)	2.316	0.852	13.500
1980–81
Budget provision	586.992	853.500	305.180	79.330	6.142	1,818.860
Increased by Supplementary votes to	618.710	930.500	331.700	79.330	11.687	1,948.553
Outturn	618.767	915.331	326.763	75.310	12.702	1,923.469
Under/(over) spend	(0.057)	15.169	4.937	4.020	1.015	25.084
1981–82
Budget provision	679.045	1,034.673	347.997	90.460	10.294	2,141.881
Increased by Supplementary votes to	712.469	1,057.200	374.018	106.176	13.416	2,236.447
Outturn	710.419	1,051.437	366.133	93.693	13.698	2,207.984
Under/(over) spend	2.050	5.763	7.885	12.483	0.282	28.463
1982–83

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for other family practitioner services, including dentists, or opticians, pharmacists and pharmaceuticals, than those published in his answer of 26 February, Official Report, column 494, about general medical services for 1982–83; and if he will publish such data for the general medical services and the family practitioner services including dentistry, opticians, pharmacists and pharmaceuticals, for each of the past 10 years.

Year	General medical services	Pharmaceutical services	General dental services	General ophthalmic services	Appropriation in aid	Family practitioner services
	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	Total £ million
Budget provision	773.181	1,146.730	378.067	116.396	16.541	2,397.833
Increased by Supplementary votes to	801.728	1,205.480	395.041	175.862	17.667	2,560.444
Outturn	799.220	1,205.920	397.580	163.392	19.102	2,547.010
Undercover) spend	2.508	(0.440)	(2.539)	12.470	1.435	13.434
^* Figures not strictly comparable with later years.
† Free family planning prescriptions introduced.
‡ In prior years, hospital prescriptions dispensed by retail chemists were not recharged to the hospital vote.