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This information is not availablein the format requested. Information on the number of nurseries by management sectorsince 2003 are published in the Summary Results of the 2003 Pre-School and DaycareCensus, and the 2004-06 versions of Pre-School and Childcare Statistics(Bib. numbers 28688, 33362, 40112, and 40411 respectively).

Expenditure on students withlearning difficulties is not recorded specifically in local authority accounts.However, their information on the expenditure on special education is publishedin table 1.1 of Expenditure on School Education in Scotland, on the Executive’swebsite:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/02/07145319/0.

Numbersof pupils with additional support needs, both in mainstream and special schools,are published in tables 1.1 and 1.5 of Pupils in Scotland, on the Executive’swebsite:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PubPupilCensus.

There may be some variation inthe way in which local authorities allocate spend on special education in theiraccounts, so per pupil calculations may not be accurate.

The Executive continues to demonstrateits support of renewable technologies by choosing to purchase 100% of the electricityrequired to run it’s buildings from new renewable sources. We have set a targetto reduce the emissions caused by energy use on our estate by 12.6%, from 1999-2000levels, by March 2011 building to an overall reduction of 30% by March 2020. Thesetargets will principally be delivered through improvements in efficiency on ourexisting estate but we are also currently investigating options for the installationof microgeneration technologies at a number of our buildings.

The Executive is working in partnershipwith it’s projects and property maintenance contractor to develop an energy actionplan during 2007 looking at both better management of existing systems and wherebetter technology can be utilised to reduce the carbon emissions relative to theoperation of our buildings. We will be commencing a project later this year to replacethe lighting, heating and cooling systems and controls at Meridian Court,one of our main buildings in Glasgow, to substantially improve the facilities available whiledelivering improvements in energy efficiency. We are also continuing to raise awarenessof the simple and effective measures such as turning off unnecessary lighting andswitching off computers, printers and photocopiers when not in use. This will beaddressed at both the corporate level through Executive-wide initiatives and atthe local level through the developing environmental management systems in our targetbuildings and our network of Environmental Guardians who are tasked with promotingbetter practices within the workplace.

The information requested isset out in the following table.

Executive PPP Commitments as a Percentage of Departmental Budgets¹

Year	Justice²	Education	Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning	Finance and Central Services	Scottish Executive Total
1999-2000	2.4	0	1.1	0.1	0.3
2000-01	2.3	0	1	0.4	0.3
2001-02	2	0	0.8	0.7	0.4
2002-03	1.4	0	0.8	0.7	0.4
2003-04	1.1	0	0.6	0.8	0.4
2004-05	1.4	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.4
2005-06	1.2	1	0.8	0.9	0.4
2006-07 (estimate)	-	2.9	0.8	0.9	0.4

Notes:

1. The Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) budget has beenused which includes both operating and capital budgets.

2. A figure for 2006-07is not currently available.

The PPP commitments of the ScottishExecutive fall into two categories: the unitary charge for the Executive’s own PPPprojects and the support funding provided to local authority PPP projects. In thecase of the latter, the full unitary charge figure has not been shown as only thefunding provided by the Executive is a commitment for the Executive.

The table includes figures fromdevolution only.

The information requested isnot held centrally. Information showing the number of patients discharged from generaland psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of eating disorder is set out in thefollowing tables. Patients diagnosed with eating disorders can be seen in both settings.

Table 1: Patients aged 10 to 30 years, with any diagnosis ofeating disorder, resident in Scotland and treated in acute (non-obstetric, non-psychiatric)hospitals for years ending 31 March:

	Age Group	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	Total
Scotland	10-16	37	30	28	21	23	22	32	24	23	22	262
	17-23	26	37	29	30	43	36	46	48	42	49	386
	24-30	34	31	25	39	34	33	29	36	35	33	329
Total		97	98	82	90	100	91	107	108	100	104	977

Source: ISD, SMR01.

Table 2: Total patients aged 10 to 30 years, with any diagnosis ofeating disorder, resident in Scotland and treated in acute (non-obstetric, non-psychiatric)hospitals by NHS Board between 1997 and 2006. Given the numbers involved, totals only are provided at NHS boardlevel to protect confidentiality:

NHS Board	1997-2006 Total patients Aged 10-30
Ayrshire and Arran	64
Argyll and Clyde	55
Borders	20
Dumfries and Galloway	41
Fife	59
Forth Valley	66
Grampian	117
Greater Glasgow	151
Highland	49
Island Boards	11
Lanarkshire	54
Lothian	240
Tayside	50
Total	977

Source: ISD, SMR01.

Table 3: Patients aged10 to 30 years, with any diagnosis of eating disorders, resident in Scotland andtreated in psychiatric hospitals for years ending 31 March to 2003 (latest available):

	Age Group	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	Total
Scotland	10-16	15	22	20	22	16	11	11	117
	17-23	26	37	31	27	29	25	30	205
	24-30	34	33	27	28	27	20	22	191
Total	10-30	75	92	78	77	72	56	63	513

Source: ISD, SMR04.

