§ Mr. Ancramasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the allocations to health boards under the Scottish health authorities revenue equalisation system for each of the last four years.
§ Mr. John MacKayTotal allocations to health boards to meet their revenue and capital expenditure commitments in the years requested are as follows:
£'000 Health Boards 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 Argyll and Clyde 54,936 69,759 79,487 85,475 Ayreshire and Arran 31,898 44,576 51,453 56,743 Borders 10,416 13,606 15,466 16,925 Dumfries and Galloway 19,364 25,629 28,035 30,416 Fife 34,564 44,471 51,135 55,452 Forth Valley 32,224 45,600 50,478 53,990 Grampian 64,633 85,296 94,855 103,618 Greater Glasgow 209,017 267,770 297,561 315,778 Highland 28,813 36,772 40,461 42,590 Lanarkshire 60,002 79,633 88,087 95,332 Lothian 122,026 158,862 176,912 190,604 Orkney 1,851 2,414 2,857 3,083 Shetland 2,761 3,074 3,518 3,869 Tayside 75,681 99,134 108,124 113,816 Western Isles 3,341 4,573 5,218 5,745 Total 753,547 981,169 1,093,647 1,173,436 Note:
These figures comprise allocations determined by the Scottish Health 176W Authorities Revenue Equalisation formula and also amounts allocated to boards for the maintenance of national specialty services, for support finance projects and for other minor expenditure commitments.
Expenditure by boards on major building projects is provided for separately by the Scottish Home and Health Department.