HC Deb 02 February 2000 vol 343 cc628-9W
Mr. Webb

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out total expenditure on the NHS(a) at 1999–2000 prices and (b) as a proportion of natural income for each financial year since 1978–79 and for the remainder of the period covered by the Comprehensive Spending Review; and if he will provide a breakdown between (i) current and (ii) capital expenditure. [107661]

Mr. Denham

The table shows for England,(a) gross National Health Service expenditure, (b) gross current NHS expenditure, (c) gross capital NHS expenditure. It is not possible to provide England NHS expenditure as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as GDP relates to the United Kingdom as a whole rather than England. Column (d) therefore provides Gross UK NHS expenditure as percentage of GDP.

(a) (b) (c) (d)
England total gross 1 NHS expenditure in 1999–2000 prices 2 (£ million) England total gross NHS current expenditure in 1999–2000 prices (£ million) England total gross NHS capital expenditure in 1999–2000 prices (£ million) UK total gross NHS expenditure as a percentage of GDP
1978–79 21,589 20,229 1,360 4.7
1979–80 21,971 20,662 1,309 4.7
1980–81 24,206 22,704 1,502 5.3
1981–82 24,789 23,130 1,659 5.4
1982–83 25,278 23,661 1,617 5.4
1983–84 25,647 24,030 1,617 5.3
1984–85 26,202 24,481 1,721 5.3
1985–86 26,317 24,529 1,788 5.1
1986–87 27,444 25,580 1,864 5.1
1987–88 28,667 26,833 1,835 5.1
1988–89 29,852 27,994 1,858 5.1
1989–90 30,012 27,947 2,065 5.0
1990–91 31,153 29,041 2,113 5.2
1991–92 33,217 31,118 2,100 5.6
1992–93 35,258 33,015 2,242 5.9
1993–94 36,335 34,222 2,113 5.9
1994–95 37,919 35,529 2,390 5.9
1995–96 38,580 36,318 2,261 5.9
1996–97 38,786 36,904 1,882 5.7
1997–98 39,904 38,256 1,647 5.7
1998–99 40,780 39,439 1,342 5.7
1999–2000 43,049 41,187 1,762 5.9
2000–01 44,619 42,370 2,054 6.0
2001–02 46,189 43,639 2,264 6.0
1 Gross NHS expenditure is Net or Government expenditure (ie that financed by the exchequer) plus income from receipts and charges.
2 Adjusted by 22 December 1999 GDP deflator.

Note:

Figures may not be wholly consistent over the period due to classification changes.