§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in theOfficial Report tables 13.3 and 13.21 of Cm. 1013 adjusted by the appropriate National Health Service price indices.
§ Mr. Freeman[holding answer 5 February 1990]: It is not possible to reproduce tables 13.3 and 13.21 of Cm. 1013 adjusted in the manner requested, for the following reasons:
- i. no price indices exist for the NHS in the United Kingdom as a whole;
- ii. no specific price indices are available for the following categories of expenditure in England:
- —central health and miscellaneous services;
- —departmental administration;
- —family practitioner services administration;
- —family practitioner services capital;
- iii. as no estimate is made of NHS pay and price inflation before the end of the current financial year it is not possible to adjust figures for 1989–90 to 1992–93.
Details of the relevant pay and price deflators for HCHS current and capital and FPS current expenditure in England between 1984–85 and 1988–89 are shown in the table, together with an index for the NHS in England based on a weighted average of these indices:
NHS pay and price inflation 1984–85 to 1988–89 HCHS Current HCHS Capital FPS Current NHS Total 1988–89 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 1987–88 110.5 105.8 109.6 110.0 1986–87 119.5 111.2 117.2 118.7 1985–86 128.2 116.8 123.3 126.3 1984–85 134.8 123.6 129.4 132.9