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Health Authorities (Administrative Costs)

Volume 35: debated on Monday 17 January 1983

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the annual administrative costs of each district or area health authority in England in cash terms and expressed as a percentage of the gross annual budget of each authority, using the most recent available figures.

It is very difficult to answer this question in any meaningful way as it is not possible to define "administrative costs" with any precision and the budgets of some health authorities include costs incurred on behalf of other authorities.The expenditure incurred in 1981–82 on HQ administration alone expressed as a percentage of total expenditure including family practitioner services in the budget of each area health authority in England was as follows:

Area Health Authority£000sPer cent.
Northern Region
Cleveland3,5453·21
Cumbria3,0313·43
Durham3,5243·12
Northumberland1,6072·59
Gateshead1,2873·75
Newcastle on Tyne (T)2,6722·37
North Tyneside1,0353·89
South Tyneside9283·82
Sunderland1,4502·38
Yorkshire Region
Humberside5,1863·27
North Yorkshire3,6842·98
Bradford2,8472·85
Calderdale9872·82

Area Health Authority

£000s

Per cent.

Kirklees2,1953·12
Leeds (T)4,1802·54
Wakefield2,3433·31

Trent Region

Derbyshire4,7453·36
Leicestershire (T)4,8503·27
Lincolnshire3,2493·19
Nottinghamshire (T)5,6692·90
Barnsley1,1223·02
Doncaster1,3832·98
Rotherham1,2203·14
Sheffield (T)3,5572·51

East Anglian Region

Cambridgeshire (T)3,4623·00
Norfolk4,0692·79
Suffolk2,8452·81

North-West Thames Region

Bedfordshire3,3364·13
Hertfordshire5,3103·20
Barnet2,7364·58
Brent and Harrow4,8873·03
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T)5,7194·30
Hillingdon1,2142·67
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (T)7,6554·26

North-East Thames Region

Essex8,4333·32
Barking and Havering2,4563·18
Camden and Islington (T)6,0753·74
City and East London (T)7,5864·00
Enfield and Haringey2,6653·09
Redbridge and Waltham Forest3,6763·45

South-East Thames Region

East Sussex4,4773·32
Kent9,0693·14
Greenwich and Bexley3,5703·55
Bromley2,0043·30
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (T)9,6043·84

South-West Thames Region

Surrey7,0483·10
West Sussex3,4622·91
Croydon1,9953·04
Kingston and Richmond1,7753·11
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth (T)6,1393·24

Wessex Region

Dorset3,6153·19
Hampshire (T)6,8112·55
Wiltshire4,6383·61
Isle of Wight1,0684·42

Oxford Region

Berkshire3,9873·05
Buckinghamshire2,7063·04
Northamptonshire3,1953·40
Oxfordshire (T)2,7092·50

South-Western Region

Avon (T)5,7412·96
Cornwall2,2272·86
Devon5,7012·75
Gloucester2,2002·45
Somerset2,0752·64

West Midlands Region

Hereford and Worcester4,0423·35
Salop1,4762·14
Staffordshire4,1442·43
Warwickshire3,2003·68

Area Health Authority

£000s

Per cent.

Birmingham (T)6,4932·46
Coventry1,5712·50
Dudley1,4773·02
Sandwell1,4823·45
Solihull1,2204·08
Walsall1,5203·54
Wolverhampton1,2522·42

Mersey Region

Cheshire5,7083·21
Liverpool (T)3,9202·60
St. Helens and Knowsley1,4413·08
Sefton2,2422·95
Wirral2,1792·93

North-Western Region

Lancashire8,3022·66
Bolton1,5033·34
Bury1,1984·29
Manchester (T)4,2602·24
Oldham1,2813·60
Rochdale1,2033·54
Salford (T)2,0262·82
Stockport1,5262·90
Tameside1,1603·29
Trafford1,3613·92
Wigan1,5103·05

Notes:

1. The figures are derived from annual accounts submitted to the Department by area health authorities. Information held centrally does not permit an analysis by district.

2. Expenditure on administration relates to headquarters at both area and district levels. General administrative expenditure at operational level is excluded.

3. Total expenditure includes all revenue expenditure (including family practitioner services expenditure) and capital expenditure by area health authorities. Capital expenditure by regional health authorities (which accounts for the bulk of NHS capital expenditure) is not included.

4. NHS staff based at Wembley administer the family practitioner services for Barnet, Brent and Harrow, Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow and Hillingdon Area Health Authorities. The expenditure on family practitioner services administration and the associated family practitioner services expenditure for those four areas are included in the figures for Brent and Harrow Area Health Authority.

5. (T) denotes an Area Health Authority (Teaching).

Number of Unemployment Benefit Recipients at 13 May 1982 Weekly rate of personal flat-rate benefit

All rates

Standard rate (£22–50)

Three-Quarter rate (£16–88)

Half rate (£11–25)

Camberwell

All cases2,5302,47060
Males1,8601,84030
Females: Total66063030
Single/divorced440440
Married/separated22019030
Widows

England and Wales

All cases863,990813,83018,61015,520
Males619,150582,97010,97010,010
Females: Total244,830230,8707,6405,510
Single/divorced102,63097,3502,9902,230
Married/separated140,470132,5004,6103,260
Widows1,7301,0204020

Notes:

(1) Source: Five per cent. sample survey of claimants to unemployment benefit or credits. Total figures shown may not equal the sum of the components, because of rounding.

(2) Figures include persons receiving increases for dependants and/or earnings-related supplement in addition to personal benefit at the stated rates.

(3) In addition to the numbers shown in the last three columns, there were 16,020 cases (none in Camberwell) where benefit was reduced by the provisions for overlapping benefits or abatement for occupational pensions.