Chamber and committees

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17142 on 16 August 2001.

Estimates of employee jobs in Scotland are produced by the Office for National Statistics from their Annual Business Inquiry (ABI). This survey has run from December 1998, replacing the Annual Employment Survey (AES) which last ran in September 1998.The AES estimates for Scotland were compiled by aggregating site level values, whether collected directly through the survey or estimated, for all workplaces in Scotland. The improved methodology developed for the ABI survey collects information from head offices and estimates are made for Scotland using imputation and modelling routines. More information on the differences between AES and ABI is given in "The launch of the Annual Business Inquiry" which was published in the May 2001 edition of Labour Market Trends.The change to ABI in 1998 resulted in a rise of about 110,000 employee jobs in Scotland but only a small number of these (about 8,500) were in the manufacturing sector. In the final results of the AES, the number of employees in manufacturing in Scotland was 316,000, 15.6% of Scotland's total employees. In the first results of the ABI the figure was 325,000, 15.2% of the Scotland total.

The number of employee jobs in manufacturing in Scotland since 1981 are given in the following table:(Not seasonally adjusted)

Year	Quarter	Employee Jobs (in thousands)	Year	Quarter	Employee Jobs (in thousands)
1981	September	479	1991	September	360
	December	474		December	354
1982	March	463	1992	March	350
	June	455		June	346
	September	448		September	338
	December	439		December	327
1983	March	429	1993	March	323
	June	423		June	326
	September	421		September	322
	December	416		December	320
1984	March	412	1994	March	310
	June	413		June	317
	September	413		September	320
	December	414		December	320
1985	March	412	1995	March	316
	June	412		June	322
	September	412		September	321
	December	407		December	321
1986	March	401	1996	March	316
	June	396		June	316
	September	396		September	318
	December	392		December	305
1987	March	386	1997	March	308
	June	388		June	315
	September	388		September	317
	December	388		December	321
1988	March	387	1998	March	321
	June	387		June	317
	September	393		September	315
	December	395		December	325
1989	March	393	1999	March	317
	June	383		June	315
	September	383		September	315
	December	382		December	313
1990	March	376	2000	March	308
	June	376		June	307
	September	382		September	307
	December	378		December	307
1991	March	367	2001	March	300
	June	360

Source: Office for National Statistics, employee jobs series.

Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly - A Statement of Funding Policy sets out the comparabilities that operate at a Departmental level. These are based on sub-programme expenditure in the year before any review of expenditure. However the comparability factor is only applied to the departmental change rather than individual changes in sub-programmes. Since most Whitehall departmental programmes are not fully analogous to Scotland it is very difficult to make comparisons between the Scottish Budget and comparable UK spending.

The table shows that, for the years for which comparable data are available, the Scottish budget remains stable as a proportion of the overall UK budget.

	Scotland £ billion	UK £ billion	Scotland as a % of UK
1999-2000
DEL
Resource	12.0	159.9	7.5
Capital	1.7	19.4	8.8
Total	13.7	179.3	7.6
TME	17.0	343.5	4.9
2000-01
Resource	12.7	172.3	7.4
Capital	2.3	21.9	10.5
Total	15.0	194.2	7.7
TME	18.0	368.3	4.9
2001-02
Resource	13.7	187.0	7.3
Capital	2.7	25.3	10.7
Total	16.4	212.3	7.7
TME	19.8	393.7	5.0
2002-03
Resource	14.5	199.1	7.3
Capital	3.0	29.4	10.2
Total	17.5	228.5	7.7
TME	21.0	417.8	5.0
2003-04
Resource	15.3	210.7	7.3
Capital	3.3	34.4	9.6
Total	18.6	245.1	7.6
TME	22.1	442.6	5.0

Notes:Total Managed Expenditure (TME).Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL).The UK Government has not published figures for comparable spending by UK Department, therefore the best figures available have been used.The TME Scottish figures are taken from The Scottish Budget, Table 0.1. The UK TME figures and the DEL figures (Scottish and UK) are from Budget 2001 - Investing for the Long Term: Building Opportunities and Prosperity for All (HMT March 2001), Tables C11 and C13, respectively.

Macro-economic policy and financial instruments are reserved to Westminster, and applied at the UK level. Indicators of inflation are also produced at the UK level, and no such measure is currently produced for Scotland.

