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Fish Farms
Mr. Graham : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what advice his Department has issued on protecting fish farm stock from predatory wildlife.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Fish farmers are recommended to follow the codes of practice which have been issued by the Scottish Salmon Growers Association (following agreement with the Nature Conservancy Council and other conservation groups) and the Shetland Salmon Farmers Association. These codes recommend the installation of non-lethal anti-predation measures, such as netting and acoustic devices at fish farms to deter seals and predatory birds, and advise that shooting should be used only as a last resort. The Government welcome these voluntary initiatives by the industry and conservation bodies.
Mr. Graham : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what monitoring his Department is presently carrying out to determine the numbers of birds and seals that are shot or drowned in anti-predator netting at marine fish farms in Scotland ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The number of birds or seals shot under licence at marine fish farms are reported to the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department as a condition of the licence. There is no requirement to report birds or seals which may have been killed in other circumstances. A voluntary survey of the number of seals killed at nets and marine fish farms was recently carried out by the Department and the Seal Mammal Research Unit of the Natural Environmental Research Council (the statutory advisor to the Government on seals) in co-operation with the industry. The returns are being analysed at present.
Renfrew District Council
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next plans to meet representatives of Renfrew district council ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : My right hon. Friend met representatives of Renfrew district council on Friday 4 October. He has no plans for further meetings.
Argyll and Clyde Health Board
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what honorarium is paid to (a) the chairman and (b) each member of Argyll and Clyde health board ; how many times the board met in the last 12 months ; how many committee or sub-committee meetings involving board members occurred in the last 12 months ; and if he will publish the attendance record of each board member at such meetings in the last 12 months.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) on 6 July 1990. Revised honorarium for health board chairmen were introduced on 1 April 1991. The current honorarium for the chairman of Argyll and Clyde health board is £17,375 per annum. The other information requested is not recorded centrally.
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Housing (Renfrew)
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the capital allocation given to Renfrew district council for its housing stock in each financial year since 1974-75, using 1974-75 as the base for expressing all subsequent years in real terms.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Block allocations in respect of housing capital expenditure were introduced in 1978-79. Gross HRA allocations issued to Renfrew district council, incorporating the estimate of capital receipts made at the start of each year and any supplementary allocations made during the year, are set out in the table, expressed in 1978-79 prices.
Renfrew district council Gross HRA capital allocations ( 1978-79 prices) Year |£ million ------------------------------- 1978-79 |4.9 1979-80 |6.5 1980-81 |5.6 1981-82 |5.4 1982-83 |4.5 1983-84 |4.9 1984-85 |4.4 1985-86 |5.2 1986-87 |6.1 1987-88 |8.3 1988-89 |8.8 1989-90 |8.7 1990-91<1> |7.8 1991-92<1> |7.2 <1> Capital allocations include earmarked resources totalling £0.159 million in 1990-91 and £0.148 million in 1991-92 (at 1978-79 prices) for innovative housing projects in the Ferguslie Park Partnership area.
Homelessness
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing how many people were classified as homeless in (a) Renfrew district, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland in each year since 1975 ; if he will express the percentage change in each year ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The available information relates to households who applied to local authorities under the homeless persons legislation, which came into operation in 1978. These statistics are conventionally presented for financial rather than calendar years. The numbers of such households assessed by local authorities as homeless in Renfrew district, Strathclyde and Scotland in the years 1978-79 to 1989-90 are set out in the following table. Figures for 1990-91 are not yet available.
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Applicant households under the homeless persons legislation assessed by local
authorities as homeless
Renfrew Strathclyde Scotland
Year |Number |Per cent.|Number |Per cent.|Number |Per cent.
|change |change |change
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1978-79 |505 |- |4,220 |- |7,437 |-
1979-80 |371 |-26.5 |4,536 |7.5 |7,421 |-0.2
1980-81 |381 |2.7 |4,495 |-0.9 |6,993 |-5.8
1981-82 |471 |23.6 |5,126 |14.0 |8,272 |18.3
1982-83 |583 |23.8 |5,612 |9.5 |8,674 |4.9
1983-84 |500 |-14.2 |5,034 |-10.3 |8,124 |-6.3
1984-85 |564 |12.8 |5,014 |-0.4 |9,913 |22.0
1985-86 |931 |65.1 |5,364 |7.0 |11,027 |11.2
1986-87 |534 |-42.6 |4,981 |-7.1 |10,571 |-4.1
1987-88 |358 |-33.0 |4,506 |-9.5 |9,592 |-9.3
1988-89 |458 |27.9 |4,544 |0.8 |9,634 |0.4
1989-90<1> |396 |-13.5 |5,061 |11.4 |11,339 |17.7
<1> Some 2,000 returns, mostly from Glasgow, are estimated to remain
outstanding.
