Chamber and committees

Information from 1997 to 2002 is given in table 3.7 of Civil Judicial Statistics, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 44768, 16386, 16249, 19702, 26040 and 31061 for each year from 1997 to 2002, respectively).

The Number of Ordinary Cause¹ Mortgage Lender² Actions Disposed of by Sheriff Courts, by Nature of Final Judgment, 2003-07

Notes:

1. An ordinary cause is a type of court procedure. In relation to the data above, it refers to cases where the value of the claim was over £1,500 (this was increased to £5,000 from 14 January 2008) or the case involved complex legal issues.

2. Repossession of property in breach/default of a house purchase loan.

3. The data are management information statistics which have not been subjected to the same quality assurance standards as statistics produced by the Government Statistical Service. In addition, there are general concerns surrounding the accuracy of some of the civil judicial statistics collected by the Scottish Government. In relation to these data, it is believed that inaccuracies exist when identifying disposed cases and some mortgage lender actions may be misclassified as land or heritable estate actions, and vice versa.

4. Action is being taken to improve the accuracy and reliability of the civil judicial statistics collected by the Scottish Government. In particular, it is intended that actions for repossession will be more easily and accurately identified.

5. A decree for repossession which has been granted does not necessarily result in an actual repossession or eviction. Therefore, the figures cannot be used to estimate the number of repossessions. It is not known what proportion of mortgage lender decrees granted result in an actual repossession or whether the proportion stays constant each year. Hence it cannot be inferred that a rise (or fall) in these decrees equates to a rise (or fall) in repossessions.                   

6. Other actions for repossession are collected under the action land or heritable estate, but they are recorded along with other case types and are not available separately. They are also collected under the summary application Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970, but due to the way in which the data are recorded it is not possible to determine how many applications were granted. Therefore, the data do not include all actions for repossessions.

There have also beena number of smaller scale specialist training and networking events for culturalco-ordinators, as well as guidance resources and the availability of a “go and see”fund. The annual costs are detailed in the table provided with response to S3W-8765on 5 February 2008.

No definitive figuresare available for numbers of cultural co-ordinators in attendance at each.

Total Number ofCultural Co-ordinators Posts Applied for (both Full and Part-Time)

Notes:

*One year offunding available to local authorities who had completed or were nearcompletion of Phase 2 in the financial year 2005-06.

**This figuresincludes Creative Links officers who are Cultural Co-ordinator managers, thereare a total of 87 co-ordinators and 32 managers plus four national CreativeLinks officers.

Associated salaryand employment costs are as detailed here:

Note: ^†Includes four nationalco-ordinators, Young Scot, Scottish Learning Partnership, Youthlink, Childrenin Scotland.

In 2006-07 NHS boardsprovided approximately £15 million in total for wheelchair and seating services.Further detailed analysis is not available in the format requested.