§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the bodies to which he has made payments for the purposes of furthering health education and the amounts involved in each year since 1979; and what studies he has undertaken to monitor the use of that money and the effects its use has had.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe provision of health education falls to the Scottish health education group nationally and to health boards locally whose expenditure since 1979 has been as follows:
Scottish Health Education Group Health Boards £000 £000 1979–80 1,252 900 1980–81 1,540 1,018 1981–82 1,889 1,250 1982–83 2,136 1,413 1983–84 *2,356 † * Estimated. † Not available. I keep under regular review the activities of SHEG: and it is for health boards to monitor their own health education projects.