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This information is not held by the Scottish Executive. The Carers National Association, 91 Mitchell Street, Glasgow, G1 3LN (tel. no: 0141 221 9141, e-mail: [email protected]) will be able to provide information on carers in Scotland.

Carers who look after people with mental illness can be at a disadvantage to other carers. Mentally ill people might be more prone to confusion than other vulnerable people and this combined with possible negative reactions to prescribed drugs may lead to challenging behaviour. Problems in addition to mental illness, e.g. physical disability can exacerbate a mentally ill persons state of mind.

Under the Strategy for Cares in Scotland, legislative proposals will be drawn up to effect better provision of services for all carers, including those who look after mentally ill people. The Framework for Mental Health Services in Scotland encourages all the care partner agencies involved in mental health to include carers and service users in the strategic planning process of the mental health services provided in their local area. The Mental Illness Specific Grant scheme provides funding via local authorities to local organisations offering services to carers of people who are mentally ill

The Scottish Executive welcomes the measures proposed by the UK Government to modernise the Post Office network. The role envisaged for the Post Office fits in well with the Executive`s commitments to rural communities and to addressing the needs of socially excluded people in both urban and rural areas.We will be looking at all of the recommendations in the report prepared by the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office and considering how we can assist the UK Government in taking them forward in Scotland. We will also be considering whether any services provided by the Executive or its agencies might be supplied in future by the Post Office network.

Road traffic matters and related statutory offences are reserved under the Scotland Act 1998. Fines imposed for road traffic offences are therefore remitted to the Consolidated Fund. When offences are decriminalised and fines are replaced with penalty changes (as has happened recently with parking offences in Edinburgh and Glasgow) the local authority may keep the income to maintain the relevant enforcement system and to improve parking facilities and also, if resources are still available, for transport matters generally. The Scottish Executive has no plans to make representations to the Government on this issue.

The information requested is detailed in the table below and has been broken down by year and region. As many of these cases are closed relatively quickly some cases reported during 1997 will already have been purged from the Crown Office computer system and are therefore not reflected in the figures given. Similarly the figures for the year 2000 represent only those cases reported thus far. The figures in respect of 1998 and 1999 however reflect the total numbers of cases reported in those years.

	1997	1998	1999	2000
Grampian, Highland & Islands	0	0	8	4
Tayside, Central & Fife	20	55	35	30
Lothian & Borders	2	8	11	3
North Strathclyde	2	19	6	2
South Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway	2	4	7	0
Glasgow & Strathkelvin	9	23	19	3
Total	35	109	86	42

Details of Scottish Executive funding towards major capital projects costing £2 million or more are listed in the following table. The figures do not include minor or maintenance capital projects which are met from running cost allocations.

