§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each year since 1979, and for each district health authority, the numbers of National Health Service patients treated in private hospitals under contractual arrangements; and if he will list the costs of treatment to each district health authority in(a) actual amounts and (b) deflated by the health service pay and prices index.
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§ Mr. MellorThe number of patients receiving consultant treatment under contractual arrangements, and health authority expenditure on contracts with private sector health providers, for the years 1982 to 1986 (latest available) are given in two tables which have been placed in the Library. Comparable data for 1979 to 1981 are not available.
The data provided in these two tables are not directly comparable, for the reasons given in the notes on the tables.