§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give for each year since 1974–75 current spending on the hospital and community health services714W for each National Health Service region and for the special health authorities (i) in cash terms, (ii) adjusted using the gross domestic product deflator, and (iii) adjusted using the National Health Service pay and prices index.
§ Mr. FreemanThe information requested is given in a table, copies of which have been placed in the Library. The expenditure figures are based on those shown in the summarised accounts of regional and district health authorities and the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals (predecessor authorities for the years prior to 1982–83).