HC Deb 13 March 1992 vol 205 cc758-65W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give for each district health authority, regional health authority, special health authority, and for England as a whole the amount spent on agency staff for each year since 1987 and for the latest available year.

Mr. Dorrell

[holding answer 12 March 1992]: The information, which is derived from annual accounts

Total revenue expenditure on non-NHS (agency, etc.) staff
1987–88 £ (cash) 1988–89 £ (cash) 1989–90 £ (cash) 1990–91 £ (cash)
Northern regional health authority 122,371 151,306 183,836 96,133
Hartlepool 18,733 5,538 30,410 79,736
North Tees 16,486 27,571 0 15,008
South Tees 435,021 569,875 540,069 360,587
East Cumbria 90,628 97,941 109,007 117,503
South Cumbria 91,692 74,880 109,195 60,705
West Cumbria 54,979 64,030 39,999 54,571
Darlington 314,896 154,067 246,541 438,420
Durham 85,031 204,624 19,661 50,431
North West Durham 50,947 91,928 5,042 27,855
South West Durham 0 0 0 0
Northumberland 42,835 29,114 30,093 12,440
Gateshead 0 29,977 105,435 138,908
Newcastle 122,543 101,775 159,949 968,019
North Tyneside 89,331 65,189 130,367 166,277
South Tyneside 91,772 45,475 34,666 80,841
Sunderland 80,465 89,553 156,815 69,338
Northern region total 1,707,730 1,802,843 1,900,085 2,736,772
Yorkshire regional health authority 68,575 82,940 211,022 186,881
Hull 374,644 257,545 270,058 301,040
East Yorks 303,707 242,172 216,573 111,846
Grimsby 290,769 243,584 415,612 461,954
Scunthorpe 181,049 228,714 87,796 94,472
Northallerton 0 0 0 98,588
York 118,860 288,820 279,915 207,812
Scarborough 492,494 340,459 337,421 221,960
Harrogate 147,860 168,457 179,803 228,228
Bradford 670,368 726,030 880,794 1,025,534
Airedale 37,364 19,939 15,525 39,647
Calderdale 462,592 496,776 370,302 209,220
Huddersfield 23,119 26,953 66,526 57,919
Dewsbury 33,946 5,969 90,955 109,696
Leeds Western 1,869799 2,533,830 3,274,651 2,629,311
Leeds Eastern 506,698 749,710 1,152,806 1,334,620
Wakefield 449,460 348,417 431,231 442,089
Pontefract 237,028 147,342 154,856 251,802
Yorkshire region total 6,268,332 6,907,657 8,435,846 8,012,619
Trent regional health authority 294,698 300,236 325,810 202,386
North Derbyshire 31,738 98,581 234,532 176,156
South Derbyshire 595,635 477,658 512,592 333,341
Leicestershire 530,858 763,651 1,242,231 806,257
North Lincolnshire 105,119 120,848 160,367 133,818
South Lincolnshire 583,200 623,673 621,831 544,590
Bassetlaw 0 42,215 170,314 220,211
Central Nottinghamshire 65,002 40,657 63,406 232,172
Nottingham 501,317 454,044 455,369 757,044
Barnsley 65,465 63,308 112,928 117,057
Doncaster 224,243 206,050 195,525 259,518
Rotherham 146,223 259,528 429,098 590,632
Sheffield 1,277,009 1,849,679 3,484,517 3,155,054
Trent region total 4,420,507 5,300,128 8,008,520 7,528,236
East Anglian regional health authority 475,878 802,505 1,374,541 1,846,612
Cambridge 1,521,781 1,656,476 2,179,186 1,565,006
Peterborough 676,536 619,743 589,200 509,803
West Suffolk 410,296 491,299 602,125 837,760
East Suffolk 303,075 533,803 655,222 1,014,282
Norwich 1,875,080 1,555,447 1,482,742 1,342,194
Great Yarmouth and Waveney 436,536 359,775 377,276 400,635
West Norfolk and Wisbech 388,409 452,406 497,413 397,316

submitted to the Department for the financial years 1987–88 to 1990–91-the latest available-is shown in the table.