CULTURAL HERITAGE
Body/Project	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	Start Date	SE Funding	Total Project Cost
	£ million
National Library of Scotland (NLS) Causewayside	1.9	0.3	0.05	0	0	0	1991	21.0	21.0
NLS George IV Bridge-fire safety work	1.0	1.6	1.4	2.1	2.1	2.1	1994	12.8	13.0
National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) - Dean Gallery	0	0	1.0	1.0	0.4	0	1996	£2.9	9.3
NGS - Granton Research Project	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	1999	2.0	2.0
NGS - Royal Scottish Academy	0	0.6	0.1	0	0	1.7	1995	10.0	22.0
National Museums of Scotland (NMS) - Museum of Scotland	5.9	3.7	7.7	11.4	7.0	1.0	1989	37.2	52.2
NMS - Accommodation Strategy	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1990	13.0	13.0
Granton Research Centre	1.8	1.7	0.2	0	0	0	1992	3.7	3.7
ARTS
CCA Arts Centre- refurbish	0	0.004	0.005	0.02	0.6	2.1	1995	7.6	10.6
Dundee City Arts Centre	0	0	0.5	2.4	2.5	0	1997	5.4	9.0
Dance Base Dance Centre - Edinburgh	0.004	0	0	0.004	0.6	1.8	1995	4.9	6.1
Tron Theatre, Glasgow -	0	0	0.2	0.2	2.1	0.8	1997	4.6	5.1
Edinburgh Festival Centre	0	0	0	0.2	2.2	1.3	1998	3.7	8.4
Arches Theatre	0	0	0.08	0.02	0	0.7	1996	3.6	5.0
New Byre Theatre, St Andrews	0	0.003	0.2	0.4	0.2	1.1	1996	4.3	5.4
Stirling Tolbooth Arts Centre	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.4	1997	3.1	5.5
Dundee Rep Theatre	0	0	0	0.04	0.03	1.6	1997	2.5	3.4
RSAMD New Opera School, Glasgow	0	0	0.5	1.1	0.6	0.05	1996	2.6	5.5
Tramway Arts centre, Glasgow	0	0	0.1	0	0.3	1.1	1996	2.3	4.6
New Dance Centre, Dundee College	0	0.007	0	0.001	0.06	0.2	1996	2.3	4.6
Scottish Opera, New Workshop	0	0	1.0	1.1	0	0	1996	2.1	3.4
Glasgow 1999 Lighthouse- conversion	0	0	0	0	1.2	0.9	1997	2.1	11.1
Theatre Royal, Glasgow	0	0	0	1.5	0	0	1997	1.6	2.1
Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, Workshop	0	0	0	0	0.5	0.7	1998	1.5	3.9
Pitlochry Festival Theatre	0	0	0.007	0	0	0.3	1996	1.6	3.0
Gilmorehill Theatre, Glasgow	0	0	0.5	0.4	0	0	1996	0.9	4.3
Gaelic - student homes at Sabhal Mor Ostaig	0	0	0	0.9	0	0	1999	0.9	6.0
BUILT HERITAGE
Stirling Castle	1.2	1.9	2.0	2.1	3.5	2.7	1991	13.4	21.9
Stanley Mills	0	0.2	0.5	1.7	1.3	2.0	1995	5.7	11.0
SPORT
Sportscotland (Ss) Hampden redevelopment, Phase II	0	0	0	0.8	0.5	3.5	1996	4.8*	51.0
Ss-Tollcross Leisure Centre	0.285	0.2	0.03	0	0	0	1994	0.5	10.5m
Ss-Pickaquoy sports hall, Orkney	0	0	0.06	0.1	0.04	0	1996	0.2	8.5m
Ss-Tennis, Craiglockhart Edinburgh	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	1993	0.3#	2.9
Ss-Aquadrome, Inverness	0	0.2	0.04	0	0	0	1995	0.24	9.9

* This includes the Scottish Executive's contribution of £2.8 million to the rescue package negotiated during 1999-2000.

# £0.2 million was paid in 1993-94.

Under existing arrangements, parking infringements are criminal offences and the income generated from parking fines accrues to the Exchequer.

However, the Road Traffic Act 1991 introduced provisions enabling the decriminalisation of most non-endorsable on-street parking offences in London and permitted similar arrangements to be introduced elsewhere. The relevant provisions of the 1991 Act were commenced for Scotland in June 1997.

The purpose of decriminalising parking offences is to enable a local authority to administer its own parking penalty schemes and to retain the penalties collected to finance their parking enforcement procedures. In areas where parking offences are decriminalised, any surplus income must first be used to improve off-street parking and secondly, for general traffic management purposes within the area of the authority.

Decriminalised parking enforcement was first introduced in Scotland in the City of Edinburgh on 5 October 1998. Glasgow City Council introduced a similar scheme on 4 October 1999.

It is for other local authorities, as they see fit, to make application to Scottish Ministers for a designation order to introduce a similar decriminalised parking regime.

Since 1996-97, local authorities have received a single allocation for local authority non-housing capital expenditure, including education, distributed, since 1997-98, on the basis of a formula. The formula is based on five elements, including an education element but also takes account of construction costs in each local authority area and special transport needs. The total formula outcome produces a measure of relative need to spend between councils across the range of the non-housing capital programmes.

At the request of CoSLA, the formula issues as an unhypothecated allocation. It is for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities as they are best placed to assess local needs and circumstances. This includes the assessment of expenditure needs for education. We have, however, agreed with CoSLA that capital expenditure on education should be a priority for local authorities within the overall capital expenditure resources available to them.

The tables below give details of local authority gross capital expenditure on education, by authority, by category of expenditure for financial years 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000. 1999-2000 data are provisional. The requested breakdown into acquisition of land, new construction etc. is not available for capital expenditure funded from current revenue. The information has been compiled from local authority capital payment returns.

