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Information on persons charged by the police is not held centrally. The available information on persons proceeded against in court is given in the table. A breakdown by residency and nationality is not available for these statistics.

Persons Proceeded Against in Scottish Courts for Offences Related to Prostitution¹, Edinburgh², 1999 to 2002

	1999	2000	2001	20023
Number	10	3	3	5

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Persons proceeded against in Edinburgh Sheriff Court or City of EdinburghDistrict Court.

3. Figure may be an underestimate due to time taken to record details of some court proceedings.

The available information is given in the table by local authority area. Yearly totals for Scotland are not comparable due to data being unavailable in different courts in different years. The figures for outstanding balances are the total values of imposed fines which have not yet been paid plus any remaining balance on fines which are being paid by instalments. It should be noted that theoutstanding balances for each year are not cumulative, collection effortstake place continuously and the data for the most recent year reflects the existing position. Not all of the balance currently outstanding is due to default in payment - a proportion of these fines will be within their valid payment period.

Value (£000s) of Fines Imposed by District Courts Outstanding at 31 March, 1999-2004

District Court	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	20041
Aberdeen City	170	146	174	110	106	104
Aberdeenshire	105	88	57	54	44	41
Angus	61	66	79	70	95	125
Argyll and Bute	19	11	15	24	25	24
Clackmannanshire	25	37	25	23	38	36
Dumfries and Galloway	91	93	74	64	70	N/A
Dundee City	108	141	117	115	116	129
East Ayrshire	N/A	N/A	27	21	N/A	N/A
East Dunbartonshire	19	17	11	11	10	9
East Lothian	23	17	21	24	25	20
East Renfrewshire	10	11	1	8	5	2
Edinburgh, City of	205	168	N/A	55	156	117
Eilean Siar	1	2	3	N/A	N/A	N/A
Falkirk	96	117	140	136	159	174
Fife	13	42	44	19	31	N/A
Glasgow City	N/A	1363	859	873	1,048	2,218
Highland	155	115	115	148	159	174
Inverclyde	33	41	59	46	39	50
Midlothian	35	35	35	22	N/A	N/A
Moray	3	3	18	18	8	21
North Ayrshire	58	58	55	21	20	10
North Lanarkshire	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Perth and Kinross	N/A	99	80	98	21	65
Renfrewshire	137	101	77	48	37	28
Scottish Borders	156	51	70	80	84	71
South Ayrshire	55	74	132	83	79	64
South Lanarkshire	271	235	237	284	238	226
Stirling	N/A	N/A	48	N/A	N/A	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	122	78	78	82	78	75
West Lothian	149	148	85	N/A	104	95
Scotland	2,119	3,358	2,735	2,536	2,796	3,880

Notes:

"N/A" denotes data not available.

1. Provisional data.

The information available relates to the number of district court fines remitted and is given in the table. Data on the value of district court fines remitted is not held centrally. As district courts are operated by Local Authorities the information is provided by local authority area. Yearly totals for Scotland are not comparable due to data being unavailable in different courts in different years.

Number of District Court Fines Fully Remitted, 1999-2000 to 2003-04

District Court	1999-20001	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-042
Aberdeen City	146	33	94	52	157
Aberdeenshire	61	28	79	18	26
Angus	27	6	5	3	20
Argyll and Bute	162	60	54	38	50
Clackmannanshire	12	1	3	2	1
Dumfries and Galloway	28	-	11	9	N/A
Dundee City	38	25	30	52	25
East Ayrshire	116	13	68	-	N/A
East Dunbartonshire	16	6	5	-	2
East Lothian	-	5	2	4	5
East Renfrewshire	-	2	-	-	-
Edinburgh, City of	408	N/A	240	175	107
Eilean Siar	-	19	N/A	N/A	N/A
Falkirk	42	14	11	5	25
Fife	225	117	137	57	N/A
Glasgow City	385	141	43	79	17
Highland	180	125	19	27	74
Inverclyde	31	23	31	28	33
Midlothian	2	5	12	10	16
Moray	2	1	19	4	29
North Ayrshire	59	13	24	24	18
North Lanarkshire	425	2503	6454	6565	N/A
Perth and Kinross	80	126	79	2116	40
Renfrewshire	255	143	49	61	131
Scottish Borders	41	5	5	1	2
South Ayrshire	2	6	44	30	129
South Lanarkshire	106	41	21	24	11
Stirling	32	40	N/A	N/A	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	436	55	22	78	22
West Lothian	36	154	154	37	69
Scotland	3,353	1,457	1,906	1,685	1,078

Notes:

"N/A" denotes data not available.

1. Includes partly remitted fines – a separate breakdown of fully andpartly remitted fines was not collected for 1999-2000.

2. Provisional data.

3. Coatbridge only.

4. Includes fully and partly remitted fines, registered fines andcompensation orders.

5. Includes fully and partly remitted fines; excludes partly remittedfines for Coatbridge; includes remitted registered fines and compensation orders for Motherwell.

