§ Ms Roseanna CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what submission he received from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in advance of the Comprehensive Spending Review for Scotland; what level of grant-in-aid was sought for (i) 1999–2000, (ii) 2000–01 and (iii) 2001–02; what grant-in-aid provision there will be for each year under his proposals; and what assessment he has made of the level of grant-in-aid requested by the agency. [51873]
§ Mr. MacdonaldOfficials in the Scottish Office regularly receive information from SEPA concerning current and future levels of funding, and my noble Friend Lord Sewel has recently met SEPA's Chairman and Chief Executive to discuss the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review. The detailed allocation of resources to SEPA and the other parts of the Other Environmental Services programme is currently being finalised and will be announced in due course.