HC Deb 14 March 1988 vol 129 c439W
Sir Hector Monro

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what financial allocations he has made to health boards for 1988–89.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

I have allocated £1,661 million1 to health boards to meet their gross recurrent expenditure commitments on hospitals and community health services in 1988–89. After expected income is taken into account, the net cash limited allocations to individual health boards are as follows:

Recurrent expenditure (net)
Health board £ million
Argyll and Clyde 118.305
Ayrshire and Arran 88.548
Borders 25.675
Dumfries and Galloway 42.528
Fife 82.835
Forth Valley 77.570
Grampian 152.266
Greater Glasgow 430.705
Highland 62.292
Lanarkshire 136.332
Lothian 266.427
Orkney 4.667
Shetland 5.724
Tayside 153.124
Western Isles 8.517
1,655.515
1 Includes £19.06 million allocated for specific commitments including national cardiac surgery services, lithotripsy and AIDS.