Chamber and committees

The information requested is not held centrally. It is the responsibility of police authorities to set their force budgets and to monitor expenditure.

No such estimate of costs has been made. Capital allocations are issued annually on the basis of bids submitted by Forces. Following the distribution of the allocations it is for Forces to determine their spending priorities.

Locate in Scotland does not keep records of how many jobs are created by individual companies each year. The figures, therefore, reflect the number of jobs planned by a company when its decision to proceed with a project was made. In addition, the figures refer only to projects in which Locate in Scotland and its partners had significant involvement in attracting the project to Scotland. The figures below relate to projects where the company made a decision to locate or expand in Dundee and where manufacturing is the main activity carried out. All jobs in manufacturing projects are not necessarily manufacturing jobs.

1995-96	122
1996-97	11
1997-98	0
1998-99	30
1999-2000	167

The job losses in manufacturing jobs are based on figures supplied by the Scottish Executive and relate to jobs lost by companies whose ultimate parent is based outwith Scotland regardless of whether the company was initially attracted to Scotland by LiS or its partners. The number of jobs lost in Dundee since 1995 by companies whose primary activity is manufacturing and whose ultimate parents are based outwith Scotland are listed below:

1995-96	39
1996-97	0
1997-98	0
1998-99	333
1999-2000	107

Figures for Glasgow and Dundee are available from September 1995 to September 1998. In addition, an estimate for September 1999 is given for Scotland in the table belowEmployee jobs in Manufacturing, 1995-1999 (000s)

Year	Scotland	Glasgow	Dundee
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999	321 316 322 316 300	34.7 31.3 32.0 31.9	10.6 12.1 10.6 12.0

Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Employment Survey, and quarterly employee job estimates.

There are two sources of capital allocated to police forces. The capital allocations, issued under Section 94 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and financed by borrowing, determines the amount of capital expenditure a police authority may undertake in a given year. In addition, five forces use revenue to fund capital expenditure - known as capital from current revenue (CFCR). CFCR is funded by a combination of police grant and general revenue. It is used mainly for expenditure on vehicles and other items with a relatively short asset life. Forces may also use capital receipts eg arising from the disposal of assets to augment their capital spending. Capital allocations for 2001-02 have not yet been determined.

The information requested, at 2000-01 prices, is shown in the table below.

Police Capital Resources: Section 94 and CFCR at 2000-01 Prices

	1995-96		1996-97		1997-98		1998-99		1999-2000		2000-01
Force	S94	CFCR	S94	CFCR	S94	CFCR	S94	CFCR	S94	CFCR	S94	CFCR
Central	515	525	962	411	934	336	444	282	352	316	2722	310
D&G	248	177	827	164	803	135	817	255	666	252	705	260
Fife	5,115	0	584	0	1,458	0	1,182	0	1,012	0	765	0
Grampian	276	1,208	668	723	971	910	255	787	1,262	767	444	775
L&B	900	1,378	1,458	1,229	1,415	1,093	1,052	1,090	1,301	1,022	2,833	1,000
Northern	1,462	0	2,077	0	3,031	0	7,074	0	2,772	0	1,198	0
Strathclyde	6,784	0	11,267	0	10,931	0	6,550	0	9,951	0	8,726	0
Tayside	1,198	0	1,936	205	1,841	183	1,242	159	849	153	350	150
Total	16,948	3,288	19,779	2,732	21,385	2,658	18,618	2,573	18,164	2,510	17,743	2,495

The information requested is not held centrally. It is for chief constables to allocate resources according to priorities and demands in their force area. Funding from the Executive is not, therefore, earmarked for specific purposes.

Records of manufacturing jobs created by inward investors which have been lost over a five year period are not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.The numbers given for loss of manufacturing jobs are based on figures supplied by the Scottish Executive and relate to jobs lost by companies whose ultimate parent is based outwith Scotland regardless of whether the company was initially attracted to Scotland by LiS or its partners. The number of jobs lost in Glasgow since 1995 by companies whose primary activity is manufacturing and whose ultimate parents are based outwith Scotland are listed below:

1995-96	93
1996-97	1,220
1997-98	400
1998-99	68
1999-2000	167

Over the same period, Locate in Scotland and its partners helped attract 776 manufacturing jobs to Glasgow and a total of 9,313 jobs across all sectors.

Between the late 1980s when it became apparent that the bridge was suffering from a number of serious structural problems, and 1 April 1996 when the M8 through Glasgow was adopted as a trunk road, Strathclyde Regional Council, the local roads authority, incurred expenditure of approximately £11.6 million.

The estimated final cost of the current strengthening contract is £31.5 million. Since the M8 was adopted as a trunk road all costs in connection with the bridge have been the responsibility of The Scottish Office, now the Scottish Executive.

This type of technical information relating to the operational management of the structure has not been published in the past and it is not proposed to do so in the future.

Decisions on the recruitment, deployment and the ratio of special to regular constables are operational matters for chief constables. A report on the role of the special constabulary was prepared by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and presented to the Police Advisory Board for Scotland last year. It recognised that there would be benefits in developing and enhancing the opportunities for members of the special constabulary to contribute to community policing. The recommendations contained in the report are currently being implemented by forces.