§ Mr. Bestasked the Secretary of State for Wales whether he has reached decisions about the allocation of resources for hospital and community health service in Wales in 1987–88.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsIn 1987–88, I intend to allocate £779.9 million. This represents a cash increase of £57 million over 1986–87 provision or 7.9 per cent.
For current spending this represents additional sums totalling £50.5 million a cash increase of 7.5 per cent. over 1986–87 provision of which £10.6 million will be required for centrally directed developments. The balance of £39.9 million a cash increase of 5.9 per cent. over 1986–87 provision, is being made available to district health authorities.
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Education Act 1980: Section 21 Grants for Welsh Language Education Local Education Authorities Clwyd Grant awarded 1980–81 £ Grant awarded 1981–82 £ Grant awarded 1982–83 £ Grant awarded 1983–84 £ Grant awarded 1984–85 £ Grant awarded 1985–86 £ Grant awarded 1986–87 £ Total £ 1. AthrawonBro 8,650 62,253 60,600 68,350 45,000 53,000 58,000 355,853 2. INSET 9,240 5,000 5,000 6,210 7,000 7,000 7,500 46,950 3. Purchase of Welsh medium material 8,910 4,975 — — — — — 13,885 4. Production and printing of teaching material in Welsh 2,455 4,453 4,453 4,567 — — — 15,928 5. Adaption for Welsh medium teaching of Clwyd French Certificate Scheme 1,000 — — — — — — 1,000 6. Immersion courses in Welsh for pupils at Urdd camps 1,800 1,200 — 2,100 3,000 6,000 5,000 19,100 In addition to this extra funding health authorities will retain the benefit of cash released through their cost improvement programmes, the first 0.5 per cent. of which will as in previous years be for re-investment in priority services. Health authorities will also retain the benefit of income from charges of about £2 million, mainly From private patient treatment. From within these total additional resources health authorities will be expected to meet pay and price increases and to continue to maintain standards of patient care and develop services in accordance with approved policies and priorities.
Capital resources for hospital and community health services will increase by £6.2 million to £52.4 million. As a consequence of the declining requirements of the centrally funded residual all-Wales programme, the funds available to health authorities will increase to £24.5 million. Authorities will also, as before, retain receipts from the sale of surplus land and buildings.
The revenue and capital resources available to individual authorities in 1987–88 will be as shown in the following table. These allocations do not take into account further sums which will be made available following decisions on centrally funded developments for the coming year. These will be announced shortly.
Revenue Element of Allocation £ million Capital Element of Allocation £ million Clwyd 88.290 4.086 East Dyfed 55.001 1.831 Pembrokeshire 20.201 0.868 Gwent 106.242 4.277 Gwynedd 52,865 1.501 Mid Glamorgan 124.868 4.680 Powys 24.912 0.885 South Glamorgan 144.988 2.245 West Glamorgan 92.779 4.079