North West Thames Regional Health Authority

HC Deb 16 July 1985 vol 83 cc120-1W

53. Mr. Chapman

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, if he will make a statement on the percentage real increase in revenue expenditure of the North West Thames regional health authority between 1978–79 and 1984–85.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

There were significant boundary and management changes in 1982 which make it impossible to give a sensible figure for the whole period. However, on the pre-1982 boundaries between 1978–79 and 1981–82 the revenue expenditure of North West Thames regional health authority rose by 12.3 per cent. ahead of the general level of inflation. Between 1982–83 and 1984–85 it rose by 1.6 per cent. in the same real terms.