Chamber and committees

The information requested is not held centrally. A service-led group, chaired by a NHS Trust Chief Executive, has been established to consider the issue of missed appointments. NHS boards and trusts, together with primary care teams are already working to ensure that wherever possible if an appointment is cancelled it can be filled by another patient. Patients also have a responsibility to ensure that where they are likely to have difficulty in attending an appointment they inform their practice or clinic as soon as possible.

The available information is given in the following table. The category of "drug" crimes recorded by the police only includes crimes involving the importation, cultivation, supply or possession of drugs. Other types of crime e.g. crimes of dishonesty to fund the purchase of drugs or crimes committed under the influence of drugs may be "drug related" but cannot be separately distinguished in the recorded crime statistics.Drug Crimes Recorded by Police Force Area per 10,000 Population and as a Percentage of Total Crime, 1999 to 2001

	Drugs Crimes as a Rate per 10,000 Population			Drugs Crimes as a Percentage of all Crimes
Police Force area	1999	2000	2001	1999	2000	2001
Central	47	46	71	7	8	12
Dumfries and Galloway	48	31	45	8	6	8
Fife	43	36	47	6	5	6
Grampian	50	44	50	5	5	6
Lothian and Borders	57	58	63	6	6	7
Northern	55	39	58	12	8	12
Strathclyde	76	81	89	8	9	10
Tayside	51	42	53	6	5	7
Scotland	62	61	71	7	7	9

Regulations can be revoked or simplified both by specific instruments addressing these regulations and by elements contained in more wide-ranging instruments. It is therefore not possible to give figures for reductions in bureaucracy. The Executive works to ensure that all regulations are necessary and proportionate. In particular, for regulations which impact on business, charities and the voluntary sector, the use of the Regulatory Impact Assessment and the Review Regulatory Impact Assessment should guarantee that regulations are proportionate, necessary and fit for purpose when they are introduced and remain so over time.

As part of the Global Connections Strategy launched in October 2001, the Executive stated its aim of attracting high value economic activity to Scotland and stressed the importance of helping anchor companies in Scotland. Scottish Development International officials based both at home and overseas continue to work closely with new and existing clients to identify new inward investment opportunities, including the possibility that companies may wish to establish their European headquarters in Scotland.A number of incentives are available to companies wishing to establish headquarters in Scotland ranging from grants, most notably Regional Selective Assistance grant within the Assisted Areas of Scotland to help with sourcing customers, suppliers and suitably skilled employees.For high potential companies which are owned and are headquartered in Scotland, the Global Companies Development Process offers tailored support to global companies or companies who wish to become global.

The Scottish Executive set out its broadband strategy last year in Connecting Scotland: Our Broadband Future and our vision was to make broadband connections more affordable and pervasive across the country, including in rural areas. As part of that strategy, the Executive has developed the Pathfinder initiatives to aggregate public sector demand for broadband in the Highlands and Islands and South of Scotland. It is hoped that this major investment on the part of the public sector will help to stimulate both demand for and supply of broadband within these areas, which might not be immediately covered by the commercial market. Work on the Pathfinder initiative is well in hand.Our strategy also undertook to identify where there was a need for direct support measures; our programme under the UK Broadband Fund is developing this element through almost a dozen projects managed by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. These include awareness raising measures and technology trials in rural areas, such as Powerline Carrier and Wireless pilots, which aim to determine the potential of these technologies for delivering broadband in rural communities. The UK Government has set a general target on broadband which is to "have the most extensive and competitive broadband market in the G7 by 2005" and the Scottish Executive's broadband strategy is designed to contribute to this overall objective.Currently, about half of the Scottish population has access to broadband via terrestrial ADSL and/or cable-modem equivalents.

The statistics requested are not held centrally by the Scottish Executive but the Department for Culture, Media and Sport maintains a database of National Lottery awards on their website which sets out the number and amount of awards, by local authority area and by constituency, for each lottery fund.

The information requested is not held centrally.

The following table sets out estimates of the requested proportions based on the relevant published spending plans for the years 1997-98 to 2003-04.

Year	(a) Total Scotland(£ million)	(b)Total Environment and Rural Affairs(£ million)	(c) Estimated Amount of (b) with no Linkage to European Funding(£ million) (%)	(d) Amounts in (c) as a % of Amounts in (a)
1997-98	14,614	908	459 (51%)	3.1%
1998-99	14,523	804	392 (49%)	2.7%
1999-2000	15,895	783	392 (50%)	2.5%
2000-01	16,691	834	391 (47%)	2.3%
2001-02	19,744	1,188	714 (60%)	3.6%
2002-03	20,913	1,207	737 (61%)	3.5%
2003-04	22,075	1,252	784 (63%)	3.6%

Spending plans from 2001-02 are in resource terms, while those for previous years are in cash terms.

The information requested is not available but Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service Management reviews each instance of this and takes steps to ensure that lessons are learned to seek to avoid repetitions.

The information requested is as follows:

Cases Marked: "No Proceedings"	April 1999 to March 2000	April 2000 to March 2001	April 2001 to March 2002
Aberdeen	2,198	1,188	1,269
Airdrie	1,319	1,523	1,225
Alloa	362	397	473
Arbroath	389	324	184
Ayr	1,009	923	858
Banff	456	102	199
Campbeltown	76	69	36
Cupar	388	391	353
Dingwall	143	169	148
Dornoch	39	43	47
Dumbarton	1,275	1,538	1,563
Dumfries	806	787	862
Dundee	1,251	1,115	911
Dunfermline	1,153	883	1,081
Dunoon	148	176	212
Duns	56	74	88
Edinburgh	3,386	2,804	3,879
Elgin	486	277	309
Falkirk	864	1,099	1,329
Forfar	276	259	224
Fort William	109	135	109
Glasgow	13,726	16,081	13,967
Greenock	817	792	724
Haddington	347	380	359
Hamilton	2,440	2,355	2,198
Inverness	720	776	705
Jedburgh	175	150	172
Kilmarnock	1,451	1,216	1,614
Kirkcaldy	1,308	1,710	1,349
Kirkcudbright	171	170	119
Kirkwall	72	71	57
Lanark	346	344	201
Lerwick	94	60	76
Linlithgow	841	769	841
Lochmaddy	24	21	18
Oban	184	142	132
Paisley	2,036	1,586	1,660
Peebles	81	65	60
Perth	893	695	766
Peterhead	204	174	135
Portree	32	51	60
Rothesay	30	22	45
Selkirk	273	303	231
Stirling	660	943	922
Stonehaven	118	129	86
Stornoway	34	46	52
Stranraer	446	320	276
Tain	134	181	209
Wick	112	152	123
PF Service Total	43,958	43,980	42,516