Health Authorities (Administration)

HC Deb 23 February 1988 vol 128 cc170-1W

Mr. Wells

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what has been the annual administration cost of the North West Thames regional health authority and of the North East Thames regional health authority since 1979.

Mr. Newton

The following information is derived from the annual accounts of health authorities comprising the North West Thames and North East Thames regions it would be misleading to interpret regional health authority data in isolation from that for the districts they manage. Regions are managed in an integrated way and, therefore, to provide a more accurate picture, regional health authority and district health authority figures have been combined.

Expenditure on headquarters administration1
£ thousands
	Regional Health Authority	District Health Authorities2	Total
North West Thames Region
1979–80	3,356	22,747	26,103
1980–81	4,096	28,413	32,509
1981–82	4,661	30,856	35,517
1982–83	5,122	27,730	32,852
1983–84	5,072	27,694	32,766
1984–85	5,665	28,012	33,677
1985–863	5,240	23,758	28,998
1986–87	6,926	25,506	32,432
North East Thames Region
1979–80	4,524	23,544	28,068
1980–81	5,638	29,990	35,628
1981–82	5,307	30,892	36,199
1982–83	5,845	32,766	38,611
1983–84	6,269	33,165	39,434
1984–85	8,113	33,221	41,334
1985–863	9,167	29,950	39,117
1986–87	10,187	32,628	42,815
1 Expenditure on headquarters administration includes all current expenditure on the pay and pay related costs of staff of all disciplines (including general managers) employed at regional and district/area headquarters levels and their office costs and overheads. It excludes the cost of secretarial and clerical support staff employed in departments at hospital and unit levels: such costs are regarded as operational.
2 Predecessor area health authorities for the years prior to NHS restructuring (1 April 1982).
3 Prior to 1 April 1985 many of the district/area health authorities within each region had an associated family practitioner committee (FPC) and those authorities' expenditure figures for the years before that date include elements relating to FPCs' administrative expenses which are not separately identifiable.