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The deployment of police officers in any force area is a matter for the Chief Constable of the force concerned and information of this nature is not held centrally. However, the number of officers available for deployment has been increasing. As at March 2003, the overall number was at a record level, and our Partnership Agreement contains a commitment not only to increase the numbers on operational duty in every Scottish force but to also to improve on the level of overall police numbers.

The available information on drug offences which were recorded by the police is given in the following table.

Breakdown of Recorded Drugs Offences, 1999-2000 to 2003-2004^P

	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04P
Illegal importation of drugs	7	1	4	3	4
Production, manufacture or cultivation of drugs	106	131	144	205	249
Supply, possession with intent to supply etc. of drugs	8,032	9,024	10,130	9,940	9,284
Possession of drugs	21,776	22,470	26,188	30,510	32,463
Drugs, money laundering related offences	1	0	0	0	0
Drugs, other offences	452	455	284	280	275
Total	30,374	32,081	36,750	40,938	42,275

(P) Please note that data for 2003-04 is provisional.

Information on leavers is not collected centrally. However, annual censuses of the nursing and midwifery workforce at 30 September can be used to establish annual flows of staff out of NHSScotland.

The table shows the number of qualified nurses and midwives who left between the September 2001 and September 2002 censuses and the September 2002 and September 2003 censuses. Information on the September 2004 census will not be available until 2005. Figures are also shown relative to the staff in post at the start of the period.

Number of Qualified Nurse and Midwife Leavers Between Each Census

	Leavers	Leavers as % of Staff in Post at Start of Period
Leavers between September 2001 and September 2002	2,853	6.7
Leavers between September 2002 and September 2003	2,863	6.6

Source: National Manpower Statistics from Payroll.

The table provides the data, based upon the number of GP principal equivalents(in post) in GMS and PMS practices.

General Medical Practitioners1 per 10,000 Head of Population (at 1 October)

Health Board	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Scotland	7.3	7.3	7.4	7.5	7.5
Argyll and Clyde	7.4	7.6	7.7	7.6	7.6
Ayrshire and Arran	7.1	7.1	7.1	7.1	7.3
Borders	8.2	8.1	8.0	8.1	8.3
Dumfries and Galloway	8.7	8.9	9.0	8.8	8.8
Fife	7.0	7.1	7.0	7.1	7.1
Forth Valley	7.5	7.5	7.3	7.4	7.5
Grampian	6.8	6.9	7.2	7.3	7.3
Greater Glasgow	7.2	7.2	7.3	7.3	7.2
Highland	9.8	9.8	10.2	10.3	10.9
Lanarkshire	6.3	6.2	6.3	6.3	6.4
Lothian	7.2	7.1	7.3	7.4	7.4
Orkney	12.9	13.0	14.0	14.1	14.5
Shetland	8.0	8.6	9.1	8.7	8.7
Tayside	7.2	7.3	7.4	7.5	7.7
Western Isles	10.7	10.5	10.2	10.3	10.3

Sources: General Medical Practitioner Database, ISD Scotland.

General Register Office for Scotland.

Note:

1. Comprises unrestricted principals and restricted principals in post, in general medical services practices and their equivalents in personal medical services practices.

The table below shows the percentage of the Scottish budget that was spent by non-departmental public bodies in the years 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2003-04.

	1999-2000 (£ Million)	2000-01 (£ Million)	2001-02 (£ Million)	2002-03 (£ Million)	2003-042 (£ Million)
Scottish Budget1	15,895	17,993	19,890	20,972	22,764
NDPB Allocation	209	223	259	290	346
% of Total Budget	1.31	1.24	1.30	1.38	1.52

Notes:

1. The figures for the Scottish budget were taken from Serving Scotland’s Needs 1999 (for 1999-2000) and from the Draft Budget 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05 (for the remaining years).

2. The figures for 2003-04 are prepared on a full resource accounting basis andinclude provision for capital charges.

The Scottish Executive does not recommend funding levels for local roads maintenance, it provides local authorities with Grant Aided Expenditure (GAE) allocations. GAEs allocations are not funding as such. They form part of a more complex formula used to calculate a single Revenue Support Grant figure for each local authority which covers all grant‑aided local authority services. It is for each local authority to decide on its spending on individual services based on local needs and priorities.

