To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give, in real terms, the salary cost of all grades of management/administrators employed within
| HCHS - Salaries and wages costs | ||||||||
| Administrative and clerical staff | General and senior managers | |||||||
| £ thousand (cash) | £ thousand at 1992–93 prices | Real terms percentage change on 1980–81 | £ thousand (cash) | £ thousand at 1992–93 prices | Total | £ thousand at 1992–93 prices | Real terms percentage change on 1980–81 | |
| 1980–81 | 603,565 | 1,220,227 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 603,565 | 1,220,227 | 0 |
| 1981–82 | 662,774 | 1,221,897 | 0·14 | 0 | 0 | 662,774 | 1,221,897 | 0·14 |
| 1982–83 | 677,736 | 1,166,431 | -4·41 | 0 | 0 | 677,736 | 1,166,431 | -4·41 |
| 1983–84 | 709,885 | 1,167,697 | -4·30 | 0 | 0 | 709,885 | 1,167,697 | -4·30 |
| 1984–85 | 760,058 | 1,189,901 | -2·49 | 0 | 0 | 760,058 | 1,189,901 | -2·49 |
| 1985–86 | 761,615 | 1,130,610 | -7·34 | 10,951 | 16,257 | 772,566 | 1,146,867 | -6·01 |
| 1986–87 | 815,269 | 1,172,504 | -3·91 | 25,677 | 36,928 | 840,946 | 1,209,432 | -0·88 |
| 1987–88 | 885,145 | 1,206,630 | -1·11 | 29,647 | 40,415 | 914,792 | 1,247,044 | 2·20 |
| 1988–89 | 979,254 | 1,244,328 | 1·98 | 30,513 | 38,773 | 1,009,767 | 1,283,101 | 5·15 |
| 1989–90 | 1,038,857 | 1,238,453 | 1·49 | 158,844 | 189,399 | 1,197,501 | 1,427,852 | 17·02 |
| 1990–91 | 1,187,029 | 1,310,397 | 7·39 | 251,475 | 277,611 | 1,438,504 | 1,588,008 | 30·14 |
| 1991–92 | 1,382,756 | 1,431,155 | 17·29 | 383,380 | 396,798 | 1,766,138 | 1,827,953 | 49·80 |
Notes:
1. HCHS covers the total expenditure by the health authorities (and the NHS Trusts) including hospital, community health, patient transport (ie ambulance), blood transfusion and other services.
2. The figures are the gross pay costs of directly employed staff including employers' National Insurance and superannuation contributions.
3. The figures have been expressed at 1992–93 prices by the use of Gross Domestic Product deflators.
4. The table excludes salaries and wages costs incurred by family health services authorities and special health authorities providing central services to the NHS. However, the figures for administrative and clerical staff for the years prior to 1985–86 cover those staff employed by family practitioners committees whose costs were included with those of area health authorities and were not separately identified.
Source: Annual accounts (1982–83 to 1990–91) and annual financial returns (1991–92) of regional and district health authorities in England and those of the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. Annual accounts of area health and other predecessor authorities (1980–81 and 1981–82). Annual financial returns of the first wave NHS Trusts (1991–92).