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The information requested is set out in the following three tables:(a) Awards given under the SMART:SCOTLAND grant scheme in each of the Local Enterprise Company (LEC) Areas in each of the last five years.

LEC Area	Awards made 01/04/97 - 31/03/98		Awards made 01/04/98 - 31/03/99		Awards made 01/04/99 - 31/03/00		Awards made 01/04/00 - 31/03/01		Awards made 01/04/01 - present
	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value
Ayrshire	1	45,000	2	90,000	1	45,000	2	90,000	2	83,150
Borders					1	45,000	2	63,763
Dumfries and Galloway	1	45,000
Dunbartonshire			2	90,000	3	135,000	5	268,550
Edinburgh and Lothian	6	258,545	7	314,979	10	492,465	7	422,209	15	759,748
Fife	2	90,000	2	80,936	1	40,031	2	90,000	4	270,495
Forth Valley	4	180,000	3	134,662	3	127,439	2	88,863	2	89,934
Glasgow	6	263,917	3	135,000	4	228,793	7	308,104	9	544,309
Grampian	3	135,000	6	269,062	11	488,471	6	330,656	8	356,650
Inverness and Nairn					1	45,000
Lanarkshire			7	292,541	2	90,000	1	37,762	4	217,207
Renfrewshire	1	45,000					1	45,000	2	90,000
Skye and Lochalsh									1	45,000
Tayside	2	90,000	1	45,000	4	177,938	2	62,120
Total	26	1,152,462	33	1,452,180	41	1,915,137	37	1,807,027	47	2,456,493

(b) Awards given under the SPUR grant scheme in each of the Local Enterprise Company Areas in each of the last five years.

LEC Area	Awards made 01/04/97 - 31/03/98		Awards made 01/04/98 - 31/03/99		Awards made 01/04/99 - 31/03/00		Awards made 01/04/00 - 31/03/01		Awards made 01/04/01 - present
	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value
Ayrshire					1	117,943	1	77,559	1	124,076
Edinburgh and Lothian	5	557,300	7	540,864
Fife	2	176,547	1	82,541	2	158,367
Forth Valley	4	377,292	1	133,391	2	192,182
Glasgow	6	541,512	1	87,980	1	88,247
Grampian	8	769,575	2	229,482					1	145,565
Inverness and Nairn			1	88,391
Lanarkshire	2	100,676	3	242,054
Renfrewshire			1	66,744					1	150,000
Tayside	2	168,883					1	78,465	1	111,185
Total	29	2,691,785	17	1,471,447	6	556,739	2	156,024	4	530,826

(c) Awards given under the SPURPlus grant scheme in each of the Local Enterprise Company Areas in each of the last five years.

LEC Area	Awards made 01/04/97 - 31/03/98		Awards made 01/04/98 - 31/03/99		Awards made 01/04/99 - 31/03/00		Awards made 01/04/00 - 31/03/01		Awards made 01/04/01 - present
	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value
Ayrshire	1	338,300					1	450,000
Edinburgh and Lothian			1	305,258	1	381,240	4	1,642,352	5	2,149,657
Glasgow					1	423,273	1	440,291	2	900,000
Grampian					1	423,273
Lanarkshire			1	350,195			1	450,000	2	900,000
Renfrewshire	1	450,000	1	400,173
Tayside			1	450,000	2	738,608	1	450,000	2	900,000
Total	2	788,300	4	1,505,626	5	1,966,394	8	3,432,643	11	4,849,657

There is no increased risk, as there is never any question of Regional Selective Assistance being used simply to relocate a business.

There are two main schemes which companies in Grampian cannot apply for due to the fact that Grampian is not an assisted area. These are Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) and Invest for Growth. Both these schemes are however operated by the Scottish Executive rather than Scottish Enterprise, as a result of the review of RSA. However, the wider measures that I announced in February, including a £20 million venture capital "fund of funds" and more support for commercialisation, will benefit firms across Scotland, including those in Grampian.The impact of assisted area status on Scottish Enterprise's activity is more in terms of the rate/level of grant which can be offered to companies depending on whether they are located within an assisted or non-assisted area. The intervention rate under certain Scottish Enterprise schemes is therefore lower due to Grampian's non-assisted status.