1987–88 £ (cash) 1988–89 £ (cash) 1989–90 £ (cash) 1990–91 £ (cash)
Huntingdon 90,488 132,924 198,498 764,506
East Anglian region total 6,178,079 6,604,378 7,956,203 8,678,114
North West Thames regional health authority 2,299,214 727,892 729,071 884,125
North Bedfordshire 591,093 538,398 519,366 424,593
South Bedfordshire 820,269 1,022,665 1,243,620 1,621,391
North Hertfordshire 1,071,328 1,206,162 1,555,862 1,911,468
East Hertfordshire 951,014 882,852 675,886 752,335
North West Hertfordshire 1,567,927 1,719,755 1,919,530 1,991,275
South West Hertfordshire 1,261,893 1,721,574 1,729,753 2,114,156
Barnet 3,409,043 4,372,478 5,084,348 5,064,702
Harrow 2,289,898 2,429,707 2,906,290 3,269,381
Hillingdon 2,796,748 3,742,080 4,190,196 3,348,431
Hounslow and Spelthorne 3,179,646 3,830,287 4,547,753 3,907,046
Ealing 1,597,487 2,372,980 3,143,666 3,253,397
Riverside 9,905,227 13,590,643 15,020,274 11,040,240
Parkside 7,785,034 9,436,938 11,277,056 9,863,888
North West Thames region total 39,525,821 47,594,411 54,542,671 49,446,428
North East Thames regional health authority 738,317 859,563 937,619 721,659
Basildon and Thurrock 1,576,965 2,059,683 2,393,580 1,363,868
Mid Essex 1,206,645 1,204,844 1,148,747 1,007,351
North East Essex 393,908 752,040 971,582 861,628
West Essex 1,205,271 1,025,548 1,371,384 1,245,951
Southend 1,980,270 2,296,332 2,120,877 2,006,720
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 2,812,714 2,788,896 2,186,979 1,793,355
Hampstead 3,137,349 4,238,981 5,072,956 4,440,927
City and Hackney 4,854,313 6,802,822 7,436,144 7,102,272
Newham 3,112,504 3,232,217 3,619,816 4,278,542
Tower Hamlets 3,193,918 4,342,609 5,293,025 4,762,839
Enfield 2,218,174 2,022,592 1,981,352 2,064,315
Haringey 2,737,355 2,468,426 3,569,347 3,493,981
Redbridge 2,281,034 2,486,399 2,996,419 2,079,569
Waltham Forest 3,979,398 4,682,746 5,206,875 5,673,948
Bloomsbury and Islington 14,014,663 17,711,380 18,564,424 16,152,205
North East Thames region total 49,442,798 59,011,078 64,871,126 59,049,130
South East Thames regional health authority 1,019,536 1,462,288 796,115 590,079
Brighton 1,497,134 2,111,328 2,600,706 2,154,798
Eastbourne 989,148 1,052,220 937,118 894,674
Hastings 765,009 732,564 967,282 817,694
South East Kent 596,850 534,040 600,897 357,573
Canterbury and Thanet 1,105,938 1,229,828 1,225,943 1,000,535
Dartford and Gravesham 2,370,141 2,177,132 2,099,310 1,098,097
Maidstone 1,221,563 965,653 844,706 773,787
Medway 787,278 923,396 1,080,877 1,912,306
Tunbridge Wells 1,515,017 2,198,385 2,549,673 1,364,468
Bexley 1,037,467 1,057,577 1,311,721 1,157,721
Greenwich 2,220,621 2,674,043 2,670,592 2,444,405
Bromley 1,734,511 2,550,508 3,098,195 2,138,229
West Lambeth 4,044,238 5,240,423 6,131,448 3,710,181
Camberwell 4,381,014 4,787,608 6,135,868 7,039,915
Lewisham and North Southwark 4,165,801 5,631,563 5,187,217 4,945,197
South East Thames region total 29,451,266 35,328,556 38,237,668 32,399,659
South West Thames regional health authority 4,125,246 3,442,085 4,090,940 1,767,941
North West Surrey 1,416,863 1,418,310 2,547,056 2,255,178
West Surrey and North East Hampshire 1,311,438 1,584,613 1,665,467 1,176,231
South West Surrey 1,427,241 1,938,917 1,866,119 1,525,951
Mid Surrey 856,057 1,255,626 1,566,838 1,273,307
East Surrey 1,880,246 2,439,164 2,888,940 1,900,255
Chichester 450,957 591,739 805,124 645,371
Mid Downs 1,150,744 1,384,841 1,556,396 1,288,472
Worthing 1,311,811 1,392,828 1,702,995 1,540,308
Croydon 1,446,044 2,384,516 3,467,328 2,649,097
Kingston and Esher 1,666,994 2,437,871 3,049,237 1,748,899
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 2,687,663 3,097,592 3,299,278 3,397,120
Wandsworth 5,245,180 6,200,298 7,310,733 4,883,203
Merton and Sutton 2,114,184 2,913,701 2,852,301 2,419,863

