HC Deb 18 December 1990 vol 183 c151W
29. Mr. Bowis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the level of national health service funding will be next year; and what it was in 1978.

Mr. Dorrell

Next year the national health service in England will have a total of £26.2 billion to spend. This represents a real terms increase of 50 per cent. on the 1978–79 gross spending total of £6.5 billion.