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Maternity Services

Volume 458: debated on Tuesday 13 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding was allocated to maternity services in each health board area in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. (127114)

The planned funding allocated to maternity services (both acute expenditure and community midwifery spend) in each health board area in each of the last three years as shown in the following table.

£000

Board

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

EHSSB

22,174

23,794

25,621

NHSSB

15,710

17,200

18,362

SHSSB

12,529

13,421

14,589

WHSSB

10,503

11,374

11,678

Note:

The planned hospital spend relates to Obstetrics and does not include specialist neo-natal care, for example in a Special Care Baby Unit, that would be recorded under Acute services.

Further information would be available only at disproportionate cost.