Chamber and committees

The Executive believes that complementaryand alternative medicine (CAM) may offer relief to some people suffering from awide variety of conditions. A GP may refer a patient for CAM if, inhis or her clinical judgement, it is appropriate. The GP remains responsiblefor the patient’s medical care. NHS boards may provide CAM from the unifiedbudgets made available to them by the Executive, based on their assessments oflocal needs.

The distribution of national lottery funds is a matter for the Lottery Distribution Bodies: Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen, sportscotland, New Opportunities Fund, Community Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Millennium Commission. The information requested is not held centrally by the Executive.The Department for Culture, Media and Sport maintains a database of national lottery awards on their website which sets out the total awarded to each constituency area and each local authority area for each lottery good cause.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-909 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

Details of Public Private Partnership projects in Scotland can be found in the Project List on the Financial Partnerships Unit's website (www.scotland.gov.uk/fpu then select "Project List" from the menu down the left-hand side of the home page). Since question S1W-34332 was answered, the Project List has been updated, primarily for health projects, and the total number of projects included up to the negotiation stage has risen from 40 to 42 (13 at the tenders stage and 29 at the stage of being advertised or potential).

We are today publishing our response to Determined to Succeed, copies have been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre. The response signals our determination to effect a step change in the delivery of enterprise in education. To this end, we have agreed a partnership with Schools Enterprise Scotland Ltd and the Hunter Foundation to act as expert advisers in agreeing and developing the Enterprise in Education programme.As a result of that agreement, we are today announcing an additional commitment of £2 million in 2003-04, on top of the £40 million made available for the next three years in last year's spending review. Our new £2 million matches a contribution of that amount from the Hunter Foundation, and will take first year resource to £9 million.

I published our broadband strategy update last December. It details the steps we are taking to promote broadband throughout Scotland in both public and private sectors. We are also pursuing a new initiative, worth up to £24 million, which aims to accelerate and extend broadband access across Scotland. As part of this initiative the First Minister announced earlier this week that a further six exchanges in the Highlands are to be upgraded to provide ADSL services this summer.

The information requested is set out in the following table.

Project Name	Project Status	Project Detail
Aberdeenshire Schools	Operational	1 new secondary school, 1 refurbished and extended primary school and 1 refurbished primary school
East Renfrewshire: Mearns Primary and St Ninian's High School	Operational	1 new primary school and 1 extension of secondary school
Falkirk Schools	Operational	4 new secondary schools and 1 special needs school
Project 2002 (Glasgow Schools Project)	Operational	12 new schools and 17 refurbished - 28 Secondary Schools and 1 Primary School
Highland Schools	Operational	2 new primary schools and 2 new secondary schools
Balfron School	Operational	1 new secondary school
East Lothian Schools	Signed	6 refurbished secondary schools, 1 new community learning centre
Fife Schools	Signed	1 replacement secondary school, 1 replacement primary school and 1 refurbished and extended secondary school
Midlothian Schools	Signed	2 new secondary schools and special educational needs facilities
Edinburgh Schools	Signed	refurbishment, replacement and rationalisation of 27 schools to 18
West Lothian Schools	Signed	2 refurbished and extended secondary schools, 1 refurbished and adapted primary school and consolidation of primary schools
Aberdeenshire Schools	Tenders Invited/Negotiated	6 new build primary schools and 1 refurbishment and extension of 1 secondary school.
Renfrewshire Schools	Tenders Invited/Negotiated	refurbishment of all 12 secondary and 8 priority primary schools. also 2 new, 1 replacement and 1 extended primary school, and 2 new and 4 extended secondary schools
Dumfries and Galloway Schools	Advertised	regeneration of whole schools estate of 114 primary, 16 secondary schools and two special schools.
Fife Schools	Advertised	the new build of 3 primary schools of which one to have special educational needs facilities. also, 6 new primary schools to replace schools which are to be amalgamated.
Highland Schools	Advertised	1 new build, 3 replacement and 1 new build/amalgamation primary schools. 3 replacement, 1 refurbished and extended secondary schools, 2 special educational needs schools. 1 gaelic-medium primary school and refurbishment of an existing hotel into a hostel.
North Lanarkshire Schools	Advertised	21 new builds and 18 refurbishment primary schools. 4 new build and 7 refurbishment secondary schools and the new build of 6 special educational needs schools.
Argyll and Bute Schools	Potential	refurbishment of 84 primary schools (1 re-build), 9 secondary schools (1 re-build), 3 special schools and 2 hostels.
Dundee Schools	Potential	new build of 6 primary schools, extension and refurbishment of 2 primary and 3 secondary schools and the new build of 1 special needs school.
East Ayrshire Schools	Potential	3 new build secondary schools, 4 new build primary schools, 1 new build special educational needs school and 1 remodelled and extended primary school.
East Renfrewshire Schools	Potential	the revised bid includes the replacement of 1 and extension of 2 secondary schools. also the build of 1 new denominational primary school.
Inverclyde Schools	Potential	6 new build and 19 refurbishment primary schools. 7 secondary school refurbishments. 2 special educational needs refurbishments and 1 pre-5 refurbishment.
South Ayrshire Schools	Potential	prioritised: 4 secondary upgrades, 1 secondary, primary, nursery campus extension. 4 new build, 2 upgrade and 2 extended primary schools. also adaptation of primary to incorporate nursery school, 1 virtual college and 1 library facility. non-prioritised: 1 secondary and 6 primary upgrades.
South Lanarkshire Schools	Potential	3 new builds secondary schools, and 1 refurbishment secondary school. 3 new builds primary schools, 4 extensions to primary schools and 6 refurbishments to primary schools. also the extension of 1 and refurbishment of 1 special needs school.
West Lothian Schools	Potential	refurbishment and extension of 5 secondary schools.

There are currently 12 PPP projects at the negotiation stage. If these projects were cancelled compensation may be due to the bidders for aborted bid costs, either in full or in part. The circumstances of each individual project would need to be considered.

(a) Public private partnership (PPP) projects are for the long-term, typically 25 to 30 years. Nearly 80 contracts have already been signed delivering a capital investment value of £2 billion. If the public sector requested early termination of these projects, claims for compensation would arise from the private sector contractors involved in order to cover the repayment of any outstanding debt for the project and other associated termination costs such as redundancy payments for employees of the contractor. In addition, to avoid risk of service interruption, arrangements would have to be made for services provided under these contracts to be delivered by other means with associated administrative costs. As in each case the PPP option was selected as offering best value for money, it is likely that the alternative arrangements would be more expensive. There would also be widespread damage to working relations between the public and private sectors.(b) There are 12 projects in negotiation. If the public sector cancelled those, compensation may be due to the bidders for aborted bid costs, either in full or in part. In addition, a further 28 projects in health, schools and waste management would not proceed. Alternative arrangements would have to be made, and as PPP has been shown to offer best value for money, these would likely be more expensive. Without the opportunity to lever in private finance, it is likely that the provision of new infrastructure would be delayed.

New measures have been introduced in the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill, which was approved by the Scottish Parliament on 20 February 2003, to tackle anti-social behaviour more effectively. We have introduced interim Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs), extended the power to apply for ASBOs to registered social landlords and created a new duty on police and local authorities to jointly prepare and publish anti-social behaviour strategies.In addition, the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 gives social landlords the power to give a "probationary" style short Scottish secure tenancy to persons who have been evicted for anti-social behaviour (in any part of the UK and from any tenure). This can also be offered to tenants where they are subject to an ASBO. This new power came into force on 30 September 2002.It is too early to assess the impact of these measures.