§ Ms Rachel SquireTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many private nursing home beds there were in each health board area in Scotland as a whole in(a) 1979 and (b) 1993–94.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 8 March 1995]: The information on private nursing home1 beds is as follows:
Health Board 21987 1994 Argyll and Clyde 633 1,150 Ayrshire and Arran 670 2,064 Borders 180 723 Dumfries and Galloway 52 494 Fife 45 795 Forth Valley 207 860 Grampian 324 1,761 Greater Glasgow 626 2,299 Highland 292 1,009 Lanarkshire 541 2,181 Lothian 965 2,242 Orkney — — Shetland — — Tayside 140 1,609 Western Isles — 65 Total 4,675 17,252 Notes:1
Private nursing homes and hospitals subject to the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938, as amended.
2 The first year in which comparable information was centrally available.