Nhs Finance

Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the average expenditure per day per patient, in cash and constant prices, for food provisions for hospital in-patients in each year since 1980.

[holding answer 28 January 1991]: The information requested for the financial years 1980–81 to 1988–89 (the latest available) is shown in the table.

Hospital costs—England—average costs of catering provisions per patient day
Year	£	£
	(cash)	(at 1988–89 prices)
1980–81	1·09	1·56
1981–82	1·18	1·55
1982–83	1·24	1·54
1983–84	1·26	1·50
1984–85	1·32	1·50
1985–86	1·36	1·50
1986–87	1·41	1·50
1987–88	1·49	1·55
1988–89	1·56	1·56

Total revenue expenditure on hospital and community health services (HCHS)
£000 (cash)
Regions	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
Northern	337,996	437,025	482,670	520,838	553,996	586,852
Yorkshire	380,746	494,198	547,802	583,406	619,586	657,579
Trent	449,348	585,409	646,945	696,746	742,437	795,285
East Anglian	188,939	244,605	269,169	288,951	312,485	335,302
North West Thames	450,636	580,117	649,984	633,215	665,435	701,170
North East Thames	488,198	636,251	700,172	800,677	841,130	881,326
South East Thames	471,151	603,001	662,702	700,421	739,438	772,108
South West Thames	361,292	465,365	515,008	530,393	559,102	586,260
Wessex	271,164	349,377	389,027	418,407	449,145	482,636
Oxford	223,651	285,343	313,135	334,669	352,838	381,948
South Western	332,137	426,839	474,291	507,281	540,430	571,018
West Midlands	532,172	681,869	751,667	809,722	861,251	919,255
Mersey	287,489	368,928	407,417	436,241	456,590	483,314
North Western	463,250	603,630	679,828	729,550	769,183	814,490
Regions Total	5,238,169	6,761,957	7,489,817	7,990,517	8,463,046	8,968,543
SHAs	94,751	123,474	140,168	150,712	162,311	166,311
England	5,332,920	6,885,431	7,629,985	8,141,229	8,625,357	9,134,854

£000 (cash)
	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90
Regions
Northern	620,085	664,666	726,424	802,662	862,403
Yorkshire	699,526	748,109	817,426	901,280	971,646
Trent	843,156	914,488	1,009,393	1,121,344	1,211,905
East Anglian	358,247	389,423	431,278	487,095	528,194
North West Thames	728,848	777,781	832,775	945,712	1,024,712
North East Thames	914,188	976,100	1,048,946	1,178,457	1,276,820
South East Thames	807,525	857,088	928,872	1,039,270	1,115,590
South West Thames	608,276	650,071	744,435	829,204	903,224
Wessex	506,941	549,152	599,818	671,018	724,776
Oxford	402,374	433,809	478,889	537,279	587,380
South Western	603,266	650,026	710,039	788,652	852,097
West Midlands	973,915	1,049,734	1,149,328	1,266,424	1,381,172
Mersey	507,924	542,821	589,166	647,160	699,483
North Western	860,336	922,352	1,002,641	1,104,796	1,174,578
Regions Total	9,434,607	10,125,620	11,069,430	12,320,353	13,313,980
SHAs	174,792	191,546	207,281	234,692	259,397
England	9,609,399	10,317,166	11,276,711	12,555,045	13,573,377

Source:

The annual costing returns (financial returns for 1987–88 and 1988–89) of the district health authorities in England and those of the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. (Predecessor authorities prior to 1982–83).

Note: The figures have been expressed at 1988–89 prices by the use of the provisions purchases sub-index of the health services prices index.

Volume 186: debated on Monday 25 February 1991