HC Deb 06 February 1989 vol 146 c495W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate(a) what the allocations would have been to each English regional health authority for 1989–90 if the same national total had been distributed on the basis

1989–90 allocations Difference
Main1 Provision

£ million

 Notional2

distribution in line

with 1988–89

allocations3

£ million

 £ million

column (2) and (1)

 Percentage

column (3) and (1)
Region (1) (2) (3) (4)
Northern 832.4 832.6 0.2 0.02
Yorkshire 937.4 939.5 2.2 0.23
Trent 1,147.2 1,143.9 -3.3 -0.29
East Anglian 497.1 495.6 -1.5 -0.30
North West Thames 912.9 918.5 5.6 0.61
North East Thames 1,137.0 1,147.3 10.3 0.90
South East Thames 1,018.3 1,019.1 0.8 -0.08
South West Thames 843.7 846.0 2.3 0.28
Wessex 699.1 695.9 -3.1 -0.45
Oxford 557.6 546.3 -11.3 -2.03
South Western 832.4 828.4 -4.0 -0.48
West Midlands 1,340.1 1,342.5 2.4 0.18
Mersey 663.8 663.9 0.2 0.02
North Wester 1,140.1 1,139.6 -0.5 -0.05
Total 1,2559.1 1,2559.1 0.0 0.00
1 Excludes sums earmarked e.g. Supra regional services, AIDS, breast cancer screening.
2 Total cash 1989–90 pro rata to 1988–89 initial cash limits.
3 Excludes earmarked sums, but includes special fund of £15 million allocated to Regions who received the lowest increases under RAWP.