§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will provide exemplifications of allocations to regional health authorities on a weighted capitation basis for 1988–89 and 1989–90 on the assumption that direct payments between regions have the same net effect as cross-boundary flow adjustments;
(2) if he will list the cash allocations to regional health authorities for 1984–85 and subsequently both before and after later cross-boundary flow adjustments, and expressing those adjustments as a percentage of the initial allocation.
§ Mr. FreemanUnder the resource allocation working party method of resource allocation, inter-regional flows were taken into account by adjusting the weighted populations used to determine target shares of resources available. Within the formula, their impact on weighted populations was relatively small. Actual allocations reflected the acceptable pace of change towards these targets over time. It is therefore not possible to disaggregate the cash element of cross-boundary flows in regional health authority allocations to date.