Chamber and committees

This term has been selected to encompass all resources which may accrue to the Scottish Ministers (and other directly funded bodies) in the course of a year.As the Executive is moving from a cash to resource accounting regime, numbers for previous years on a resource accounting basis are not available. Information on the expected receipts of affected bodies for 1999-2000 can be found in Scotland's Supply Estimates and Scotland's Autumn Supplementary Supply Estimates.

Information about expenditure on primary, secondary and special schools is given in the table. Because of changes in funding arrangements over the years in question, information on expenditure on nursery schools is not available in the form requested and is not, therefore, included in the table. Information about expenditure for the 1998-99 financial year is not yet available. Budgeted expenditure information is not available in the form requested. In a reply on 23 August 1999 (S1W-849), I provided detailed information about total revenue expenditure by Scottish local authorities on education.

The figures in the table below reflect the spending plans inherited from the previous Administration. As indicated in the earlier reply to which I have referred above, local authority budgeted expenditure for the years after 1997-98 shows a considerable uplift.

Net current expenditure on local authority primary, secondary and special schools

(at 1998-99 prices)

		1996-97	1997-98	1996-97	1997-98
		Total	Total	Expenditure	Expenditure
		Expenditure	Expenditure	Per Pupil	Per Pupil
		(£000)	(£000)	(£)	(£)
Aberdeen City		72,921	72,879	2,638	2,644
Aberdeenshire		93,327	94,077	2,525	2,544
Angus		42,547	42,648	2,545	2,563
Argyll & Bute		38,891	36,653	2,887	2,723
Clackmannanshire		20,016	19,552	2,672	2,588
Dumfries & Galloway		60,176	59,740	2,684	2,648
Dundee City		60,202	59,746	2,770	2,776
East Ayrshire		47,463	48,605	2,421	2,485
East Dunbartonshire		44,790	44,218	2,309	2,273
East Lothian		31,191	30,213	2,495	2,361
East Renfrewshire		34,603	35,894	2,253	2,326
Edinburgh, City of		126,340	127,842	2,519	2,541
Eilean Siar		18,208	17,736	3,879	3,867
Falkirk		52,850	52,457	2,489	2,470
Fife		135,475	134,324	2,499	2,484
Glasgow City		232,740	219,367	2,866	2,694
Highland		98,035	95,037	2,861	2,782
Inverclyde		34,609	33,346	2,469	2,404
Midlothian		33,894	33,823	2,608	2,602
Moray		36,265	35,527	2,646	2,573
North Ayrshire		56,188	55,946	2,557	2,546
North Lanarkshire		136,950	138,501	2,532	2,585
Orkney Islands		11,858	11,912	3,573	3,623
Perth & Kinross		46,447	46,179	2,533	2,518
Renfrewshire		69,659	67,428	2,505	2,426
Scottish Borders		41,416	38,557	2,704	2,494
Shetland Islands		16,547	15,812	4,210	4,024
South Ayrshire		42,697	42,737	2,420	2,448
South Lanarkshire		123,146	119,478	2,536	2,482
Stirling		33,992	33,434	2,748	2,664
West Dunbartonshire		41,135	39,564	2,570	2,482
West Lothian		63,892	63,077	2,578	2,513
Scotland		1,998,470	1,966,308	2,616	2,575

Notes1. All figures are net current expenditure excluding costs of home to school transport, school meals, education authority central administration costs, and loan and leasing charges, adjusted to 1998-99 prices using the GDP deflator.2. Figures derived from local authority financial returns (LFR1) for 1996-97 and 1997-98.

Information is not available in the format requested. Expenditure is not planned or allocated per university or college student. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council receives a grant each year from the education budget which is then allocated to individual higher education institutions. Information is given below which shows both the total grant and student places. Those places may be occupied by students from elsewhere in the UK or EU:

Financial year	Grant	Student places eligible for funding (FTE)* (planned)	Student places eligible for funding (FTE)* (actual)
1997-98	£549m	118,700	119,100
1998-99**	£528m	118,700	120,500
1999-00	£588m	118,700

* Full-time equivalents

**Figures adjusted to reflect change in payment sequence

Funding for Scottish domiciled students may also be available through the Student Awards Agency for Scotland. The information below provides information from that Agency and includes all full-time higher education students, including those who undertake their studies at Colleges of further education.

