Health Service (Expenditure)

HC Deb 22 February 1990 vol 167 cc873-4W

Mr. Dewar

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total expenditure on the Health Service in Scotland in(a) gross terms and (b) net of pay costs in constant prices and indexed (1980=100) for each year since 1980 including estimated expenditure for 1990–91.

Mr. Rifkind

The information in the format requested is not fully available. Details of gross expenditure in both cash terms and adjusted by the gross domestic product deflator, are given in the table:

Total National Health Service Expenditure in Scotland
	£ million cash	Adjusted by the GDP deflator to 1989–90 prices	Index (1979–80 = 100)
1979–80	1,064	2,143	100.0
1980–81	1,343	2,386	106.7
1981–82	1,531	2,374	110.7
1982–83	1,660	2,401	112.0
1983–84	1,773	2,450	114.3
1984–85	1,901	2,502	116.7
1985–86	2,015	2,517	117.4
1986–87	2,144	2,591	120.9
1987–88	2,328	2,672	124.6
1988–89	2,591	2,772	129.3
1989–901	2,851	2,851	133.0
1990–912	3,064	2,918	136.1
1 Projected outturn.
2 Provisional allocation.