asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will arrange area health authorities in order of listing consequent upon dividing the 1975–76 expenditure of each area health authority in England by the population figures for each area.
The information is as follows:
| Area Health Authority | 1975–76 revenueexpenditure per head of population |
| £ | |
| Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (T) | 192 |
| Camden and Islington (T) | 155 |
| Liverpool (T) | 148 |
| Manchester (T) | 140 |
| Kingston and Richmond | 138 |
| Newcastle on Tyne (T) | 135 |
| City and East London (T) | 134 |
| Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (T) | 132 |
| Merton, Sutton and Wands-worth (T) | 119 |
| Greenwich and Bexley | 104 |
| Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T) | 100 |
| Sheffield (T) | 100 |
| Birmingham (T) | 100 |
| Avon (T) | 99 |
| Redbridge and Waltham Forest | 98 |
| Hillingdon | 97 |
| Salford (T) | 97 |
| Brent and Harrow | 94 |
| Wakefield | 91 |
| Oxfordshire (T) | 89 |
| Bromley | 89 |
| Somerset | 87 |
| Leeds (T) | 85 |
| Northumberland | 85 |
| Croydon | 83 |
| Barking and Havering | 83 |
| Devon | 82 |
| Lancashire | 82 |
| Kent | 81 |
| East Sussex | 81 |
| Cambridgeshire (T) | 80 |
Area Health Authority
| 1975–76 revenue
| |
| … | £ | |
| Suffolk | … | 80 |
| Hertfordshire | … | 80 |
| Isle of Wight | … | 80 |
| Hereford and Worcester | … | 80 |
| Barnet | … | 79 |
| Cheshire | … | 79 |
| North Yorkshire | … | 79 |
| Sunderland | … | 77 |
| Hampshire (T) | … | 77 |
| Cumbria | … | 76 |
| Surrey | … | 76 |
| Cleveland | … | 75 |
| Wirral | … | 75 |
| Nottinghamshire (T) | … | 75 |
| Durham | … | 75 |
| Bradford | … | 74 |
| Dorset | … | 74 |
| Northamptonshire | … | 74 |
| Enfield and Haringey | … | 74 |
| Lincolnshire | … | 73 |
| West Sussex | … | 73 |
| Berkshire | … | 73 |
| Sefton | … | 73 |
| Salop | … | 73 |
| Warwickshire | … | 72 |
| Kirklees | … | 72 |
| Coventry | … | 72 |
| Wolverhampton | … | 71 |
| Humberside | … | 71 |
| Essex | … | 71 |
| Buckinghamshire | … | 71 |
| Wiltshire | … | 71 |
| Cornwall | … | 71 |
| Norfolk | … | 69 |
| Gloucester | … | 68 |
| Calderdale | … | 68 |
| Derbyshire | … | 65 |
| Stockport | … | 65 |
| Doncaster | … | 64 |
| Staffordshire | … | 64 |
| Bedfordshire | … | 64 |
| Gateshead | … | 64 |
| Bolton | … | 62 |
| Leicestershire (T) | … | 62 |
| Dudley | … | 60 |
| Rochdale | … | 59 |
| Trafford | … | 59 |
| Solihull | … | 59 |
| South Tyneside | … | 57 |
| Oldham | … | 57 |
| Bury | … | 57 |
| Wigan | … | 56 |
| Barnsley | … | 56 |
| Walsall | … | 56 |
| Rotherham | … | 52 |
| St. Helens and Knowsley | … | 48 |
| North Tyneside | … | 51 |
| Sandwell | … | 48 |
| Tameside | … | 48 |
| "T" denotes a teaching area health authority. | ||
Expenditure figures are expressed in terms of the 1975 provisional mid-year estimates of resident populations; the figures are influenced by the payment of London weighting allowance to staff and by the incidence of additional expenditure in the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students.
The population figures used take no account of people who are provided with treatment outside their area of residence nor are they adjusted for differences in the morbidity and age/sex structure of area populations.