asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the details of the allocation of the Supplementary Estimate for the National Health Service; and if the Brent and Harrow Area Health Authority can expect any relief from the proposed heavy cut-back in services.

The Supplementary Estimates (HC 140) for current advances to health authorities make provision, within the DHSS 2 cash block, for those pay and price changes—including an increase in some London weighting allowances—which were not sought in earlier Estimates. The 1976–77 revenue cash limits, allocated to authorities last year and published in the earlier Supplementary Estimate (HC 484), included an allowance for the forecast effects of all pay and price changes during the year apart from the increase in London weighting allowances for which supplementary allocations have recently been made. Any change in the allocation to an area health authority is a matter for the appropriate regional health authority.