§ Mr. IngramTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the building costs estimated and actual for hospitals started since 1979.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythDetails of all hospital developments are not held centrally as minor capital projects are delegated to health boards and the Department only keeps records of all projects over £1 million.
The relevant information is detailed below:
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Projects started since 1979 £ million Total tender cost Total cost1 Argyll and Clyde Dunoon and District General Hospital 0.9 1.0 Ayrshire and Arran Biggart Hospital 1.2 1.2 Borders Hay Lodge, Peebles 2.3 2.4 Borders General, Huntlyburn 23.7 30.5 Dumfries and Galloway Annan Hospital 1.1 1.l Fife Whytemans Brae, Kirkcaldy 3.6 5.6 West Fife District General Hospital 8.7 10.5 Forth Valley Bonnybridge 3.3 3.3 Royal Scottish National Hospital 2.4 2.5 Sauchie Hospital 1.0 1.2 Falkirk Royal Infirmary 7.9 8.5 Stirling Royal Infirmary 11.4 18.1 Greater Glasgow Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow 1.5 1.6 Gartloch Hospital, Glasgow 2.0 2.2 Leverndale Phase I 4.6 4.5 Lennox Castle 2.4 2.6 Highland Raigmore Hospital, Inverness 17.2 31.0 Caithness Phase II 7.3 9.1 Lanarkshire Kirklands Residential, Bothwell 1.1 1.0 Kirklands Phase I 1.9 2.4 Kirklands Phase I 1.8 2.3 Lothian Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh 1.6 2.0 Hermanflat Hospital, Haddington 2.4 2.7 Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh 5.9 7.0 Western General Phase II 7.4 7.7 Shetland Montfield Hospital 2.3 2.6 Tayside Murray Royal, Perth 0.9 12 Perth Royal Infirmary, geriatric assessment 0.9 1.4 Royal Liff, Dundee 1.0 1.0 1 The total column represents the most up-to-date information available. Building contracts lasting more than 2 years are subject to variation of price clauses; costs therefore increase in line with inflation in the building industry.