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Written Answers to Questions

Monday 3 February 1997

SCOTLAND

Hospital Waiting Times

Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many in-patient, day care episodes involved a wait of longer than one year in each NHS hospital trust and health board in 1996; and what proportion of the total number of discharges these episodes represent. [11951]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information is set out in the table. From April this year, the Government guarantee that no patient will wait longer than 12 months for in-patient and day case treatment.

Discharges after admission from the waiting list and numbers and percentage who waited over one year in the year ending 31 December 1996

	Discharges
Health Board/NHS Trust	Total	Number Waiting >1 Year
		Total	Per cent.
Argyll and Bute NHS Trust	1,423	3	0.2
Inverclyde Royal NHS Trust	8,480	100	1.2
Lomond Healthcare NHS Trust	4,491	--	--
Renfrewshire Healthcare NHS Trust	267	--	--
Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	15,077	133	0.9
Argyll and Clyde Health Board Total	29,738	236	0.8
Ayrshire and Arran Community Healthcare NHS Trust	7	--	--
North Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust	15,728	5	0.0
South Ayrshire Hospitals NHS Trust	1,422	15	1.1
Ayrshire and Arran Health Board Total	17,157	20	0.1
Borders General Hospital NHS Trust	9,261	11	0.1
Borders Health Board Total	9,261	11	0.1
Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals NHS Trust	8,721	50	0.6
Dumfries and Galloway Community Health NHS Trust	17	--	--
Dumfries and Galloway Health Board Total	8,738	50	0.6
Fife Healthcare NHS Trust	4,431	5	0.1
Kirkcaldy Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	11,921	56	0.5
Queen Margaret Hospital NHS Trust	7,117	42	0.6
Fife Health Board Total	23,469	103	0.4
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary NHS Trust	8,052	104	1.3
Stirling Royal Infirmary NHS Trust	11,093	46	0.4
Forth Valley Health Board Total	19,145	150	0.8
Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust	33,366	378	1.1
Grampian Healthcare NHS Trust	4,009	1	0.0
Moray Health Services NHS Trust	3,418	21	0.6
Grampian Health Board Total	40,793	400	1.0
Glasgow Dental Hospital and School NHS Trust	661	1	0.2
Glasgow Royal Infirmary University NHS Trust	30,023	580	1.0
Southern General Hospital NHS Trust	15,042	173	1.2
Stobhill NHS Trust	14,551	193	1.3
The Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust	11,960	493	4.1
The Yorkhill NHS Trust	7,636	19	0.3
West Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust	27,662	217	0.8
Greater Glasgow Health Board Total	107,535	1,676	1.6
Caithness and Sutherland NHS Trust	1,819	--	--
Highland Communities NHS Trust	1,342	1	0.1
Raigmore Hospital NHS Trust	14,107	237	1.7
Highland Health Board Total	17,268	238	1.4
Hairmyres and Stonehouse Hospitals NHS Trust	14,722	91	0.6
Lanarkshire Healthcare NHS Trust	101	--	--
Law Hospital NHS Trust	10,577	49	0.5
Monklands and Bellshill Hospitals NHS Trust	9,640	55	0.6
Lanarkshire Health Board Total	35,040	195	0.6
East and Midlothian NHS Trust	5,365	10	0.2
Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust	58	--	--
Edinburgh Sick Children's NHS Trust	4,715	2	0.0
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust	32,569	120	0.4
West Lothian NHS Trust	13,741	40	0.3
Western General Hospitals NHS Trust	15,880	9	0.1
Lothian Health Board Total	72,328	181	0.3
Orkney Health Board Total	691	5	0.7
Shetland Health Board Total	1,037	2	0.2
Angus NHS Trust	4,306	5	0.1
Dundee Healthcare NHS Trust	242	--	--
Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	26,123	331	1.3
Perth and Kinross Healthcare NHS Trust	8,483	33	0.4
Tayside Health Board Total	39,154	369	0.9
Western Isles Health Board Total	1,017	--	--
Scotland--Total	422,371	3,636	0.9

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Business Rates

Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the revenue raised from business rates in 1996-97 for (a) Scotland and (b) Scottish local authorities. [13667]

Mr. Kynoch [holding answer 31 January 1997]: The most recently available estimates of the revenue to be raised from business rates in 1996-97 are the mid-year estimates that councils submitted in November 1996. The total estimated non-domestic rate income for Scotland in 1996-97 is £1.34 billion. The relevant figure for each local authority is set out in the table.

