To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what financial allocations he has made to health boards for 1991–92.
My right hon. Friend has allocated £2,505·735 million to health boards to meet their expenditure commitment on hospital and community health services in 1991–92. The figure includes £2,244·950 million to meet gross recurrent expenditure commitments, £208·575 million to meet gross capital expenditure commitments, £38·857 million for GP team staff £11·353 million for GP premises and £2 million for GP computers.The allocation, taken with health board's own cash-releasing efficiency savings, gives an increase in available resources of 10·75 per cent. It amounts to an extra £225 million for health boards in Scotland.There has been a substantial increase in the resources for nurse training and for HIV and AIDS related services and an additional moneys have been made available to help reduce junior doctors' hours.Having adjusted for the movement of resources from revenue to capital to account for the new definition of capital, the gross capital amounts available to boards will be £208 million, representing a 10·8 per cent. increase over 1990–91. The capital allocation will continue the high level of investment in hospital building projects of recent years. Substantial investment will be made in major hospital projects now under construction including Ayr hospital, the St. John's hospital in Lothian, the Royal Cornhill hospital in Grampian, the Perth royal infirmary, Tayside, the Western Isles hospital in Stornoway, West Fife DGH phase II in Dunfermline, the spinal injuries unit at Southern general hospital, Glasgow and Udston hospital in Lanark. It will also provide the resources to progress new hospital developments at Oban, Campbeltown, Elgin, Peterhead and Crieff and for improvements to GP surgeries in highland and the island boards.Details of individual board allocations are contained in the table:
Health board allocations: 1991–92
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HCH revenue allocation 1
| Final allocation for practice team staff 1991–92
| Final allocation for premises 1991–92
| HCH capital allocations 1
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Health board
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| £000s
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| Argyll and Clyde | 158,821 | 2,934 | 680 | 11,385 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 124,971 | 2,653 | 800 | 13,480 |
| Borders | 37,567 | 760 | 50 | 1,299 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 60,541 | 1,020 | 600 | 3,231 |
| Fife | 116,411 | 2,383 | 720 | 32,616 |
| Forth Valley | 108,657 | 2,097 | 500 | 4,813 |
| Grampian | 204,419 | 4,218 | 1,100 | 17,752 |
| Greater Glasgow | 529,876 | 7,561 | 1,400 | 26,489 |
| Highland | 87,225 | 1,793 | 600 | 4,662 |
| Lanarkshire | 181,755 | 3,317 | 500 | 17,565 |
| Lothian | 346,505 | 5,923 | 2,300 | 21,321 |
| Orkney | 7,190 | 146 | 27 | 444 |
| Shetland | 8,130 | 252 | — | 1,632 |
| Tayside | 201,141 | 3,392 | 1,197 | 15,643 |
| Western Isles | 12,360 | 408 | 60 | 13,446 |
| SCOTLAND | 2,185,568 | 38,857 | 10,534 | 185,778 |
1 These allocations include a transfer of some £25 million from revenue to capital to reflect a change in the definition of capital expenditure from 1 April 1991. | ||||
A further £59.140 million revenue, £22·797 million capital and £2·819 million general medical services will be distributed during the year for cardiac surgery, hospice funding, computer development and other specific initiatives.