To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has revised the financial allocations to health boards for 1988–89.

I have today allocated £83·4 million to health boards to allow them to meet the full cost of the pay awards to doctors, dentists, nurses and other professional staff. This brings to £1,744 million the allocation to health boards to meet their gross recurrent expenditure commitments on hospital and community health services in 1988–89. The £1,744 million figure includes £19·69 million allocated for specific commitments, including national cardiac surgery services, lithotripsy and AIDS.After expected income is taken into account the net cash limited allocations to individual health boards are as follows:

Health boards—Net recurrent allocation
	£ thousand
Argyll and Clyde	124,286
Ayrshire and Arran	93,048
Borders	26,984
Dumfries and Galloway	44,687
Fife	87,041
Forth Valley	81,512
Grampian	159,966
Greater Glasgow	452,300
Highland	65,440
Lanarkshire	143,256
Lothian	279,788
Orkney	4,904
Shetland	6,015
Tayside	160,792
Western Isles	8,950

The additional allocation for pay awards means that hospital and community health service allocations in Scotland are now more than £1 billion higher than they were in 1979–80.