National Health Service Expenditure (Hansard, 29 July 1988)

§ Mr. Andrew Welsh

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing total Scottish Health Service costs for each year from 1974–75 to 1986–87, including revenue expenditure, capital expenditure and expenditure on primary care; and if he will give a breakdown of this figure by health board.

Table 1
Gross expenditure in the National Health Service in Scotland
£ million cash
	Total National Health Service expenditure	Total revenue expenditure¹	Total capital expenditure¹	Family practitioner services expenditure
1974–75	453	340	33	80
1975–76	596	445	42	109
1976–77	676	505	42	129
1977–78	768	580	43	145
1978–79	882	659	56	167
1979–80	1,053	790	66	197
1980–81	1,330	1,017	67	246
1981–82	1,519	1,145	93	281
1982–83	1,648	1,224	102	322
1983–84	1,758	1,303	108	347
1984–85	1,885	1,387	118	380
1985–86	1,997	1,465	132	400
1986–87	2,126	1,572	116	438
¹ Expenditure on hospital and community health services and on centrally financed services.

Table 2
Total Health Board Expenditure (Income and Expenditure basis per annual accounts)
£'000
Health Board	1974–75	1975–76	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87
Argyll and Clyde	32,889	44,010	49,042	55,215	66,257	79,934	96,138	113,284	122,350	132,917	136,727	141,365	154,606
Ayrshire and Arran	22,072	28,691	32,269	37,531	43,290	50,071	63,468	75,068	83,274	89,093	96,790	104,286	115,301
Borders	6,312	8,576	10,004	11,437	13,089	14,930	19,542	22,907	25,419	27,825	34,170	37,946	36,414
Dumfries and Galloway	11,516	14,640	16,507	17,878	20,398	24,641	31,566	35,444	39,092	41,950	45,980	49,026	53,709
Fife	20,200	26,901	30,340	34,267	39,836	47,860	60,041	70,870	79,172	83,578	90,364	95,601	104,118
Forth Valley	18,746	25,212	28,759	32,576	37,848	44,492	56,992	65,037	71,993	75,567	85,579	95,960	105,563
Grampian	36,385	48,467	54,166	60,917	70,733	83,185	110,133	120,031	130,279	140,170	150,652	163.292	177,216
Greater Glasgow	112,621	150,297	169,522	188,260	217,150	257,840	324,710	364,281	387,188	408,127	438,034	462,591	487,780
Highland	15,179	21,241	23,807	27,229	31,800	39,191	50,761	57,080	61,012	66,500	69,736	73,673	79,455
Lanarkshire	34,420	46,424	53,526	60,426	68,753	82,465	104,566	117,609	130,399	138,785	150,936	159,560	173,438
Lothian	66,268	89,268	101,618	117,454	134,069	156,298	194,946	229,279	248,934	260,773	276,097	293,671	318,402
Orkney	1,100	1,504	1,657	1,912	2,406	2,723	3,431	4,077	4,367	4,894	5,235	5,520	5,852
Shetland	1,168	1,703	1,962	2,141	2,581	3,488	4,464	4,989	6,790	6,358	6,461	6,837	7,432
Tayside	41,664	55,044	62,395	68,925	79,193	92,795	119,718	130,440	139,313	147,606	156,200	163,453	177,530
Western Isles	1,842	2,823	2,958	3,408	4,455	4,941	6,187	7,083	7,960	8,619	9,503	10,385	11,110
Total	422,382	564,801	638,532	719,576	831,858	984,854	1,246,662	1,417,479	1,537,542	1,632,762	1,752,46	1,863,166	2,007,926
Footnote: Figures represent total expenditure by health boards only (on hospital and community health and on family practitioner services) and do not therefore correspond to the totals given in Table 1.