§ Mr. WatsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each purchasing health board in Scotland, the figures for revenue funding in 1992–93, 1993–94 and 1994–95, and the estimated figures for 1995–96 and 1996–97; and if he will identify the changes for each health board's revenue budget resulting from the replacement of the resource allocation working party system of determining funding allocation.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 23 March 1994]:Revenue funding is as follows:
Health Board 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 £ million £ million £ million Argyll and Clyde 220,019 231,224 242,301 Ayrshire and Arran 172,159 183,530 193,226 Borders 54,717 58,374 62,855 Dumfries and Galloway 78,616 81,524 86,965 Fife 158,314 171,020 178,766 Forth Valley 127,242 138,154 142,756 Grampian 254,470 271,938 277,805 Greater Glasgow 562,296 586,662 577,370 Highland 108,666 112,182 120,336 Lanarkshire 239,761 258,272 262,876 Lothian 405,413 405,131 418,193 Orkney 11,209 12,525 12,731 Shetland 12,898 14,494 14,789 Tayside 241,455 242,979 243,375 Western Isles 20,929 23,012 25,525 (Note:
1. The allocations for 1993–94 and 1994–95 are exclusive of the provision for AIDS, artifical limbs and appliance centres and breast cancer screening services which are now funded as national services.
2. The 1994–95 allocation excludes funding for doctors in training, which is now funded through the Scottish Council for Post-graduate Medical and Dental Education, and includes funding for ambulance services which were previously funded through the Common Services Agency.
3. Initial allocations for 1994–95 are shown. Further allocations will be distributed to Health Boards later in the year for a number of specific services.)
Estimated figures for 1995–96 and 1996–97 are not available.
Details of allocations based on the resource allocation working party system are not available. It is not therefore possible to identify the changes to Health Board Revenue budgets resulting from the replacement of the system of determining funding allocation.