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Defence Medical Services: Inverness

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much Defence Medical Services spent in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency in each of the last five years. (304647)

Defence Medical Services expenditure in the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency is centred on the Army Primary Healthcare Services (APHCS) Medical Centre at Fort George, home to the 3 Scots Regiment.

APHCS expenditure on the medical centre for the previous three financial years is provided as follows. These exclude costs in such areas as infrastructure and utilities (as well as some staff), which are the responsibility of regimental and other MOD internal budgets. As a result of departmental reorganisations, costs for previous years are not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

£000

FY

Material and treatment costs

Staff capitation costs

Total APHCS costs

2007-08

51

145

196

2008-09

91

148

239

2009-10 (to 17 December 2009)

57

150

207

Armed forces personnel requiring medical treatment that cannot be provided by the primary care medical centre will either receive it at military-run facilities outside the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency centres, or for the majority of secondary care, at local NHS hospitals, such as the Raigmore acute general hospital in Inverness.