§ Mr. Maloneasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what financial allocations he has made to health boards for 1984–85.
§ Mr. YoungerI have allocated £1,266 million to health boards to meet their recurrent expenditure commitments on hospitals and community health services in 1984–85, and £35 million for their ordinary capital programme. After expected income is taken into account the net cash limited allocations to individual health boards are as follows:
£ million Health board Reccurrent expenditure Ordinary capital programme Total Argyll and Clyde 91.706 2.838 94.544 Ayrshire and Arran 63.653 2.328 65.981 Borders 18.432 0.641 19.073 Dumfries and Galloway 32.629 0.927 33.556 Fife 60.572 2.114 62.686 Forth Valley 59.106 1.715 60.821 Grampian 110.808 3.182 113.990 Greater Glasgow 338.607 7.517 346.124 Highland 46.876 1.217 48.093 Lanarkshire 103.018 3.514 106.532 Lothian 203.849 5.460 209.309 Orkney 3.362 0.123 3.485 Shetland 4.214 0.154 4.368 Tayside 119.343 2.993 122.336 Western Isles 6.353 0.202 6.555 Total 1,262.528 34.925 1,297 .453 To be allocated for specific commitments—£8.2 million. In addition to these allocations, I intend to distribute £16.8 million to boards for expenditure on improvement and refurbishment of hospitals and NHS buildings in 1984–85.