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No NHS employee’s salary will be reduced as a result of rebanding under Agenda for Change. Protection arrangements will apply to ensure that no member of staff receives a reduction.

The information is shown in the table below. Dental practices that ceased providing NHS general dental services for a temporary period only may be included in these figures. For comparison the number of dental practices in Scotland that have commenced providing NHS general dental services in the same period are also provided.

The Number of Dental Practices in Scotland that Ceased Providing NHS General Dental Services¹; Year Ending March

NHS Board Area	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Ayrshire and Arran	2	3	4	0	0
Borders	0	0	0	0	1
Argyll and Clyde	0	0	2	0	1
Fife	0	0	2	1	1
Greater Glasgow	2	2	4	4	2
Highland	3	4	1	3	2
Lanarkshire	1	0	1	1	0
Grampian	0	0	2	1	3
Orkney	0	0	1	0	1
Lothian	2	3	2	3	5
Tayside	2	2	1	2	6
Forth Valley	0	1	0	2	0
Western Isles	2	0	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	2	0	0	0
Shetland	0	1	0	2	0
Scotland	14	18	20	19	22

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).

Note: 1. Some dental practices may cease providing NHS general dental services permanently, while some may do so only temporarily.

The Number of Dental Practices in Scotland that Began Providing NHS General Dental Services¹; Year Ending March

NHS Board Area	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Ayrshire and Arran	4	0	1	1	0
Borders	1	0	2	1	1
Argyll and Clyde	2	1	0	2	8
Fife	0	0	0	2	0
Greater Glasgow	2	1	3	3	4
Highland	2	3	3	2	7
Lanarkshire	1	2	1	4	0
Grampian	1	0	2	0	3
Orkney	1	0	0	0	1
Lothian	1	4	1	3	3
Tayside	2	1	2	4	3
Forth Valley	1	1	2	0	0
Western Isles	0	0	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	4	2	0	0	0
Shetland	1	1	2	2	1
Scotland	23	16	19	24	31

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).

Note: 1. Some dental practices may cease providing NHS general dental services permanently, while some may do so only temporarily.

The table below shows the allocation of Quality of Life funding to local authorities for the years 2002-03 and 2003-04.

Local Authority	(a) 2002-03 Allocation £95m	(b) 2003-04 Allocation £50m
Aberdeen, City	3.581	1.877
Aberdeenshire	4.009	2.112
Angus	2.026	1.067
Argyll and Bute	1.807	0.952
Clackmannanshire	0.862	0.454
Dumfries and Galloway	2.832	1.495
Dundee	2.900	1.524
East Ayrshire	2.227	1.169
East Dunbartonshire	1.879	0.990
East Lothian	1.544	0.822
East Renfrewshire	1.572	0.827
Edinburgh, City	7.552	3.987
Eilean Siar	0.834	0.431
Falkirk	2.496	1.320
Fife	6.264	3.311
Glasgow	12.511	6.526
Highland	4.277	2.240
Inverclyde	1.645	0.866
Midlothian	1.445	0.757
Moray	1.543	0.816
North Ayrshire	2.570	1.355
North Lanarkshire	5.883	3.103
Orkney	0.571	0.296
Perth and Kinross	2.415	1.280
Renfrewshire	3.185	1.692
Scottish Borders	2.050	1.083
Shetland	0.740	0.385
South Ayrshire	2.058	1.085
South Lanarkshire	5.473	2.879
Stirling	1.587	0.840
West Dunbartonshire	1.911	1.006
West Lothian	2.751	1.453

 

The Scottish Executive and its agencies are working closely with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, who are responsible for procurement and sponsorship issues, to promote the interests of local businesses. The Scottish Executive is also liaising closely with the main business representative organisations and are also working closely with Perth and Kinross Council to help them prepare for the summit. In addition, the Enterprise Networks are working at national and local level to provide information and assistance to Scottish business on the G8 Summit as planning for the summit progresses.

The G8 Summit is a tremendous opportunity for Scotland to promote itself to an international audience and to demonstrate its capability of hosting prestigious events.

Plans for Scottish activities connected to the summit are gathering pace and conversations have taken place with local authorities, who are working up plans for individual and collaborative events in the run-up to July 2005. A further meeting of stakeholders will take place early in the new year to co-ordinate plans and shape an overall events strategy. There are numerous opportunities to promote Scottish produce and commerce, and these are being communicated to the business community as they arise. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is also taking active steps to promote Scottish businesses at Gleneagles itself.

Event Scotland has offered to produce promotional literature to inform the public, media and other visitors of the events on offer. This forms part of a broader media strategy to promote Scotland, which includes press visits, media packs, websites and a promotional campaign. A full Scottish summit events programme will be launched early in 2005.

The Executive does not hold information regarding the circulation of the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). However, OJEU is published on-line and can be accessed free of charge. Contract opportunities published in the Journal can also be accessed through a number of other sources including the European Information Centres, BiP Ltd and TendersDirect. Links to these organisations and OJEU are published on the Executive’s procurement website.

The rules and procedures governing procurement in relation to the G8 Summit at Gleneagles Hotel in July next year are matters for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Perth and Kinross Council is working with local partners to develop a programme of events linked to the G8 Summit that will take place throughout Perthshire between now and July 2005. The first of these, a reception to promote local trade links with Japan, took place after the successful rugby international at McDiarmid Park on 13 November 2004. The summit will offer real opportunities to promote local businesses, tourism and other attractions nationally and internationally.

In addition to the local programme, the Scottish Executive is working with a broad range of external partners to deliver activities around the summit, some of which will take place in Perthshire. It is at the discretion of other organisations to organise G8-related events.

Additional funding will be made available to Tayside Police in connection with policing the G8 Summit in 2005 and a group involving representatives from UK Government departments, Tayside Police and the Executive has been set up to monitor and assess the additional policing costs incurred. That group’s conclusions will inform the level of additional funding provided. However, at this stage it is too early to say what the amount of this extra funding will be.

A VisitScotland team is working to maximise the benefits which will arise for Scotland from our hosting the G8 Summit at Gleneagles, and VisitScotland is also contributing to the Executive’s own planning for the event. The aim is touse the substantial media presence at the G8 summit to demonstrate to the worldScotland’s capability to successfully host the biggest and most prestigious globalconferences, and to showcase all that Scotland has to offer as a must-visit destination for visitors to our country.