Public Expenditure

HC Deb 21 March 1985 vol 75 cc605-6W

Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will update table 15.10.9 of "Public Expenditure to 1987–88: A Commentary on the Scotland Programme", for the numbers of home helps, staff in day centres and in local authority residential centres for 1984.

Mr. John MacKay

I estimate that the additional cost of providing health care services for the increasing number of those over 75 years old in the population in he three years 1985–86 to 1987–88 will be about £24 million, of which about £22 million will fall on the hospitals and community health services programme.