HC Deb 18 December 1987 vol 124 cc914-5W
Mr. Gordon Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list for each year since 1979, for England, Wales and Scotland, the total expenditure on agency staff by the regional health authority at (a) current prices, (b) constant prices, and (c) expressed as a percentage of health authorities' budgets.

Mr. Newton

Figures for England for the years 1979–80 to 1982–83 derived from the annual accounts of regional and district health authorities and those of their predecessor authorities, are shown in the table.

Revenue expenditure on non-National Health Service staff (agency, etc.)
As shown in annual accounts (£000) At 1986–87 prices2 (£000) As a percentage of total revenue expenditure
Regions 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83
Northern 180 656 555 436 300 921 710 520 0.05 0.15 0.11 0.08
Yorkshire 311 350 299 1,244 518 491 382 1,484 0.08 0.07 0.05 0.21
Trent 810 674 514 812 1,348 946 657 969 0.18 0.12 0.08 0.12
East Anglian 668 1,050 1,162 1,373 1,112 1,474 1,486 1,638 0.35 0.43 0.43 0.48
North-West Thames 12,871 16,321 15,671 12,035 21,425 22,916 20,040 14,357 2.86 2.81 2.41 1.90
North-East Thames 12,161 14,959 14,593 13,862 20,243 21,004 18,662 16,536 2.49 2.35 2.08 1.73
South-East Thames 8,731 10,805 10,618 9,474 14,534 15,171 13,578 11,302 1.85 1.79 1.60 1.35
South-West Thames 8,840 11,005 10,192 8,401 14,715 15,452 13,034 10,022 2.45 2.36 1.98 1.58
Wessex 1,023 857 862 1,130 1,703 1,203 1,102 1,348 0.38 0.25 0.22 0.27
Oxford 1,732 1,485 1,184 1,131 2,883 2,085 1,514 1,349 0.77 0.52 0.38 0.34
South-Western 813 848 931 1,103 1,353 1,191 1,191 1,316 0.24 0.20 0.20 0.22
West Midlands 2,126 1,907 1,669 1,376 3,539 2,678 2,134 1,641 0.40 0.28 0.16 0.17
Mersey 620 659 467 388 1,032 925 597 463 0.22 0.18 0.11 0.09
North-Western 325 660 488 1,284 541 927 624 1,532 0.07 0.11 0.07 0.18
Regions Total 51,211 62,236 59,205 54,049 85,246 87,384 75,711 64,477 0.98 0.92 0.79 0.68
Special Health Authorities1 4,030 5,912 5,439 5,227 6,708 8,301 6.955 6,235 4.25 4.79 3.88 3.47
TOTAL 55,241 68,148 64,644 59,276 91,954 95,685 82,666 70,712 1.04 0.99 0.85 0.73
1 Special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. (Boards of governors prior to 1982–83.)
2 Figures have been expressed at 1986–87 prices by the use of the gross domestic product deflator.