§
Mrs. Currie
[holding answer 19 November 1987]: The following are provisional, that is, as yet unaudited, figures derived from 1986–87 annual accounts submitted to the Department:
| Expenditure on rates/payments in lieu of rates |
|
£000 |
| Regions1 |
|
| Northern |
13,360 |
| Yorkshire |
13,065 |
| Trent |
20,817 |
| East Anglian |
7,449 |
| North West Thames |
11,709 |
| North East Thames |
15,025 |
| South East Thames |
11,280 |
| South West Thames |
9,599 |
| Wessex |
7,888 |
| Oxford |
7,427 |
| South Western |
9,131 |
| Number of cases on in.patient waiting list with national ranking by percentage change—NHS Hospitals England |
| District health authority |
September |
March |
Change September 1982 to March 1987 |
|
|
1982 |
1987 |
Number |
Percentage |
Rank |
| Milton Keynes1 |
6 |
2,614 |
2,608 |
43,466.7 |
1 |
| Halton |
7 |
141 |
134 |
1,914.3 |
2 |
| Islington |
1,098 |
2,826 |
1,728 |
157.4 |
3 |
| Huntingdon |
471 |
922 |
451 |
95.8 |
4 |
| Hounslow and Spelthorne |
3,127 |
5,863 |
2,736 |
87.5 |
5 |
| East Surrey |
1,257 |
2,327 |
1,070 |
85.1 |
6 |
| West Essex |
2,555 |
4,645 |
2,090 |
81.8 |
7 |
| Lewisham and North Southwark |
5,335 |
9,341 |
4,006 |
75.1 |
8 |
| Bexley |
1,123 |
1,953 |
830 |
73.9 |
9 |
| Dartford and Gravesham |
2,916 |
4,846 |
1,930 |
66.2 |
10 |
| Harrogate |
1,274 |
2,059 |
785 |
61.6 |
11 |
944W
|
£000 |
| West Midlands |
14,618 |
| Mersey |
10,465 |
| North Western |
12,939 |
| Other NHS Bodies/Authorities2 |
|
| Special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals |
1,991 |
| Family Practitioner Committees |
1,291 |
| Prescription Pricing Authority |
423 |
| Dental Estimates Board |
100 |
| 1 Includes expenditure by regional and district health authorities. |
| 2 Excludes certain NHS bodies and authorities, etc. (eg the Central Blood Laboratories Authority) whose annual accounts do not separately identify their expenditure on rates or payments in lieu of rates. |