To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 23 January, Official Report, columns 161–62, on NHS staff, if he will provide a regional breakdown of the figures. [12775]
Provisional expenditure, by region is shown in the table.
| Hospital and Community Health Service Salary Costs for Managerial, Administrative Clerical Staff and Nursing and Midwifery staff 1994–95 | |||
| £000 | |||
| Managerial expenditure | Administrative and clerical expenditure | Nursing and midwifery expenditure | |
| Northern and Yorkshire Region | 100,963 | 199,367 | 856,849 |
| Trent Region | 59,387 | 139,380 | 598,343 |
| Anglian and Oxford Region | 70,363 | 148,005 | 586,048 |
| North Thames Region | 122,388 | 285,923 | 974,093 |
| South Thames Region | 112,835 | 243,981 | 843,465 |
| South and West Region | 91,730 | 183,010 | 808,721 |
| West Midlands Region | 70,588 | 166,298 | 624,969 |
| North West Region | 93,474 | 212,515 | 885,259 |
| Special Health Authorities | 1,633 | 3,650 | 6,268 |
| Total England | 723,361 | 1,582,129 | 6,184,015 |
Sources:
1. The annual financial returns of district and regional health authorities and the special health authorities of the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.
2. The annual financial returns of NHS trusts.
Notes:
1. The figures are provisional.
2. Salaries and wages costs incurred by family health services authorities and the special hospital service authority (HQ London, Broadmoor, Ashworth and Rampton hospitals) and the UK transplant support services are excluded as corresponding costs are not identified on the same basis.
3. Managerial staff consists of general and senior managers for health authorities and executive board members and senior managers for NHS trusts.
4. The figures are based upon gross costs including employers' national insurance and superannuation contributions.