§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will set out region by region, health board in-patient waiting lists, the total population living in each district, the percentage which the former represents of the latter and their national ranking by that percentage.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe information requested is as follows:
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Waiting List as at 30 September 19861 Estimated population as at 30 June 1985 Waiting List as percentage of population2 Ranking Argyll and Clyde 6,528 446,637 1.46 8 Ayrshire and Arran 4,862 375,212 1.30 7 Borders 301 101,705 0.30 3 Dumfries and Galloway 3,205 146,562 2.19 15 Fife 5,468 344,019 1.59 11 Forth Valley 2,558 272,426 0.94 5 Grampian 9,969 500,566 1.99 14 Greater Glasgow 17,866 968,801 1.84 12 Highland 3,040 198,617 1.53 9 Lanarkshire 6,249 568,077 1.10 6 Lothian 14,341 745,229 1.92 13 Orkney 50 19,351 0.26 2 Shetland 142 23,440 0.61 4 Tayside 6,215 394,322 1.58 10 Western Isles 68 31,545 0.22 1 Scotland 80,862 5,136,509 1.57 — 1 Provisional. 2 The numbers on the waiting list for a particular health board may include numbers of people not resident in that health board area.
§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will set out region by region, the hospital urgent in-patient waiting list in each district, together with the number of urgent cases waiting more than a month, the percentage the latter represents of the former and their national ranking by that percentage;
(2) if he will set out region by region, the hospital non-urgent in-patient waiting list in each health district together with the number of non-urgent cases waiting more than a year, the percentage the latter represents of the former and their national ranking by that percentage.
§ Mr. John MacKayThis information is not available centrally.
§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the hospital in-patient waiting lists for each health board at the end of September 1986.
§ Mr. John MacKay[pursuant to his reply, 19 March 1987, c. 580]: The information requested, which relates to 30 September 1986 and is provisional, follows:
Number Argyll and Clyde 6,528 Aryshire and Arran 4,862 Borders 301 Dumfries and Galloway 3,205 Fife 5,468 Forth Valley 2,558 Grampian 9,969 Greater Glasgow 17,866 Highland 3,040 Lanarkshire 6,249 Lothian 14,341 Orkney 50 Shetland 142 Tayside 6,215 Western Isles 68 Scotland 80,862