Table 4: Total patientsaged 10 to 30 years, with any diagnosis of eating disorders, resident in Scotland andtreated in psychiatric hospitals between 1997 and 2003 (latest available). Given the numbers involved, totals only areprovided at NHS board level to protect confidentiality:

NHS Board	1997-2003 Total Patients Aged 10-30
Ayrshire and Arran	40
Argyll and Clyde	45
Borders	13
Dumfries and Galloway	21
Fife	49
Forth Valley	35
Grampian	51
Greater Glasgow	47
Highland	20
Island Boards	7
Lanarkshire	45
Lothian	86
Tayside	54
Total	513

Source: ISD, SMR04.

Most prisoners will be liberatedfrom Low Moss, at the conclusion of their sentence, or moved to Open Prison priorto closure. Staff are being redeployed, mainly to the central belt, based on preferencesthey have previously expressed and to meet current vacancies and operational need.

The following table refers to the anticipated number ofnursing and midwifery staff required to fill vacancies and meet projected need,so it includes both replacement and expansion demand.

Current and Projected Demand - Registered Midwives (Head Count)

Current Demand	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	5 Year Change	(% ) Change	Ave Annual Increase
3,595	3,760	3,806	3,838	3,836	3,834	239	6.6%	1.3%

 

This information is not held centrally. NHS boards areresponsible for ensuring that newly qualified nurses and midwives are supportedinto the workforce. In addition, since January 2006, all newly qualified nursesand midwives who take up employment in NHS Scotland have the opportunity toundertake Flying Start NHS, a web-based blended learning programme whichsupports practitioners during the first year of employment. To date, 1,750nurses and midwives have registered with the Flying Start programme.

Median waiting times are not an Executive target. Our policyis to reduce the longest waiting times for patients. On 31 December 2006, no patient with a guarantee had waited more than 26 weeks for a first out-patientappointment. This national maximum waiting time will be reduced to 18 weeks bythe end of this year.

Information on median and 99thpercentile waiting times for treatment is given in Median and 99th percentilewaiting times (days) for out-patient appointments and in-patient/day caseadmissions for selected specialties by NHS board; years ending 31 March 2002 -2006 a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament InformationCentre (Bib. number 42300).

The 99th percentile waiting timeis used in preference to the maximum wait in these analyses. This approach istaken because the one percent of values that are larger than the 99thpercentile cannot be relied upon; cases with very long waits may be a mixtureof actual times and times that are a result of recording errors.

Centrally held data cannotspecifically identify either inpatient/day case admissions or outpatientappointments for pain relief specialties, thus, these data are not presented.

As from April 2002 the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act2001 removed the statutory distinction between residential care homes andnursing homes. Consequently, local authority expenditure on residential carehomes and on nursing homes was combined from financial year 2002-03 onwards andreclassified as Older People - Care Homes (Non Respite). The following tableshows expenditure in each of the last five years. The figures for 2001-02 arethe combined figures under the two previous headings. Those from 2002-03 onwardsare the figures under the single new heading.

Older People - Care Homes (Non Respite) Net RevenueExpenditure

Local Authority	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Scotland	266,352	326,375	352,913	397,999	422,887
Aberdeen City	13,164	18,509	22,406	22,544	26,077
Aberdeenshire	10,924	5,877	6,023	21,155	22,242
Angus	7,074	10,500	10,541	12,885	12,484
Argyll and Bute	5,529	9,278	8,508	9,421	11,325
Clackmannanshire	2,155	2,570	2,736	3,188	3,529
Dumfries and Galloway	6,823	8,982	9,644	9,540	7,312
Dundee City	8,314	11,871	13,352	16,056	15,306
East Ayrshire	5,635	9,267	10,388	10,820	11,329
East Dunbartonshire	343	0	6,344	2,618	5,397
East Lothian	4,279	7,300	6,897	8,304	9,833
East Renfrewshire	3,408	8,902	4,062	5,031	5,896
Edinburgh City	14,820	34,967	43,351	45,877	46,146
Eilean Siar	3,948	4,627	4,039	4,242	4,978
Falkirk	8,291	5,133	8,101	8,242	7,919
Fife	16,594	16,035	20,224	29,153	27,481
Glasgow City	42,612	20,057	17,554	17,227	15,877
Highland	15,039	22,278	24,483	26,255	27,514
Inverclyde	4,733	7,105	7,380	5,463	5,644
Midlothian	3,623	5,728	6,894	7,463	7,323
Moray	4,397	5,794	7,009	6,347	6,775
North Ayrshire	7,655	10,413	11,541	12,967	12,786
North Lanarkshire	18,950	27,293	24,735	28,910	27,507
Orkney Islands	2,090	2,162	2,329	1,951	3,047
Perth and Kinross	7,172	12,065	15,266	15,868	14,613
Renfrewshire	8,490	11,540	14,052	14,936	13,979
Scottish Borders	5,313	5,566	10,329	10,133	11,121
Shetland Islands	1,485	1,372	1,636	2,044	3,285
South Ayrshire	5,456	6,300	7,114	7,337	6,490
South Lanarkshire	13,039	21,269	5,435	8,330	25,831
Stirling	2,457	5,438	5,908	5,977	6,932
West Dunbartonshire	7,289	7,457	7,588	8,301	7,369
West Lothian	5,251	720	7,044	9,414	9,540

Source: As reported on theLFR 3 (Social Work) for the above years.