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The Scottish Government allocates funding from a variety of sources to support action on drug issues.

The following tables set out details of funding allocations for each of the last three financial years as well as for the current financial year.

Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation:

Money is allocated from the Justice Directorate budget to NHS boards for drug treatment and rehabilitation services.

NHS Board	2006-07 (£ Million)	2007-08 (£ Million)	2008-09 (£ Million)	2009-10 (£ Million)
Argyll and Clyde*	2,226	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ayrshire and Arran	1,155	1,155	1,198	1,360
Borders	189	189	196	222
Dumfries and Galloway	482	482	500	568
Fife	1,378	1,378	1,430	1,623
Forth Valley	828	828	859	975
Grampian	2,202	2,202	2,285	2,593
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	6,392	8,114	8,422	9,559
Highland	489	993	1,031	1,170
Lanarkshire	1,591	1,591	1,651	1,874
Lothian	4,645	4,645	4,821	5,472
Orkney	54	54	56	64
Shetland	72	72	75	85
Tayside	1,965	1,965	2,039	2,314
Western Isles	101	101	105	119
Total Scotland	23,769	23,769	24,668	27,998

Note: *Argyll and Clyde health board split between Greater Glasgow and Highland in 2006-07.

Alcohol and Drug Action Team Support:

Money is allocated from the Justice and Health Directorate budgets to support the operation of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams.

NHS Board	2006-07 (£)	2007-08 (£)	2008-09 (£)	2009-10 (£)
Argyll and Clyde*	178,549	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ayrshire and Arran	173,139	173,139	183,527	191,074
Borders	115,077	115,077	121,982	125,594
Dumfries and Galloway	120,048	120,048	127,251	131,566
Fife	168,963	168,963	179,101	185,969
Forth Valley	161,413	161,413	171,098	176,908
Grampian	231,192	231,192	245,064	253,622
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	232,070	370,213	392,426	412,599
Highland	157,078	197,484	209,333	215,997
Lanarkshire	190,287	190,287	201,704	211,421
Lothian	280,687	280,687	297,528	309,300
Orkney	90,819	90,819	96,268	98,569
Shetland	90,983	90,983	96,422	98,777
Tayside	222,499	222,499	235,849	243,597
Western Isles	92,199	92,199	97,731	100,291
Total Scotland	2,505,003	£2,505,003	£2,655,284	£2,755,284

Note: *Argyll and Clyde health board split between Greater Glasgow and Highland in 2006-07.

Hepatitis C Funding:

Money is allocated from the Health Directorate budget to support the Hepatitis C Phase 2 Action Plan and other related activity.

NHS Boards	2006-07 (£)	2007-08 (£)	2008-09 (£)	2009-10 (£)
Ayrshire and Arran	140,952	140,952	251,472	941,277
Borders	20,866	20,866	41,687	134,819
Dumfries and Galloway	59,050	59,050	106,939	383,496
Fife	81,410	81,410	161,689	610,615
Forth Valley	97,905	97,905	223,163	844,896
Grampian	223,346	223,346	423,448	1,582,713
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	696,804	696,804	1,212,441	4,429,115
Highland	84,596	84,596	148,493	542,858
Lanarkshire	176,110	176,110	303,242	1,107,989
Lothian	275,154	275,154	507,758	1,914,401
Orkney	2,889	2,889	11,906	24,821
Shetland	4,437	4,437	14,023	32,142
Tayside	129,020	129,020	269,400	994,319
Western Isles	2,989	2,989	12,759	28,113
Total NHS Boards Scotland	1,995,528	1,995,528	3,688,420	13,571,573
Other Public Sector
State Hospital	4,472	4,472	13,267	27,340
NSS	395,000	295,000	1,133,001	1,703,579
NHS Education for Scotland	-	-	41,207	41,207
Health Scotland	-	-	30,905	41,207
Learning Teaching Scotland	-	-	120,000	50,000
Scottish Prison Service	-	-	345,000	410,000
Voluntary Sector
Mainliners*	70,000	70,000	80,000	130,000
Scottish Drugs Forum	-	-	-	70,000
UK Hepatitis C Trust	-	-	-	100,000

Drug Treatment and Testing Orders (DTTO):

Money is allocated from the Justice Directorate budget to support the operation of Drug Treatment and Testing Orders and Drug Courts.

