§ Mr. Nicholas BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will provide the following information for the latest year for which statistics are available together with figures for 1979 and the period 1974 to 1979:(a) the number of general practitioners, (b) general practitioners' list sizes, (c) the number of nurses, (d) the number of in-patients treated, (e) the number of out-patients treated, (f) the number of junior hospital doctors, (g) the number of consultants and (h) the total spending on the National Health Service.
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§ Mr. FreemanThe information for England is as follows:
1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1988 (a) Number of General Practitioners 20,219 20,377 20,551 20,796 21,040 21,357 25,322 (b) General Practitioners' average list size 2,384 2,365 2,351 2,331 2,312 2,286 1,999 (c) Number of nurses1 314,000 332,200 341,700 343,200 351,000 358,400 403,900 (d) In-patients treated 5,171,706 4,975,750 5,254,551 5,344,967 5,370,319 5,400,120 26,619,354 (e) Out-patients treated 7,824,826 6,925,922 7,498,484 7,612,057 7,711,912 7,713,465 28,529,759 (f) Number of junior hospital doctors 15,274 16,304 16,799 17,402 18,091 18,902 21,493 (g) Number of consultants 9,373 9,625 9,992 10,124 10,382 10,632 13,177
Financial year £ millions (h) Gross NHS expenditure 1974–75 3,426 1975–76 4,511 1976–77 3,149 1977–78 5,689 1978–79 6,525 1979–80 7,755 31988–89 19,639 1 Excluding nurses employed by general medical practitioners. 2 Figures are for the 1987–88 financial year. 3 Estimate.