HC Deb 29 November 1988 vol 142 c193W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was Government spending on the National Health Service per household as a proportion of the average household income in 1987–88.

Mr. Mellor

Gross NHS expenditure per household in the United Kingdom represented 6.8 per cent. of average household income in 1987, as against 6.3 per cent. in 1978.