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1996-97 Estimated NDRI

	£
City of Aberdeen	86,557,317
Aberdeenshire	46,027,947
Angus	17,849,992
Argyll and Bute	24,994,405
Clackmannanshire	10,315,691
Dumfries and Galloway	28,717,819
City of Dundee	39,671,237
East Ayrshire	18,482,249
East Dunbartonshire	14,466,300
East Lothian	24,013,929
East Renfrewshire	9,620,396
City of Edinburgh	171,584,824
Falkirk	44,231,365
Fife	110,198,191
City of Glasgow	200,692,337
Highland	50,294,365
Inverclyde	14,219,363
Midlothian	12,173,141
Moray	18,119,856
North Ayrshire	34,125,511
North Lanarkshire	76,483,901
Orkney	6,153,472
Perth and Kinross	30,800,908
Renfrewshire	41,251,093
Scottish Borders	16,425,654
Shetland	16,505,489
South Ayrshire	25,992,108
South Lanarkshire	65,389,460
Stirling	23,464,362
West Dunbartonshire	21,656,620
West Lothian	35,078,584
Western Isles	4,396,491
Scotland	1,339,954,377

Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the proportion of business rates in Scotland raised from (a) local government, (b) central Government, (c) public corporations, (d) private sector and (e) other. [13668]

Mr. Kynoch [holding answer 31 January 1997]: Information is not available in the form requested. The table shows the latest available information on the rateable values of non-domestic subjects analysed by type of subject. This analysis does not separately identify central Government, local government, public corporations and private sector subjects. Shares of rateable value do not give precise estimate of shares paid, as reliefs and exemptions may differ from different categories of subject.

Table 1: Total rateable value by type of subject, Scotland, April 1996

Type of Subject	Rateable value £ million	Percentage of total rateable value
Commercial
Shops (including restaurants)	753.0	19.9
Offices	627.0	16.6
Hotels, boarding houses etc.	97.1	2.6
Other Commercial subjects	560.5	14.8
Industrial and freight transport
Mineral extraction	21.7	0.6
Oil and petrochemicals	80.6	2.1
Other industrial and freight transport	531.9	14.1
Formula valued subjects
Water	33.2	0.9
Gas	53.3	1.4
Electricity	167.7	4.4
Rail	15.6	0.4
Miscellaneous(1)	833.5	22.1
Total all subjects	3,775.3	100.0

Notes:

(1) Includes public buildings such as schools, hospitals, libraries also docks and harbours and independent generators of electricity.

Source:

Annual RVASS return from assessors.

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Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the proportion of business rates raised by each industrial sector, broken down by the standard industrial classification 1992 categories. [13669]

Mr. Kynoch [holding answer 31 January 1997]: Information on rates paid by the manufacturing sector is available from the Scottish production database, and is shown in table 1 for 1994, the latest year for which information is available. The best available information for other economic sectors comes from work carried out in the compilation of 1993 Scottish input-output tables. The calculations are based on the level of rates paid by industries across the UK as a whole. Table 2 provides a percentage split between seven broad economic sectors in 1993.

Table 1 - Rates paid by Scottish Manufacturing sector, 1994

Manufacturing Division (SIC92)	Rates (£ million)
15-16(2)	26.7
17	5.0
18	3.0
19	0.7
20	2.8
21	9.1
22	5.3
23-26(2)	11.7
24	10.0
25	5.4
27	4.2
28	6.6
29	8.0
30	4.4
31	2.6
32	4.0
33	2.7
34	1.0
35	7.6
36--7(2)	3.6
Manufacturing Total	124.4

Note:

(2) These SIC groups are aggregated to avoid company specific information.

Source:

Scottish Production Database 1994.

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Table 2: Estimated share of rates paid by Scottish industry, by Sector, 1993

Sector	Percentage of total rates paid
Agriculture, forestry and fishing (SIC 1-5)	0.3
Mining, energy and water supply (SIC 10-14 and 40, 41)	11.1
Manufacturing (SIC 15-37)	14.7
Construction (SIC 45)	1.2
Distribution (SIC 50-55)	42.0
Transport and communication (SIC 60-64)	7.6
Services (SIC 65-99)	23.0
Total	100.0

Source:

Scottish input-output analyses--1993.

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