§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in theOfficial Report, for each English and Welsh district health authority, the 1988–89 hospitalisation rates based on the projections for 1991 resident populations, with results, omitting the specialties of maternity and psychiatry, but showing a rate (a) weighted by national expenditure rates, (b) rated by expenditure rates plus <75 SMR 1984–88, (c) weighted by expenditure rates plus <75 SMR (0.5 elasticity) and (d) weighted by expenditure rates plus <65 SMR.
§ Mr. FreemanI regret the information requested is not readily available. Such information as could be provided would incur disproportionate costs to produce. Information for Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.