To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what percentage of the health budget was spent on rates bills in each health board in the latest year for which figures are available;(2) what was the total rates bill for each hospital in the latest year for which figures are available;(3) what was
(a) the total rates bill for each health board, in the latest year for which figures are available, and (b) the number of establishments this covers.
Information is not held centrally on the amount of contributions paid in lieu of rates in relation to individual premises. The following table shows the total of payments made by each health board in 1986–87 in lieu of rates and the proportion which this represents of their gross recurrent expenditure on hospital and community health services.
| Health board | Payments in lieu of rates1 | Proportion which (a) represents of total recurrent expenditure on HCH services |
| (a) | (b) | |
| £ thousand | percentage | |
| Argyll and Clyde | 4,160 | 4·1 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 2,467 | 3·2 |
| Borders | 413 | 1·9 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1,010 | 2·7 |
| Fife | 2,736 | 3·7 |
| Forth Valley | 1,936 | 2·8 |
| Grampian | 3,955 | 3·0 |
| Greater Glasgow | 13,832 | 3·6 |
| Highland | 1,491 | 2·7 |
| Lanarkshire | 3,203 | 2·7 |
| Lothian | 6,145 | 2·6 |
| Orkney | 60 | 1·5 |
| Shetland | 159 | 3·2 |
| Tayside | 5,068 | 3·7 |
| Western Isles | 182 | 2·4 |
| Total | 46,817 | 3·2 |
| 1 Principally relating to hospital premises and administrative and community health buildings. | ||