Hospital Travel Costs

HC Deb 14 May 1990 vol 172 cc296-7W

Mr. Wigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what has been his expenditure in each of the last five years on the National Health Service hospital travel costs scheme in each of the district health authority areas in Wales.

Mr. David Hunt

The information requested was not identified separately in health authorities' accounts until 1985–86. The figures for the years since then are shown in the table:

£000
	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89
Clwyd	26.7	29.0	28.7	38.4
East Dyfed	13.4	12.2	12.0	18.0
Gwent	31.4	28.1	28.3	39.6

	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89
Gwynedd	15.2	17.0	16.2	20.4
Mid Glamorgan	40.3	45.7	35.8	38.3
Pembrokeshire	6.5	7.6	7.9	9.1
Powys	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.9
South Glamorgan	61.6	54.9	60.2	77.7
West Glamorgan	23.9	31.1	28.0	34.9
Wales	219.3	225.9	217.1	277.3

Source: Health Authorities Annual Accounts.

However, it should be noted that prior to 1 April 1988 when responsibility for administering the scheme transferred wholly to district health authorities in Wales, some of the claims made under this scheme were met by local offices of the DHSS. The figures for 1985–86, 1986–87 and 1987–88 are therefore not directly comparable with those for 1988–89.