§ Mr. Bill WalkerTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what financial allocations he has made to health boards for 1991–92.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythMy right hon. Friend has allocated £2,505.735 million to health boards to meet their expenditure commitment on hospital and community health services in 1991–92. The figure includes £2,244.950 million to meet gross recurrent expenditure commitments, £208.575 million to meet gross capital expenditure commitments, £38.857 million for GP team staff £11.353 million for GP premises and £2 million for GP computers.
The allocation, taken with health board's own cash-releasing efficiency savings, gives an increase in available resources of 10.75 per cent. It amounts to an extra £225 million for health boards in Scotland.
There has been a substantial increase in the resources for nurse training and for HIV and AIDS related services and an additional moneys have been made available to help reduce junior doctors' hours.
Having adjusted for the movement of resources from revenue to capital to account for the new definition of capital, the gross capital amounts available to boards will be £208 million, representing a 10.8 per cent. increase over 1990–91. The capital allocation will continue the high level of investment in hospital building projects of recent years. Substantial investment will be made in major hospital projects now under construction including Ayr hospital, the St. John's hospital in Lothian, the Royal Cornhill hospital in Grampian, the Perth royal infirmary, Tayside, the Western Isles hospital in Stornoway, West Fife DGH phase II in Dunfermline, the spinal injuries unit at Southern general hospital, Glasgow and Udston hospital in Lanark. It will also provide the resources to progress new hospital developments at Oban, Campbeltown, Elgin, Peterhead and Crieff and for improvements to GP surgeries in highland and the island boards.
Details of individual board allocations are contained in the table:
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Health board allocations: 1991–92 HCH revenue allocation1 Final allocation for practice team staff 1991–92 Final allocation for premises 1991–92 HCH capital allocations1 Health board £000s £000s £000s £000s Argyll and Clyde 158,821 2,934 680 11,385 Ayrshire and Arran 124,971 2,653 800 13,480 Borders 37,567 760 50 1,299 Dumfries and Galloway 60,541 1,020 600 3,231 Fife 116,411 2,383 720 32,616 Forth Valley 108,657 2,097 500 4,813 Grampian 204,419 4,218 1,100 17,752 Greater Glasgow 529,876 7,561 1,400 26,489 Highland 87,225 1,793 600 4,662 Lanarkshire 181,755 3,317 500 17,565 Lothian 346,505 5,923 2,300 21,321 Orkney 7,190 146 27 444 Shetland 8,130 252 — 1,632 Tayside 201,141 3,392 1,197 15,643 Western Isles 12,360 408 60 13,446 SCOTLAND 2,185,568 38,857 10,534 185,778 1 These allocations include a transfer of some £25 million from revenue to capital to reflect a change in the definition of capital expenditure from 1 April 1991. A further £59.140 million revenue, £22.797 million capital and £2.819 million general medical services will be distributed during the year for cardiac surgery, hospice funding, computer development and other specific initiatives.