To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what specific measures he has carried out in response to the "Scottish Health Authorities' Priorities for the Eighties" report recommendations.

[holding answer 16 March 1990]: The recommendations of the SHAPE report were reviewed in 1988 with the publication of the SHARPEN report (Scottish Health Authorities Review of Priorities for the Eighties and Nineties). This endorsed the broad thrust of SHAPE but stressed the importance of care in the community for the priority groups.