§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the value of NHS contracts placed with non-NHS providers(a) in total, (b) by each health board, 352W (c)by each general practitioner fundholding practice and (d)by each trust.
Lord James Douglas Hamilton[holding answer 13 January 1995]: The total value of NHS contracts placed with non-NHS providers in 1993–94 was £16.255 million provisional figure only. This total is analysed by each health board as follows:
Health Board £000 Argyll and Clyde 1,066 Ayrshire and Arran 1,504 Borders 1,355 Dumfries and Galloway 50 Fife 405 Forth Valley 368 Grampian 233 Greater Glasgow 7,730 Highland 142 Lanarkshire 2,625 Lothian 301 Orkney 2 Shetland — Tayside 474 Western Isles — Total 16,255 The value of NHS contracts placed with non-NHS providers by each general practitioner fundholding practice and by each trust is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Health boards also have contracts with local authorities, hospices and voluntary agencies where these organisations are registered charities undertaking specific contracted activities but information on these is no longer collected centrally.