1987–88 £ (cash) 1988–89 £ (cash) 1989–90 £ (cash) 1990–91 £ (cash)
South West Thames region total 27,090,668 32,482,101 38,668,752 28,471,196
Wessex regional health authority 538,495 359,860 214,285 667,732
East Dorset 1,483,282 1,703,900 2,034,615 1,812,459
West Dorset 298,835 366,168 461,944 527,303
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 667,152 1,023,047 1,253,703 1,415,997
Southampton and South West Hampshire 678,522 610,280 1,127,391 1,053,254
Winchester 569,488 764,819 702,203 584,851
Basingstoke 832,146 1,234,165 1,395,171 1,071,689
Salisbury 433,641 336,344 418,191 437,442
Swindon 353,095 460,172 711,407 804,305
Bath 268,719 346,062 827,694 979,203
Isle of Wight 232,666 442,206 974,080 827,582
Wessex region total 6,356,041 7,647,023 10,120,684 10,181,817
Oxford regional health authority 129,673 327,235 735,085 527,375
East Berkshire 1,964,409 2,135,708 2,440,727 1,997,510
West Berkshire 1,259,707 1,474,065 1,754,567 1,790,170
Aylesbury 1,057,468 1,215,867 1,187,034 1,041,672
Wycombe 587,818 647,502 645,455 522,144
Milton Keynes 370,248 603,210 690,050 375,893
Kettering 194,847 223,515 287,835 285,144
Northampton 284,477 518,735 762,548 630,322
Oxfordshire 624,718 978,589 1,361,879 1,084,462
Oxford region total 6,473,365 8,124,426 9,865,180 8,254,692
South Western regional health authority 484,000 498,941 679,450 835,586
Bristol and Weston 870,341 1,427,086 1,964,462 2,086,772
Frenchay 191,581 378,586 758,969 1,229,122
Southmead 385,695 405,633 520,437 556,042
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 261,374 263,452 281,408 350,875
Exeter 493,777 647,282 1,028,593 666,534
North Devon 222,920 193,294 249,417 261,510
Plymouth 265,221 336,871 665,431 1,106,159
Torbay 150,855 179,697 221,672 283,306
Cheltenham 175,424 366,690 603,368 545,015
Gloucester 70,231 106,558 112,332 157,212
Somerset 1,219,532 1,144,346 1,275,176 1,459,015
South Western region total 4,790,951 5,948,436 8,360,715 9,537,148
West Midlands regional health authority 730,773 755,235 791,136 1,152,371
Bromsgrove and Rcdditch 336,575 187,481 215,171 327,382
Herefordshire 129,256 156,257 285,567 398,690
Kidderminster 100,275 107,993 120,621 165,699
Worcester 535,924 615,610 1,197,012 1,622,959
Shropshire 184,187 104,640 263,915 488,022
Mid Staffs 87,262 201,680 259,417 357,971
North Staffs 246,491 295,718 280,954 359,734
South East Staffs 169,574 197,927 254,502 255,658
Rugby 275,708 333,652 369,078 295,023
North Warwickshire 226,802 181,189 240,086 281,029
South Warwickshire 386,444 313,797 346,493 493,518
Central Birmingham 1,096,622 1,176,816 1,926,228 4,113,048
East Birmingham 623,485 728,890 1,393,344 1,504,775
North Birmingham 468,028 286,357 340,191 323,158
South Birmingham 939,572 744,906 982,011 854,728
West Birmingham 686,553 1,248,416 1,550,390 1,367,969
Coventry 421,659 612,652 861,914 635,468
Dudley 226,484 541,503 851,751 807,849
Sandwell 330,893 477,915 447,402 205,281
Solihull 315,479 201,299 186,268 342,793
Walsall 445,706 443,617 533,675 610,182
Wolverhampton 666,328 634,398 791,357 465,332
West Midlands region total 9,630,080 10,547,948 14,488,483 17,428,639
Mersey regional health authority 244,866 271,163 253,517 288,395
Chester 110,888 24,224 229,033 67,143
Crewe 496,125 350,167 519,320 639,719
Halton 217,425 353,701 369,752 267,952
Macclesfield 276,859 285,794 538,806 613,345
Warrington 227,261 219,578 264,482 30,584
Liverpool 770,672 375,875 2,094,580 2,510,559

