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Mr. Gordon Brown
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the hospital waiting list figures for (a) Fife and (b) Scotland for the latest date for which figures are available, and for each year since May 1979.
Mr. John MacKay
The information requested. which relates to 30 September, follows:
| Fife | Scotland | |
| 1979 | 4,617 | 71,247 |
| 1980 | 4,245 | 67,387 |
| 1981 | 3,974 | 65,228 |
| 1982 | 6,857 | 86,365 |
| 1983 | 6,477 | 88,338 |
| 1984 | 6,127 | 83,077 |
| 1985 | 5,816 | 77,677 |
| 11986 | 5,468 | 80,862 |
| 1 Provisional. | ||