HC Deb 06 April 1998 vol 310 c113W
Mr. Moore

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was NHS expenditure in Scotland by trust on services to drug users in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [37798]

Mr. Galbraith

Figures on expenditure by NHS Trust on services to drug users are not held centrally. The table shows expenditure by Health Board on specific services to drug users in each of the last three years. The figures comprise expenditure on the supply of disposable syringes, the needle and syringe exchange scheme and drug abuse projects.

£000
Health Board 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Argyll and Clyde 139 210 408
Ayrshire and Arran 194 298 366
Borders 30 5 14
Dumfries and Galloway 120 166 136
Fife 5 6 5
Forth Valley 73 169 126
Grampian 102 113 153
Greater Glasgow 1,618 1,808 2,190
Highland 107 116 157
Lanarkshire 121 90 231
Lothian 736 1,302 1,213
Orkney 0 26 39
Shetland 9 11 66
Tayside 354 971 952
Western Isles 91 58 50
Total 3,699 5,349 6,106