§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of the gross domestic product in Wales has been spent on the national health service each year since 1987–88.
§ Mr. Nicholas BennettGross national health service expenditure in Wales for each financial year since 1987–88 is as follows:
Year £ millions 1987–88 1,137 1988–89 1,271 1989–90 1,377 1990–91 1,544 Gross domestic product figures for Wales, by calendar year, are published in CSO Economic Trends.
§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the cost to health authorities in Wales in 1991–92 of the Professions Allied to Medicine Review Body's pay awards for that year, and the amount allocated from Government reserves to meet part of these costs.
§ Mr. Nicholas BennettThe cost to health authorities in Wales of the Professions Allied to Medicine Review Body's pay awards in 1991–92 is estimated to be £ 2.9 million. The additional amount allocated from Government reserves, over and above the provision for inflation in authorities' original 1991–92 allocations, to meet part of these costs is £0.7 million.
§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many new administrative posts have been created in each health authority in Wales as a result of the recent changes in the national health service.
§ Mr. Nicholas BennettThe information requested is not held centrally. Manpower returns to the Welsh Office from district health authorities do not identify numbers of posts created specifically to implement particular tasks and health authority accounts similarly do not identify costs in such a way. In 1990–91, additional funding of some £16.2 million was provided to the national health service in Wales for spending on the changes and improvements associated with, and related to the national health service review. Some £8.5 million of this was for hospital and community health service revenue expenditure on the provision of new consultants and treatment centres,40W medical audit, information technology, training and strengthening the personnel and finance functions. It is not possible to estimate what proportion of these funds was spent on establishing new administrative posts.