asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether any changes will be made to Department of Health and Social Security and Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys cash limits or running cost limits for 1986–87.
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the cash limit for class XV vote 5 will be increased by a net amount of £546,000 made up as follows:
| Increased expenditure by Department of Employment in connection with the administration of the unemployment benefit service.(Offsetting reductions announced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Paymaster General on 30 January 1987) | |
| £ | |
| 30 January 1987 | 1,000,000 |
| less | |
| (1) a proportion recoverable from the NI Fund | 360,000 |
| (2) a transfer to OPCS | 94,000 |
| Net increase | 546,000 |
| Average daily number of available beds in National Health Service hospitals in England | |||
| Regional, District and Special Health Authority | 1979 | 1985 | Change in available beds 1979 to 1985 |
| Northern Regional Health Authority | |||
| Hartlepool | 592 | 607 | 15 |
| North Tees | 956 | 941 | -15 |
| South Tees | 2,282 | 1,902 | -380 |
| East Cumbria | 1 | 1,491 | 1 |
| South Cumbria | 1 | 874 | 1 |
| West Cumbria | 1,113 | 1,047 | -66 |
| Darlington | 1,310 | 1,225 | -85 |
| Durham | 1,192 | 1,103 | -89 |
| North West Durham | 717 | 611 | -106 |
| South West Durham | 1,921 | 1,690 | -231 |
| Northumberland | 3,996 | 3,664 | -332 |
| Gateshead | 1,368 | 1,365 | -3 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 3,479 | 3,401 | -78 |
| North Tyneside | 719 | 725 | 6 |
| South Tyneside | 771 | 813 | 43 |
| Sunderland | 2,426 | 2,312 | -114 |
| RHA Total | 25,305 | 23,773 | -1,533 |
| Yorkshire Regional Health Authority | |||
| Hull | 2,145 | 1,934 | -212 |
| East Yorkshire | 2,184 | 1,871 | -313 |
| Grimsby | 797 | 957 | 160 |
| Scunthorpe | 993 | 933 | -60 |
| Northallerton | 437 | 404 | -33 |
| York | 2,985 | 2,377 | -608 |
| Scarborough | 689 | 676 | -13 |
| Harrogate | 995 | 1,027 | 32 |
| Bradford | 2,721 | 2,510 | -212 |
| Airedale | 1,528 | 1,353 | -176 |
| Calderdale | 1,370 | 1,228 | -142 |
| Huddersfield | 2,625 | 2,059 | -566 |
| Dewsbury | 777 | 736 | -41 |
| Leeds Western | 1 | 3,156 | 1 |
| Leeds Eastern | 1 | 2,561 | 1 |
| Wakefield | 2,607 | 2,128 | -479 |
| Pontefract | 854 | 885 | 31 |
| RHA Total | 29,946 | 26,793 | -3,153 |
6 November 1986 at c. 601–602, to £1,174,414,000. Of this the transfer to OPCS represents a reduction in running costs. DHSS gross running cost limit will accordingly be reduced by £94,000 from £1,820,040,000 also announced on 6 November 1986 at c. 601–602, to £1,819,946,000. The OPCS gross running cost limit for class XX vote 19 will be correspondingly increased by £94,000 from £30,636,000 to £30,730,000 reflecting increased expenditure by OPCS on services provided to DHSS. There is no overall increase in public expenditure or gross running costs as a result of these changes.