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The official insolvency statistics, published by the Insolvency Service, are the most comprehensive record of the number of corporate and individual insolvencies. However, these figures are only published at a Scotland level.

The following table presents figures for insolvencies in Scotland from 1998 to 2007.

Source: The Insolvency Service

Note: Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB), an agency of the Scottish Government, is responsible for administering the process of personal bankruptcy and recording corporate insolvencies in Scotland. Further information about insolvency in Scotland can be found on the AiB website at www.aib.gov.uk.

Notes:

1. A poundage supplement has been payable since 2003-04 in respect of business properties with a rateable value which exceeds a prescribed threshold. In 2008-09, the supplement is 0.4p on rateable values above £29,000.

2. Some non-domestic properties are exempt from business rates, while others may be eligible for reliefs such as the Small Business Bonus Scheme, available for subjects with a rateable value of £15,000 or less.

Of the companies detailed below, our records indicate that E&M Manufacturing Ltd, First Choice Retail Ltd, Merchants Ltd and Dalglen (No. 823) Ltd are new to the area since May 1999.

Not all investments proceed as projects are sometimes scaled down or abandoned. All projects recorded by SDI as inward investment successes are subject to change depending on future economic conditions and other factors affecting the businesses concerned.

Information about the number of children with ASD in education is available from the pupil census, Pupils in Scotland, and should be used to plan future demand on services. Pupils in Scotland, 2007 is on the Scottish Government website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/02/25145216/0.

Combined MMR vaccines were first introduced into the routine childhood immunisation programme in 1988. At that time, the vaccines used were Pluserix and MMR II. Immravax was used from 1989. Pluserix and Immravax were withdrawn from use in September 1992 following confirmation that the rate of aseptic meningitis associated with these vaccines was higher than that of other available MMR vaccines. Priorix was used in the routine programme from 1997.

Priorix and MMRII are currently used in the immunisation programme.

The available information is provided in the following table, which details drug-related interventions provided in Scottish prisons. The information provided is based on entries to prison, rather than average population numbers, as this is a more accurate reflection of the annual throughput.

Note: 1. The National Harm Reduction Awareness Session is offered to all prisoners on admission (unless they have attended within the previous six months).

Note: 2. Addiction assessments are offered to prisoners serving a sentence of 31 days or more. Prisoners serving less than 31 days are not offered this assessment due to the short length of stay, but are referred to either voluntary throughcare or national throughcare addictions service, dependent on criteria.

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3. Motivational Interventions are delivered on an individualised assessed need basis.

4. In these years, only prisoners serving sentences of two years or more were offered to participate in a Pre-Release Harm Reduction Groupwork Session prior to release.

5. The 636 completed drug rehabilitation programmes during 2005-06 equates to a total of 19,939 learning hours, compared to 661 completed in 2006-07 equating to a total of 21,447 learning hours.