Chamber and committees

The information requested is detailed in the table.

Campaign	Production Costs(£)	No. of Ads (£)	Media Costs(£)
Children's Panels	19,871	56	96,705
Concessionary Fares	18,865	94	63,928
Public Internet Access Points	Repeats	94	76,784
Drugs	Repeats	17	9,982
Flu	9,528	7	7,123
M74	2,500	6	6,501
NHS Helpline	Repeats	9	3,180

The information requested is detailed in the table.

Campaign	Production Costs	No of Spots	Duration (seconds)	Media Costs
Drugs	Repeats	304	30/40	£282,037
Environment	Repeats	191	30/40	£211,382
Foolsspeed	Repeats	149	40	£203,074
Travel Awareness	Repeats	149	30/40	£183,019
Fire Safety	nil	54	30	£ 44,289
Race	£150,000	47	40	£ 72,721
Flu	£170,000	3	30	£ 8,887

The Media Communications Group discusses the need for a campaign with the commissioning department. It then manages a further meeting with its media buying agency, advertising agency and the department. A full briefing is given and the media buying agency is asked to come forward with a set of media proposals. Once these have been refined and agreed with the appropriate departmental minister the media buying agency is given approval to proceed and the media is subsequently booked.The information requested on media spend is as follows:(a) Media spend on press, television and radio for the period 1 August 2002 to 30 September 2002 was £1,649,811.(b) Media spend on press, television and radio for the period 1 July 1999 to 30 September 2002 was £14,177,400.

Budgets are held by Executive departments who seek their responsible ministers authority before running any advertising campaign. I am regularly updated on all campaign planning but under current arrangements, ministers are not required to seek central approval.I have been asked by First Minister to review the current practice and this review is now under way.

Comprehensive records of contacts are not held centrally. However, I am aware of two contacts on official business since John McTernan left his post as a Special Adviser to the First Minister. The first of these was a meeting with an official for a general discussion on the work of the Scottish Council Foundation. The second was contact with the office of the Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services to make necessary arrangements relating to the Deputy Minister's participation in a seminar entitled "Choice in Public Services" aimed at NHS senior managers and practitioners in Scotland. Mr McTernan subsequently attended the seminar as did the Deputy Minister.

Under the terms of the Model Contract for Special Advisers (Bib Number. 22440 in the Parliament's Reference Centre), Advisers are required in certain circumstances to obtain agreement before accepting an offer of employment outside the civil service which would start within two years of leaving Crown employment. It is the personal responsibility of all former special advisers to ensure that they comply with these requirements.

Scottish ministers, prior to the establishment of the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (Care Commission) on 1 April 2002, published national care standards covering a wide range of care provision. The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 defines the services to be regulated by the Care Commission against the National Care Standards.While sheltered housing provision is not defined specifically within the act if they met the definition of, for example, a housing support service or alternatively a care home, the relevant national care standards would apply. It is for the Care Commission to make decisions on registration and other issues such as staffing levels based on the statement of function and purpose and other information provided by the services as part of the application process.

In terms of section 12(2) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act, it is provided that "where a petition for sequestration of a debtor's estate is presented by a creditor or a trustee acting under a trust deed, the court shall grant warrant to cite the debtor to appear before it on such date as shall be specified in the warrant, being a date not less than 6 nor more than 14 days after the date of citation, to show cause why sequestration should not be awarded".In his statement to Parliament on the 30 May 2002, the First Minister confirmed his intention to consult on a draft bill to modernise personal bankruptcy law in Scotland. The period of notice is not within the scope of the proposals and is unlikely to be changed.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-29971 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa. The procedures in the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 for the protection of articles owned by third parties from poinding and warrant sale are well established. They are designed to be straightforward and for any disputes over ownership to be resolved quickly. I understand that experience has shown that they work well in practice.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-29971 today. All answers to written parlliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.