Written question asked by Simon Burns (Conservative) on Wednesday, 9 January 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 16 January 2002. It was answered by Lord Hutton of Furness (Labour) on Wednesday, 16 January 2002 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 8th January, how much funding for health care per patient there is in the parliamentary constituencies of (a) Sedgefield, (b) West Chelmsford, (c) South West Surrey and (d) North West Hampshire. - Includes table.

Answer: Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 8 January 2002, how much funding for health care per patient there is in the parliamentary constituencies of (a) Sedgefield, (b) West Chelmsford, (c) South-West Surrey and (d) North-West Hampshire. [27035] Mr. Hutton: The health authorities for these parliamentary constituencies, and their allocations per weighted head of population (provided on 8 January) and unweighted head of population in 2001-02, are shown in the table. It is more meaningful to show health authority allocations per head of population using weighted populations. This is because funding takes into account the relative needs of populations using a weighted capitation formula. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Parliamentary constituency Health authority 2001-02{ 1} 2001-02{ 2} Sedgefield County Durham 730 808 West Chelmsford North Essex 728 674 South-West Surrey West Surrey 749 671 North-West Hampshire North and Mid Hampshire 736 615 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Allocation per weighted head of population {2} Allocation per unweighted head of population

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 27035; 378 c376W;378 c390W
Session: 2001-02
Subjects: Health services Finance Health authorities Essex NHS Patients Hampshire Per capita costs Surrey County Durham
Contains statistics: Yes
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