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Criminal Justice Social Work Projects

Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what assessment he has made of the (a) pilot bail supervision and accommodation project in Lothian region, (b) intensive probation project in Falkirk and (c) alcohol education probation project in Edinburgh and Midlothian; and what measures he will be taking to ensure that a greater number of courts in Scotland have community disposals available to sheriffs. [1265]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Bail supervision and accommodation projects in Lothian and Strathclyde regions are being funded on a pilot basis by the Scottish Office within 100 per cent. Central Government funding of criminal justice social work services. The projects are currently the subject of a research study by the MVA Consultancy which is due to report in spring 1996.

The intensive probation project in Falkirk is currently funded through the urban programme and the alcohol education probation project in Edinburgh and Midlothian through 100 per cent. funding. The urban programme requires monitoring by the responsible local authority and a concluding report of the Scottish Office. The Falkirk project is due to terminate in 1998. All criminal justice social work projects are subject to annual evaluation as part of local authority planning of these services.

Probation and community service are available in all sheriff courts in Scotland. It is for local authorities, in consultation with sentencers, independent sector providers and other criminal justice interests, to propose, within available resources and national priorities, the range of individual projects and specialist services to be provided as a component of a court order.

Mr. Robin Cook: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the average costs per week in Scotland for (a) private nursing homes, (b) residential homes, (c) NHS care of the elderly, (d) NHS long stay people with learning difficulties, (e) NHS psychiatric long stay and (f) NHS chronic young sick. [1271]

Mr. Michael Forsyth: The information for residential homes and NHS specialty groups is set out in the tables. The Scottish Office does not collect information on the average costs of private nursing homes.

Average gross weekly charge per resident in residential care homes (all client groups) in Scotland at 31 March 1994

	£
Local authority	269
Private	254
Voluntary	271
All sectors	266

The gross weekly charge in local authority run homes is the full cost to the local authority for providing accommodation per resident.

For private and voluntary establishments, the gross weekly charge is as specified in contracts with the local authority.

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Average cost per inpatient week in Scotland for specified NHS specialty groups, 1994-95

	£
Geriatric long stay	629
Mental handicap	686
Psychiatry long stay	691
Young chronic sick	853

Psychiatry long stay includes geriatric psychiatry, child psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry and mental illness.

Manufacturing and Service Industry

Mr. Welsh: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make an assessment of the contribution of Scottish manufacturing and service industry exports to the balance of payments. [1319]

Mr. George Kynoch: Information on Scottish exports is available from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry.

In 1993 Scottish manufactured exports totalled £11,540 million. The Scottish council estimated that Scottish manufactured exports accounted for 10.3 per cent. of the United Kingdom manufactured exports.

Service sector exports were estimated at £403 million in 1993.

Health Board Budgets

Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the surplus or deficit in their budgets at the end of the relevant financial year for each health board in Scotland for each financial year since 1987-88; what percentage this represented of their total budget; and what was their actual expenditure in each of these financial years. [1714]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information is given in the tables. The figures are based on health board annual accounts and those for 1994-95 are provisional.

Health board	Surplus/(deficit) spend £000	Percentage of total budget	Expenditure £000
1994-95
Argyll and Clyde	85	0.03	250,909
Ayr and Arran	828	0.42	195,513
Borders	816	1.18	68,279
Dumfries and Galloway	1,453	1.59	89,895
Fife	1,197	0.64	185,619
Forth Valley	1,313	0.89	146,266
Grampian	1,373	0.48	284,075
Greater Glasgow	9,880	1.65	589,240
Highland	971	0.78	123,448
Lanarkshire	1,272	0.47	270,435
Lothian	3,057	0.70	431,438
Orkney	(2)	(0.01)	14,052
Shetland	106	0.64	16,449
Tayside	845	0.34	250,664
Western Isles	201	0.71	28,187
Scotland total	23,395	0.79	2,944,469

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Health board	Surplus/(deficit) spend £000	Percentage of total budget	Expenditure £000
1993-94
Argyll and Clyde	525	0.22	237,202
Ayr and Arran	632	0.34	185,531
Borders	595	0.97	60,822
Dumfries and Galloway	874	1.01	85,726
Fife	959	0.53	181,148
Forth Valley	247	0.17	143,667
Grampian	(4)	(0.00)	274,398
Greater Glasgow	3,082	0.50	617,359
Highland	848	0.73	116,068
Lanarkshire	31	0.01	264,935
Lothian	72	0.02	425,067
Orkney	58	0.44	13,216
Shetland	(11)	(0.07)	15,439
Tayside	323	0.13	251,845
Western Isles	(26)	(0.10)	25,906
Scotland total	8,205	0.28	2,898,329

