§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the surplus or deficit in their budgets at the end of the relevant financial year for each health board in Scotland for each financial year since 1987–88; what percentage this represented of their total budget; and what was their actual expenditure in each of these financial years. [1714]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information is given in the tables. The figures are based on health board annual accounts and those for 1994–95 are provisional.
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Health board Surplus/(deficit) spend £000 Percentage of total budget Expenditure £000 1994–95 Argyll and Clyde 85 0.03 250,909 Ayr and Arran 828 0.42 195,513 Borders 816 1.18 68,279 Dumfries and Galloway 1,453 1,59 89,895 Fife 1,197 0.64 185,619 Forth Valley 1,313 0.89 146,266 Grampian 1,373 0.48 284,075 Greater Glasgow 9,880 1.65 589,240 Highland 971 0.78 123,448 Lanarkshire 1,272 0.47 270,435 Lothian 3,057 0.70 431,438 Orkney (2) (0.01) 14,052 Shetland 106 0.64 16,449 Tayside 845 0.34 250,664 Western Isles 201 0.71 28,187 Scotland total 23,395 0.79 2,944,469
Health board Surplus/(deficit) spend £000 Percentage of total budget Expenditure £000 1993–94 Argyll and Clyde 525 0.22 237,202 Ayr and Arran 632 0.34 185,531 Borders 595 0.97 60,822 Dumfries and Galloway 874 1.01 85,726 Fife 959 0.53 181,148 Forth Valley 247 0.17 143,667 Grampian (4) (0.00) 274,398 Greater Glasgow 3,082 0.50 617,359 Highland 848 0.73 116,068 Lanarkshire 31 0.01 264,935 Lothian 72 0.02 425,067 Orkney 58 0.44 13,216 Shetland (11) (0.07) 15,439 Tayside 323 0.13 251,845 Western Isles (26) (0.10) 25,906 Scotland total 8,205 0.28 2,898,329
Health board Surplus/(deficit) spend £000 Percentage of total budget Expenditure £000 1992–93 Argyll and Clyde (28) (0.01) 231,346 Ayr and Arran 751 0.42 178,743 Borders 289 0.50 57,226 Dumfries and Galloway 724 0.88 81,799 Fife 1,663 0.99 166,015 Forth Valley 68 0.05 140,933 Grampian 39 0.01 269,181 Greater Glasgow 3,292 0.54 611,147 Highland 790 0.66 118,234 Lanarkshire 810 0.32 249,096 Lothian 833 0.20 422,652 Orkney 232 1,83 12,413 Shetland 1,216 8.01 13,959 Tayside 91 0.04 254,107 Western Isles 385 1.63 23,240 Scotland total 11,155 0.39 2,830,091
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Health board Surplus/(deficit) spend £000 Percentage of total budget Expenditure £000 1991–92 Argyll and Clyde 269 0.15 173,416 Ayr and Arran 420 0.31 136,415 Borders 171 0.42 40,104 Dumfries and Galloway 23 0.03 66,481 Fife 2,852 2.31 120,586 Forth Valley 244 0.21 116,503 Grampian (213) (0.10) 219,626 Greater Glasgow 6,926 1.19 574,377 Highland 926 0.99 92,193 Lanarkshire 881 0.44 198,993 Lothian (36) (0.01) 373,187 Orkney 1 0.01 7,972 Shetland 95 0.89 10,539 Tayside 505 0.23 214,842 Western Isles 78 0.54 14,411 Scotland total 13,142 0.55 2,359.645
Health board Surplus/(deficit) £000 Percentage of total budget Expenditure £000 1990–91 Argyll and Clyde 929 0.62 149,024 Ayr and Arran 202 0.17 117,716 Borders 430 1.21 35,000 Dumfries and Galloway 227 0.40 56,424 Fife (29) (0.03) 107,749 Forth Valley (13) (0.01) 103,966 Grampian (1,483) (0.76) 197,785 Greater Glasgow 5,227 0.98 525,666 Highland 321 0.38 83,803 Lanarkshire 333 0.19 170,904 Lothian (1,927) (0.59) 328,929 Orkney (6) (0.09) 6,684 Shetland 627 6.92 8,437 Tayside 1,249 0.65 190,230 Western Isles 101 0.92 10,929 Scotland total 6,188 0.29 2,093,246
Health board Surplus/(deficit) £000 Percentage of total budget Expenditure £000 1989–90 Argyll and Clyde 79 0.06 141,589 Ayr and Arran (243) (0.22) 111,048 Borders 11 0.03 32,714 Dumfries and Galloway 418 0.82 50,851 Fife (117) (0.12) 97,748 Forth Valley 99 0.10 94,665 Grampian (2,481) (1.39) 180,712 Greater Glasgow 5,425 1.08 496,077 Highland 615 0.82 74,814 Lanarkshire 122 0.08 157,709 Lothian (15,573) (5.17) 316,514 Orkney 81 1.25 6,420 Shetland 74 0.92 8,003 Tayside 382 0.22 175,503 Western Isles 78 0.79 9,832 Scotland total (11,030) (0.57) 1,954,199
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Health board Surplus/(deficit) £000 Percentage of total budget Expenditure £000 1988–89 Argyll and Clyde 604 0.46 131,979 Ayr and Arran 403 0.4 99,546 Borders 14 0.05 30,318 Dumfries and Galloway (315) (0.67) 47,521 Fife 212 0.23 90,680 Forth Valley 229 0.26 87,429 Grampian 44 0.03 168,074 Greater Glasgow 4,577 0.96 472,165 Highland 472 0.67 70,281 Lanarkshire (18) (0.01) 149,399 Lothian (77) (0.03) 290,863 Orkney (13) (0.21) 6,286 Shetland (17) (0.23) 7,568 Tayside 522 0.31 166,361 Western Isles 41 0.45 9,109 Scotland total 6,678 0.36 1,827,579
Health board Surplus/(deficit) £000 Percentage of total budget Expenditure £000 1987–88 Argyll and Clyde 630 0.52 120,141 Ayr and Arran (1,153) (1.27) 91,744 Borders 401 1.3 30,462 Dumfries and Galloway 68 0.16 42,769 Fife (430) (0.52) 82,930 Forth Valley 329 0.39 84,366 Grampian 2,667 1.76 148,498 Greater Glasgow 5,397 1.25 425,370 Highland (85) (0.13) 65,891 Lanarkshire 1,694 1.24 135,427 Lothian 743 0.27 270,444 Orkney 78 1.53 5,023 Shetland 59 1.00 5,853 Tayside 1,171 0.78 149,825 Western Isles 79 0.91 8,594 Scotland total 11,648 0.69 1,667,337
§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what guidance his Department issued to Scottish health boards relating to the retention of a surplus in their budgets at the end of the last financial year. [1715]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonGuidance is contained in the Scottish Accounting Manual issued by the Department to all health boards. This states that an underdrawing of up to 1 per cent. of a health board's cash limit may be carried forward from one year to another and that any overdrawing will be carried forward as a first charge against the following year's cash limit.