To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for (a) Great Britain and (b) each health authority the expenditure on health per head of population, expressed in real terms, in each year since 1997–98. [104846]

[holding answer 25 March 2003]: Information relating, to Wales and Scotland is a matter for the devolved administrations. While the institutions in Northern Ireland are dissolved the responsibility rests with Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office.Information on the expenditure on health by weighted head of population in real terms for each health authority area in England for each year since 1997–98 has been placed in the Library.