§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the spending per head of population served by Warrington district health authority in the latest available year; and what is the figure per head, on the most nearly comparable basis, for the United Kingdom as a whole.
§ Mrs. Currie[holding answer 24 February 1988]: Figures of spending per head of resident population for 1986–87 (the latest year available) are shown in the table:
Revenue expenditure per head of resident population—Hospital and Community Health Services1 £ Warrington district health authority 259 England—average for all district health authorities 214 United Kingdom 228 1Includes ambulance, blood transfusion, mass radiography and other services. Sources:
(a) 1986–87 annual accounts of district and regional health authorities in England and those of the analogous health authorities, boards and agencies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—as submitted to the central health department in each country.
(b) Mid-year estimates of populations—1986 (Office of Population Censuses and Surveys).
Notes to the table:
(1) Capital expenditure on Hospital and Community Health Services is excluded. Expenditure on family practitioner services (which cannot strictly be attributed to particular districts) and expenditure on personal social services (which in Northern Ireland is accounted for by Health and Social Services Boards) is also excluded.
(2) Comparisons between the figures are influenced by a number of factors including:
- (a) people travel across district boundaries for treatment and resource allocations reflect the pattern of service provision locally;
- (b) the population figures used make no allowance for people resident in one district who receive treatment in another or for differences in morbidity and age/sex structure of particular populations.