School Meals
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing (a) the average per capita subsidy and (b) the average cost to the pupil of school meals in each regional authority in Scotland in each year since 1975 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : There is no specific subsidy given to regional authorities to defray the cost of providing school meals. Grant-aided expenditure given to regional authorities contains an element of funding sufficient for
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each authority to fulfil their statutory duty to provide free meals for pupils from families in receipt of income support.The average cost to pupils of school meals is not collected centrally. Pupils can obtain either a fixed meal at a set charge or a cafeteria style meal for which the charge will vary depending on individual pupil's choice. The table gives details of the fixed price meal charge levied by each regional authority in each year since 1975. The level of the charge made is entirely at the discretion of the regional authority.
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Charge for a fixed price school meal
(Pence)
Region or Island |1975 |1976 |1977 |1978 |1979 |1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991
authority
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Borders |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |35 |40 |42 |44 |46 |48 |50 |50 |50 |50 |55
Central |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |35 |35 |40 |45 |45 |50 |55 |58 |60 |62 |68
Dumfries and |<3>65
Galloway |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |40 |45 |50 |50 |52 |55 |58 |61 |60 |60 |<4>55
Fife |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |35 |40 |45 |48 |50 |52 |55 |50 |50 |50 |50
Grampian |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |42 |<1>42 |<1>42 |<1>45 |<1>50 |<1>55 |<1>58 |<1>60 |<1>63 |n/a |n/a
|<2>45 |<2>45 |<2>55 |<2>60 |<2>65 |<2>68 |<2>70 |<2>73
Highland |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |40 |50 |50 |50 |55 |55 |65 |65 |70 |74 |80
Lothian |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |35 |35 |45 |45 |<1>50 |<1>50 |<1>50 |<1>50 |<1>55 |<1>55 |<1>60
|<2>55 |<2>55 |<2>55 |<2>55 |<2>60 |<2>60 |<2>65
Strathclyde |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |40 |45 |50 |53 |55 |58 |61 |63 |64 |67 |79
Tayside |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |40 |45 |50 |<1>45 |50 |55 |60 |60 |65 |65 |65
|<2>50
Orkney |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |35 |40 |50 |50 |50 |55 |60 |60 |60 |70 |70
Shetland |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |35 |35 |35 |45 |50 |50 |55 |60 |60 |65 |75
Western Isles |15 |15 |25 |25 |30 |35 |35 |40 |45 |60 |65 |65 |65 |65 |70 |70 |70
<1>Primary.
<2>Secondary.
<3>Standard Meal.
<4>Mini Meal.
Notes: 1. Except where indicated otherwise the same charge applied to both primary and secondary schools.
2. Prior to 1981 charges for a fixed price meal were set by statutory regulation on national basis.
3. The charges for 1991 have not yet been published.
Inward Investment
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he has taken to encourage inward investment into Scotland over the last 12 months.
Mr. Allan Stewart : My Department has continued, through the work of Locate in Scotland, to promote Scotland as a location for inward investment.
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he has taken to encourage inward investment into Paisley, Johnstone and Elderslie over the last 12 months.
Mr. Allan Stewart : My Department has continued, through the work of Locate in Scotland, to promote Scotland as a location for inward investment. Locate in Scotland does not, however, seek to concentrate its efforts on individual towns or localities.
Shopping Trollies
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has any plans to increase the powers available to (a) local authorities and (b) the police against those who abandon shopping trollies on a public highway or on public property ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Foxbar (Rivers)
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the visit by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Foxbar (Rivers) area of Paisley earlier this year ; if he has yet considered any initiatives to improve the conditions and alleviate the problems in that area ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I visited Foxbar on 7 June and was impressed by the positive approach of both the district council and the local community to the regeneration of housing in this area. I encouraged the council to develop its investment strategy for the area in conjunction with Scottish Homes and other housing providers and to highlight proposals in its housing capital programme which is due to be submitted to the Scottish Office by 1 November. The council's proposals will be taken into account before decisions about housing capital allocations for 1992-93 are taken in December.
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Empty Properties
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the most recent estimate of the number of void dwelling units in the ownership of (a) Government agencies or departments, (b) local authorities, (c) private landlords and (d) housing associations ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Information on local authority property which was vacant at 31 March 1990 was published in table 15 of the Scottish Office "Statistical Bulletin HSU No 17" which is available in the Library. Comparable figures for Government agencies or Departments, private landlords and housing associations are not collected centrally.
