HC Deb 25 January 2002 vol 378 cc1123-5W
Derek Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate health spending per head of population by health authority in(a) 2000–01 and (b) 2001–02. [29318]

Mr. Hutton

[holding answer 22 January 2002]: The expenditure by weighted head of population for each English health authority area for 2000–01 is shown in the table. Expenditure estimates for 2001–02 are not yet available.

Expenditure by health authorities and primary care trusts
Health authority Expenditure by weighted head (£)
Avon HA 856.75
Barking and Havering HA 773.42
Barnet HA 959.87
Barnsley HA 766.50
Bedfordshire HA 779.74
Berkshire HA 804.46
Bexley and Greenwich HA 886.09
Birmingham HA 823.71
Bradford HA 769.58
Brent and Harrow HA 823.29
Bromley HA 971.74
Buckinghamshire HA 755.09
Bury and Rochdale HA 771.15
Calderdale and Kirklees HA 763.88
Cambridgeshire HA 786.94
Camden and Islington HA 1,067.88
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HA 796.09
County Durham and Darlington HA 738.32
Coventry HA 802.56
Croydon HA 925.44
Doncaster HA 861.88
Dorset HA 1,023.69
Dudley HA 828.09
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow HA 826.21
East and North Hertfordshire HA 803.66
East Kent HA 810.16
East Lancashire HA 740.66
East London and The City HA 869.91
East Riding and Hull HA 787.13
East Surrey HA 958.66
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove HA 827.74
Enfield and Haringey HA 817.53
Gateshead and South Tyneside HA 784.29
Gloucestershire HA 799.79
Herefordshire HA 761.71
Hillingdon HA 753.76
Isle of Wight HA 867.61
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster HA 1,011.24
Kingston and Richmond HA 829.50
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham HA 886.88
Leeds HA 869.94
Leicestershire HA 779.71
Lincolnshire HA 808.95
Liverpool HA 887.35
Manchester HA 869.02
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA 882.91
Morecambe Bay HA 1,346.04

Expenditure by health authorities and primary care trusts
Health authority Expenditure by weighted head (£)
Newcastle and North Tyneside HA 811.10
Norfolk HA 815.11
North and East Devon HA 800.95
North and Mid Hampshire HA 835.93
North Cheshire HA 811.75
North Cumbria HA 793.52
North Derbyshire HA 744.33
North Essex HA 839.97
North Nottinghamshire HA 761.33
North Staffordshire HA 760.11
North West Lancashire HA 770.48
North Yorkshire HA 814.07
Northamptonshire HA 830.95
Northumberland HA 871.50
Nottingham HA 842.50
Oxfordshire HA 823.14
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire HA 762.50
Redbridge and Waltham Forest HA 901.60
Rotherham HA 773.29
Salford and Trafford HA 839.62
Sandwell HA 777.76
Sefton HA 1,040.25
Sheffield HA 956.59
Shropshire HA 763.29
Solihull HA 756.17
Somerset HA 825.30
South and West Devon HA 800.84
South Cheshire HA 801.87
South Essex HA 806.50
South Humber HA 802.29
South Lancashire HA 779.41
South Staffordshire HA 792.06
Southampton and South West Hampshire HA 781.00
Southern Derbyshire HA 759.33
St. Helens and Knowsley HA 749.06
Stockport HA 759.28
Suffolk HA 778.56
Sunderland HA 781.94
Tees HA 824.19
Wakefield HA 854.72
Walsall HA 776.48
Warwickshire HA 798.29
West Hertfordshire HA 800.40
West Kent HA 786.21
West Pennine HA 746.22
West Surrey HA 840.34
West Sussex HA 784.64
Wigan and Bolton HA 732.65
Wiltshire HA 828.57
Wirral HA 798.81
Wolverhampton HA 763.81
Worcestershire HA 827.41

Notes:

  1. 1. In many health authorities there are factors which distort the expenditure per head. These include:
    1. (i) the health authority acting in a lead capacity to commission health care or fund training on behalf of other health bodies;
    2. (ii) asset revaluations in NHS trusts being funded through health authorities; and
    3. (iii) some double counting of expenditure between health authorities and primary care trusts within the health authority area.
  2. 2. Expenditure per head cannot therefore be reliably compared between health authorities.
  3. 3. Allocations per weighted head of population provide a much more reliable measure to identify differences between funding of health authorities.
  4. 4. Expenditure is taken from health authority and primary care trust summarisation forms which are prepared on a resource basis and therefore differ from cash allocations in the year. The expenditure is the total spent by the health authority and by the primary care trusts within each health authority area. The majority of General 1125W Dental Services expenditure is not included in the health authority or primary care trust accounts and is separately accounted for by the Dental Practice Board.
  5. 5. Health authorities and primary care trusts should account for their expenditure on a gross basis. This results in an element of double counting where one body acts as the main commissioner and is then reimbursed by other bodies. The effect of this double counting within the answer cannot be identified.

Sources:

  • Health authority audited summarisation forms 2000–01
  • Primary care trust audited summarisation schedules 2000–01
  • Weighted population estimates for 2000–2001