Chamber and committees

For applications approved in 2001, average annual payments were £161.80 in 2001-02 and are £6,868.67 in 2002-03, as at the end of October 2002. The first management payments will be made for these participants in the next three months. For applications approved in 2002, average annual payments to date are £222.56 in 2002-03. First management payments are due in 12 months time.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30980 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

Yes. The Executive looks forward next month to publishing the 2nd Annual Report giving details of action to implement the National Cultural Strategy and progress achieved in the past year.

The information available on how many newly qualified (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers have taken up posts in each local authority area in each of the last three years is shown in the following table:Initial Teacher Training Graduates and Diplomates Teaching in Scotland, by Local Authority Area¹ and Sector, 1998-99 to 2000-01

	1998-99			1999-2000			2000-01
	Total	Primary	Secondary	Total	Primary	Secondary	Total	Primary	Secondary
Total	873	410	463	1,212	567	645	1,185	516	669
Scotland unknown	502	225	277	583	298	285	378	180	198
City of Aberdeen	28	14	14	32	7	25	16	6	10
Aberdeenshire	41	18	23	46	16	30	59	20	39
Angus	*	*	9	*	*	12	12	6	6
Argyll and Bute	*	*	0	*	*	0	6	*	*
Clackmannanshire	*	*	*	*	0	*	6	*	*
Dumfries and Galloway	*	6	*	*	*	9	*	*	14
City of Dundee	*	7	*	28	10	18	14	7	7
East Ayrshire	*	*	*	*	0	*	*	*	15
East Dunbartonshire	*	0	*	*	*	*	*	*	6
East Lothian	*	*	*	23	11	12	20	10	10
East Renfrewshire	*	*	*	*	*	6	*	*	14
City of Edinburgh	78	40	38	112	57	55	112	58	54
Falkirk	9	*	*	20	12	8	33	18	15
Fife	40	24	16	52	22	30	79	38	41
City of Glasgow	18	6	12	58	25	33	89	30	59
Highland	*	11	*	20	8	12	23	12	11
Inverclyde	*	*	*	*	6	*	11	0	11
Midlothian	6	*	*	17	8	9	15	8	7
Moray	*	*	8	*	*	7	8	*	*
North Ayrshire	*	0	*	*	*	*	*	*	6
North Lanarkshire	*	*	*	37	15	22	42	13	29
Orkney	*	*	*	*	0	*	*	*	*
Perth and Kinross	18	10	8	7	*	*	30	13	17
Renfrewshire	6	*	*	*	*	10	24	10	14
Scottish Borders	*	9	*	13	7	6	19	8	11
Shetland	6	*	*	*	*	0	*	*	*
South Ayrshire	*	0	*	0	0	0	9	0	9
South Lanarkshire	*	0	*	*	12	*	33	19	14
Stirling	*	*	7	*	*	9	17	11	6
West Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	7	*	*	*	*	8
West Lothian	*	*	*	35	16	19	36	17	19
Western Isles	6	*	*	*	0	*	*	*	*

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).Notes:1. This is the local authority area of the teaching facility of the Graduate and or diplomate.*Due to the Data Protection Act numbers greater than or equal to one but less than or equal to five cannot be calculated or disclosed from data.

DNA records are not kept by forces but are held on the Scottish DNA database, managed by Tayside Forensic Laboratory. As at 30 September 2002, the Scottish database currently held 117,354 DNA profiles from known individuals and 2,691 profiles from crime scene stains (DNA recovered from a crime scene where there is no named suspect). The following table shows the number of profiles submitted by each force:

	Known Profiles	Crime Scene Stains
Central Scotland	12,421	405
Dumfries and Galloway	2,527	69
Fife	13,287	264
Grampian	8,938	354
Lothian and Borders	16,776	306
Northern	7,515	73
Strathclyde	44,496	580
Tayside	11,394	640
Total	117,354	2,691

The information requested is given in table number 1 of Scottish School Leavers and their Qualifications: 2000-01 published by the Scottish Executive on 16 July 2002. A copy of the news release relating to this publication, which includes the relevant information, is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 22710).

We are planning to promote information technology literacy amongst children in a number of ways: by creating a schools intranet to enable better communications and sharing of information between schools; by creating exciting digital content for children to use; by training 600 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts across all 32 education authorities to manage the further integration of ICT into the curriculum.ICT is a core skill and new ICT 5-14 national guidelines were issued in December 2000. Their aim is to develop ICT capability, provide opportunities for ICT learning within other areas of the curriculum and harness the potential to demonstrate creativity, enterprising activity and innovation.

The information requested is not currently available. However, I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27832 on 23 August 2002. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa. This answer gives details of ADSL enabled exchanges across Scotland, those that will be enabled where sufficient demand is registered and the population coverage of these exchanges. All Scottish businesses and homes can choose to access broadband via satellite.

The Executive's Drugs Strategy, Tackling Drugs in Scotland - Action in Partnership, is backed by around £130 million in new resources over the three years from 2001-02 to 2003-04. Examples of measures supported by these resources include £33.5 million to NHS boards and local authorities to support new and improved drug treatment and rehabilitation services; £20 million (mostly through the Changing Children's Services Fund) to support young people and families; £10 million to support drugs services in prisons, and £11.7 million for services linked to criminal justice interventions such as drug testing and treatment orders and drugs courts.Delivery of the strategy falls largely to Scotland's 22 drug action teams (DATs). It is for DATs, and their constituent agencies, to decide priorities and use the resources to design and implement services tailored to meet local needs, engaging their communities in the process. The Executive's Effective Interventions Unit has recently published Integrated Care for Drug Users, which sets out a framework to assist DATs and partner agencies in the planning, design and delivery of integrated care for drug users. It also provides information and support to service providers, managers and practitioners who are delivering services to people with drug problems.

We have introduced a wide range of measures to make Scotland safer and the people of Scotland feel safer. Measures we have or are taking to specifically combat the many forms of violence which occur in our communities include:To reduce domestic abuse we are raising awareness through our advertising campaign, increasing protection with the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001 and providing £12 million to increase refuge provision to enable women to escape their abuser and prevent repeat victimisation.The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill will introduce a package of measures to enhance the assessment and control of offenders who commit serious violent, sexual or life endangering offences.We introduced the Community Safety Partnership Award Programme which will provide local authority-led partnerships with £12 million over the next three years for crime prevention and community safety initiatives. Prior to this we provided challenge competition funding of £10.3 million to 161 CCTV projects to make communities safer in Scotland.We have also set targets in association with the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland for a reduction of 5% in the number of recorded incidents of serious violent crime and a 4% increase in the detection rate of such crimes (these targets are derived from a three-year average 1997-2000).