§ Mr. Bill WalkerTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the proposed distribution of the hospital and community health service capital for 1990–91.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythMy right hon. and learned Friend has allocated £130.593 million to health boards to meet their gross capital expenditure commitments on hospital and community health services in 1990–91. This will enable the substantial investment in hospital building projects in recent years to continue.
Substantial investment will be made in major hospital projects now under construction, including the Ayr acute hospital in Ayrshire and Arran, the St. John's hospital in Lothian, the Royal Cornhill hospital in Grampian, the Perth royal infirmary in Tayside and the Stornoway hospital in the Western Isles. It will also provide the resources for construction to start on new hospital developments, including the hospitals at Oban and Campbeltown, the West Fife district general hospital phase II and the spinal injuries unit at the Southern general hospital, Glasgow.
The allocations to individual health boards are as follows:
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Health Boards Capital allocation (£,000) Argyll and Clyde 5,000 Ayrshire and Arran 22,000 Borders 1,400 Dumfries and Galloway 1,500 Fife 6,300 Forth Valley 5,730 Grampian 11,250 Greater Glasgow 23,850 Highland 3,800 Lanarkshire 11,195 Lothian 17,500 Orkney 358 Shetland 1,455 Tayside 10,905 Western Isles 8,350 Total 130,593