asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for Scotland and for each year since 1979 the income received from private patients in National Health Service hospitals: (a) its gross terms, (b) revalued by the retail price index and (c) revalued by the National Health Service pay and prices index.
The available information is as follows:
| Year | Gross income | Income at 1984 prices based on movement in Retail Price Index | *Income at 1984 prices based on movement in NHS pay and prices |
| £ | £ | £ | |
| 1979–80 | 525,691 | 802,783 | 862,133 |
| 1980–81 | 688,427 | 903,698 | 881,875 |
Year
| Gross income
| Income at 1984 prices based on movement in Retail Price Index
| * Income at 1984 prices based on movement in NHS pay and prices
|
£
| £
| £
| |
| 1981–82 | 844,507 | 994,491 | 999,896 |
| 1982–83 | 650,205 | 715,095 | 723,028 |
| 1983–84 | 1,000,075 | 1,050,979 | 1,058,079 |
* The pay and prices index used is that maintained by DHSS for hospital and community health services expenditure. No separate index for pay and price movements in the NHS in Scotland is available. | |||