Trunk road maintenance funding levels are shown in tables 11.1 and 11.2 of Scottish Transport Statistics, No 22, 2003 Edition, a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 29044). Table 11.1 shows expenditure for all Scotland and table 11.2 shows expenditure by Operating Company. Expenditure is not allocated or gathered by local authority area.

Information held by ISD Scotland shows that 96 public health consultants were in post at September 2003 from a total establishment of 104, a vacancy rate of 7.7%.

The route to consultant posts is through specialist registrar training. We have increased the total number of specialist registrar training posts in publichealth medicine from 31 to 34 over the last two years. It is projected that eight training posts will complete specialist registrar training in 2004 and a furthereight in 2005. This will help to ensure an adequate supply of public health practitioners at consultant level.

The National Workforce Committee is leading on the work force development agenda and will be assisted in this by the new Workforce Numbers Group (WoNuG). This group will for the first time look comprehensively at the health care work force, including the public health work force. It will advise the committee on work force numbers and modelling across all staff groups and make recommendations on work force size and shape in a sensible and pragmatic way.

The Scottish Law Commission hopes to publish its report on this subject by the end of 2004. It will include a draft bill.

There are currently four local authority areas with Common Housing Registers (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Perth and Kinross and Renfrewshire).

The Scottish Executive is encouraging local authorities and Registered Social Landlords to develop Common Housing Registers within each local authority area in Scotland. It has provided £3 million for a new funding programme over the period 2004-06 to facilitate this together with advice and support. Towards the end of this programme, we will review progress and consider whether there is a need to invoke powers provided by Section 8 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001.

The personal bankruptcy information requested is contained in the following table.

 

Sheriffdom	Sheriff Court	Financial Year (1st April to 31st March)
		2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Glasgow and Strathkelvin	Glasgow	324	306	340	322
Lothians and Borders	Edinburgh	234	197	234	262
	Duns	6	8	6	5
	Haddington	33	64	86	105
	Jedburgh	31	18	28	28
	Linlithgow	98	118	87	124
	Peebles	10	6	8	6
	Selkirk	14	20	14	17
		426	431	463	547
Grampian, Highland and Islands	Aberdeen	188	211	187	202
	Banff	12	16	19	19
	Dingwall	21	17	10	25
	Dornoch	4	11	11	5
	Elgin	47	46	42	60
	Fort William	21	18	31	13
	Inverness	41	46	59	38
	Kirkwall	10	6	8	10
	Lerwick	15	10	5	12
	Lochmaddy	0	1	2	2
	Peterhead	28	45	29	68
	Portree	5	2	12	4
	Stonehaven	25	24	34	29
	Stornoway	4	2	5	10
	Tain	7	12	11	6
	Wick	14	8	9	17
		442	475	474	520
North Strathclyde	Campbeltown	13	23	15	7
	Dumbarton	83	69	99	95
	Dunoon	18	13	26	13
	Greenock	34	35	49	49
	Kilmarnock	162	160	136	158
	Oban	23	25	42	22
	Paisley	171	212	127	120
	Rothesay	4	4	3	5
		508	541	497	469
South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway	Airdrie	162	173	166	103
	Ayr	83	98	113	89
	Dumfries	44	55	43	51
	Hamilton	159	212	214	232
	Kirkcudbright	24	20	23	19
	Lanark	30	35	36	39
	Stranraer	15	12	12	15
		517	605	607	548
Tayside, Central and Fife	Alloa	24	31	40	35
	Arbroath	35	29	29	43
	Cupar	41	51	50	58
	Dundee	105	139	135	162
	Dunfermline	102	119	91	128
	Falkirk	110	126	108	125
	Forfar	31	27	30	31
	Kirkcaldy	151	149	171	164
	Perth	71	116	149	107
	Stirling	51	48	44	50
		721	835	847	903
Totals		2,938	3,193	3,228	3,309

Note:

Theabove figures include awards made in the Court of Session and remitted to theappropriate sheriff court.

Statistics on company insolvenciesare not available by sheriff court district. The total numbers for the years requestedare:

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Receiverships	111	68	114	99
Liquidations	753	568	853	794