Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 20 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on communications to residents in each year since 1999 in (a) cash and (b) real terms.
The information requestedis not held centrally. Information on the expenditure of local authorities is collectedannually via Local Financial Returns (LFRs). However, the LFR returns do not collectinformation at the level of detail requested.