HC Deb 14 July 1987 vol 119 cc462-3W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for each region for each year since 1979–80 its capital resource allocation working party allocation as a percentage of its weighted population share.

Mr. Newton

[pursuant to his reply, 30 June 1987, c. 79–80]: The information requested is set out in the table. The RAWP (resource allocation working party) formula uses regions' populations weighted to take account of age and sex distribution and mortality rates, and the value of capital stock in relation to the weighted population as indicators of relative need.

From 1979–80 to 1984–85, 85 per cent. of the national RAWP sum was distributed on a weighted population basis, the remaining 15 per cent. serving to reduce the inherited disparities in the value of regional health authorities' capital stock. A review in 1983 concluded that the stock equalisation element did not provide a fair measure of relative need and regional health authorities agreed to move, progressively from 1985–86 to 1991–92, to capital RAWP allocations based solely on weighted population shares.

Regional health authorities
Capital allocation—RA WP share as percentage of weighted population share
Percentage
Regional health authority 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88
1. Northern 105 101.3 98.2 96.0 92.9 86.8 88.7 90.6 92.5
2. Yorkshire 105 104.7 105.8 106.7 107.7 107.6 106.2 105.3 104.3
3. Trent 114 105.2 97.9 91.9 91.1 90.4 90.5 93.2 94.5
4. East Anglian 128 117.5 105.3 94.1 85.0 85.0 87.2 89.1 91.6
5. North West Thames 85 85.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 87.2 89.4 91.2
6. North East Thames 85 85.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 88.5 89.4 91.4
7. South East Thames 85 85.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 88.9 90.8 92.0 93.1
8. South West Thames 85 85.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 86.9 89.1 91.5
9. Wessex 103 110.5 120.5 129.2 136.1 140.0 134.2 128.7 122.3
10. Oxford 85 85.0 85.0 85.0 87.0 85.0 87.2 89.3 91.6
11. South.Western 96 95.6 98.5 103.0 107.2 111.8 112.7 108.3 106.8
12. West-Midlands 85 93.7 100.6 107.2 113.0 119.4 115.9 113.8 111.1
13. Mersey 123 110.7 100.3 90.4 85.0 85.0 87.5 89.0 91.5
14. North-Western 123 132.0 137.0 138.3 132.6 1227.7 119.6 116.4 113.8