Education

Gross capital expenditure 1996-97

	£000
	Capital not funded from current revenue
	Acquisition of existing land, leases, existing buildings or works		New construction (including improvements to existing buildings and dwellings) and the purchase and sale of vehicles, plant, machinery and equipment		Capital funded from current revenue	Total1 gross capital payments
Scotland	889		100,691		20,154	121,734
Aberdeen City	0		4,030		360	4,390
Aberdeenshire	0		5,790		0	5,790
Angus	0		315		114	429
Argyll & Bute	55		2,191		0	2,246
Clackmannanshire	0		139		113	252
Dumfries & Galloway	0		5,990		0	5,990
Dundee City	0		3,116		0	3,116
East Ayrshire	0		2,131		495	2,626
East Dunbartonshire	0		2,459		0	2,459
East Lothian	0		5,064		1,424	6,488
East Renfrewshire	0		333		344	677
Edinburgh, City of	5		14,410		0	14,415
Eilean Siar	263		1,642		0	1,905
Falkirk	0		3,580		250	3,830
Fife	0		5,980		1,456	7,436
Glasgow City	0		7,645		4,400	12,045
Highland	196		4,663		300	5,159
Inverclyde	0		1,787		0	1,787
Midlothian	0		543		39	582
Moray	0		2,492		242	2,734
North Ayrshire	0		4,582		690	5,272
North Lanarkshire	165		3,148		0	3,313
Orkney Islands	40		950		533	1,523
Perth & Kinross	151		141		201	493
Renfrewshire	0		1,912		0	1,912
Scottish Borders	14		1,382		0	1,396
Shetland Islands	0		23		1,751	1,774
South Ayrshire	0		3,108		375	3,483
South Lanarkshire	0		7,610		0	7,610
Stirling	0		1,856		280	2,136
West Dunbartonshire	0		1,537		0	1,537
West Lothian	0		142		6,787	6,929

Source: As reported by authorities on the statistical return, Capital Payments and their Financing (CPR5) for financial year 1996-97.

Notes:

1. Gross capital payments are payments both funded and not funded from revenue.

Education

Gross capital expenditure 1997-98

	£000
	Capital not funded from current revenue
	Acquisition of existing land, leases, existing buildings or works		New construction (including improvements to existing buildings and dwellings) and the purchase and sale of vehicles, plant, machinery and equipment		Capital funded from current revenue	Total1 gross capital payments
Scotland	1,524		111,229		11,589	124,342
Aberdeen City	89		3,226		1,362	4,677
Aberdeenshire	25		3,696		0	3,721
Angus	230		1,732		105	2,067
Argyll & Bute	0		3,209		0	3,209
Clackmannanshire	0		1,138		0	1,138
Dumfries & Galloway	0		6,384		75	6,459
Dundee City	0		2,280		625	2,905
East Ayrshire	0		2,242		412	2,654
East Dunbartonshire	767		1,768		97	2,632
East Lothian	0		6,013		0	6,013
East Renfrewshire	0		2,225		512	2,737
Edinburgh, City of	5		15,677		0	15,682
Eilean Siar	0		1,355		0	1,355
Falkirk	0		2,202		0	2,202
Fife	3		6,326		225	6,554
Glasgow City	0		8,734		0	8,734
Highland	151		5,941		0	6,092
Inverclyde	0		1,994		0	1,994
Midlothian	0		283		233	516
Moray	0		1,228		242	1,470
North Ayrshire	0		4,605		0	4,605
North Lanarkshire	252		4,076		1,030	5,358
Orkney Islands	0		1,075		717	1,792
Perth & Kinross	0		1,301		143	1,444
Renfrewshire	0		2,302		94	2,396
Scottish Borders	2		1,182		484	1,668
Shetland Islands	0		77		2,567	2,644
South Ayrshire	0		1,861		1,000	2,861
South Lanarkshire	0		4,364		1,483	5,847
Stirling	0		1,812		0	1,812
West Dunbartonshire	0		2,454		72	2,526
West Lothian	0		8,467		111	8,578

Source: As reported by authorities on the statistical return, Capital Payments and their Financing (CPR5) for financial year 1997-98.

