To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the price indices, disaggregated to the maximum extent possible to match the economic category analysis of the public expenditure White Paper, which underlay his Department's estimates of pay and price inflation over the period 1974–75 to 1988–89; together with the economic category weights for each year used in the calculation of pay and prices indices for (a) national health service total, (b) hospital and community health service current, (c) family practitioner service current and (d) personal social services current and capital.
The following tables give the information which is readily available, disaggregated as far as possible to match the economic categories in the public expenditure White Paper.
| Percentage increase over previous year | Weighting percentage | |
| 1987–88 | ||
| Pay | 9·6 | 72·6 |
| Price | 5·7 | 27·4 |
| Overall | 8·5 | |
| 1988–89 | ||
| Pay | 12·5 | 73·6 |
| Price | 4·7 | 26·4 |
| Overall | 10·5 |
| Table 3 | |
| PSS pay and prices index | |
| Year | Percentage increase over previous year |
| 1975–76 | 20·3 |
| 1976–77 | 13·3 |
| 1977–78 | 9·6 |
| 1978–79 | 8·3 |
| 1979–80 | 17·9 |
Year
| Percentage increase over previous year
|
| 1980–81 | 20·2 |
| 1981–82 | 12·4 |
| 1982–83 | 7·2 |
| 1983–84 | 5·4 |
| 1984–85 | 4·1 |
| 1985–86 | 5·6 |
| 1986–87 | 4·8 |
| 1987–88 | 7·4 |
| 1988–89 | 6·7 |