HC Deb 05 March 2002 vol 381 cc292-5W
Dr. Evan Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for(a) Great Britain and (b) each health authority area, the expenditure on health by weighted head of population, expressed in real terms, for each year since 1997 for which figures are available. [39544]

Mr. Hutton

Information relating to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is a matter for the devolved Administrations.

The expenditure on health by weighted head of population in real terms for each health authority area in England for each year since 1997 is shown in the table.

Expenditure by health authorities and primary care trusts.

Health authority area 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01
Manchester 659.87 693.00 787.86 761.45
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 660.03 699.38 839.01 796.03
Morecambe Bay 680.79 701.70 786.62 794.67
Newcastle and North Tyneside 634.64 664.58 787.25 787.58
Norfolk N/A N/A 740.53 760.50
North and East Devon 650.65 664.15 724.43 769.90
North and Mid Hampshire 653.09 686.32 735.98 813.99
North Cheshire 625.46 641.18 721.36 756.15
North Cumbria 625.51 654.38 704.01 757.42
North Derbyshire 638.91 665.18 684.19 719.00
North Essex 623.82 647.87 740.78 777.34
North Nottinghamshire 604.53 612.79 715.05 679.24
North Staffordshire 606.03 610.27 687.60 725.72
North West Anglia 607.39 629.74 N/A N/A
North West Lancashire 599.01 601.87 721.61 746.26
North Yorkshire 657.16 703.80 722.87 763.24
Northamptonshire 603.11 635.16 713.85 734.29
Northumberland 664.02 677.71 752.58 751.21
Nottingham 598.29 693.34 723.95 780.25
Oxfordshire 614.25 639.92 733.57 779.26
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 567.61 631.87 682.05 733.14
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 651.23 699.27 748.03 812.97
Rotherham 573.85 588.40 702.11 742.99
Salford and Trafford 608.17 630.56 740.20 784.35
Sandwell 625.16 651.68 709.97 744.36
Sefton 620.06 639.29 719.10 1,023.16
Sheffield 639.35 645.20 771.96 769.93
Shropshire 616.71 636.59 729.71 740.94
Solihull 679.92 704.23 700.29 736.55
Somerset 633.21 662.55 709.49 754.86
South and West Devon 619.25 634.98 726.34 735.69
South Cheshire 632.95 673.90 709.08 743.64
South Derbyshire 643.24 648.31 688.78 717.08
South Essex 591.61 614.43 673.43 721.20
South Humber 675.04 713.20 784.66 765.98
South Lancashire 644.54 683.94 748.52 735.88
South Staffordshire 622.63 632.70 699.52 758.07
Southampton and South West Hampshire 632.49 674.77 738.44 706.49
St. Helens and Knowsley 605.61 620.49 670.55 722.31
Stockport 605.20 626.59 728.46 746.47
Suffolk 628.39 667.78 717.21 757.91
Sunderland 597.41 591.13 688.21 760.22
Tees 579.50 608.08 735.18 768.50
Wakefield 711.04 715.51 713.77 801.36
Walsall 596.74 633.92 726.59 739.30
Warwickshire 689.05 691.18 741.27 771.73
West Hertfordshire 659.88 686.68 725.94 765.17
West Kent 624.15 656.07 771.41 744.60
West Pennine 567.85 578.28 674.21 712.85
West Surrey 663.18 698.46 781.74 809.35
West Sussex 605.96 653.17 694.99 742.11
Wigan and Bolton 571.93 587.38 660.84 717.35
Wiltshire 652.32 691.15 776.22 807.29
Wirral 582.48 639.63 717.31 758.47
Wolverhampton 595.73 617.13 698.10 739.83
Worcestershire 687.86 707.86 731.92 801.38

Notes:

1. 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.

2. Allocations per weighted head of population provide a much more reliable measure to identify differences between funding of health authorities.

3. The expenditure is the total spent on commissioning health care by the health authority and by the primary care trusts within each health authority area. The majority of General 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. The majority of drugs expenditure in 1997–98 and 1998–99 and a smaller element in 1999–2000 and 2000–01 is accounted for by the Prescription Pricing Authority and not by health authorities.

4. Health authorities and primary care trusts should account for their expenditure on a gross basis. This results in an element of double counting in 2000–01 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.

5. Some health authorities act as lead commissioners for particular specialties which inflates their figures when compared with others and also causes differences between years. Other factors may also distort the figures so the results are therefore not all directly comparable with each other and with answers to similar questions for previous years.

Source:

Health authority audited accounts 1997–98 and 1998–99

Health authority audited summarisation forms 1999–2000 and 2000–01

Primary care trust audited summarisation schedules 2000–01

Weighted population estimates for 1997–98 to 2000–01

GDP deflator at market prices with 2000–01 as the base year