§ Mrs. Margaret EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland of the total planned additional expenditure on health services in Scotland for the year 1990–91, how much comes from new cash, cost improvement programmes and income generation, and how much of the total is for primary care.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythNet expenditure on the National Health Service in 1990–91 is planned to increase by £223 million over 1989–90. All of this increase will be funded by the Exchequer. In addition, health boards should be able to generate a further £19 million from cost improvement programmes, and a further £0–5 million from income generation schemes under section 7 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 over the levels achieved in 1989–90. Total net expenditure on primary care services is planned to increase by £68 million.