§ Mr. Andrew GeorgeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 18 December 2000,Official Report column 43W, on Government funding to health authorities, how much the funding allocation has been to each health authority per unweighted head of population for (a) 1999–2000, (b) 2000–01 and (c) the percentage rise or fall between the two years. [145368]
§ Mr. DenhamHealth authority allocations per unweighted head of population for 1999–2000, 2000–01, and the percentage increase between the two years are given in the table.
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Health authority 1999–2000 allocation per unweighted head of population £ 2000–01 allocation per unweighted head of population £ Increase between 1999–2000 and 2000–01 Percentage Morecambe Bay 659 718 8.9 Newcastle and North Tyneside 705 773 9.6 Norfolk1 — 658 n/a North and East Devon 629 684 8.8 North and Mid Hampshire 527 575 9.0 North Cheshire 651 703 8.0 North Cumbria 623 681 9.4 North Derbyshire 619 675 9.2 North Essex 578 634 9.8 North Nottinghamshire 622 673 8.3 North Staffordshire 646 714 10.5 North West Anglia1 602 — n/a North West Lancashire 694 760 9.4 North Yorkshire 587 638 8.8 Northamptonshire 581 632 8.8 Northumberland 635 695 9.4 Nottingham 607 668 10.1 Oxfordshire 519 573 10.3 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 593 649 9.5 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 677 735 8.5 Rotherham 658 721 9.6 Salford and Trafford 694 758 9.2 Sandwell 672 740 10.1 Sefton 692 768 10.9 Sheffield 684 743 8.6 Shropshire 584 635 8.8 Solihull 584 638 9.1 Somerset 596 651 9.1 South and West Devon 643 699 8.8 South Cheshire 601 654 8.9 South Derbyshire 591 651 10.1 South Essex 584 645 10.6 South Humber 643 694 8.0 South Lancashire 608 668 9.8 South Staffordshire 566 615 8.7 Southampton and South West Hampshire 589 642 9.1 St. Helen's and Knowsley 692 755 9.1 Stockport 611 670 9.6 Suffolk 576 626 8.7 Sunderland 699 768 9.8 Tees 671 736 9.7 Wakefield 649 714 10.0 Walsall 650 712 9.6 Warwickshire 590 641 8.7 West Hertfordshire 595 647 8.7 West Kent 575 629 9.5 West Pennine 660 726 9.9 West Surrey 577 633 9.7 West Sussex 622 678 9.0 Wigan and Bolton 652 719 10.3 Wiltshire 569 621 9.3 Wirral 700 770 10.1 Wolverhampton 662 724 9.3 Worcestershire 572 619 8.3 England total 629 688 9.4 1 Figures between the two years are not comparable due to the merger of the former North West Anglia HA into the new HAs of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.