Hospitals (Staffing) (Hansard, 29 April 1988)

§ Mr. Grist

There are no recommended staffing levels by patient category in hospitals. The determination of appropriate staffing levels is an operational matter for individual health authorities.

Staff numbers by individual hospitals are not held centrally. With the exception of medical and dental staff and nursing and midwifery staff, information which is held centrally does not distinguish between community and hospital based staff.

The table provides a breakdown by authority, and between hospital and community based staff where appropriate, at 30 September 1986:

Welsh Water Authority: average household bill
	£	Percentage¹
1975–76	37.44	—
1976–77	43.91	17.3
1977–78	47.66	8.5
1978–79	44.11	(7.4)
1979–80	49.08	11.3
1980–81	60.38	23.0
1981–82	66.76	10.6

291W

	£	Percentage¹
1982–83	²81.34	21.8
1983–84	86.35	6.2
1984–85	92.77	7.4
1985–86	103.91	12.0
1986–87	114.01	9.7
1987–88	122.61	7.5
1988–89	134.57	9.7
¹ Percentage increase over previous year.
² The rateable value was increased from £120 to £124 in 1982–83.

Notes: Comparable figures are not available for 1974–75 for the average household.

In 1978–79 the average bill decreased by 7.4 per cent. over the previous year.

Gross capital expenditure in 1986–87
£ million
	Clwyd	Dyfed	Gwent	Gwynedd	Mid Glamorgan	Powys	South Glamorgan	West Glamorgan
Local authorities	53.004	41.956	87.344	27.665	80.329	15.357	62.458	61.611
Direct central Government:
(i) health¹	6.109	7.405	6.976	2.579	6.753	1.269	10.726	12.167
(ii) roads	27.584	19.414	8.508	25.162	9.199	3.222	3.813	2.253
(iii) agricultural grants²	1.971	4.245	0.400	2.361	0.362	4.757	0.066	0.254
¹ Health authority capital expenditure, excluding residual WHCSA expenditure.
² Net of EC receipts and excluding the Agriculture Improvement Scheme.

For details of regional development grant and regional selective assistance expenditure, I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer which I gave to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) on 24 February, Official Report columns 215–16.