§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all the National Health Service Greater Glasgow hospitals and the latest figures for the waiting lists in each of them.
§ Mr. Michael Forsyth[holding answer 30 January 1989]The latest waiting list figures for all National Health
567WService hospitals in Greater Glasgow are set out in the table. The mean waiting time for in-patients in 1987 was 73.7 days and for day cases was 47.8 days.
NHS Hospitals in Greater Glasgow HB: Patients waiting at 31 March 19881 Hospital Inpatients Day Cases Beatson Oncology Centre — — Belvidere Hospital 61 — Birdston Hospital — — Blawarthill Hospital — — Broomhill and Lanfine Hospital — — Canniesburn Hospital 1,999 — Childrens Home Hospital — — Cowglen Hospital 126 — Darnley Hospital 3 — Drumchapel Hospital — — Duke St. Hospital 2 — Duntocher Hospital — — Gartloch Hospital 56 — Gartnavel General Hospital 1,203 26 Gartnaval Royal Hospital 47 — Glasgow Dental Hospital and School — — Glasgow Eye Infirmary — — Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital 20 — Glasgow Royal Infirmary 4,650 — Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital — — Glasgow Western Infirmary 1,515 — Knightswood Hospital 10 — Lennox Castle Hospital 6 — Lenzie Hospital—Beechwood Extension — — Leverndale Hospital 9 — Lightburn Hospital 96 — Mearnskirk General Hospital — — Parkhead Hospital — Philipshill Hospital 534 — Queen Mother's Hospital — RHSC Drumchapel — — Royal Beatson Memorial Hospital — — Royal Hospital for Sick Children 1,407 Royal Samaritan Hospital 358 — Ruchill Hospital — Rutherglen Maternity Hospital — Southern General Hospital 1,807 69 Southern General Psychiatric Unit — — Stobhill Hospital 2,124 — Stoneyetts Hospital — — Victoria Infirmary 1,239 127 Waverley Park Hospital — — Woodilee Hospital 113 — Greater Glasgow Health Board Total 17,385 222 1 The alerted statistical system on which these figures are collected is explained in ISD statistical bulletin 1/88.
§ Mr. FoulkesTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will commission the Scottish universities research and reactor centre to undertake aerial surveys, similar to that just undertaken in West Cumbria, for all areas in Scotland near to nuclear establishments or where there has been radioactive fall out.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 30 January 1989]Radioactivity in the environment near
568W nuclear establishments is intensively monitored by the site operators as a condition of their authorisations to discharge radioactivity. The Scottish Development Department checks each operator's results and undertakes additional independent monitoring to confirm them. Aerial surveys would not contribute materially to the normal monitoring process. However, the Scottish Office is interested in the possible use in emergencies of the aerial surveillance system developed and deployed by the Scottish universities research and reactor centre and will be discussing this with the centre.
Total fatal accidents Number of fatal accidents by number of fatal casualties in each accident Total fatal casualties 1 2 3 4 1983 10 9 1 — — 11 1984 4 3 1 — — 5 1985 12 12 — — — 12 1986 12 11 — — 1 15 1987 8 8 — — 8 11988 10 10 — — — 10 1 To August.
§ Mr. FoulkesTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the latest available information on levels of radioactivity in(a) fish in lochs (b) hares and rabbits and (c) other animals in south-west Scotland.
§ Mr. Michael Forsyth[holding answer 30 January 1989] : Information on the level of radioactivity in fish and animals in Scotland resulting from the Chernobyl accident is published on a regular basis by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland. For the south-west of Scotland the latest measured levels for fish range from 15 bq/kg to 737 bq/kg, for hare from 165 bq/kg to 4,530 bq/kg and for rabbits from 20 bq/kg to 155 bq/kg. Monitoring of hare and rabbit was discontinued in 1987 as the reading in these animals, which form a relatively small part of most people's diet, gave no cause for concern. Levels in deer range from 2 bq/kg to 2,740 bq/kg.