NHS (Services) (Hansard, 20 December 1985)

§ Mr. Hayhoe

[pursuant to his reply, 25 November 1985, c. 498]: Following is the information requested derived from the annual accounts of regional and district health authorities for 1984–85. For 1983–84, I refer the hon. Member to my predecessor's reply to him on 14 February 1985 at columns 281–82. Figures for the two years are not entirely comparable as value added tax on contracted-out services became reclaimable by health authorities on 1 September 1983. The annual accounts do not give a detailed analysis of expenditure on contractual arrangements for patient care.

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	Medical & surgical equipment maintenance	X-ray equipment maintenance	Laboratory equipment maintenance	Catering	Laundry	Domestic/Cleaning
Region	£ 000	per cent	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.
Northern	473	2.44	538	50.42	493	11.48	7	0.03	208	5.25	239	0.85
Yorkshire	815	3.76	354	21.38	260	5.27	20	0.08	220	4.72	780	2.60
Trent	1,006	3.71	736	43.51	551	9.19	93	0.30	95	1.86	467	1.22
East Anglian	287	2.45	325	52.38	257	10.92	Nil	Nil	94	3.70	1,074	7.04
North West Thames	1,254	5.84	685	40.18	403	6.82	48	0.18	944	20.34	666	1.87
North East Thames	1,262	4.42	876	47.31	885	11.24	60	0.19	733	12.97	881	1.95
South East Thames	1,256	4.41	906	52.31	550	11.27	189	0.65	551	9.60	1,154	3.11
South West Thames	742	4.28	812	61.20	341	10.57	114	0.47	1,483	31.57	887	3.12
Wessex	1,068	6.61	561	53.71	275	10.05	10	0.05	261	8.90	189	0.89
Oxford	930	7.49	192	43.23	208	6.71	14	0.11	592	20.31	675	4.46
South Western	757	4.20	562	42.78	572	13.13	26	0.11	460	11.57	165	0.68
West Midlands	1,529	4.87	740	44.28	648	9.47	20	0.05	522	8.24	476	1.33
Mersey	771	5.11	630	55.92	442	11.73	—	—	67	1.46	252	1.11
North Western	1,088	4.03	641	40.96	913	14.98	Nil	Nil	412	7.43	518	1.53

	Engineering maintenance	Building maintenance	Grounds, etc. maintenance	Vehicle maintenance	Computers—contract services	Contractual arrangements for patient care
Region	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.	£ 000	per cent.
Northern	3,041	16.73	3,680	32.78	102	6.64	517	20.20	76	5.80	1,406	0.29
Yorkshire	3,542	19.75	5,164	43.58	140	8.10	252	8.11	81	4.97	1,878	0.35
Trent	4,291	18.78	6,930	45.59	180	7.55	675	19.13	493	60.79	720	0.11
East Anglian	1,349	14.28	1,487	29.81	49	5.60	312	13.75	99	10.12	457	0.17
North West Thames	5,243	26.98	5,273	42.97	278	19.87	398	11.45	1,001	85.92	3,489	0.62
North East Thames	6,115	23.71	6,210	41.31	299	17.97	527	12.78	830	23.93	5,685	0.78
South East Thames	5,193	22.23	5,301	41.57	246	17.71	409	10.31	550	48.12	2,650	0.43
South West Thames	4,390	24.99	4,929	45.53	471	32.82	536	16.61	247	11.59	6,023	1.28
Wessex	2,480	20.26	2,404	29.48	86	6.81	409	18.47	194	31.39	1,942	0.50
Oxford	1,967	19.86	2,398	40.20	180	24.10	380	19.29	141	20.70	1,149	0.38
South Western	3,414	21.41	3,558	34.41	51	2.99	871	25.22	196	28.57	2,421	0.53
West Midlands	4,926	16.29	7,251	39.60	349	13.29	444	9.79	474	17.45	2,425	0.33
Mersey	3,353	22.84	6,164	53.25	185	14.74	275	12.19	50	4.73	2,354	0.60
North Western	4,637	22.89	5,382	33.90	236	11.22	287	7.64	211	20.87	6,919	1.07

Notes:

1. All figures are for current expenditure: capital is excluded.

2. For contractual arrangements for patient care, "total expenditure on the relevant service" is taken as total current expenditure on hospital services.

3. Payments to doctors, pharmacists, dentists, opticians and others contracted to the NHS to provide family practitioner services are excluded.

4. Minimal expenditure and percentages (ie less than £500 or 0.01 per cent.) as indicated by the use of a dash (—).

5. Information in the table has been prepared on as consistent a basis as practicable but comparisons of percentages between services may in some cases be misleading as the basis of the total relevant expenditure figures for different services are not completely uniform.