asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide figures for the change in real expenditure on National Health Service hospital and community health services for each year between the earliest year after 1974 and the most recent year for which comparable figures are available as measured using (a) the gross domestic product deflator and (b) the National Health Service pay and price deflator, by Greater London district health authorities in total, and by Inner London district health authorities in total.

I shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.