§ Mr. FearnTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will list in theOfficial Report the district health authorities which spent more than 1 per cent. of their allocation in 1986–87 on agency nurses, giving the percentage for each case;
(2) if he will list in the Official Report the district health authorities which spent more than £300,000 in 1986–87 on agency nurses, giving the amount spent in each case.
§ Mr. NewtonFollowing is information derived from the 1986–87 annual accounts of district health authorities and those of the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.
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Expenditure on non-national health service (agency etc.) staff—nursing Expenditure (authorities in excess of £300,000) Expenditure in excess of one per cent. of total revenue expenditure Per cent. £ Per cent. Yorkshire Region Scarborough — 1 28 Leeds Western 357,453 — Leeds Eastern 446,994 — East Anglian Region West Norfolk and Wisbech — 1.02 Cambridge 664,086 — Norwich 622,285 — North West Thames Region South West Hertfordshire 531,657 1.88 Barnet 1,432,868 1.93 Harrow 1,267,046 3.20 Hillingdon 1,526,023 2.54 Hounslow and Spelthorne 2,002,673 3.66 Ealing 337,476 — Brent 1,207,244 2.23 Paddington 2,370,432 3.62 Riverside 4,056,499 3.04 North East Thames Region Basildon and Thurrock 560,161 1.17 Mid Essex 559,114 1.05 West Essex 478,906 1.19 Southend 691,564 1.48 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 378,802 — Hampstead 1,349,503 2.27 Bloomsbury 4,745,219 3.68 Islington 777,354 1.51 City and Hackney 2,123,687 2.43 Newham 1,444,239 3.36 Tower Hamlets 1,365,551 1.92 Enfield 954,921 2.39 Haringey 1,433,658 2.91 Redbridge 771,162 1.89 Waltham Forest 1,580,540 2.87 South.East Thames Region Brighton 882,130 1.49 Eastbourne 522,100 1.20 Canterbury and Thanet 584,661 — Dartford and Gravesham 758,412 1.62 Maidstone 466,874 1.25 Tunbridge Wells 671,782 1.41 Greenwich 799,327 1.30 Bromley 946,556 1.75 West Lambeth 1,648,359 1.95 Camberwell 1,797,873 2.55 Lewisham and North Southwark 1,882,684 1.67
Expenditure (authorities in excess of £300,000) Expenditure in excess of one per cent. of total revenue expenditure Per cent. £ Per cent. South-West Thames Region North.West Surrey 519,334 1.28 West Surrey and North.East Hampshire 803,363 1.97 South.West Surrey 471.817 1.31 East Surrey 747,873 1.58 Worthing 444,352 1.28 Croydon 343,861 — Kingston and Esher 575,102 1.37 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 911,998 2.44 Wandsworth 2,510,595 2.72 Merton and Sutton 588,650 — Wessex Region East Dorset 449,749 — Oxford Region East Berkshire 358,770 — West Berkshire 496,669 — Aylesbury 371,664 — West Midlands Region Central Birmingham 400,071 — East Birmingham 301,405 — West Birmingham 304,732 — Mersey Region Liverpool 551,626 — Special Health Authorities for the London Postgraduate Teaching Hospitals Hospital for Sick Children 1,405,078 4.15 National Hospital for Nervous Diseases 1,171,056 6.30 Moorfields Eye Hospital 645,679 4.73 National Heart and Chest Hospitals 787,255 2.46 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's Hospitals 1,518,411 3.28