To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the action taken by health boards in response to the report produced by the working group of the national medical consultants committee on the management of diabetes in Scotland.

Comprehensive information is not available about action taken by health boards as a direct response to the recommendations made in 1987 by the National Medical Consultative Committee working group on diabetes. Clinical audit which is supported by specific Government funding is now the principal mechanism employed to review and improve patient care in the whole range of settings and six health boards have reported 12 separate audit projects for diabetes in general practice and in hospitals and in shared care. Applications for two national projects to be led by the recently formed Scottish study group for the care of the young diabetic will shortly be considered for funding. A third project involving health boards in the central belt of Scotland is under discussion.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met representatives from the British Diabetic Association; what matters were discussed; and if he will make a statement.

There are no records of my right hon. Friend meeting representatives from the British Diabetic Association in recent years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give, for each health board, the number of consultant diabetic physicians per head of the population.

The information is given in the table.