§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for the current financial year, how much funding has been made available to the national health service to(a) meet the real cost of inflation, (b) meet the specific costs of medical inflation, (c) target towards reducing inequalities in public health and health care provision, (d) allow for positive health measures through health promotion and education and (e) allow community care proposals to be fully implemented.
§ Mr. DorrellExpenditure on the NHS in England for all purposes this year is expected to amount to some £26.6 billion. This represented a real-terms increase of nearly 5 per cent. over spending last year, and of 51 per cent. over spending in 1978–79. We do not identify sums separately for the purposes listed.