To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central on 10 January, Official Report, column 663, he will publish a table showing in the case of each National Health Service region in 1990–91 (a) the basic allocation for population, (b) the effect of adjusting for morbidity, (c) the effect of adjustments for the relative costs of services to seven age bandings and (d) the damping effect of phasing in the new allocation system over three years.
[holding answer 15 January 1990]: The information requested is given as follows in the form of allocation shares of the resources available nationally. Table 1 shows how these shares are changed as the various weighting factors within the new allocation formula are applied and table 2 the effect on 1990–91 of phasing the new formula over three years:
1990–91 shares
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Region
| Crude population
| Weighted1 for age structure
| Weighted for SMRs
| Weighted for costs of providing services
|
per cent.
| per cent.
| per cent.
| per cent.
| |
| East Anglian | 4·30 | 4·43 | 4·15 | 4·02 |
| North West Thames | 7·39 | 7·08 | 6·78 | 7·41 |
| North East Thames | 7·93 | 7·86 | 7·77 | 8·61 |
| South East Thames | 7·69 | 8·14 | 7·96 | 8·36 |
| South West Thames | 6·28 | 6·57 | 6·15 | 6·49 |
| Wessex | 6·21 | 6·50 | 6·10 | 5·91 |
| Oxford | 5·37 | 4·92 | 4·62 | 4·48 |
| South Western | 6·78 | 7·33 | 6·98 | 6·76 |
| West Midlands | 10·92 | 10·49 | 10·80 | 10·47 |
| Mersey | 5·02 | 4·92 | 5·25 | 5·08 |
| North Western | 8·33 | 8·26 | 8·93 | 8·66 |
| Total | 100·00 | 100·00 | 100·00 | 100·00 |
1 Relative cost of services for different ages | ||||
Table 2
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Region
| Effect on shares of moving direct to new formula in 1990–91
| Effect on1 shares of phasing in new formula
| Difference
|
Per cent.
| Per cent.
| Per cent.
| |
| Northern | 6·63 | 6·63 | 0·00 |
| Yorkshire | 7·59 | 7·53 | -0·06 |
| Trent | 9·51 | 9·45 | -0·06 |
| East Anglian | 4·02 | 3·96 | -0·06 |
| North West Thames | 7·41 | 7·45 | 0·03 |
| North East Thames | 8·61 | 8·72 | 0·09 |
| South East Thames | 8·36 | 8·23 | -0·13 |
| South West Thames | 6·49 | 6·49 | 0·00 |
| Wessex | 5·91 | 5·77 | -0·13 |
| Oxford | 4·48 | 4·56 | 0·08 |
| South Western | 6·76 | 6·65 | -0·11 |
| West Midlands | 10·47 | 10·59 | 0·11 |
| Mersey | 5·08 | 5·26 | 0·16 |
| North Western | 8·66 | 8·72 | 0·06 |
| Total | 100·00 | 100·00 | 0·00 |
1 Over three years. | |||