Area Health Authorities

Mr. Moyle

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will arrange area health authorities in order of listing consequent upon dividing the 1978–79 expenditure of each area health authority in England by the population figures for each area.

The National Health Service revenue expenditure per head of population in 1978–79 for each area health authority in England in descending order was as attached:

1978–79
NHS: Revenue Expenditure per head of Population for each AHA
	£
1. Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (T)	287
2. Camden and Islington (T)	263
3. Newcastle on Tyne (T)	217
4. Manchester (T)	214
5. Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (T)	200
6. City and East London (T)	190
7 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth (T).	179
8. Liverpool (T)	169
9. Salford (T)	155
10. Sheffield (T)	152
11. Greenwich and Bexley	148
12. Birmingham (T)	148
13. Sefton	146
14. Barnet	146
15. Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T)	145
16. Hillingdon	144

that my hon. Friend approaches the South-East Thames and South-West Thames regional health authorities for the information.

17. Wiltshire	140
18. Redbridge and Waltham Forest	136
19. Surrey	134
20. Wakefield	129
21. Leeds (T)	128
22. Brent and Harrow	126
23. Lancashire	123
24. Bromley	122
25. Devon	122
26. Avon (T)	122
27. Norfolk	121
28. East Sussex	121
29. Northumberland	119
30. Croydon	119
31. Bradford	119
32. Wirral	118
33. Isle of Wight	118
34. Oxfordshire (T)	117
35. Sunderland	117
36. Kent	117
37. Berkshire	115
38. Nottinghamshire (T)	114
39. Cambridgeshire (T)	114
40. Barking and Havering	113
41. Hereford and Worcester	113
42. Kingston and Richmond	111
43. Cheshire	110
44. Lincolnshire	110
45. Wolverhampton	110
46. Salop	110
47. Cleveland	109
48. Dorset	109
49. Somerset	109
50. Cumbria	109
51. Enfield and Haringey	108
52. Coventry	107
53. Warwickshire	107
54. North Yorkshire	107
55. Humberside	106
56. West Sussex	106
57. Durham	106
58. Kirklees	105
59. Northamptonshire	104

60. Cornwall	104
61. Hampshire (T)	104
62. Gloucester	103
63 Essex	103
64 Calderdale	102
65. Hertfordshire	100

1978–79
NHS: Revenue Expenditure per Head of Population for Each AHA
			£
66 Suffolk	…	…	99
67. Leicestershire (T)	…	…	99
68. Stockport	…	…	98
69. Bolton	…	…	96
70. Buckinghamshire	…	…	96
71. Staffordshire	…	…	96
72 Barnsley	…	…	96
73 Dudley	…	…	94
74. Bedfordshire	…	…	93
75 Gateshead	…	…	93
76 Doncaster	…	…	93
77. Derbyshire	…	…	92
78 Rochdale	…	…	91
79. Trafford	…	…	90
80. Wigan	…	…	90
81 Oldham	…	…	90
82. Walsall	…	…	89
83 Tameside	…	…	88
84. Rotherham	…	…	87
85. Bury	…	…	86
86. Solihull	…	…	85
87. South Tyneside	…	…	85
88. North Tyneside	…	…	78
89. Sandwell	…	…	74
90. St. Helens and Knowsley	…	…	74

NOTES:

1. "T" denotes an area health authority (teaching).

2. The expenditure figures are influenced by the payment of London weighting allowance to staff, by the incidence of additional expenditure in the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students and by the fact that they do not in all cases reflect the cost of some functions, in particular ambulance services where these are provided by regional health authorities on behalf of certain area health authorities.

3. The population figures used are the 1978 provisional mid-year estimates of resident populations which 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.

Volume 973: debated on Thursday 8 November 1979