asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the total cost to the health service of expenditure on employees' car travel in the latest period since reorganisation for which figures are available; and what was the equivalent figure for a comparable period before reorgansiation, corrected to remove the effect of increases in the mileage rate between the two periods.

The information asked for is not available centrally. The returns received do not show mileage allowances separately from other travelling costs and subsistence allowances. In any event there are as yet no complete returns from all regions in respect of any period after National Health Service reorgansiation. Furthermore, a true comparison with the pre-reorganisation situation would be impossible because there is no centrally collected data for those staff who were transferred to the National Health

INJURY BENEFIT
Country or Region			Number of recipients	Weekly expenditure (£1,000)	Expenditure per head of working population (£)
Great Britain	…	…	49,760	675·1	0·03
England	…	…	38,360	519·5	0·027
North	…	…	6,160	75·2	0·059
Yorkshire and Humberside	…	…	7,200	95·5	0·048
East Midlands	…	…	3,720	52·2	0·038
East Anglia	…	…	880	13·2	0·024
South East	…	…	7,840	105·2	0·014
South West	…	…	2,320	31·1	0·024
West Midlands	…	…	4,040	58·5	0·026
North West	…	…	6,200	88·6	0·032
Wales	…	…	5,240	70·6	0·074
Scotland	…	…	6,160	85·0	0·051

Of the 49,760 persons receiving industrial injury benefit 27,080 also received dependants' allowance. Separate figures for national and regional areas are not available. The expenditure for dependants' allowance is included in the weekly expenditure shown in the third column and is approximately 30 per cent. of that expenditure.