Health board	Surplus/(deficit) spend £000	Percentage of total budget	Expenditure £000
1992-93
Argyll and Clyde	(28)	(0.01)	231,346
Ayr and Arran	751	0.42	178,743
Borders	289	0.50	57,226
Dumfries and Galloway	724	0.88	81,799
Fife	1,663	0.99	166,015
Forth Valley	68	0.05	140,933
Grampian	39	0.01	269,181
Greater Glasgow	3,292	0.54	611,147
Highland	790	0.66	118,234
Lanarkshire	810	0.32	249,096
Lothian	833	0.20	422,652
Orkney	232	1.83	12,413
Shetland	1,216	8.01	13,959
Tayside	91	0.04	254,107
Western Isles	385	1.63	23,240
Scotland total	11,155	0.39	2,830,091

Health board	Surplus/(deficit) spend £000	Percentage of total budget	Expenditure £000
1991-92
Argyll and Clyde	269	0.15	173,416
Ayr and Arran	420	0.31	136,415
Borders	171	0.42	40,104
Dumfries and Galloway	23	0.03	66,481
Fife	2,852	2.31	120,586
Forth Valley	244	0.21	116,503
Grampian	(213)	(0.10)	219,626
Greater Glasgow	6,926	1.19	574,377
Highland	926	0.99	92,193
Lanarkshire	881	0.44	198,993
Lothian	(36)	(0.01)	373,187
Orkney	1	0.01	7,972
Shetland	95	0.89	10,539
Tayside	505	0.23	214,842
Western Isles	78	0.54	14,411
Scotland total	13,142	0.55	2,359,645

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Health board	Surplus/(deficit) £000	Percentage of total budget	Expenditure £000
1990-91
Argyll and Clyde	929	0.62	149,024
Ayr and Arran	202	0.17	117,716
Borders	430	1.21	35,000
Dumfries and Galloway	227	0.40	56,424
Fife	(29)	(0.03)	107,749
Forth Valley	(13)	(0.01)	103,966
Grampian	(1,483)	(0.76)	197,785
Greater Glasgow	5,227	0.98	525,666
Highland	321	0.38	83,803
Lanarkshire	333	0.19	170,904
Lothian	(1,927)	(0.59)	328,929
Orkney	(6)	(0.09)	6,684
Shetland	627	6.92	8,437
Tayside	1,249	0.65	190,230
Western Isles	101	0.92	10,929
Scotland total	6,188	0.29	2,093,246

Health board	Surplus/(deficit) £000	Percentage of total budget	Expenditure £000
1989-90
Argyll and Clyde	79	0.06	141,589
Ayr and Arran	(243)	(0.22)	111,048
Borders	11	0.03	32,714
Dumfries and Galloway	418	0.82	50,851
Fife	(117)	(0.12)	97,748
Forth Valley	99	0.10	94,665
Grampian	(2,481)	(1.39)	180,712
Greater Glasgow	5,425	1.08	496,077
Highland	615	0.82	74,814
Lanarkshire	122	0.08	157,709
Lothian	(15,573)	(5.17)	316,514
Orkney	81	1.25	6,420
Shetland	74	0.92	8,003
Tayside	382	0.22	175,503
Western Isles	78	0.79	9,832
Scotland total	(11,030)	(0.57)	1,954,199

Health board	Surplus/(deficit) £000	Percentage of total budget	Expenditure £000
1988-89
Argyll and Clyde	604	0.46	131,979
Ayr and Arran	403	0.40	99,546
Borders	14	0.05	30,318
Dumfries and Galloway	(315)	(0.67)	47,521
Fife	212	0.23	90,680
Forth Valley	229	0.26	87,429
Grampian	44	0.03	168,074
Greater Glasgow	4,577	0.96	472,165
Highland	472	0.67	70,281
Lanarkshire	(18)	(0.01)	149,399
Lothian	(77)	(0.03)	290,863
Orkney	(13)	(0.21)	6,286
Shetland	(17)	(0.23)	7,568
Tayside	522	0.31	166,361
Western Isles	41	0.45	9,109
Scotland total	6,678	0.36	1,827,579

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Health board	Surplus/(deficit) £000	Percentage of total budget	Expenditure £000
1987-88
Argyll and Clyde	630	0.52	120,141
Ayr and Arran	(1,153)	(1.27)	91,744
Borders	401	1.30	30,462
Dumfries and Galloway	68	0.16	42,769
Fife	(430)	(0.52)	82,930
Forth Valley	329	0.39	84,366
Grampian	2,667	1.76	148,498
Greater Glasgow	5,397	1.25	425,370
Highland	(85)	(0.13)	65,891
Lanarkshire	1,694	1.24	135,427
Lothian	743	0.27	270,444
Orkney	78	1.53	5,023
Shetland	59	1.00	5,853
Tayside	1,171	0.78	149,825
Western Isles	79	0.91	8,594
Scotland total	11,648	0.69	1,667,337

Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what guidance his Department issued to Scottish health boards relating to the retention of a surplus in their budgets at the end of the last financial year. [1715]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Guidance is contained in the Scottish Accounting Manual issued by the Department to all health boards. This states that an underdrawing of up to 1 per cent. of a health board's cash limit may be carried forward from one year to another and that any overdrawing will be carried forward as a first charge against the following year's cash limit.

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