Chamber and committees

This question covers two types of bodies; those that receive funds direct from the Scottish Ministers and those who are funded indirectly through other bodies. Information on the latter category is not readily available. To obtain this information would involve disproportionate cost.Of those bodies that receive grants from the Scottish Ministers, the bodies listed below receive less than 50% of their income from public funds as defined under section 21(5) of the Public Finance and Accountability Bill.In addition to the bodies listed below, the Scottish Ministers pay grants from the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund. The grants are paid to a variety of organisations including companies, local authorities and educational institutions. The application process for these grants does not require applicants to inform the Executive of their annual income and it is therefore not possible to ascertain, without disproportionate costs, which bodies receive less than 50% of their funding from the Scottish Ministers. There are some other recipients of public funds for which establishing whether they received less than 50% of their income from public funds would involve disproportionate cost. These include payments made under the Regional Selective Assistance Scheme and those made to voluntary organisations for projects involving social issues, housing, supporting the rural economy and architectural heritage.BODIES RECEIVING GRANTS FROM SCOTTISH MINISTERS THAT RECEIVE LESS THAN 50% OF THEIR INCOME FROM PUBLIC FUNDSAge Concern *Alzheimer Scotland Action on DementiaBACUP*Breast Cancer Care*British Fluoridation SocietyBritish Liver Trust*British Red CrossBritish Red Cross ProjectBrittle Bone Society*Brook Advisory CentreCaledonian MacBrayne LtdCentral Scotland Countryside TrustCHASChildren in ScotlandCommunity Learning ScotlandCrusaid ScotlandDementia Services Development CentreDepression AllianceDisability ScotlandEpilepsy AssociationEpilepsy Association CapitalFamily Planning Association*Forward ScotlandHead Injuries Trust for ScotlandHealthy Gay Scotland InitiativeNational Aids TrustNational Asthma Campaign*National Childbirth Trust*National Schizophrenia Fellowship*Neurofibromatosis Association*New Lanark Conservation TrustPain Association ScotlandParkinson's Disease Society*P&O Scottish FerriesPositive Steps PartnershipRoyal Society for the Prevention of AccidentsScottish Association for Mental HealthScottish Bobath AssociationScottish Cot Death TrustScottish Council for Educational TechnologyScottish Hungington's AssociationScottish Motor Neurone ProjectScottish Partnership AgencyScottish Partnership Agency Project GrantSense ScotlandStillbirth & Neonatal Death Society*Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Society Project GrantAction on Pre-Eclampsia** National Voluntary Organisations. Funding in respect of Scottish groups only.

Member State quotas of North Sea Nephrops were only introduced in 1994. Before then, all Member States fished against a single quota and so quotas were not allocated at UK level. From 1994, UK quota allocations to vessels in the 10m and under group were as follows:-

Year	Initial Quota (tonnes)	End-year Quota (tonnes)	Difference
1994	396	464	68
1995	728	604	-124
1996	607	584	-23
1997	533	621	88
1998	541	710	169
1999*	541	661 ^	120 ^

* To date ^ Current allocation/difference

Of the bodies defined in section 21(2)(a) of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Bill, only the Scottish Qualifications Authority has expenditure of over £250,000 but derives less than 50% of its income from public funds. It will, however, be subject to value for money examination by the Auditor General for Scotland by virtue of its accounts being sent to the Auditor General for audit.Since section 21(2)(b) potentially includes any body, including those who receive no income from public funds, it is not possible to list the affected bodies.

There are currently signs on the cross-border routes A1, A7, A68, and A74(M) to mark the border crossings between England and Scotland. The Scottish Executive will co-operate fully with the Scottish Borders Tourist Board should it wish to promote alternative proposals to improve the designation of trunk road crossing points within their area of responsibility.

The Scottish Executive sympathise with those who suffer from post-polio syndrome. The syndrome has become well recognised in recent years, and specific criteria have been drawn up for its diagnosis. General practitioners should be well placed to carry out holistic, multidisciplinary assessments of such patients and refer them for occupational therapy or physiotherapy, both of which can be very effective in treating this condition. For these reasons The Scottish Executive does not think it necessary to establish a post-polio clinic in Scotland.

Prosecution costs per case are not held on an office by office basis. Information cannot be obtained except at disproportionate cost.

Information on running costs at each court is not collected on a case by case basis since the time taken for individual cases can vary significantly. The table below shows the information requested by sitting day for the most recent quarter (quarter ended June 1999). Figures for Jedburgh and Duns are combined as Duns is currently staffed from Jedburgh on the days when the court sits.The running costs figures shown include Scottish Court Service staff costs and variable accommodation costs (rent, rates, minor maintenance, power and utilities, cleaning and security). They do not include Judicial costs, capital charges or major maintenance costs.A breakdown of sitting days as between summary and solemn business at each court is also included. This does not sum to the total sitting days because the courts also sit on civil business.

Court	Cost per sitting day	Total sitting days	Summary sitting days	Solemn sitting days
Edinburgh	£1017	710	392	73
Haddington	£360	194	49	1
Jedburgh/Duns	£740	42	20	5
Peebles	£389	13	12	0
Selkirk	£449	23	14	3

The "Partnership for Scotland" agreement specified that "we will protect Sites of Special Scientific Interest". We are currently considering the most effective means of doing so in the light of responses to last year's "People and Nature" SSSI consultation paper.

Consumer protection and Health and Safety at work are reserved matters. Responsibility for promoting awareness in the UK lies with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), whose publicity campaigns to increase awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning include Scotland.As part of its ongoing national programme on home safety awareness, the DTI last year issued 20 million safety leaflets enclosed with gas bills to alert the public to the dangers of carbon monoxide. The bills also carried an 'on-bill' Government safety message. In addition to this, leaflets were placed in GPs surgeries throughout the UK and TV advertising further raised public awareness.The HSE has an ongoing programme providing guidance with an emphasis on the legislative aspects of gas safety. They also issued millions of leaflets last year in a national campaign. The HSE are at present conducting a fundamental review of the Health and Safety regime for the installation and use of gas to consider and determine the extent of any changes necessary to the current system. The document should be ready for public consultation later in the year. The Chief Medical Officer wrote to all doctors in Scotland on 7 September 1998 to promote greater vigilance amongst health professionals of the signs and symptoms of CO exposure in their patients.

The information is as follows :-

Health Board Expenditure on IVF Treatment*
	Actual	Estimated
Health Boards	1998/1999	1999/2000
Argyll and Clyde	£155,615	£282,100
Ayrshire and Arran	£436,417	£459,020
Borders	£26,000	£26,000
Dumfries and Galloway	£80,784	£83,643
Fife	£139,000	£150,000
Forth Valley	£129,000	£129,000
Grampian	£100,000	£100,000
Greater Glasgow	£472,000	£472,000
Highland	£140,000	£140,000
Lanarkshire	£337,851	£342,000
Lothian	£120,000	£120,000
Orkney	£8,200	£20,000
Shetland	£52,250	£55,000
Tayside	£175,000	£175,000
Western Isles	£7,853	£7,853
Total	£2,379,970	£2,561,616

*The figures above also include expenditure on other infertility treatments such as Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Insemination (ICSI).