HC Deb 31 January 1991 vol 184 c627W
Mr. Darling

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many operations due to take place within hospitals under the Lothian health board have been postponed in each month from October 1990 to the most recent available date.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

[holding answer 29 January 1991]: The number of operations postponed by hospitals in Lothian during the period October-December 1990 was as follows:

Number
October 16
November 133
December 263
TOTAL 512

The corresponding total for the same period in the previous year was 590.