§ Mr. Jon Owen JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what percentage of South Glamorgan health authority's budget is spent on administrative costs not directly related to the provision of health care;
(2) what percentage of national health service Wales' overall budget is spent on administrative costs not directly related to the provision of health care.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesAll NHS expenditure in Wales is related to the provision of health and personal social services. The information necessary to identify administrative costs across all fields of health and social care is not available centrally. However, provisional annual accounts data for 1991–92 does yield for district health authorities the proportion of the authority's own revenue expenditure on administrative costs not directly related to the provision of health care during the last financial year. This figure for South Glamorgan is 3.3 per cent. and is taken to be that covering authority administration and purchasing expenses and expenditure on administering "other services"—for example, emergency bed service, registration and inspection of nursing homes, and joint finance expenditure, care in the community and grants to voluntary bodies. It excludes any further administrative expenditure accounted for within the small surplus on trading attributable to the non-ambulance services of the South Glamorgan health authority's common services units which cannot be allocated centrally between the various clients of those units.