§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many applications for pay beds the Western Regional Hospital Board has received from either boards of management or organisations representing the views of the medical profession in the past year ; how many of these applications were granted in full ; how many were entirely rejected ; and how many were partly met by the regional board.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe Regional Board received three applications for facilities for private in-patients ; two of these the Board asked me to authorise in full and I did so. In the third case, which has not yet been decided, the Regional Board has asked me to authorise facilities but not to the full extent requested by the Board of Management.