§ Mr. WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list, by local authority area, the number of approved places in(a)private,(b)voluntary And(c)local authority nursing homes for the elderly, for each year since 1980.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythNursing homes are registered by health boards. Information is therefore only readily 219W available by health board area. The information available centrally is given in the table. Information for years before 1986 was not collected centrally.
Number of beds in private nursing homes and hospitals1 admitting elderly patients, by Health Board at 31 March. Health Board 1986 1987 1988 Argyll and Clyde 508 633 2749 Ayrshire and Arran 450 670 939 Borders 81 82 254 Dumfries and Galloway 63 66 127 Fife 38 45 137 Forth Valley 165 207 351 Grampian 183 360 544 Greater Glasgow 478 452 537 Highland 216 259 365 Lanarkshire 231 541 832 Lothian 758 920 1,008 Orkney — — — Shetland — — — Tayside 132 166 307 Western Isles — — — Scotland 3,303 4,401 6,230 1 Private nursing homes and hospitals subject to the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938 or the I Mental Health Acts 1960/1984. 2 Data for the Princess Louise Scottish Hospital and Sir Gabriel Wood's Mariners' Home relate to 1987.