Chamber and committees

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23352.

The salaries of the Chairman and members of the board of Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd are as follows:

	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02
Chairman (part-time)	£17,098	£17,611	£17,963	£18,188	£18,679	£19,240
Managing Director (full-time)	£57,478	£60,000	£61,200	£61,965	£63,638	£65,548
Non-Executive Board Members (part-time)	£5,459	£5,623	£5,735	£5,807	£5,964	£6,143

Details of remuneration are not held centrally.

The information requested is given in the Annual Reports and Accounts for Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd, copies of which are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre. The Bib. numbers are as follows:

1996-97	19892
1997-98	20023
1998-99	3976
1999-2000	7211
2000-01	15017

On 25 February, I awarded an extra £20 million in grant in financial year 2001-02 to local authorities to speed up assessment and repair work to local roads and bridges. This is in addition to the extra £70 million included in capital allocations between financial year 2001-02 to 2003-04 to tackle the backlog of repairs and maintenance to local roads and bridges.It is for local authorities to prioritise the upgrading of any bridges and to allocate the necessary funding from the resources available to them. It is also their responsibility to take forward any action required to complete the Bridgeguard 3 assessment programme and to carry out any necessary work identified by the programme.

Consignia, post offices and postal services are reserved matters. The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the Postal Services Commission on a range of issues, including its most recent consultation.

Postal services and consumer protection are reserved matters. The Consumer Council for Postal Services, known as Postwatch, currently consists of 14 members: a chairman, nine regional chairmen and four ordinary members. They are all appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Postwatch raises issues with the Executive as it feels necessary.

Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form. These returns cover only road accidents in which one or more people were injured: they do not cover damage only accidents. The returns do not provide information about the causes of the accidents.Accidents for which adverse or winter weather conditions were reported as an attributable factor are not identified as such in the STATS 19 returns. The returns do, however, include information about the weather and the road surface condition at the time of the accident. The following table 1 lists the number of injury road accidents by month and police force from May 1997 to October 2001, the latest month for which information for each force area is held centrally. The following table 2 lists the number of these injury road accidents which occurred in what might be regarded as adverse or winter weather conditions. The following types of accidents were counted for the purpose of producing the figures in this table - those for which either (a) the weather was recorded as one of the following: snowing; fine with high winds; raining with high winds; fog or mist (if hazard); or other adverse weather conditions; or (b) the road surface condition was recorded as one of the following: snow; frost/ice; or flood (surface water over 3 cm deep). In the tables all figures for 2001 are provisional.Information on road accidents which lead to a report to Procurators Fiscal is not held centrally.Table 1 Injury road accidents by month and police force:May 1997 to October 2001

		Northern	Grampian	Tayside	Fife	Lothian & Borders		Central	Strathclyde	Dumfries & Galloway	Scotland
1997	May	89	125	117	77	280		67	611	40	1,406
	June	96	121	96	69	294		88	621	33	1,418
	July	98	137	98	58	270		83	627	45	1,416
	August	99	125	125	60	328		90	587	46	1,460
	September	82	123	106	65	268		81	570	39	1,334
	October	73	123	125	81	320		55	646	37	1,460
	November	66	147	122	75	336		70	655	27	1,498
	December	62	137	97	63	311		81	685	28	1,464
1998	January	54	107	92	76	285		55	604	47	1,320
	February	61	97	91	50	274		53	523	36	1,185
	March	72	116	90	41	274		63	568	35	1,259
	April	69	104	90	56	280		62	531	23	1,215
	May	68	111	111	65	308		71	611	39	1,384
	June	84	112	120	59	272		82	624	40	1,393
	July	75	117	95	53	295		72	554	38	1,299
	August	131	147	110	70	336		81	658	41	1,574
	September	88	130	126	64	277		58	542	33	1,318
	October	82	127	103	70	328		68	787	28	1,593
	November	76	127	124	60	308		59	670	47	1,471
	December	88	114	106	67	315		76	691	51	1,508
1999	January	64	105	105	59	267		48	573	44	1,265
	February	68	103	91	43	242		49	575	23	1,194
	March	55	98	102	66	268		64	549	32	1,234
	April	52	102	85	59	230		58	555	30	1,171
	May	57	108	88	60	259		57	581	29	1,239
	June	79	83	92	55	262		66	541	28	1,206
	July	122	91	129	69	240		75	536	39	1,301
	August	118	104	95	49	282		56	544	26	1,274
	September	76	123	119	55	275		80	601	32	1,361
	October	52	94	114	54	290		46	632	26	1,308
	November	90	110	122	74	301		83	629	36	1,445
	December	76	118	115	67	315		53	628	43	1,415
2000	January	52	84	88	66	279		56	551	41	1,217
	February	51	104	114	73	282		56	608	28	1,316
	March	60	68	84	47	241		40	533	26	1,099
	April	65	92	85	52	238		56	514	26	1,128
	May	70	123	86	61	256		72	531	29	1,228
	June	64	92	105	58	262		58	519	38	1,196
	July	81	90	86	63	257		55	482	42	1,156
	August	98	121	112	73	292		58	585	38	1,377
	September	59	106	104	68	269		47	533	39	1,225
	October	63	104	83	76	292		59	599	43	1,319
	November	73	120	127	83	339		52	688	34	1,516
	December	66	121	100	64	294		63	588	37	1,333
2001	January	66	97	106	48	263	56		531	48	1,215
	February	54	90	114	59	251	44		524	32	1,168
	March	50	95	70	48	230		44	538	22	1,097
	April	69	80	102	55	217		32	461	23	1,039
	May	72	82	102	56	259		49	566	42	1,228
	June	69	80	100	63	310		64	537	28	1,251
	July	87	96	95	68	227		67	499	38	1,177
	August	78	97	107	70	299		54	582	59	1,346
	September	74	90	98	44	275		56	518	28	1,183
	October	63	102	98	49	261		62	587	38	1,260

