Chamber and committees

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The information requested is given in the following table:

April 1999	1
September 1999	3
February 2000	1
June 2000	1
January 2002	2

Our Drugs Communications Strategy will be evaluated in several ways. At national level, evaluation will include a tracking study which will measure the impact of the strategy, including shifts in attitudes towards drugs problems. Factors such as hits to the "Know The Score" website, calls to the information line and requests for "Know The Score" publications will also be taken into account.Evaluation will also be built into local communications initiatives.

Work is currently under way with Scotland's Drug Action Teams (DATs) to develop local communications strategies, including the provision of materials funded by the Executive for local use. Scotland's drugs problems are diverse and local strategies will be designed to meet local circumstances and priorities. The National Drugs Communications Co-ordinator has already held a series of seminars to help DATs in developing communications skills and expertise.The Executive expects local communications strategies to be rolled out in the next 12 months across Scotland.

Expenditure on tackling drug misuse spans a variety of programmes and funding streams, and the Executive does not hold all of this information centrally.At the end of 1999, however, the Executive's Policy Unit Review of Drugs Expenditure:http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/publications/abstracts/PUDrugExpenRev.htm estimated that £141.5 million is spent each year on action to tackle drugs (£56.1 million specific spend and £85.4 million generic spend ie where a proportion of service time is related to drugs work). In 2000-01, extra resources of £1 million were provided for drugs-related activity in each of three separate areas ie drugs treatment, drugs rehabilitation and work by Social Inclusion Partnerships. In 2001-02, the Executive has made available an additional £28.866 million, bringing the level of funding on tackling drugs to over £170 million per annum.

None of the £6.3 million allocated to our Drugs Communications Strategy will be allocated for treatment and rehabilitation services. Treatment and rehabilitation are funded separately, in accordance with our overarching drugs strategy, Tackling Drugs in Scotland - Action in Partnership. In 2001-02 and the following two financial years, we are making available new resources for drugs treatment and rehabilitation of some £13 million and £20 million respectively. This is in addition to the resources already provided by NHS boards and local authorities.National and local communications will encourage members of the public to find out more about drugs and provide information on where help and advice can be obtained across Scotland.

We have allocated £6.3 million over three years to support activities falling within the scope of our Drugs Communications Strategy. These activities include national mass media campaigns, the production and distribution of drugs communications materials for national and local use, and the development and implementation of local drugs communications strategies.The costs incurred to date include the first tranche of advertising at around £650,000. That includes funding for television, press, outdoor (posters), cinema and other media work. Current research costs are around £70,000.

The following table details the resources allocated to NHS boards for drug treatment services since 1998-99, broken down by NHS board area. Funding for drug services prior to 1998-99 was arranged by contract between the Common Services Agency and individual Boards and the information is not available centrally.

NHS Board	1998-99(£000)	1999-2000(£000)	2000-01(£000)	2001-02(£000)
Argyll and Clyde	709	901	984	1,111
Ayrshire and Arran	403	535	609	737
Borders	68	96	118	160
Dumfries and Galloway	61	96	124	298
Fife	328	445	514	698
Forth Valley	103	172	226	462
Grampian	750	972	1,085	1,283
Greater Glasgow	2,871	3,502	3,670	4,387*
Highland	86	137	181	300
Lanarkshire	333	497	607	862
Lothian	2,263	2,776	2,922	3,214
Orkney	11	16	20	24
Shetland	28	37	42	46
Tayside	933	1,151	1,225	1,348
Western Isles	13	20	25	43
Total	8,960	11,352	12,352	14,973

Note:*Funding does not include additional resources of £250,000 allocated to Greater Glasgow NHS Board in 2001/02 to meet the treatment costs of the Glasgow Drug Court pilot.Local authorities fund rehabilitation services from their Grant Aided Expenditure settlements. Details of the level of funding on drug rehabilitation by NHS board or local authority area are not therefore available centrally. However, additional resources for rehabilitation were earmarked within local authorities' Grant Aided Expenditure for 2001-02. These are outlined in the following table:

Local Authority	Annual Additional Funding for 2001-02 (£000)
Aberdeen City	282
Aberdeenshire	302
Angus	146
Argyll and Bute	119
Clackmannanshire	65
Dumfries and Galloway	195
Dundee City	192
East Ayrshire	161
East Dunbartonshire	147
East Lothian	120
East Renfrewshire	119
Edinburgh, City of	600
Eilean Siar	37
Falkirk	192
Fife	464
Glasgow City	812
Highland	277
Inverclyde	113
Midlothian	108
Moray	113
North Ayrshire	185
North Lanarkshire	436
Orkney	26
Perth and Kinross	178
Renfrewshire	235
Scottish Borders	141
Shetland	30
South Ayrshire	152
South Lanarkshire	408
Stirling	113
West Dunbartonshire	126
West Lothian	205
Scotland	6,800

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Most of the contract has been published. Certain security information and lengthy lists of, for example, fixtures and fittings were omitted together with some commercial in confidence items.

The possibility of providing portable or ambulatory oxygen is currently under consideration.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:SPS did not collect tender cost data in respect of the contract for HM Prison Kilmarnock. Tender costs are not separately identified in any Scottish Prison Service contract.