6. Includes partly remitted fines.

Number of district court fines partly remitted, 2000-01 to 2003-04¹

District court	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-044
Aberdeen City	26	17	21	113
Aberdeenshire	21	31	13	6
Angus	15	10	4	11
Argyll and Bute	25	22	17	21
Clackmannanshire	2	4	-	2
Dumfries and Galloway	12	6	3	N/A
Dundee City	69	-	70	31
East Ayrshire	8	37	-	N/A
East Dunbartonshire	5	2	2	-
East Lothian	1	1	-	-
East Renfrewshire	3	-	-	-
Edinburgh, City of	N/A	38	10	13
Eilean Siar	-	N/A	N/A	N/A
Falkirk	10	6	8	34
Fife	38	42	34	N/A
Glasgow City	40	39	50	23
Highland	103	18	3	39
Inverclyde	9	19	12	18
Midlothian	-	5	6	4
Moray	-	1	-	13
North Ayrshire	36	36	36	30
North Lanarkshire	102	N/A3	N/A3	N/A
Perth and Kinross	57	N/A	N/A3	26
Renfrewshire	129	57	59	104
Scottish Borders	1	3	3	1
South Ayrshire	2	46	18	114
South Lanarkshire	36	7	12	6
Stirling	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	26	22	30	12
West Lothian	4	6	25	48
Scotland	695	475	436	669

Notes:

“N/A” denotes data not available.

1. The numbers of fines which were partly remitted in 1999-2000 areincluded with the number of fully remitted fines in the first table – aseparate breakdown of fully and partly remitted fines was not collected forthat year.

2. Coatbridge only.

3. See footnote to corresponding figure of fully remitted fines in thefirst table

4. Provisional data.

The available information is given in the table. Yearly totals for Scotland are not comparable due to data being unavailable in different courts in different years. Fiscal fines are generally collected by the district courts and, as such, the information collected centrally and given in the table is by district court, rather than sheriff court. It should be noted that a number of the fines quoted as outstanding in 2004 are still within their valid collection period and no enforcement action will yet have been taken. Information on the value of fiscal fines outstanding in Orkney and Shetland, where payment is made to the sheriff court, is not readily available from the information held centrally.

Value (£000s) of Fiscal Fines Outstanding at 31 March, 2003 and 2004

District Court	2003	20041
Aberdeen City	3	1
Aberdeenshire	1	2
Angus	8	5
Argyll and Bute	1	2
Clackmannanshire	2	4
Dumfries and Galloway	9	N/A
Dundee City	7	10
East Ayrshire	6	N/A
East Dunbartonshire	3	1
East Lothian	2	1
East Renfrewshire	1	1
Edinburgh, City of	9	8
Eilean Siar	N/A	N/A
Falkirk	4	5
Fife	1	N/A
Glasgow City	123	781
Highland	17	9
Inverclyde	3	3
Midlothian	1	1
Moray	3	2
North Ayrshire	3	3
North Lanarkshire	N/A	N/A
Perth and Kinross	3	2
Renfrewshire	4	2
Scottish Borders	6	4
South Ayrshire	2	3
South Lanarkshire	28	29
Stirling	N/A	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	7	8
West Lothian	N/A	N/A
Scotland	258	887

Notes:

"N/A" denotes data not available.

1. Provisional data.

Any bids for specific football events are a matter for the Scottish Football Association (SFA) in the first instance. However, the Executive approached the Federation Internationale De Football Association (FIFA) in December 2004 about the possibility of Scotland hosting a future FIFA Club World Championship. FIFA originally responded positively, indicating that they would invite their member associations, including the SFA, to bid for the 2007 Championship in due course. Whilst we understand that FIFA has more recently indicated that a European host for the 2007 event would not now be considered, not least due to the amount of club football already played in Europe, that does not rule out a bid to host theChampionship post 2007.

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) recently wrote to its members associations inviting expressions of interest in making a bid to host the European Football Championships in 2012. The SFA has however concluded that its main priority over the next 10 years is “Many Players One Goal”, the Action Plan for Scottish youth football. Separately, however, the SFA has bid to UEFA to host future UEFA Champions League Finals and UEFA Cup Finals at Hampden Park.

We have provided £321 million up to 2007-08 and £986 million up to 2020 to all 32 local authorities, through the Strategic Waste Fund, to improve recycling facilities. We also support local Waste Aware Scotland campaigns, which provide information to the public on new recycling infrastructure. We also continue to support the national Do a Little, Change a Lot campaign, which promotes sustainable development, including recycling.

Based on current levels of investment, the contribution of £8.9 million towards the implementation of the Action Plan for Youth Football, comprises £4.5 million from the SFA and £4.4 million from local authorities to support the local authority community programmes over the ten year period of the plan.

The £12.2 million to be made available by the Executive and sportscotland towards the implementation of the Action Plan for Youth Football will include £1.2 million of Exchequer funding, £1 million from the Lottery Sports Fund and £6 million from funding made available for community sport from unspent balances of the former New Opportunities Fund. The balance of £4 million will be identified from future lottery income.

A new ferry service from Scotland to Norway may be eligible for Freight Facility Grant (FFG) to help with any additional capital expenditure required to upgrade terminal facilities in Scotland. It may also qualify for a Waterborne Freight Grant (WFG) to help the operator with operational costs in the first three years of the service. Any support would depend on the environmental and economic benefits of transferring lorry miles from the roads to the sea route to qualify. Scottish Enterprise and VisitScotland may also be able to support such a project, subject to State aid considerations.

Latest figures from VisitScotland show 17,000 trips to Scotland from Norway valued at £4 million during 2003, with 57% trips being by air and 43% by sea. 69% of those trips were for holidays, with the balance being for business and other reasons. The estimated value of exports from Scotland to Norway is £699 million per year and Norway is ranked as 8th in Scotland’s top markets for export.

Information on the number of high profile visits to Edinburgh is not held centrally and is an operational matter for the Chief Constable.

In 2004, following recommendations made by Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Lothian and Borders Police were allocated an additional £600,000 per annum in recognition of Edinburgh’s capital city status.

No decision has been taken on the level of additional funding will be provided to the police in respect of the G8 Summit.