To ask the Scottish Executive when the £2 million targeted for the treatment and intervention of offenders with drug misuse problems will be allocated; how many offenders will be covered by this programme, and how the effectiveness of the programme will be monitored. The extra £2 million will begin to forge the closer links between our drugs strategy and our plans for reducing reoffending, signalled in the Criminal Justice Plan, published in December 2004, by creating up to an extra 1000 treatment places.