HC Deb 07 February 1995 vol 254 cc235-6W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give by regional and island authority the amount of special transitional grant for 1993–94 spent on(a) nursing home placements, (b) residential home placements and (c) non-residential services.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 6 February 1995]Local authorities in Scotland have received funding of £85.8 million in 1993–94 to support their new community care responsibilities. The comparable figures for 1994–95 and 1995–96 are £176 million and £241 million respectively. These include of each executive non-departmental public body may be obtained from the annual report of the body.

I appoint two non-executive directors to the board of the Scottish Prison Service and one non-executive director to the management board of registers of Scotland.

Details of my responsibilities with respect to the appointments of individual chief executives for each of my eight executive agencies can be found in the agency framework documents, copies of which are held in the Library of the House.

Information about the running costs of each of my executive agencies is set out in the table. Agencies came into being on various dates during this period. To give a consistent time series a full five-year run of figures has been prepared irrespective of when the agencies were created. The table shows outturn expenditure since information is not readily available over the full five-year period on a budget basis.

resources equivalent to the special transitional grant which applies in England only. Outturn expenditure data for 1993–94 are not yet available.