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Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the percentage change in (a) National Health Service funding in real terms and in cash terms and (b) employment of medical staff, from 1979 to 1988, in the Trent regional health authority.
Mr. Newton
The latest available information for the hospital and community health services in the Trent region is shown in the table.
| Cash | Real terms2 | Change | |
| Percentage change in net revenue expenditure 1979–80 to 1986–871 | 103·4 | 21·9 | — |
| Percentage change in whole time equivalent medical staff3 1979–1986 | — | — | 19·9 |
| 1 Figures are based on health authorities' summarised income and expenditure accounts. | |||
| 2 Adjusted by the gross domestic product deflator. | |||
| 3 Includes permanent paid, honorary and locum staff. | |||