HC Deb 18 November 1996 vol 285 c409W
Mr. Churchill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the average cost per annum to public funds of the health care costs of(a) the average retirement pensioner and (b) a retirement pensioner in the last two years of their life; and what proportion (c) constitutes of an individual's life-time health care costs. [4381]

Mr. Burns

Figures showing the annual cost of the health care of retirement pensioners are not collected. However, hospital and community health services expenditure for people aged 65 and over was estimated at £,195 per person in 1994–95.

Statistics on the cost to public funds of health care in the last two years of a retired person's life are not available.