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the most recent estimate of the number of void dwelling units which fall below the minimum tolerable standards in the ownership of (a) Government agencies or departments, (b) local authorities, (c) private landlords and (d) housing associations.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : This information is not held centrally.
Education Establishments
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list those (a) nursery schools, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools, (d) further education colleges, (e) central institutions and (f) universities which he has visited between his appointment and 1 October.
Mr. Lang : The following is the information :
|Establishment
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(a) Nursery Schools |Nil
(b) Primary Schools |Nil
|Queen Victoria School,
(c) Secondary Schools | Dunblane
|Gordon Schools, Huntly
|The Borders College,
(d) FE Colleges | Galashiels
(e) Central Institutions |Nil
|Aberdeen
|Glasgow
(f) Universities |Edinburgh
I also visited Donaldson's School for the Deaf in Edinburgh which caters for pupils between the ages of 3-18 years.
Health Boards
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing on a per capita basis the aggregate external finance allocated to each Scottish health board for 1991-92.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Scottish health boards do not receive external finance allocations.
Health Policies (Publicity)
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much the Scottish Home and Health Departments have spent on the promotion and publicity of Government health policies in each year since 1975 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Local Government Finance
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the percentage of annual rent charges committed to loan charge payments in each Scottish district council ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Local authority rental income is not committed or allocated to meet any particular item or items of expenditure debited to housing revenue accounts. The following table expresses the total loan charges debited to the 1990-91 housing revenue accounts of local authorities in Scotland as a percentage of the standard rental income credited to those accounts.
|Percentage
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Berwickshire |64.1
Ettrick and Lauderdale |56.4
Roxburgh |93.2
Tweeddale |42.1
Clackmannan |50.1
Falkirk |55.8
Stirling |59.0
Annandale and Eskdale |101.1
Nithsdale |60.6
Stewartry |92.2
Wigtown |96.2
Dunfermline |48.6
Kirkcaldy |53.3
North East Fife |44.8
Aberdeen |66.6
Banff and Buchan |61.2
Gordon |142.4
Kincardine and Deeside |139.7
Moray |67.8
Badenoch and Strathspey |135.3
Caithness |106.4
Inverness |100.9
Lochaber |148.6
Nairn |106.7
Ross and Cromarty |139.1
Skye and Lochalsh |211.1
Sutherland |126.4
East Lothian |58.8
Edinburgh |50.0
Midlothian |45.8
West Lothian |57.6
Argyll and Bute |85.2
Bearsden and Milngavie |76.8
Clydebank |59.8
Clydesdale |35.6
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |52.8
Cumnock and Doon Valley |39.1
Cunninghame |50.6
Dumbarton |35.8
East Kilbride |63.6
Eastwood |44.2
Glasgow |72.8
Hamilton |53.4
Inverclyde |51.9
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |45.3
Kyle and Carrick |55.0
Monklands |56.8
Motherwell |51.9
Renfrew |49.6
Strathkelvin |50.9
Angus |51.6
Dundee |60.2
Perth and Kinross |54.5
Orkney Islands |124.7
Shetland Islands |270.6
Western Isles |224.6
Housing
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what policy initiatives he proposes to take on Scottish housing.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Government will continue to ensure that substantial resources are made available to maintain and improve the supply of good quality affordable housing in Scotland and to assist the people of Scotland to realise their aspirations for greater choice of housing tenure. Resources for gross public capital investment in Scottish housing in 1991-92 exceed £1 billion, an increase of over 19 per cent. in real terms since 1978-79. Over 228, 000 households have bought their homes and local authorities and other public sector landlords since 1979.
The Government will continue with their policies of encouraging more choice, opportunity and tenure diversification.
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing, on a per capita basis in ascending order, the (a) housing support grant and (b) aggregate external finance for housing allocated to each Scottish district council (i) including and (ii) excluding moneys specifically allocated to the partnership areas in Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh and Paisley.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I will write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
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Disabled People
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what measures each local enterprise company in Scotland has taken to ensure adequate provision for the training and employment of people with special needs and/or disabilities ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Allan Stewart : Local enterprise companies were required to make adequate provision for the training of people with special needs and/or disabilities in their business plans ; and their success in catering for the training needs of this group is one of the criteria by which the local enterprise companies are judged by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. I have therefore asked the chairmen of both these organisations to write to the hon. Member on this matter.
Action in relation to access to employment is primarily a matter for the employment service rather than local enterprise companies, although they work in close co-operation.
