Health Service (Expenditure)

HC Deb 07 November 1989 vol 159 c534W

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the percentage of the gross domestic product per head for Wales spent on the National Health Service calculated on the Welsh gross domestic product.

Mr. Grist

In 1987–88 gross expenditure on the National Health Service in Wales was £1,136.5 million, which is equivalent to 8 per cent. of the provisional 1987 figure for Welsh GDP of £14,156 million.