§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the allocation of funds to each regional council for the provision of sheltered placement schemes in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 10 February 1994]: The grant-aided expenditure for sheltered employment for each regional authority for the years 1989–90 to 1993–94 is given in the table. GAE is the level of expenditure which is taken into account in distributing aggregate external finance to local authorities. It is, of course, for the authorities themselves to determine actual levels of expenditure on a particular service.
Sheltered employment grant-aided expenditure 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 Borders 0 0 0 0 0 Central 304 317 329 407 340 Dumfries and Galloway 23 26 26 27 24 Fife 611 828 1,144 1,179 1,186 Grampian 1,023 1,161 920 825 1,249 Highland 384 420 496 512 469 Lothian 755 828 940 957 1,260 Strathclyde 1,976 2,352 2,683 2,677 2,342 Tayside 560 906 1,018 1,035 1,080