Planning Appeals
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many planning appeals there have been in Scotland in each year since 1980 ; and what has been the cost of conducting these.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Landfill Gas Schemes
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all the landfill gas schemes (a) currently in operation and (b) being proposed in Scotland.
Lord James Douglas Hamilton : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Dental Health
Mr. Shersby : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost to public funds of preventive dental health programmes in Scotland for the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Preventive dental health programmes are the responsibility of individual health boards. Information on their expenditure on such programmes is not held centrally.
At national level, the Scottish health education group (now the Health Education Board for Scotland) spent £5,700 in the financial year 1990- 91 on dental health education.
Hazardous Waste Imports
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by year for the last 10 years, and for each port in Scotland, the number of tonnes of hazardous waste that was imported.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Scottish Office does not hold centrally information on the amounts of hazardous waste imported through individual ports. Information on imports of waste is available from the district and islands councils who are competent authorities
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under the Transfrontier Shipment of Hazardous Waste Regulations 1988 which govern movements of such waste into and out of Great Britain. They have reported to us that 453 and 480 tonnes of such waste were imported in the calendar years 1988 and 1989 respectively. Figures for 1990 are not yet available.Redundancies
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the levels of redundancies by industry, in Paisley, South for the period 1981 to 1991, classified by men, women and young persons ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Allan Stewart : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Johnstone Clinic
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when the new Johnstone clinic is likely to open ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The position remains as set out in my reply to the hon. Member of 13 February, which is that the clinic is expected to open in summer 1992.
Health Service Pay
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will give the cost to health boards in 1991-92 of the nurses, midwives and health visitors review body's pay awards for that year and the amount allocated from the reserve to meet part of these costs ;
(2) if he will give the amount health boards will need to find in 1991-92 from existing funding in 1991-92 to meet the costs of the professions allied to medicine review body's pay awards ; (3) if he will give the amount health boards will need to find in 1991-92 from existing funding in 1991-92 to meet the costs of nurses, midwives and health visitors review body's pay awards ;
(4) if he will give the cost to health boards in 1991-92 of the professions allied to medicine review body's pay awards for that year, and the amount allocated from the reserve to meet part of these costs ;
(5) if he will give the amount health boards will need to find in 1991-92 from existing funding in 1991-92 to meet the costs of the doctors and dentists review body's pay awards ;
(6) if he will give the cost to health boards in 1991-92 of the doctors and dentists review body's pay awards for that year, and the amount allocated from the reserve to meet part of these costs.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Firearms
Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what measures he intends taking to reduce the number of firearms available to criminals in Scotland ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Under the provisions of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 very strict controls are imposed on the acquisition and possession of firearms,
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one of the purposes of these measures being to restrict the ability of criminals to obtain firearms. Responsibility for detecting illegally held firearms is a matter for the police who make strenuous efforts to prevent criminals acquiring firearms which they may subsequently use in committing crimes. The courts also deal very severely with those who appear before them charged with crimes involving the use of firearms. Firearms control is a matter which the Government keep under continual review.Estuary Conservation
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland has for progressing the conservation of estuaries in Scotland.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I will write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Judges Library, Edinburgh
Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the total cost of establishing the judges library in Edinburgh ; what is the estimated annual running cost ; and what was the annual cost when this facility was provided by the advocates library.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The library in the Supreme courts has been built up over many years and no estimate is available of the cost of establishing it. In the financial year 1991-92 budget provision for expenditure on books and publications is £47,000. In addition, judges have access to publications held in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates for which a grant-in-aid, currently £500, is paid annually.
Drugs
Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his best estimate of the total number of drug users in Scotland in each of the last 10 years.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Because the unauthorised possession and supply of many addictive drugs is a criminal offence, it is difficult to make precise estimates of the number of drug misusers in Scotland ; and official estimates of prevalence over each of the last 10 years are not available. However current estimates, based on surveys and other indicators, suggest that there are about 20,000 people in Scotland who regularly or occasionally inject illicit or other drugs. A larger number are likely to take illicit drugs such as cannabis by other means.
To enable a more accurate assessment to be made of the incidence of drug misuse in Scotland, we established the Scottish drug misuse database in August 1990. The database collects anonymised data from medical and non- medical professionals and voluntary agencies.
Construction Contracts
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the values of construction contracts placed by the Scottish Development Agency between 1 April and 1 October 1990 and by Scottish Enterprise and its local enterprise companies between 1 April and 1 October 1991.
Mr. Allan Stewart : These are operational matters for Scottish Enterprise and I have asked the chairman to write to the hon. Member.
