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Mental Health Expenditure

Volume 136: debated on Monday 27 June 1988

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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 17 June, if he will restate for each health board the total spending on mental health for each year since 1981 at constant 1981 prices.

Scottish health boards' expenditure on mental health1
(£'000 at 1981–82 prices2)
1981–821982–831983–841984–851985–861986–87
Argyle and Clyde17,03716,89517,09516,99216,92617,141
Ayrshire and Arran6,6366,8147,5297,9838,2879,202
Borders3,4983,6383,5253,5923,6023,602
Dumfries and Galloway6,7986,8727,2467,6427,3707,437
Fife11,11011,50112,29313,01313,94914,613
Forth Valley314,140314,22514,41814,56315,06316,654
Grampian19,25019,10419,12019,48319,86020,218
Greater Glasgow48,26347,25248,21849,15249,29350,269
Highland8,4517,9588,0988,1597,9598,053
Lanarkshire14,84414,99915,12816,46716,67417,043
Lothian30,84730,48129,61729,68829,29630,383
Orkney4111615151617
Shetland4446469998121
Tayside21,69821,48621,48421,72821,31421,317
Western Isles3821384248n/a
Total3202,6553201,308203,870208,618209,7555216,070
1 Mental health covers mental illness, care of the elderly with mental disability, and mental handicap.
2 Measured using the GDP deflator.
3 On a different basis from later years.
4 Excludes care of the elderly with mental disability.
5 Excludes Western Isles.