To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the first supplementary to question S2F-2596 by Mr Jack McConnell on 30 November 2006 (Official Report, c. 29901), what additional funding has been provided for local authorities to monitor sex offenders within their jurisdiction for individual cases where the expenditure would not have been forseen in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority and indicating the amount (a) applied for and (b) awarded, and which local authorities had applications for such funding rejected.