§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department has made available to community health councils in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. MellorThe Department does not separately fund community health councils, the expenses of which are met from the overall allocations made to health authorities.
Following are figures of revenue expenditure incurred by community health councils and derived from the summarised annual accounts of health authorities in England for the latest available five years:
Year £000 1982–83 5,787 1983–84 6,099 1984–85 6,341 1985–86 6,784 1986–87 7,165