DTTO Grant Allocations	2006-07 (£)	2007-08 (£)	2008-09 (£)	2009-10 (£)
Community Justice Authority*
Fife and Forth Valley**	1,657,295	1,657,295	1,657,295	1,657,295
Glasgow***	1,812,914	1,772,977	1,770,083	1,770,083
Lanarkshire	594,500	594,500	594,500	594,500
Lothian and Borders	1,620,924	1,687,227	2,145,098	2,240,637
Northern	676,459	676,459	676,459	676,459
North Strathclyde	1,118,705	1,118,705	1,118,705	1,118,705
South West Scotland	797,969	797,969	797,969	797,969
Tayside	584,899	584,899	584,899	584,899
Total	8,863,665	8,890,031	9,345,008	9,440,547

Notes:

*Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) did not exist in 2006-07 and the allocations in this spreadsheet comprise the total grant allocated to relevant local authorities that exist within each CJA.

**Fife and Forth Valley allocations include all funding related to Fife Drug Court.

***Glasgow allocations include all funding related to Glasgow Drug Court and Drug Coordinator costs in 2006-07 and 2007-08.

Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA):

Money is allocated from the Justice Directorate budget to support the Scottish Crime and Drug enforcement agency.

	2006-07* (£ Million)	2007-08 (£ Million)	2008-09 (£ Million)	2009-10 (£ Million)
Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA)	22.2	23.1	23.6	24.7

Note: *The Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (SDEA) became the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency on 1 April 2007.

This is not the complete picture of spend to support action on drug issues. The health board and other local partners, including local authorities and the police, spend additional funds on tackling problem drug misuse in order to meet the needs of the local population.

In addition, an examination of the level and effectiveness of public sector spend on alcohol and drugs was conducted by Audit Scotland, the report of which was published March 2009. A copy of the report is available at the following link:

http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/docs/health/2009/nr_090326_drugs_alcohol.pdf.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond.  His response is as follows:

The information is not available in the format requested. However, the Scottish Prison Service published Prison Health in Scotland: A Health Care Needs Assessment in December 2007, which contains information on the epidemiology of prisoner health and describes some aspects of treatment for physical health conditions. The following is a web link to the publication:

http://www.sps.gov.uk/MultimediaGallery/363852d6-79d1-464c-9b65-857721c2a628.pdf.

Class sizes in Scotland are at a record low. Maintaining teacher numbers in the face of falling school rolls is a mechanism to deliver reduced class sizes. We will work collectively with COSLA, local authorities and others to ensure we achieve even more progress on our class size agenda.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:

As recommended by Ofcom, SPS discussed with Siemens the possibility of reducing the rates that they charge prisoners for phone calls between now and the end of their contract but they have responded that for commercial reasons they are not willing to do so without a contribution from SPS. It was not deemed appropriate for SPS to subsidise a reduction in prisoner call charges.

SPS understands that the reduction agreed by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) for prisons in England and Wales is 100% funded by the commercial supplier, BT, with no contribution from NOMS and therefore a minimal impact on the taxpayer.

SPS is procuring a new contract which will address the issues raised by Ofcom.

The key aim of our national drug strategy is recovery from problem drug use. People achieve recovery in different ways. The strategy makes it clear that there needs to be a range of services in place to make recovery a reality, including harm reduction services such as needle exchanges, as well as community and residential rehabilitation and detoxification programmes.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

A 30 minute phone call from a prison to a UK landline would cost £3.24.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:

Siemens commercial proposal, at contract award, between SPS and Siemens was based on the current call charge rates, which at the time of contract award was the same as the call charge tariff in force in HMPS prisons in England and Wales. The call charge tariff remains part of the current contract which runs until 31 March 2010.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

On average, phone calls made by inmates from prison during the last five years (2004-09) have lasted 4.1 minutes.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:

Ofcom''s response to the super-complaint on the cost of calls made by prisoners, published on 22 September 2008, contained the following invitation:

Invite the SPS to consider whether it would be appropriate to open negotiations with Siemens to reduce the cost of telephone calls under the current contracts.

SPS has responded to this invitation:

By opening negotiations with Siemens to reduce the cost of telephone calls under the current contract which expires on 31 March 2010.

By designing the current tendering process for the future contract in such a way so as to recue prisoner call rates from April 2010 onwards.

Ofcom wrote to SPS on 16 April 2009 asking SPS to provide Ofcom with an update on the SPS''s review of call charges with Siemens. SPS replied to Ofcom on 30 April 2009.

Our national drug strategy The Road to Recovery makes it clear that a range of services, including substitute prescribing, needs to be in place to enable people to recover from their drug use. It is, however, for clinicians to decide the most appropriate treatment in consultation with their patient. The Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management provide guidance on the treatment of drug use. The Government strongly supports these guidelines as the basis on which clinicians and other professionals should consider treatment of patients with drug use problems. A copy of the guidelines can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/09/drug-clinical-guidelines.