§ Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what amount each health board has been notified as its capital expenditure programme in the current year and next year; and what change there has been in each case from the original figures.
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§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 13 July 1993]: Capital allocations to health boards for their building programmes for 1993–94 and provisional allocations for 1994–95 are as follows:
£ million Health Board 1993–94 1994–95 Argyll and Clyde 12.405 6.258 Ayrshire and Arran 0.585 0.010 Borders 3.070 0.205 Fife 5.623 2.219 Forth Valley 6.573 2.783 Dumfries and Galloway 2.801 0.929 Grampian 0.109 0.040 Greater Glasgow 25.996 20.048 Highland 5.201 2.819 Lanarkshire 9.381 9.895 Lothian 24.429 18.580 Orkney 1.296 1.347 Shetland 2.231 2.256 Tayside 10.621 4.050 Western Isles 1.507 0.340 State Hospital 4.080 5.881 The figures provided for 1994–95 are not directly comparable with those for 1993–94. Health boards have been given provisional allocations for 1994–95 which reflect only the consequences in that year of the 1993–94 allocations and make no provision at present for projects starting in 1994–95.
Two boards' allocations have been increased—Forth Valley's by £222,000 and Western Isles' by £65,000—in both cases to deal with problems with existing hospital buildings. There have been no other changes.