1987–88 £ (cash) 1988–89 £ (cash) 1989–90 £ (cash) 1990–91 £ (cash)
St. Helens and Knowsley 96,422 44,602 81,166 133,408
Southport and Formby 284,061 258,126 247,071 315,320
South Sefton 163,903 439,085 668,066 491,794
Wirral 92,277 157,465 269,355 285,823
Mersey region total 2,980,759 2,779,780 5,535,148 5,644,042
North Western regional health authority 18,969 4,552 100,542 94,215
Lancaster 43,603 57,988 43,165 74,386
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 249,381 286,763 267,094 340,762
Preston 287,932 388,428 335,075 493,246
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 0 0 118,621 114,180
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 57,073 276,988 116,619 138,652
West Lancashire 118,769 177,447 570,483 741,067
Chorley and South Ribble 19,142 27,648 14,863 57,141
Bolton 526,670 700,095 586,073 413,544
Bury 115,890 71,054 178,085 300,077
North Manchester 150,309 320,374 446,372 993,235
Central Manchester 372,029 494,026 816,384 1,152,637
South Manchester 90,689 675,087 589,147 1,245,214
Oldham 344,533 353,911 273,386 171,600
Rochdale 100,777 50,608 60,548 65,388
Salford 363,522 355,484 255,378 525,580
Stockport 139,237 152,253 163,522 187,236
Tameside and Glossop 212,375 213,735 214,070 166,320
Trafford 202,788 242,912 112,842 192,333
Wigan 29,689 42,892 209,149 228,576
North Western region total 3,443,377 4,892,245 5,471,418 7,695,389
Hospitals for Sick Children 3,007,397 3,929,924 5,655,215 5,364,730
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 1,886,045 2,145,783 2,706,325 2,286,274
Moorfields Eye Hospital 1,192,738 1,697,004 1,580,001 1,204,326
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 1,146,088 1,351,302 2,316,199 1,530,689
National Heart and Lung Hospitals 1,409,469 2,272,109 2,804,712 3,682,776
Royal Marsden Hospital 1,394,752 1,783,790 2,295,757 1,926,012
Hammersmith and Queen Charlottes Hospital 3,367,977 3,675,845 3,280,373 3,472,062
Eastman Dental Hospital 271,154 339,793 380,587 394,333
SHA total 13,675,620 17,195,550 21,019,169 19,861,202
England 211,435,394 252,166,560 297,481,668 274,925,083

Source:

Annual accounts of regional and district health authorities in England and those of the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.

Notes:

1. The table excludes the similar but comparatively small costs of staff wholly or mainly concerned with capital projects and which are charged to capital expenditure by the health authorities. Such costs totalled as follows:

£000 (cash)
1987–88 2,449
1988–89 2,876
1989–90 4,612
1990–91 4,899

2. The table also excludes any expenditure incurred by special health authorities other than those for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.

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