§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what proportion of the £4 billion which the National Health Service spent on family medical services since 1979 was devoted to the west midlands region.
Local authority gross current expenditure on children in care (£ million in cash) 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 Residential care Hereford and Worcester 1.766 2.255 2.634 2.824 2.819 3.027 Shropshire 0.717 0.912 1.071 1.163 1.208 1.279 Staffordshire 2.840 3.404 3.508 3.541 3.238 3.142 Warwickshire 1.168 1.432 1.515 1.366 1.330 1.297 Birmingham 8.995 10.802 12.277 11.197 10.487 9.975 Coventry 1.654 2.361 2.708 3.004 2.878 2.895 Dudley 0.680 0.791 0.896 0.896 0.895 0.902 Sandwell 1.204 1.453 1.459 1.547 1.293 1.401 Solihull 0.412 0.500 0.704 0.784 0.904 0.919 Walsall 1.198 1.559 1.887 2.161 2.087 1.838 Wolverhampton 0.828 1.141 1.724 2.001 1.918 2.014 Total 21.462 26.610 30.383 30.484 29.057 28.689 Boarded out Hereford and Worcester 0.326 0.370 0.402 0.480 0.535 0.726 Shropshire 0.223 0.247 0.340 0.393 0.483 0.546 Staffordshire 0.378 0.468 0.576 0.731 0.838 0.928 Warwickshire 0.349 0.421 0.589 0.777 0.871 0.983 Birmingham 0.751 0.961 1.278 1.490 1.706 1.953 Coventry 0.374 0.434 0.587 0.798 0.863 0.939 Dudley 0.132 0.171 0.240 0.332 0.362 0.426 Sandwell 0.134 0.173 0.349 0.367 0.460 0.638 Solihull 0.062 0.082 0.120 0.139 0.268 0.392 Walsall 0.151 0.211 0.263 0.377 0.427 0.467 Wolverhampton 0.159 0.194 0.242 0.380 0.449 0.509 Total 3.039 3.732 4.986 6.264 7.262 8.507 Note: Some part of the residential care expenditure may relate to children who are not in local authority care, but the available information does not separately identify this.