§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for each health board and for Scotland as a whole the expenditure on contractual arrangements for patient care in each year since 1979.
£'000s Health board 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 Argyll and Clyde 722 759 737 971 795 984 Ayrshire and Arran — — — 6 — — Borders — 345 386 415 442 436 Dumfries and Galloway — — — — — — Fife — — — — 20 20 Forth Valley — — 60 68 — 97 Grampian — — — — — — Greater Glasgow 658 928 970 1,071 1,421 1,480 Highland 120 154 173 186 203 199 Lanarkshire 514 747 719 728 693 664 Lothian 2,248 2,826 3,498 3,438 3,774 4,032 Orkney — — — — — — Shetland — — — — — — Tayside 12 11 243 15 56 43 Western Isles — — — — — — Scotland 4,274 5,770 6,786 6,898 7,404 7,955