Regional Health Authorities (Revenue Allocation)

Mr. Squire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will announce regional health authorities' revenue allocations for 1992–93; and if he will make a statement.

[pursuant to his reply. 19 December 1991, column 262–63]: Regional health authorities have now been formally notified of their 1992–93 allocations for cash-limited general medical services. The equivalent 1991–92 figures published previously were provisional; the table has now been updated to include final 1991–92 allocations for comparative purposes and is as follows:

GMS cash·limited allocations 1992–93
	Allocation		Real growth per cent.
	1991–92¹£ million	1992–93 £ million	Real growth per cent.
Northern	33·268	36·414	4·74
Yorkshire	44·481	47·237	1·62
Trent	55·422	59·193	2·20
East Anglian	32·520	34·427	1·31
North West Thames	44·837	48·657	3·85
North East Thames	44·556	48·688	4·57
South East Thames	47·407	51·144	3·24
South West Thames	36·915	39·865	3·34
Wessex	38·904	41·552	2·21
Oxford	34·349	36·627	2·04
South Western	49·468	52·886	2·31
West Midlands	54·250	59·060	4·18
Mersey	28·566	30·208	1·19
North Western	39·094	42·717	4·56

Expenditure					£ million
	1988–89 Outturn	1989–90 Outturn	1990–91 Provisional Outturn	1991–92 Estimate
Youth Training (cash)	¹102	¹100	¹83	²103
Youth Training (1991–92 cash prices)³	126	116	89	103
Employment Training (cash)	¹134	¹111	¹106	²102
Employment Training (1991–92 cash prices)³	166	129	113	102

Youth Training Places	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91	1991–92
Total number of planned places⁴	51,976	50,268	38,862	37,469
Total number of filled places⁴	46,417	45,268	34,301	⁶—

Employment Training Places	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91	1991–92
Total number of planned places⁵	41,473	28,931	25,544	18,555
Total number of filled places⁵	21,215	26,380	22,234	⁶—
¹ These figures are taken from "The Government Expenditure Plans: 1991–92 to 1993–94: Employment Department Group" (Table 6.5).
² These figures are taken from Supply Estimates 1991–92 Class XV Scotland Vote 3.
³ The figures expressed at 1991–92 cash prices arc derived by applying the GDP deflator to the figures for previous years.
⁴ Youth Training places are calculated on the basis of trainee weeks; the figures shown represent the average number of young people in training per week
⁵ The Employment Training places information provided gives the planned and actual numbers in training at 31 March for each of the financial years 1988–89 and 1989–90, the planned average number in training for 1990£91 and 1991–92 and the actual average number in training for 1990–91.
⁶ Not yet available.

Volume 201: debated on Monday 13 January 1992