§ Mr. MooreTo 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. GalbraithFigures 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