asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the revenue allocations to each regional health authority for 1977–78; what sums have been allocated to each area health authority in each region; what these represent in terms of finance per head of population; and how these figures compare with the past three years.
Full information about the allocations made by regional health authorities to area health authorities is not available centrally, but the information for regional health authorities is as follows:
Region
| Allocations
| Cash limits
| ||||||
1974–75
| 1975–76
| 1976–77
| 1977–78
| |||||
Amount
| Per head of population;
| Amount
| Per head of population
| Amount
| Per head of population
| Amount
| Per head of population
| |
£m.
| £
| £m.
| £
| £m.
| £
| £m.
| £
| |
| Northern | 147·4 | 47·1 | 191·9 | 61·4 | 216·9 | 69·5 | 244·4 | 78·3 |
| Yorkshire | 166·3 | 46·5 | 216·9 | 60·7 | 250·2 | 70·0 | 280·4 | 78·5 |
| Trent | 186·0 | 41·0 | 243·0 | 53·8 | 282·7 | 62·2 | 326·1 | 71·8 |
| East Anglian | 77·7 | 44·2 | 103·0 | 57·9 | 120·0 | 66·5 | 136·3 | 75·6 |
| North-West Thames | 213·8 | 61·4 | 274·7 | 79·4 | 305·9 | 88·4 | 341·9 | 98·8 |
| North-East Thames | 232·8 | 62·4 | 300·5 | 79·8 | 335·1 | 90·7 | 374·4 | 101·3 |
| South-East Thames | 210·3 | 58·1 | 279·9 | 77·7 | 317·1 | 88·7 | 353·1 | 98·7 |
| South-West Thames | 172·3 | 59·6 | 219·1 | 73·5 | 245·5 | 85·2 | 274·8 | 95·4 |
| Wessex | 117·8 | 44·9 | 152·6 | 56·8 | 175·2 | 66·0 | 198·7 | 74·8 |
| Oxford | 98·7 | 45·2 | 129·4 | 61·1 | 146·6 | 66·1 | 163·2 | 73·6 |
| South-Western | 143·0 | 45·7 | 187·6 | 63·1 | 215·2 | 68·0 | 243·3 | 76·9 |
| West Midlands | 225·1 | 43·4 | 297·4 | 57·4 | 341·5 | 66·1 | 383·4 | 74·2 |
| Mersey | 130·8 | 52·2 | 170·3 | 68·1 | 190·0 | 76·2 | 212·2 | 85·1 |
| North-Western | 195·1 | 47·7 | 255·4 | 62·2 | 293·1 | 72·2 | 336·2 | 82·8 |
The figures of expenditure per head of population relate to the mid-year estimates of resident populations within the financial year, except that mid-1976 estimates have been used for 1977–78.
The figures make no adjustment for people resident in one region who receive treatment in another, or for differences in the morbidity and age/sex structure of regional populations. The figures are also influenced by the payment of London weighting allowances to staff and by the incidence of additional expenditure in the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students.