Chamber and committees

VisitScotland sought advice from angling bodies last year and there is input from the sector in the development of the new brochure and website.

Angling tourism is recognised by VisitScotland as an important niche market and one with growth potential. They are developing a guide and a website, which will be launched soon. The site will provide visitors with up to date information on matters such as seasons, times, conditions and types of fishing.

The information requested is set out in the following table. No distinction is made in our records between "working groups" and "working parties": both are classed as working groups.In the year to 28 February 2002 Executive officials attended the following working groups:

Date	Working Group
08/03/2001	Civil Law Committee
09/03/2001	Civil Law Committee
13/03/2001	Environment
14/03/2001	External Fisheries
16/03/2001	Agricultural Structures
21/03/2001	Simplification of CAP
21/03/2001	Internal Fisheries
29/03/2001	Civil Law Committee
29/03/2001	Internal Fisheries Group
05/04/2001	Civil Law Committee
09/04/2001	Civil Law Committee
17/04/2001	External Fisheries
20/04/2001	FEOGA Committee
23/04/2001	Fisheries Expert Working Group
25/04/2001	Education Committee
26/04/2001	Structural Actions
26/04/2001	Civil Law Committee
27/04/2001	Civil Law Committee
02/05/2001	External Fisheries
03/05/2001	Internal Fisheries
03/05/2001	Civil Law Committee
10/05/2001	Internal Fisheries
10/05/2001	Environment
14/05/2001	Civil Law Committee
17/05/2001	External Fisheries
22/05/2001	External Fisheries
22/05/2001	Internal Fisheries
22/05/2001	Environment
23/05/2001	Internal Fisheries
28/05/2001	External Fisheries
31/05/2001	Internal Fisheries
11/06/2001	External Fisheries
14/06/2001	Civil Law Committee
14/06/2001	Education
20/06/2001	Committee on Spatial Development: Special Meeting with Neighbouring States
21/06/2001	External Fisheries
21/06/2001	Environment
25/06/2001	Animal Products
27/06/2001	External Fisheries
28/06/2001	Civil Law Committee
28/06/2001	EU and CEE Ministers' Conference
02/07/2001	External Fisheries Group
05/07/2001	Education
11/07/2001	Civil Law Committee
12/07/2001	Civil Law Committee
23/07/2001	Agriculture
25/07/2001	Research
10/09/2001	Postal Services
14/09/2001	Research
19/09/2001	Civil Law Committee
24/09/2001	Fisheries Expert Working Group
26/09/2001	External Fisheries
01/10/2001	Education
01/10/2001	Civil Law Committee
08/10/2001	External Fisheries
09/10/2001	Civil Law Committee
10/10/2001	Environment
11/10/2001	Internal Fisheries
15/10/2001	External Fisheries
17/10/2001	Internal Fisheries
23/10/2001	Public Procurement
29/10/2001	Education
29/10/2001	External Fisheries
29/10/2001	Internal Fisheries
05/11/2001	Research
06/11/2001	Civil Law Committee
07/11/2001	Civil Law Committee
13/11/2001	Industry
04/12/2001	Internal Fisheries Group
07/12/2001	Civil Law Committee
10/12/2001	Civil Law Committee
10/12/2001	Financial Services
10/12/2001	Education Committee
10/12/2001	External Fisheries
11/12/2001	Youth
13/12/2001	Civil Law Committee
07/01/2002	Environment
09/01/2002	Employment and Social Policy
09/01/2002	Civil Law Committee
10/01/2002	Internal Fisheries
14/01/2002	Health
15/01/2002	Education
17/01/2002	Internal and External Fisheries
22/01/2002	Education
23/01/2002	Civil Law Committee
23/01/2002	Blue Whiting Expert Group and External Fish Group
30/01/2002	Civil Law Committee
31/01/2002	Internal Fisheries
05/02/2002	Energy
05/02/2002	Civil Law Committee
06/02/2002	Internal Fisheries
06/02/2002	Civil Law Committee
13/02/2002	Environment
13/02/2002	Internal Fisheries
26/02/2002	Transport
27/02/2002	Internal Fisheries

The Executive has received no such funding in the last three years.There are two statutory regulations which require companies, including some biotechnology companies, to pay money to the Executive or its agencies. The Scottish Agricultural Science Agency (SASA) provides statutory services for seed certification and seed testing on a fee paying basis and the pesticides industry, including many biotech companies, pays a compulsory levy under section 18(3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act (1985). The SASA undertakes Pesticides Usage Surveys, foodstuffs surveillance and investigations under the Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme (WIIS), all of which are funded from this levy.

The information requested is shown in the following table.Funding Per Capita

	2002-03	2001-02	2000-01	1999-2000
Central	£132.64	£127.91	£120.39	£118,56
Dumfries and Galloway	£159.08	£155.35	£146.21	£141.77
Fife	£126.63	£125.60	£118.87	£111.56
Grampian	£138.34	£130.82	£120.24	£116.29
Lothian and Borders	£167.47	£158.22	£150.20	£146.33
Northern	£156.71	£153.22	£140.49	£133.54
Strathclyde	£171.93	£163.89	£155.61	£149.55
Tayside	£164.68	£159.40	£149.41	£141.68

The method by which funds are distributed between the forces is currently under review.

The Executive does not collect information on funding allocated by NHS boards for schemes to tackle alcohol problems. These are funded from within boards' general allocations and cannot be separately identified.Information on the expenditure reported by each NHS board to tackle drug misuse, submitted by NHS boards to the Executive with their annual accounts for the years 1998-99 to 1999-2000 is shown in the table. The returns may include expenditure from general health allocations. They may exclude some funding allocated for drug misuse which has been used to fund drug-related HIV/AIDs prevention work, for example the funding of needle exchanges. Similar information is not available for 2000-01.Financial returns for 2001-02, which will report expenditure on drug misuse services and HIV prevention, will be available later this year. Financial information for 2001-02 is also currently being sought through Drug Action Team Corporate Action Plans.

	1999-2000Drugs Misuse(£)	1998-99Drug Abuse Projects(£)
Argyll and Clyde	952,674	656,167
Ayrshire and Arran	641,901	436,280
Borders	26,226	21,558
Dumfries and Galloway	30,124	115,223
Fife	481,258	273,616
Forth Valley	241,066	124,682
Grampian	972,395	890,441
Greater Glasgow	2,328,903	2,813,767
Highland	250,365	139,059
Lanarkshire	875,747	311,942
Lothian	1,024,538	1,005,797
Orkney	43,551	38,508
Shetland	0	80,589
Tayside	1,358,450	973,552
Western Isles	58,710	41,947

For both 2001-02 and 2002-03, bids for general funding submitted by Scottish police forces have been met in full. In addition, the Executive has provided additional funding to meet certain new demands. These have included:£220,000 to Fife Constabulary in 2001-02 for the policing costs of the new European ferry at Rosyth;£117,000 to Lothian and Borders Police in 2001-02 to meet the costs of its Parliamentary Policing Unit when the Parliament is not sitting, and£1.4 million spread across all forces in 2001-02, including Grampian Police, to meet additional policing pressures following the events of 11 September 2001.

The first national collection of data from NHS boards and trusts on violent and aggressive incidents took place in 2001 for the financial year 2000-01. Collection of the 2001-02 data is currently on-going. Quality assurance of the 2000-01 data has started and once completed will be made available through the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency. The information will be at NHS board and trust level.

This information is not gathered together in one convenient place at the moment, and staff in the relevant offices are examining ways in which this might best be achieved without duplicating existing efforts.

The information requested is not held centrally. Officials have attended appropriate committees where there has been a devolved interest.