Notes:

1. Gross capital payments are payments both funded and not funded from revenue.

Education

Gross capital expenditure 1998-99

	£000
	Capital not funded from current revenue
	Acquisition of existing land, leases, existing buildings or works		New construction (including improvements to existing buildings and dwellings) and the purchase and sale of vehicles, plant, machinery and equipment		Capital funded from current revenue	Total1 gross capital payments
Scotland	273		125,068		41,205	166,546
Aberdeen City	0		5,517		1,001	6,518
Aberdeenshire	0		4,153		0	4,153
Angus	0		1,047		1,905	2,952
Argyll & Bute	0		2,420		238	2,658
Clackmannanshire	0		2,160		245	2,405
Dumfries & Galloway	2		3,509		276	3,787
Dundee City	0		2,293		2,244	4,537
East Ayrshire	0		2,000		1,000	3,000
East Dunbartonshire	0		1,597		256	1,853
East Lothian	0		4,008		232	4,240
East Renfrewshire	0		2,095		284	2,379
Edinburgh, City of	0		20,498		1,022	21,520
Eilean Siar	0		2,032		0	2,032
Falkirk	0		2,458		481	2,939
Fife	76		2,081		2,690	4,847
Glasgow City	0		11,930		12,337	24,267
Highland	1		6,093		976	7,070
Inverclyde	166		3,247		283	3,696
Midlothian	0		1,057		291	1,348
Moray	0		1,731		520	2,251
North Ayrshire	17		4,641		0	4,658
North Lanarkshire	0		6,183		1,078	7,261
Orkney Islands	11		2,371		1,897	4,279
Perth & Kinross	0		1,691		353	2,044
Renfrewshire	0		1,894		2,207	4,101
Scottish Borders	0		2,618		305	2,923
Shetland Islands	0		213		2,569	2,782
South Ayrshire	0		2,759		0	2,759
South Lanarkshire	0		7,643		3,480	11,123
Stirling	0		2,703		1,396	4,099
West Dunbartonshire	0		2,712		692	3,404
West Lothian	0		7,714		947	8,661

Source: As reported by authorities on the statistical return, Capital Payments and their Financing (CPR5) for financial year 1998-99.

Notes:

1. Gross capital payments are payments both funded and not funded from revenue.

Education

Gross capital expenditure 1999-2000¹

	£000
	Capital not funded from current revenue	Capital funded from current revenue	Total2 gross capital payments
Scotland	134,884	19,408	154,292
Aberdeen City	3,333	0	3,333
Aberdeenshire	3,433	0	3,433
Angus	2,511	530	3,041
Argyll & Bute	2,857	543	3,400
Clackmannanshire	1,712	0	1,712
Dumfries & Galloway	5,018	0	5,018
Dundee City	2,618	547	3,165
East Ayrshire	2,967	0	2,967
East Dunbartonshire	2,435	890	3,325
East Lothian	5,230	0	5,230
East Renfrewshire	2,116	904	3,020
Edinburgh, City of	16,818	1,227	18,045
Eilean Siar	2,299	0	2,299
Falkirk	2,698	0	2,698
Fife	4,357	0	4,357
Glasgow City	11,991	1,500	13,491
Highland	7,646	2,729	10,375
Inverclyde	1,949	2,270	4,219
Midlothian	2,037	599	2,636
Moray	1,672	42	1,714
North Ayrshire	4,312	0	4,312
North Lanarkshire	5,109	0	5,109
Orkney Islands	4,660	1,366	6,026
Perth & Kinross	2,539	451	2,990
Renfrewshire	3,371	1,115	4,486
Scottish Borders	2,630	0	2,630
Shetland Islands	1,272	2,234	3,506
South Ayrshire	3,600	0	3,600
South Lanarkshire	5,906	1,790	7,696
Stirling	2,570	0	2,570
West Dunbartonshire	3,406	0	3,406
West Lothian	9,812	671	10,483

Source: As reported by authorities on the statistical return, Capital Payments and their

Financing (CPR FIN3d Forecast) for financial year 1999-00.

Notes:

1. Data for 1999-2000 are provisional.

2. Gross capital payments are payments both funded and not funded from revenue.

I refer the member to my letter of 9 September 1999 in response to questions S1W-743 and S1W-744. A copy is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.