There is no longer an index of registered drug addicts. However, the following table shows the number of new individual patients/clients by NHS board of residence, reported to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database during the five years ending 31 March 2001. This information has already been published in the ISD Scotland publication Drug Misuse in Scotland 2001 and is available on the national drug misuse website at: http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org Information on the estimated number of problem drug users at both national and local level is contained in Estimating the National and Local Prevalence of Problem Drug Misuse in Scotland, published in November 2001, also available on the national drug misuse website.Information on the number of drug users being prescribed methadone or other drug substitutes is not held centrally.New¹ individual patients/clients^2,3 reported to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database by NHS Board of residence:Years ending 31 March

	Numbers
	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01
Scotland	8,652	8,846	9,280	10,608	10,591
By NHS Board
Argyll and Clyde	957	1,365	1,459	1,228	1,330
Ayrshire and Arran4	303	356	141	1,182	1,239
Borders	59	21	79	80	102
Dumfries and Galloway	149	153	231	200	207
Fife	384	362	396	433	598
Forth Valley	172	160	334	281	247
Grampian	947	1,056	835	712	631
Greater Glasgow	3,224	2,833	2,871	3,306	3,290
Highland	58	60	74	124	124
Lanarkshire	353	320	427	551	513
Lothian	1,886	1,789	1,876	2,000	1,947
Tayside	169	357	577	551	405
Island Boards5	28	46	29	31	24
Outside Scotland	3	3	2	7	7

Notes:1. It is emphasised the information held on the Scottish Drug Misuse Database relates to new patients/clients. The definition of "new" is (a) the person is attending the particular service for the first time ever, or (b) the person has attended before but not within the previous six months.2. All figures in this table exclude penal establishment inmates and information received from needle exchanges.3. The database collects anonymous information about new problem drug users presenting at a broad range of drug services across, Scotland, including general practices.4. In 1999-2000 information was received for the first time from nine agencies in the Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board area.5. Shetland and Western Isles NHS Boards.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:It is not possible to measure rehabilitation directly and future behaviour is affected by many factors, many of which occur outwith the prison, but two of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the SPS relate to the work we do to assist prisoner rehabilitation:Programmes to address offending behaviour; the number of programmes delivered and percentage of those which are fully accredited.Education; the number of learning hours delivered.In addition, the work of SPS in the fields of health, medical, nursing, drugs, work, employability and throughcare, will contribute to rehabilitation by encouraging and helping the prisoner to be more responsible.

This is a matter for NHS Grampian, who commissioned the review in order to improve services for patients.

Detailed information about sample numbers and distribution can be found in the report Groundwater nitrate vulnerable zones for Scotland (Parliament's Reference Centre, Bib. number 18567), as detailed in the answer to question S1W-23978 today.

Recidivism figures were published by the Scottish Executive in February 2001. The study, which looked at a cohort of offenders released in 1995, recorded that 45% were reconvicted within two years.The Scottish Prison Service publishes return to custody figures. These are not recidivism figures but the number of people released from prison, who are returned to custody within a two-year period. The most recent Research Bulletin setting out the figures for those released in 1997 was published in December 2001 (Parliament's Reference Centre, Bib. number 10938).The data is not broken down by establishment, as many offenders do not spend their complete sentence in any one prison.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) collated nitrate data from 809 sources in the proposed Aberdeenshire, Banff and Buchan NVZ, including private water supplies, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) groundwater monitoring network, public water supply sources and its own boreholes. Information about these sources can be found in table 5.5 of the report Groundwater nitrate vulnerable zones for Scotland (Parliament's Reference Centre Bib. number 18567), prepared by BGS for the Department. The distribution of the sample sources can be found in Fig. 5.16 of the report.Private water supplies are monitored in accordance with the Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 1992, which lay down the standards for these supplies and specify the duties of local authorities, in respect of sampling and analysis. Sampling frequency depends on what the supply is used for, how much is used and how many people use it, and can vary between once every five years to four times per year. The SEPA policy is to monitor groundwater sources in its network four times per year. Detailed information about individual sources and sample numbers, can be found on the GIS CD-ROM, which accompanies the BGS report.

The information requested is not held centrally.Waiting time information for drug misuse treatment is not held consistently by drug services across Scotland. We are, however, currently seeking from Drug Action Teams some local information on waiting times for some drug services as part of the annual corporate planning arrangements.