Market Testing

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list all the market tests that have taken place in his Department since November 1992 and indicate, in each case, whether the result was the maintenance of in-house provision, or whether the service was contracted out.

The information requested is as follows:

Activity	Result In house/Contractorised
Flight checking services 115 Squadron—RAF Benson	Contractorised
Domestic services Gateway house—RAF Brize Norton	Retained in house
Engineering and Supply/Multi-activity contract RAF Scampton	Contractorised
Elementary flying training RAF Topcliffe	Contractorised
Catering—A and AEE Boscombe Down	Contractorised

Activity

Result In house/Contractorised

Grounds maintenance Royal Marine Establishments

Retained in house

Domestic and administration services Wethersfield

Contractorised

Number of psychiatric hospitals¹ 1978 to 1990–91
All psychiatric hospitals	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91
Northern	19	17	17	18	18	18	18	21	23	19	17	16	16
Yorkshire	36	36	36	37	36	34	35	37	38	33	35	36	40
Trent	64	63	64	64	65	65	67	62	61	53	58	53	49
East Anglian	22	22	23	25	24	25	26	24	24	25	25	21	23
North West Thames	18	19	19	18	18	18	18	21	24	21	22	22	20
North East Thames	20	20	20	21	21	21	21	22	23	25	28	28	31
South East Thames	29	29	29	29	31	31	31	31	32	33	29	35	36
South West Thames²	34	35	35	34	35	37	35	35	34	40	46	40	35
Wessex	38	42	42	43	47	54	64	79	88	29	41	39	37
Oxford	19	21	20	20	20	21	24	24	30	21	24	25	17
South Western	56	57	55	59	60	61	63	68	73	54	58	53	60
West Midlands	36	37	37	38	41	41	43	55	57	37	39	40	36
Mersey	15	15	14	13	13	12	11	11	14	15	16	15	16
North Western	14	13	13	17	17	19	21	22	22	16	16	16	20
Special Health Authorities	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
England	421	427	425	437	447	458	478	³513	³544	422	455	440	437
¹ A hospital where 90 per cent. or more of the available beds are allocated to the psychiatric (mental illness and mental handicap) specialities. For years 1987–88 to 1990–91 mental handicap community units have been excluded. These units can generally be defined as facilities staffed by the NHS and managed separately from any hospital, which is located in the community, and provides not more than 24 residential places for people with learning disabilities.
² Number for 1987–88 estimated.
³ These totals may be inflated by the inclusion of Mental Handicap Community Units.

Sources: SH3 (Hospital Classification) 1978 to 1986.

KHO3 (4th Quarter) 1987–88 to 1990–91.

Volume 227: debated on Tuesday 22 June 1993