In answer to parts (a) and (b), the Scottish Executive conducted 113 in the year up to April 2001. In addition, the Central Research Unit of the Scottish Executive is conducting the following projects - as of 8 June 2001.

Project Title	Organisation
Communities that Care	University of Glasgow
Research on Racist Crime	University of Dundee
Drugs and Leisure Diversion Programme for Young People	System Three: Social Research Unit
Evaluation of the Zero Tolerance "Respect" Pilot	Reid-Howie Associates
Use of Police Powers of Stop and Search	Reid-Howie Associates
Evaluation of Pilot Victim Liaison Service	Lambda Research and Consultancy
Community Legal Services Microcosm Study	Market Research UK
The Evaluation of the Public Defender Solicitors' Office	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Scottish Household Survey	NFO System Three and MORI Scotland
Consultation on the Plan for Action on Alcohol Misuse: Views of younger people	Save the Children
Consultation on the Plan for Action on Alcohol Misuse: Views of alcohol service users/non-users and their friends/families	NFO System Three
Home Care Survey	UK Home Care Association
Review of Old Mineral Permissions	David Kirk Associates
Review of NPPG4	Land Use Consultants
Final Evaluation of the former Regional Partnerships	Cambridge Economic Associates
Scottish School Leavers Survey	National Centre for Social Research

With regard to the final part of your question, details of the system of selective competitive tendering which the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit operates are available on the CRU web pages (www.scotland.gov.uk/cru/) under the Guidance for Contractors section or within any of the published research programmes which are available on the CRU web pages.

The Memorandum of Understanding and Statistics Concordat set out the principles that underlie the working relationships between the UK Government and the devolved administrations.

The following is a list of organisations responsible for collecting information in those areas under the responsibility of the Scottish Executive. Official Statistics are taken to include National Statistics and those collected by or for the Government Statistical Service in the Scottish Executive. National Statistics Themes are the main categorisation of statistics used by the Scottish Executive.

National Statistics Theme	Organisations Gathering and Reporting on Data
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry	SE Rural Affairs Department
	Forestry Commission
Commerce, Energy and Industry	SE Executive Secretariat
	SE Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department
	Office for National Statistics
	Scottish Enterprise
	Highland and Islands Enterprise
	Inland Revenue
Crime and Justice	SE Justice Department
The Economy	SE Executive Secretariat
	Department of Social Security
	Office for National Statistics
	Scottish Enterprise
	Highlands and Islands Enterprise
	Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Education and Training	SE Education Department
	Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education
	Scottish Qualifications Authority
	SFEFC
	HESA
	SHEFC
	UCAS
	Office for National Statistics
	Scottish Childrens Reporter Administration
Health and Care	SE Health Department
	Common Services Agency for NHSScotland
	General Register Office for Scotland
	Office for National Statistics
	National Centre for Social Research and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London.
	Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit, University of Edinburgh Medical School.
	Dental Health Services Research Unit, University of Dundee.
	Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.
Labour Market	SE Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department
	Office for National Statistics
	Department of Social Security
	Scottish Enterprise
	Highlands and Islands Enterprise
	Employment Service
	Department of Trade and Industry
	Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
Natural Built Environment
Natural Environment	SE Development Department
	Scottish Environment Protection Agency
	Scottish Natural Heritage
	NETCEN
Built Environment	SE Development Department
	Scottish Homes
	Council of Mortgage Lenders
Population and Migration	General Register Office for Scotland
Social and Welfare	SE Development Department
	Office for National Statistics
	Department of Social Security
Transport , Travel and Tourism	SE Development Department
	Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
	VisitScotland
	System Three
	MORI
	Office for National Statistics
Personnel Statistics	SE Personnel

Gross Fixed Capital Formation data for Scotland were published for 1988 to 1995 by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 1998, on a European System of Accounts 1979 basis, in Economic Trends No 530. ONS are currently working on estimates on a European System of Accounts 1995 basis for 1997 to 1999. These will be published as soon as possible after the necessary source data become available.Net capital expenditure data are available from the Scottish Executive for the following industrial sectors and years:Manufacturing 1970 to 1998Other production sectors 1997 to 1998Construction 1995 to 1998Services (excluding financial and public sectors) 1997 to 1998These are taken from the Annual Business Inquiry. 1999 data should be available in autumn 2001. Manufacturing and services data are published in Scottish Economic Statistics and are available on the Scottish Executive website.