Table 2 Injury road accidents which occurred in what might be regarded as adverse or winter weather conditions by month and police force:May 1997 October 2001

		Northern	Grampian	Tayside	Fife	Lothian& Borders	Central	Strathclyde	Dumfries & Galloway	Scotland
1997	May	19	7	3	2	5	3	15	1	55
	June	8	4	0	2	5	3	16	0	38
	July	6	6	3	0	1	1	23	1	41
	August	2	4	2	0	10	3	10	1	32
	September	7	5	5	6	10	11	50	1	95
	October	6	2	4	1	9	2	31	1	56
	November	17	15	5	7	9	7	62	3	125
	December	19	20	6	9	31	15	138	9	247
1998	January	21	11	21	17	33	13	103	9	228
	February	24	16	2	4	41	8	122	8	225
	March	25	20	7	2	16	4	56	3	133
	April	17	26	12	7	8	5	34	2	111
	May	3	1	3	2	5	0	22	1	37
	June	5	2	1	3	3	0	10	0	24
	July	9	5	2	0	5	3	14	2	40
	August	12	0	0	0	3	3	28	2	48
	September	4	15	10	3	7	0	17	1	57
	October	19	19	10	7	17	9	128	3	212
	November	26	26	20	10	26	6	109	8	231
	December	36	37	20	14	44	18	147	17	333
1999	January	28	31	31	15	44	14	183	17	363
	February	38	49	16	9	97	10	106	4	329
	March	12	14	3	4	53	2	31	5	124
	April	8	16	4	4	64	4	37	3	140
	May	4	4	0	4	26	3	51	0	92
	June	6	2	0	0	24	3	18	1	54
	July	7	2	2	2	27	1	10	0	51
	August	4	3	0	2	56	0	5	0	70
	September	4	10	6	3	59	2	35	4	123
	October	3	6	2	3	85	3	60	3	165
	November	24	18	11	5	132	17	132	6	345
	December	42	55	41	23	194	25	260	24	664
2000	January	18	20	18	18	128	22	132	12	368
	February	19	11	29	25	111	16	185	8	404
	March	9	13	5	3	67	6	51	0	154
	April	4	11	6	5	29	5	25	1	86
	May	4	3	0	1	6	1	2	1	18
	June	2	5	1	2	9	3	18	0	40
	July	5	3	0	0	6	1	4	0	19
	August	5	3	1	0	3	4	10	1	27
	September	2	9	2	1	13	4	24	1	56
	October	9	16	5	5	17	6	67	6	131
	November	13	18	10	6	35	10	82	8	182
	December	20	34	25	17	40	12	128	17	293
2001	January	30	25	24	9	41	21	97	18	265
	February	29	35	42	19	65	9	125	14	338
	March	9	12	6	5	16	6	49	0	103
	April	5	8	3	1	8	3	15	0	43
	May	4	1	2	0	11	0	9	0	27
	June	1	2	3	3	11	2	18	0	40
	July	6	5	1	2	9	2	14	2	41
	August	3	3	0	1	2	1	13	0	23
	September	7	6	0	2	6	1	20	2	44
	October	11	10	9	0	21	10	77	4	142

Information on donations received from individual organisations is not held centrally.The annual accounts of NHS trusts only provide information relating to the utilisation of donations as a whole within the financial year reported.The total value of charitable donations used to fund revenue expenditure is reported on note 28 of the Summarised Account of NHS trusts in Scotland which can be found in the NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts for the year, copies of which are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre.The following table gives the relevant Bib. numbers:

Publication Title	Bib. number
NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts 1996-97	19726
NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts 1997-98	11584
NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts 1998-99	11585
NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts 1999-2000	19675
NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts for year ending 31 March 2001	18356

Postal services are a reserved matter. Subject to Postcomm's primary duty to ensure the provision of a universal postal service it also has a remit to promote competition in the interests of consumers. The UK Government take the view that the way in which postal operators respond to any opening of the market is a commercial matter for them.

The information requested is as follows:

Recipient	Budget Heading	1999-2000 outturn (£ million)	2000-01 outturn (£ million)	2001-02 outturn to 31 December 2001 (£ million)
Strategic Rail Authority (SRA)	Grants for rail services in Scotland*	Not applicable	Not applicable	£55.9
Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT)	Other local authority grants for transport	£86.3	£76.6	£53.6

* Prior to 2001-02, payments to the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) for grants for rail services in Scotland were made by DTLR. Responsibility for paying the SRA was one of the functions transferred to Scottish ministers as a result of the railways devolution settlement.