Chamber and committees

Details are as follows:

NHS Board	1999-2000 GMS Cash Limited Allocation Per Capita(£)	1999-2000 GMS Cash Limited Over/ Underspend(£000)	1999-2000 GMS Non-cashLimited Allocation Per Capita(£)	2000-01 GMS Cash Limited Allocation Per Capita(£)	2000-01 GMS Cash Limited Over/ Underspend(£000)	2000-01 GMS Non-cashLimited Allocation Per Capita(£)
Argyll and Clyde	17	946	53	18	930	56
Ayrshire and Arran	18	1,139	50	18	2,344	53
Borders	16	577	55	17	611	62
Dumfries and Galloway	21	446	60	21	266	63
Fife	18	-123	49	18	267	52
Forth Valley	18	37	50	19	-42	58
Grampian	19	893	53	20	78	51
Greater Glasgow	20	5,288	51	21	6,409	57
Highland	23	737	76	23	1,154	81
Lanarkshire	14	352	46	14	774	49
Lothian	20	147	50	20	1,607	53
Orkney	19	25	101	20	101	113
Shetland	20	280	82	21	207	88
Tayside	23	1,278	54	24	1,188	60
Western Isles	41	-60	85	42	-66	87

NHS Board	2001-02 GMS Cash Limited Allocation Per Capita(£)	2001-02 GMS Cash Limited Over/ Underspend(£000)	2001-02 GMS Non-cash Limited Allocation Per Capita(£)	2002-03 GMS Cash Limited Allocation Per Capita(£)	2002-03 GMS Non-cash Limited Allocation Per Capita(£)
Argyll and Clyde	18	1,004	58	19	64
Ayrshire and Arran	19	3,119	55	20	58
Borders	17	807	65	18	68
Dumfries and Galloway	22	360	65	22	69
Fife	19	1,950	52	19	54
Forth Valley	19	190	51	20	53
Grampian	21	4,181	55	21	60
Greater Glasgow	21	5,889	57	22	61
Highland	24	2,181	83	25	87
Lanarkshire	15	2,598	52	16	55
Lothian	21	2,604	54	21	57
Orkney	20	29	129	21	102
Shetland	21	349	90	22	82
Tayside	25	3,193	59	25	62
Western Isles	43	-69	104	45	108

Note: 1. General Medical Services Non-cash Limited is a demand-led service and therefore final allocations equate to final expenditure.2. 2001-02 over/underspends are based on estimated outturn figures.3. General Medical Services Non-cash Limited allocation figures for 2002-03 are based on indicative allocations. As a demand-led service, final allocations will equate to total expenditure.4. Projected over/underspends are not yet available for 2002-03.

The following table 1 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.The following table 2 details the allocated funding per capita, broken down by NHS board area. The term "registered drug misuser" no longer exists. However, the final column details the funding per problem drug user, as estimated in the recent national survey of problem drug misuse.Table 1

NHS Board	Allocation 1998-99(£000)	Allocation 1999-2000(£000)	Allocation 2000-01(£000)	Allocation 2001-02(£000)	Allocation 2002-03(£000)
Argyll and Clyde	709	901	984	1,111	1,338
Ayrshire and Arran	403	535	609	737	987
Borders	68	96	118	160	162
Dumfries and Galloway	61	96	124	298	258
Fife	328	445	514	698	789
Forth Valley	103	172	226	462	557
Grampian	750	972	1,085	1,283	1,313
Greater Glasgow1	2,871	3,502	3,670	4,3871	4,4881
Highland	86	137	181	300	414
Lanarkshire	333	497	607	862	1,449
Lothian	2,263	2,776	2,922	3,214	3,539
Orkney	11	16	20	24	32
Shetland	28	37	42	46	55
Tayside	933	1,151	1,225	1,348	1,483
Western Isles	13	20	25	43	87
Total Scotland	8,960	11,352	12,352	14,973	16,951

Table 2

NHS Board	Per Capita 1998-99(£)	Per Capita 1999-2000(£)	Per Capita 2000-01(£)	Per Capita2 2001-02(£)	Per Capita2 2002-03(£)	Per Problem User32002-03
Argyll and Clyde	1.66	2.12	2.32	2.63	3.18	247.6
Ayrshire and Arran	1.07	1.43	1.63	1.98	2.66	322.6
Borders	0.64	0.90	1.10	1.49	1.51	276
Dumfries and Galloway	0.41	0.65	0.85	2.06	1.79	219
Fife	0.94	1.27	1.47	1.99	2.25	275.2
Forth Valley	0.37	0.62	0.81	1.66	2.00	252.3
Grampian	1.43	1.85	2.07	2.46	2.53	242.6
Greater Glasgow1	3.15	3.87	4.06	4.86	4.99	280.9
Highland	0.41	0.66	0.87	1.44	1.99	402.2
Lanarkshire	0.59	0.88	1.08	1.53	2.58	285.5
Lothian	2.92	3.57	3.73	4.08	4.48	416.4
Orkney	0.56	0.82	1.03	1.24	1.66	1111
Shetland	1.22	1.63	1.87	2.07	2.49	505.6
Tayside	2.39	2.96	3.18	3.52	3.90	344.6
Western Isles	0.47	0.73	0.92	1.60	3.28	1345.4
Total Scotland	1.75	2.22	2.42	2.93	3.32	303.7

Source: Estimating the National and Local Prevalence of Problem Drug Misuse in Scotland, November 2001.Notes:1. Funding does not include additional resources of £250,000 allocated to Greater Glasgow NHS Board in 2001-02 or £500,000 in 2002-03 to meet the treatment costs of the Glasgow Drug Court pilot.2. The populations used for years 2001 and 2002 are projections based on the 2000 population.3. Problem drug misuse is defined as use of opiates and benzodiazepines.

