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 | £000s | Per cent. |
Northern Region | ||
Cleveland | 3,545 | 3·21 |
Cumbria | 3,031 | 3·43 |
Durham | 3,524 | 3·12 |
Northumberland | 1,607 | 2·59 |
Gateshead | 1,287 | 3·75 |
Newcastle on Tyne (T) | 2,672 | 2·37 |
North Tyneside | 1,035 | 3·89 |
South Tyneside | 928 | 3·82 |
Sunderland | 1,450 | 2·38 |
Yorkshire Region | ||
Humberside | 5,186 | 3·27 |
North Yorkshire | 3,684 | 2·98 |
Bradford | 2,847 | 2·85 |
Calderdale | 987 | 2·82 |
Area Health Authority
| £000s
| Per cent.
|
Kirklees | 2,195 | 3·12 |
Leeds (T) | 4,180 | 2·54 |
Wakefield | 2,343 | 3·31 |
Trent Region
| ||
Derbyshire | 4,745 | 3·36 |
Leicestershire (T) | 4,850 | 3·27 |
Lincolnshire | 3,249 | 3·19 |
Nottinghamshire (T) | 5,669 | 2·90 |
Barnsley | 1,122 | 3·02 |
Doncaster | 1,383 | 2·98 |
Rotherham | 1,220 | 3·14 |
Sheffield (T) | 3,557 | 2·51 |
East Anglian Region
| ||
Cambridgeshire (T) | 3,462 | 3·00 |
Norfolk | 4,069 | 2·79 |
Suffolk | 2,845 | 2·81 |
North-West Thames Region
| ||
Bedfordshire | 3,336 | 4·13 |
Hertfordshire | 5,310 | 3·20 |
Barnet | 2,736 | 4·58 |
Brent and Harrow | 4,887 | 3·03 |
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T) | 5,719 | 4·30 |
Hillingdon | 1,214 | 2·67 |
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (T) | 7,655 | 4·26 |
North-East Thames Region
| ||
Essex | 8,433 | 3·32 |
Barking and Havering | 2,456 | 3·18 |
Camden and Islington (T) | 6,075 | 3·74 |
City and East London (T) | 7,586 | 4·00 |
Enfield and Haringey | 2,665 | 3·09 |
Redbridge and Waltham Forest | 3,676 | 3·45 |
South-East Thames Region
| ||
East Sussex | 4,477 | 3·32 |
Kent | 9,069 | 3·14 |
Greenwich and Bexley | 3,570 | 3·55 |
Bromley | 2,004 | 3·30 |
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (T) | 9,604 | 3·84 |
South-West Thames Region
| ||
Surrey | 7,048 | 3·10 |
West Sussex | 3,462 | 2·91 |
Croydon | 1,995 | 3·04 |
Kingston and Richmond | 1,775 | 3·11 |
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth (T) | 6,139 | 3·24 |
Wessex Region
| ||
Dorset | 3,615 | 3·19 |
Hampshire (T) | 6,811 | 2·55 |
Wiltshire | 4,638 | 3·61 |
Isle of Wight | 1,068 | 4·42 |
Oxford Region
| ||
Berkshire | 3,987 | 3·05 |
Buckinghamshire | 2,706 | 3·04 |
Northamptonshire | 3,195 | 3·40 |
Oxfordshire (T) | 2,709 | 2·50 |
South-Western Region
| ||
Avon (T) | 5,741 | 2·96 |
Cornwall | 2,227 | 2·86 |
Devon | 5,701 | 2·75 |
Gloucester | 2,200 | 2·45 |
Somerset | 2,075 | 2·64 |
West Midlands Region
| ||
Hereford and Worcester | 4,042 | 3·35 |
Salop | 1,476 | 2·14 |
Staffordshire | 4,144 | 2·43 |
Warwickshire | 3,200 | 3·68 |
Area Health Authority
| £000s
| Per cent.
|
Birmingham (T) | 6,493 | 2·46 |
Coventry | 1,571 | 2·50 |
Dudley | 1,477 | 3·02 |
Sandwell | 1,482 | 3·45 |
Solihull | 1,220 | 4·08 |
Walsall | 1,520 | 3·54 |
Wolverhampton | 1,252 | 2·42 |
Mersey Region
| ||
Cheshire | 5,708 | 3·21 |
Liverpool (T) | 3,920 | 2·60 |
St. Helens and Knowsley | 1,441 | 3·08 |
Sefton | 2,242 | 2·95 |
Wirral | 2,179 | 2·93 |
North-Western Region
| ||
Lancashire | 8,302 | 2·66 |
Bolton | 1,503 | 3·34 |
Bury | 1,198 | 4·29 |
Manchester (T) | 4,260 | 2·24 |
Oldham | 1,281 | 3·60 |
Rochdale | 1,203 | 3·54 |
Salford (T) | 2,026 | 2·82 |
Stockport | 1,526 | 2·90 |
Tameside | 1,160 | 3·29 |
Trafford | 1,361 | 3·92 |
Wigan | 1,510 | 3·05 |
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
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All cases | 2,530 | 2,470 | 60 | — |
Males | 1,860 | 1,840 | 30 | — |
Females: Total | 660 | 630 | 30 | — |
Single/divorced | 440 | 440 | — | — |
Married/separated | 220 | 190 | 30 | — |
Widows | — | — | — | — |
England and Wales
| ||||
All cases | 863,990 | 813,830 | 18,610 | 15,520 |
Males | 619,150 | 582,970 | 10,970 | 10,010 |
Females: Total | 244,830 | 230,870 | 7,640 | 5,510 |
Single/divorced | 102,630 | 97,350 | 2,990 | 2,230 |
Married/separated | 140,470 | 132,500 | 4,610 | 3,260 |
Widows | 1,730 | 1,020 | 40 | 20 |
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.