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Mr. Geraint Howells
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many hospital beds per 1,000 population there are in each health area in Scotland.
Mr. Fairgrieve
The information is set out in the table below:
| Health Board | * Number of Hospital Beds per 1,000 population | |
| Argyll and Clyde | … | 10· |
| Ayrshire and Arran | … | 7·5 |
| Borders | … | 10·2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | … | 12·1 |
| Fife | … | 8·6 |
| Forth Valley | … | 14·0 |
| Grampian | … | 12·6 |
| Greater Glasgow | … | 15·1 |
| Highland | … | 13·4 |
| Health Board | *Number of Hospital Beds per 1,000 population | |
| Lanarkshire | … | 10·6 |
| Lothian | … | 12·6 |
| Orkney | … | 7·1 |
| Shetland | … | 7·5 |
| Tayside | … | 14·6 |
| Western Isles | … | 7·2 |
| Scotland | … | 12·2 |
| *Bed complement figures at 31 March in NHS hospitals, joint user hospitals institutions with which health boards have contractual arrangements. | ||