§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give details of assets disposed of by each health board during 1987–88; and what was the total value of those assets.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythIncome from the sale of surplus NHS land and properties amounted to £7.948 million in 1987–88, when the following properties were sold:
Land-property Health board GD surgery, Newmilns Ayrshire and Arran Broadfield hospital, Port Glasgow Argyll and Clyde Royal Victoria eye infirmary, Paisley Land at Caldwell House hospital, Uplawmoor Northern hospital, Dunfermline Fife Land at Royal Northern infirmary, Highland Inverness East block, Aberdeen royal infirmary, Grampian Woolmanhill 24 North Silver street, Aberdeen Inverbervie health centre site, Inverbervie 27–28 Park circus, Glasgow Greater Glasgow 10 Park circus, Glasgow Schaw hospital, Bearsden 13 Woodside place Ophthalmic institute, 126–128 West Regent street, Glasgow 4 Royal crescent, Glasgow Killearn hospital, Killearn Glenfarg street clinic, Glasgow Farmland at Gartloch hospital, Glasgow Land at Craiglea place, Edinburgh Lothian Hozier house, Lanark Lanarkshire 32 Bridge street, Kirkwall Orkney Dundee woman's hospital Tayside Land at Murthly hospital 185 staff houses Various 17 small plots of land Various Total value £7,947,705.62 Income from the sale of other assets amounted to £145,000 (excluding the income from the sale of assets which are being replaced, which is netted against cost). Details of these assets are not held centrally but the income received by each health board was:—
Health Board £ Argyll and Clyde 6,600 Ayrshire and Arran 2,800 Borders 47,200 Dumfries 7,750 Fife Nil Forth Valley 7,100 Grampian 5,850 Greater Glasgow 27,000 Highland 4,000 Lanarkshire 1,200 Lothian 27,500 Orkney 1,200 Shetland 2,200 Tayside 4,600 Western Isles Nil