§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will indicate in cash terms for the current year the cost of the teaching hospitals based in London and other national resources for the National Health Service based in London.
§ Mr. MellorWe do not collect information in the form requested. But London is a centre for a wide range of services a number of which are of national importance. Costing returns submitted to the Department by district and special health authorities in London for major hospitals in teaching districts and postgraduate teaching 245W hospitals respectively show that total revenue expenditure attributable to those hospitals amounted to some £656 million in 1986–87.
For further information on the expenditure and statistics relevant to individual London teaching hospitals I refer the hon. Member to the Department's annual publication "Health Services Costing Returns" (the latest being for 1986–87), copies of which are in the Library.