§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health over what period the weighted average of the gross domestic product deflator and the indexation applied to NHS capital charges forecast is to rise 2.73 per cent, as stated in paragraph 15 of the NHS finance director's letter, FDL (95) 59; by how many percentage points his Department's index of hospital and community health service pay and prices forecast is to rise over the same period; and by how many percentage points the national health service pay and price index has exceeded the gross domestic product deflator in each of the last five years. [5292]
§ Mr. HoramThe forecast weighted average of the gross domestic product deflator and the indexation applied to national health service capital charges quoted in FDL(95)59 applies to the period 1 April 1996 to 31 March 1997.
The Department does not forecast hospital and community health services pay and price inflation.
Estimates of hospital and community health service inflation, family health service inflation and general inflation as measured by the gross domestic product deflator are shown for the five latest available years in the table.
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