asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish
| Health District | Estimated capital works expenditure in 1975–76 | Resident population (mid-1974) | Expenditure per head | |
| £ | £ | |||
| Portsmouth and South East Hampshire | … | 4,436,500 | 523,600 | 8·47 |
| Southampton and South West Hampshire | … | 3,135,500 | 388,600 | 8·07 |
| Winchester and Central Hampshire | … | 524,000 | 188,500 | 2·78 |
| Basingstoke and North Hampshire | … | 959,000 | 183,300 | 5·23 |
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish a list of the current expenditure and the capital expenditure allocated to each regional health authority in England for 1974–75, together with the current population served by each respective regional
| Regional Health Authority | Population (thousands) | Revenue Expenditure | Capital Expenditure | |||||
| Total | Per Capita | Total | Per Capita | |||||
| £000 | £ | £000 | £ | |||||
| 1. | Northern | … | 3,127·4 | 107,300 | 34·310 | 16,556 | 5·294 | |
| 2. | Yorkshire | … | 3,579·6 | 122,147 | 34·123 | 17,762 | 4·962 | |
| 3. | Trent | … | 4,539·8 | 137,426 | 30–271 | 29,591 | 6·518 | |
| 4. | East Anglia | … | 1,758·3 | 56,559 | 32·167 | 10,156 | 5·776 | |
| 5. | North-West Thames | … | 3,480·3 | 157,275 | 45·190 | 18,181 | 5·224 | |
| 6. | North-East Thames | … | 3,731·6 | 162,759 | 43·616 | 18,095 | 4·849 | |
| 7. | South-East Thames | … | 3,621·0 | 151,525 | 41·846 | 19,389 | 5·355 | |
| 8. | South-West Thames | … | 2,889·8 | 127,490 | 44·117 | 15,979 | 5·529 | |
| 9. | Wessex | … | 2,622·6 | 79,825 | 30·437 | 11,624 | 4·432 | |
| 10. | Oxford | … | 2,182·9 | 72,725 | 33·316 | 18,138 | 8·309 | |
| 11. | South-Western | … | 3,128·5 | 111,828 | 35·745 | 16,683 | 5·333 | |
| 12. | West-Midlands | … | 5,180·6 | 166,572 | 32·153 | 23,437 | 4·524 | |
| 13 | Mersey | … | 2,505·0 | 94,601 | 37·765 | 12,073 | 4·820 | |
| 14. | North-Western | … | 4,088·2 | 143,389 | 35·074 | 19,012 | 4·650 | |
Note: These figures are based on the 1974–75 expenditure allocation and the unweighted mid 1974 population. Some of the differences between regions are due to variations in the age/sex structure, the incidence of teaching, etc.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will make a statement on the progress of the working party which is reviewing the arrangements for distributing NHS capital and revenue to RHAs, AHAs and districts.
The working party has submitted a report to me, proposing interim changes in the basis and methods of allocating finance to regional health authorities for 1976–77. A copy has been placed in the Library of the House. I shall be making no decisions on the report's recommendations until I have considered the views of the interested a list of the capital works expenditure for the year 1975–76 for each of the districts comprising the Hampshire Area Health Authority (Teaching), together with the current population served by each district, and show what is the capital expenditure per head of the population in each district.
The figures are as follows:health authority and show what is the current expenditure and the capital expenditure, respectively, per head of population in each region.
The information requested is as follows:bodies now being consulted, including regional health authorities, professional organisations, the University Grants Committee and Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the Staff Side of the General Whitley Council.