Financial year	Expenditure	Students assisted
1997-98	£410m	115,143
1998-99	£412m	112,289
1999-00	£411.3m (planned)	N/A

I refer the member to the tables issued to MSPs on 6 October following the Minister of Finance's announcement to Parliament of the Executive's proposed spending revisions. Figures for real terms spending on the health budget were included in those tables. The provision for 1999-2000 includes £139 million end year flexibility carried forward from 1998-99. It is necessary to exclude this element of provision to compare like with like. On that basis there is a real terms increase of 3.7% in the health budget in 2000-01.

The table below shows salaries and wages expenditure for Health Boards, NHS Trusts, Common Services Agency, State Hospital, Health Education Board for Scotland, and Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education for 1998-99 by staff type, and as a percentage of total health revenue expenditure.The information has been taken from the annual accounts of the health bodies. Data for the current financial year is not available.

STAFF TYPE	£	%
Medical and Dental	419,349,369	8.6
Nursing	1,006,462,389	20.7
Professional & Technical	360,408,479	7.4
Administrative and Clerical	305,991,943	6.3
Domestic and Ancillary	121,563,888	2.5
Tradesmen	27,459,611	0.6
TOTAL	2,241,235,679	46.1
Total revenue expenditure	4,858,030,473

The Scottish Executive's Scottish manufactured export figures are produced by members of the Government Statistical Service using data collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The series for manufactured exports in real prices is derived at the 5 digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) level by deflating each current price series at that level using the appropriate ONS UK Export Producer Price Index. This enables aggregate series for Scottish manufactured exports to be derived at 1995 prices.

The comparison of the aggregate current and real price export series at 1995 prices generates an implied producer price index for Scottish manufactured exports as a whole. This is shown in the table below for the period 1995 quarter 1 to 1999 quarter 2.

		Implied Scottish Export Producer Price Index (1995=100)
1995		100.0
1996		98.6
1997		93.0
1998		87.2
1995	1	100.0
1995	2	99.7
1995	3	100.2
1995	4	100.1
1996	1	101.5
1996	2	99.6
1996	3	98.6
1996	4	95.1
1997	1	93.4
1997	2	94.0
1997	3	93.8
1997	4	91.1
1998	1	88.8
1998	2	88.2
1998	3	87.7
1998	4	84.8
1999	1	84.9
1999	2	85.1

A significant factor affecting this decline is likely to have been the decrease in world markets during this period, especially that resulting from the economic crisis in East Asia in 1998. This particularly affected whisky exports, which were especially strong in this market.

The decrease in the value of manufactured drink exports during the period is also a reflection of the historically high levels of drink exports during 1997. However, current levels are still above those in 1995.The Scottish Executive is confident in the accuracy of these figures. They are produced by members of the Government Statistical Service and are based on data collected by the Office for National Statistics. The series is derived from a sample of drink manufacturers covering an average of over 90 per cent of total turnover in this industry between the first quarter of 1995 and the second quarter of 1999.

As advised in my answer to Mr Wilson's question S1W-1437, the budget for the Scottish Executive EU Office comes from the Administration Vote 6. That answer gave a detailed breakdown of the budget for 1999-2000.Given that this budget was drawn up for the first year of operation of the new office before the final staff team was in place, certain assumptions about costs had to be made. Once the office has been operational for 6 months the budget will be reviewed and next year's draft budget drawn up in the light of that experience. At present no further estimated costs for future years have been calculated.

The range of official economic statistics compiled for Scotland is kept under regular review taking account of a number of considerations which are described in detail in a recent article in the Scottish Economic Bulletin (The Scottish Economy:Official Statistics for the New Millenium, SEB no.56).

This review of statistical outputs in Scotland incorporates the examination of the full range of economic indicators, in order that consideration may be given to producing the data series that are most appropriate to aiding informed analysis of the Scottish economy.

A full list of the official economic indicators available for Scotland was published in a recent article in the Scottish Economic Bulletin (Sources of Official Statistics on the Scottish Economy SEB no. 55). This will be updated early in 2000.Copies of the above publications will be made available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

In order to effect a change of use from a quarry to a landfill site requires an application for planning permission from the local council. A waste management licence would also then need to be obtained from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to operate a landfill at the site. There are no centrally held records of which former quarries in Scotland have become landfills.