§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what has been the level of funding to the Mersey regional health authority in each of the last eight years expressing year-on-year changes as a percentage in both cash and real terms.
§ Mrs. Currie[holding answer 3 December 1987]: The table shows the percentage growth in gross revenue expenditure between 1978–79 and 1986–87 —the latest year for which outturn data are available.
Percentage growth in gross revenue expendilure1 Mersey RHA Cash Real terms2 1978–79 to 1979–80 20.8 1.00 1979–80 to 1980–81 28.3 1.01 1980–81 to 1981–82 10.4 1.09 1981–82 to 1982–83 7.1 1.04 1982–83 to 1983–84 4.7 0.1 1983–84 to 1984–85 5.9 1.4 1984–85 to 1985–86 5.1 -0.9 1985–86 to 1986–87 6.9 3.7 1 Based on health authorities' summarised accounts, figures for 1986–87 are provisional. 2 As measured by the Gross Domestic Product Deflator.