asked the Secretary of State for Social Services which are the relative sums per head spent on the National Health Service in the North-West and other areas, respectively.

The capital and revenue costs per head of population of the health services, including family practitioner services, in regional health authorities areas in England in 1976–77 were respectively as follows:

		Capital	Revenue
		£	£
Northern	…	8·02	91·39
Yorkshire	…	6·36	91·78
Trent	…	10·00	83·44
East Anglia	…	7·12	87·95
North West Thames	…	5·38	112·35
North East Thames	…	6·49	111·94
South East Thames	…	6·58	112·39
South West Thames	…	8·59	104·75
Wessex	…	6·74	87·56
Oxford	…	6·98	88·27
South Western	…	6·91	97·28
West Midlands	…	5·44	86·70
Mersey	…	9·56	97·85
North Western	…	6·55	94·20

NOTES:1. Expenditure figures are expressed in terms of the 1976 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.2. The population figures used take no account of people who are provided with treatment outside their region of residence nor are they adjusted for differences in the morbidity and age/sex structure of regional populations.3. The expenditure of boards of governors of the postgraduate teaching hospitals in London has been excluded from the figures for the Thames regions.