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The Executive is supporting improvements to Perth Station under the First ScotRail Franchise Agreement. This includes funding approximately £155,000 for CCTV and Help Points, a new interchange shelter and station clocks. There is also additional funding of £100,000 for train crew facilities.

The cost of producing the Omnibus Survey of Small Businesses in Scotland 2002: Rural Analysis was £3,000.

The results from the rural analysis were used by the Executive to improve the evidence base and to get a better understanding of how, if at all, businesses in rural areas differ from businesses in urban areas. For instance, the results were used in the production of our booklet, Rural Scotland – Key Facts, which brings together key facts related to rural Scotland in an accessible way, and also our Annual Rural Report 2004, which details our achievements for rural Scotland over the preceding year. This increased knowledge helps inform how we tailor our policies and interventions right across the Executive to make sure we take account of the needs of people in rural areas.

The information requested is provided in the following table. Figures are available for the last three years and in the age bands shown in the following table.

Average Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) Costs per capita, 2003-04 to 2005-06

Age Band	2003-04 (£)	2004-05 (£)	2005-06 (£)
0-4	3,169	3,614	3,777
5-14	196	237	268
15-24	263	291	322
25-44	369	403	444
45-64	527	567	626
65-74	1,066	1,149	1,263
75-84	2,048	2,215	2,425
85+	3,722	3,956	4,423

Source: Scottish Executive

Notes:

1. HCHS costs cover: Acute, Community, Maternity, Care of Elderly, Learning Disabilities and Mental Illness.

2. Maternity costs have been fully allocated to the 0 to 4 age band.

In response to the Review of Scotland’s Cities, the Cities Growth Fund was launched to provide a stable source of infrastructure investment funding for Scotland’s six cities as the keystones of a growing economy. The fund was allocated to the six cities not just because they include the four largest urban communities in Scotland but because all six are at the core of wider, mutually interdependent city-regions which play a vital strategic role in Scotland’s economic and social development.

Rothes windfarm is expected to generate an estimated 120 to 145 gigawatt hours of electricity per annum. Information about weekly output of individual windfarms is not available centrally.

On the contrary, we are consulting on proposals to enhance the rights of parents to be represented and have their views heard and taken account of. It would be for the parents in each school to decide in future whether their representative body should be called a “school board” or something else.

Our policy is to support the development of a wide range of renewable technologies. Use of these technologies, including wind power, and where they replace fossil fuel generation, will help reduce CO₂ emissions .

A report commissioned by the DTI from ILEX Consulting, in association with Professor Gorban Strbac from the University of Manchester, entitled “Quantifying The System Costs Of Additional Renewables In 2020”, found that any additional fossil fuel reserve capacity needed to balance an increase in intermittent renewables connecting to the grid would not be on a megawatt for megawatt basis. The reserve capacity will be less than the renewables capacity, meaning that overall emissions will be reduced.

Similarly, the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Fourth Report (2004) found that “the notion that wind power needs 100 percent back-up does not stand up to analysis” (Chapter 7, paragraph 5). The report notes that this was confirmed by the grid system operator, National Grid Transco.

The Scottish Executive has no functions in relation to city status.

Information on Executive Agencies and public bodies formally classified as non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), is contained on the Public Bodies and Appointments website at:

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Details of bodies notclassified as Executive Agencies or NDPBs are not held centrally by the Executive.