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Mr. Galbraith
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for each health board the amount spent on advertising for each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Mr. Michael Forsyth
The information available from health boards' annual accounts about advertising costs is shown in the table:
| Health board | 1986–87 | 1987–88 | 1988–89 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 69,071 | 102,687 | 90,722 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 63,175 | 71,459 | 98,574 |
| Borders | 26,753 | 36,331 | 49,516 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 27,639 | 25,950 | 24,141 |
| Fife | 72,329 | 99,243 | 65,989 |
| Forth Valley | 39,570 | 50,248 | 48,293 |
| Grampian | 76,441 | 88,909 | 126,015 |
| Greater Glasgow | 81,158 | 153,086 | 227,574 |
| Highland | 39,160 | 49,565 | 45,111 |
| Lanarkshire | 56,500 | 55,872 | 68,742 |
| Lothian | 119,062 | 140,231 | 160,636 |
| Orkney | 2,847 | 1,848 | 3,559 |
| Shetland | 6,985 | 7,102 | 12,065 |
| Tayside | 74,563 | 79,968 | 83,774 |
| Western Isles | 17,852 | 21,956 | 18,282 |
| Total | 773,105 | 984,455 | 1,122,993 |