§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the waiting time for an operation for the condition known as glue ear in each of the health boards of Scotland.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe mean waiting times of patients who were admitted from the waiting list and have undergone an operation for glue ear in 1985, the latest year for which statistics are centrally available, are as follows. 94 per cent, of the cases were under age 16.
Mean wait (in days) Argyll and Clyde 89 Ayrshire and Arran 99 Borders — Dumfries and Galloway 99 Fife 210 Forth Valley 43 Grampian 69 Greater Glasgow 46 Highland (59) Lanarkshire (62) Lothian 104 Orkney — Shetland — Tayside 52 Western Isles — Scotland 96 Figures in brackets are based on fewer than five waiting-list admissions during the year.