§ Mr. Eadieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost of prescriptions under the National Health Service in the years 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967; and what was the cost in each of the counties.
GROSS COST OF PRESCRIPTIONS 1964 1965 1966 1967 (estimate) Executive Council Areas £ £ £ £ Aberdeen and Kincardine … 302,802 366,200 417,540 442,829 Angus … 176,592 211,081 241,451 253,675 Argyll and Bute … 137,211 162,040 172,335 207,261 Ayr … 865,803 1,045,078 1,172,146 1,277,051 Banff, Moray and Nairn … 240,273 274,538 310,667 328,286 Caithness … 49,215 60,016 64,534 66,504 Dumfries … 173,427 206,495 227,689 244,379 Dunbarton … 418,411 528,136 603,649 650,197 Fife … 721,379 881,149 962,342 1,045,138 Galloway (Kirkcudbright and Wigtown) … 94,057 107,769 121,422 129,095 Inverness … 120,634 139,554 153,449 167,823 Lanark … 1,186,073 1,456,759 1,604,461 1,744,703 Lothians and Peebles … 578,541 708,879 798,552 871,907 Orkney … 32,079 37,986 41,332 47,147 Perth and Kinross … 233,312 282,435 318,175 334,837 Renfrew … 747,408 932,774 1,031,220 1,124,642 Ross and Cromarty … 113,426 132,442 148,927 157,971 Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk … 176,427 208,602 229,129 248,374 Stirling and Clackmannan … 543,480 662,240 735,143 774,258 Sutherland … 17,292 18,556 21,461 23,726 Zetland … 14,496 16,355 18,351 19,682 City of Aberdeen … 463,836 575,194 647,367 675,589 City of Edinburgh … 1,177,960 1,381,429 1,513,237 1,620,675 City of Glasgow … 2,468,326 2,967,998 3,171,449 3,338,389 City of Dundee … 368,205 454,778 516,886 550,112