§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the level of hospital and community health services expenditure on(a) staff now covered by pay review bodies, (b) other staff and (c) goods and services, in cash and constant prices in each year since 1974–75.
§ Mr. Freeman[holding answer 5 March 1990]: Information derived from annual accounts submitted to the Department is shown in the table.
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Total salaries and wages expenditure Review body staff All other staff Total Non-pay Expenditure £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 (cash) (at 1989–90 prices) (cash) (at 1989–90 prices) (cash) (at 1989–90 prices) 1986–87 4,949,899 5,981,458 2,735,157 3,305,164 2,632,110 3,180,642 1987–88 5,556,864 6,376,946 2,911,090 3,340,709 2,808,757 3,223,273 1988–89 6,454,412 6,906,221 3,107,182 3,324,685 2,993,451 3,202,993 Source:
Annual accounts of regional and district health authorities in England and those of the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. (Predecessor authorities for the years prior to 1982–83).
Notes to the table:
1. The figures have been expressed at 1989–90 prices by the use of the Gross Domestic Product deflator.
2. Revenue expenditure on HCHS covers the total revenue expenditure by the health authorities concerned including that on hospital, community health, patient transport (i.e. ambulance), blood transfusion and other services. All capital expenditure and expenditure on family practitioner services is excluded. However, the figures for the years prior to 1 April 1985 include small elements related to the administrative expenses of family practitioner committees (FPCs) which before that date were included in the accounts of the health authorities with which the FPCs were associated and are not separately identifiable.
3. The figures of salaries and wages expenditure are gross costs including employers superannuation and national insurance contributions. Those for the "review body stafF. for the earliest years are slightly understated (with corresponding overstatement of those for "all other staff-) as the annual accounts did not provide for the separate identification of salaries and wages costs currently attributed to "professions supplementary to medicine" until 1979–80. The costs of employing all non-National Health Service (agency, etc.) staff are included with "all other staff".
4. The figures of total non-pay expenditure are essentially for the purchase of goods and services but include some miscellaneous costs (e.g. staff travel and subsistence expenses, student bursaries, patients allowances, etc.).