§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will make a statement on underspending in the NHS budget in Scotland for each year since 1989–90, indicating the extent to which such underspend was re-invested in the NHS in the following year; [38500]
(2) what was the total underspend or overspend in the NHS budget in Scotland in 1994–95; and if he will provide a breakdown of where the underspend or overspend occurred. [38502]
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 23 October 1995]: The figures showing the underspends in the NHS hospital and community health and family health service budgets in Scotland since 1989–90, and the end year flexibility entitlement for each year, are set out in the table. Family health services overspent in 1993–94. The appropriation accounts for 1994–95 have still to be finalised and the figures for that year are provisional.