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Parliamentary Constituencies
Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report his estimates of the total population in each parliamentary constituency in Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Such estimates are not prepared routinely. Those following have been obtained by dividing mid-1990 local government area populations amongst constituencies in proportion to the corresponding split of parliamentary electorates recorded on the 1991 register (qualifying date 10 October 1990). Some very small proportions have been ignored. I understand that the Registrar General intends to prepare new estimates when the relevant 1991 census statistics are available.
Population Estimates for Parliamentary
Constituencies Scotland,
mid-1990
|Number
---------------------------------------------------
Aberdeen North |75,500
Aberdeen South |73,800
Angus East |82,400
Argyll and Bute |66,200
Ayr |84,700
Banff and Buchan |85,000
Caithness and Sutherland |39,800
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley |72,100
Central Fife |72,400
Clackmannan |63,600
Clydebank and Milngavie |63,200
Clydesdale |82,600
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |63,100
Cunninghame North |72,500
Cunninghame South |65,100
Dumbarton |79,800
Dumfries |78,400
Dundee East |76,000
Dundee West |77,700
Dunfermline East |67,800
Dunfermline West |69,300
East Kilbride |83,100
East Lothian |85,500
Eastwood |84,100
Edinburgh Central |69,100
Edinburgh East |57,700
Edinburgh Leith |70,800
Edinburgh Pentlands |69,600
Edinburgh South |76,100
Edinburgh West |74,700
Falkirk East |68,000
Falkirk West |65,600
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale |70,000
Glasgow Cathcart |60,200
Glasgow Central |64,200
Glasgow Garscadden |55,400
Glasgow Govan |61,400
Glasgow Hillhead |73,600
Glasgow Maryhill |63,600
Glasgow Pollok |62,000
Glasgow Provan |49,700
Glasgow Rutherglen |70,600
Glasgow Shettleston |68,500
Glasgow Springburn |60,100
Gordon |102,533
Greenock and Port Glasgow |70,000
Hamilton |82,500
Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber |90,400
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |81,100
Kincardine and Deeside |84,900
Kirkcaldy |67,400
Linlithgow |82,000
Livingston |82,700
Midlothian |81,300
Monklands East |65,800
Monklands West |68,300
Moray |84,500
Motherwell North |78,000
Motherwell South |68,800
North East Fife |68,900
North Tayside |72,600
Orkney and Shetland |41,800
Paisley North |61,800
Paisley South |63,600
Perth and Kinross |85,300
Renfrew West and Inverclyde |76,000
Ross, Cromarty and Skye |74,100
Roxburgh and Berwickshire |54,100
Stirling |74,900
Strathkelvin and Bearsden |84,600
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale |49,400
Western Isles |30,700
Dr. James Crichton
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland to what uses any money realised by the sale of Dr. James Crichton's heritable and other assets in Dumfries and Galloway health board will be put.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The former heritable and other assets of Dr. James Crichton form only a small part of the current Crichton Royal hospital site. It is not the intention of Dumfries and Galloway health board to dispose of any of these assets at this time.
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what guidance he has given to Dumfries and Galloway health board in respect of the sale of heritable and other assets acquired by the Board and which were part of the assets of the late Dr. James Crichton, transferred to the board's predecessor under the National Health (Scotland) Act 1947, and in particular the guidance he has given regarding the application of the free proceeds of sale of such assets ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : My right hon. Friend has given no such guidance to the health board. It is for each health board to consider whether NHS property should be made available for disposal, in the light of Government policy and legal advice, so that the proceeds can be used for the benefit of the NHS.
Invoice Payments
Mr. Simon Coombs : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his Department's policy on the payment of invoices to small and medium sized businesses.
Mr. Allan Stewart : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Health Board Boundaries
Mrs. Ray Michie : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make it his policy to compile and distribute to all hon. Members a map of health boards and their boundaries throughout Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : No. Health board boundaries are contiguous with local authority boundaries, and are therefore readily ascertainable.
Insh Marshes
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what information he has on, (a) the extent of the area of land at the Insh marshes, Strathspey, which has
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been notified as a site of special scientific interest, (b) the main features of nature conservation importance of this site, and (c) the main factors necessary to maintain this status ; (2) when the Insh marshes/River Spey were first identified as meeting the criteria for designation as a special protection area under the European Community directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds and as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar convention ; and if he will list the stages that have so far been completed in progressing these designations.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I will write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Hospitality Costs
Mr. Skinner : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the latest annual figure for the cost of hospitality provided by the Scottish Office ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lang : My Department spent £65,123 on official hospitality in 1990-91.
Health Service Waiting Lists
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for each health board in Scotland for each specialty the number of patients waiting more than 18 months for treatment.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
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