The leaflets detail the Scottish Executive's expenditure on transport improvements through to 31 March 2004, across nine regional areas. They cover schemes that have already been delivered, or will be delivered, from funding already in place but they do not include additional spending commitments arising from decisions taken after November 2001, such as the commitments announced on 19 March in Aberdeen, on 11 April in Ballinluig and on 15 April relating to the Ord of Caithness. The total funds committed to those projects included in the leaflets broken down by region and per capita are presented in the following table:

Region	Population*	Total Cost(£million)	Cost Per Capita(£)	Schemes†
Highlands AND Islands	325,890	71.029	217.95	193
North East Scotland	525,300	39.622	75.43	76
Northern Isles	42,340	16.741	395.39	69
South East Scotland 1	884,900	145.238	164.13	66
South East Scotland 2	277,600	39.541	142.44	31
Tay	737,500	71.303	96.68	105
West of Scotland 1	521,400	73.358	140.69	99
West of Scotland 2	1,145,050	162.031	141.51	34
West of Scotland 3	1,270,660	158.631	124.84	57
Scotland	5,119,200	665.215	129.95	709

Notes:*Population figures: Mid-year estimates, GROS, 1999.† Plus Cycling, Walking and Safer Streets projects designated by local authorities.A year on year breakdown of the Executive's transport expenditure, actual and planned, for 2000-01 through to 2003-04 is available in The Scottish Budget: 2002-03, published on 2 April. Figures for 1999-2000 are contained in earlier versions.

On 19 March, Wendy Alexander and I visited Kingswells Park & Ride site and met with representatives from NESTRANS, the north-east Scotland transport partnership. It was an extremely productive and useful meeting and will be followed up with meetings between officials over the coming year. NESTRANS was invited to proceed with modelling the traffic and impact of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route and to come forward with a STAG appraisal by the end of the year to inform further discussion with ministers. Immediate action as a result of this meeting includes:

1. The Executive to provide additional funding of £585,000 in 2002-03 from the Integrated Transport Fund to match fund Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils' collective contributions for the further development and implementation of the Modern Transport System (MTS).
2. The Executive to provide a further £600,000 in 2002-03 for Aberdeen City Council to take forward its Urban Realm project, to meet both its traffic reduction and development aspirations for the city and the wider north-east economy.

The Executive to develop a free-standing Sub Area Model to determine the character of traffic in the north-east. The model will be used by NESTRANS to assess its MTS projects.

I am advised by the Food Standards Agency that the decision permits gatherers to continue to be able to harvest king scallops with toxin levels of up to 250 micrograms of toxins per gram of flesh compared to the current closure level of 20 micrograms. Whilst there are strict conditions associated with the new limit, this represents a relaxation of the controls set out in Council Directive 91/492/EEC and should, in respect of amnesic shellfish poisoning, result in less extensive closures for shorter periods than would otherwise occur.

The Food Standards Agency advise me that they are currently preparing legislation to cover the provisions of section 2 of article 1 of the EU amnesic shellfish poisoning decision of 15 March. All stakeholders, including the fishing industry, will be consulted on the draft legislation as well as on the enforcement guidance which will accompany it.

I am advised by the Food Standards Agency that the authorisation criteria required by shellfish processing plants will be set out in the legislation and guidance that introduces the options to permit marketing of king scallops with above the present statutory limit of amnesic shellfish poison. Industry will be invited to comment via the statutory consultation, at open meetings and via targeted meetings with trade organisations.

I am advised by the Food Standards Agency that the consultation on the regulatory provisions required to provide for the approval of establishments is not expected to commence until early May. Any premises able to comply with the special conditions set out in the regulations will be able to seek approval from their local food authority.

The Executive does not specify that core social inclusion partnership SIP allocations are to be used for any particular purpose, such as housing regeneration. Partnerships assess regeneration needs in their own areas of operation, develop strategies to deal with these issues, and use the funding provided to implement measures aimed at effecting regeneration locally.In light of this the Scottish Executive do not intend to offer funding to the Great Northern Partnership specifically for the purpose of housing regeneration. The Scottish Executive provided £1.001 million SIP funding to the Great Northern Partnership in 2001-02 and has allocated £1.027 million SIP funding to the Great Northern Partnership via Communities Scotland for 2002-03 for social inclusion activity. Discussions have been ongoing between the Scottish Executive, Communities Scotland and Aberdeen City Council regarding housing regeneration.

The Executive does not specify that core social inclusion partnership allocations are to be used for any particular purpose, such as housing regeneration. Partnerships assess regeneration needs in their own areas of operation, develop strategies to deal with these issues, and use the funding provided to implement measures aimed at effecting regeneration locally.