HC Deb 06 February 1989 vol 146 cc506-7W
Mr. Holt

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions have taken place with employment training agencies on the loss of hot meal services to retirement pensioners in the East Cleveland area.

Mr. Freeman

[holding answer 2 February 1989]: I understand that the East Cleveland employment training group luncheon clubs project has been carried forward into employment training. Loftus Employment Training has been appointed as the training manager and is actively considering ways of ensuring the project's continued

Hospital and Community Health Services—Current Expenditure
£ millions
1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88
Cash figures table 14.1 Cm. 614
Gross 8,882 9,386 9,886 10,623 11,730
Net 8,628 9,120 9,607 10,320 11,402
Figures adjusted by HCHS Pay and Price deflator
Gross 11,461 11,446 11,469 11,522 11,730
Net 11,133 11,122 11,145 11,193 11,402

The table sets out HCHS current expenditure figures from 1983–84, adjusted by the HCHS pay and price deflator for the years in which it is available. These figures do not take account of income from cash releasing cost improvements which, in the years shown, provided a significant contribution to the total resources available for service development.