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Diet control is not considered to be one of the complementary therapies. Accordingly guidance on diet control is not provided in this context.

The Scottish Government recognises that complementary or alternative medicine may offer relief to some people suffering from a wide variety of conditions and leaves it open to NHS boards to provide these therapies based on their assessment of needs in their areas. Treatment options, based on individual care assessments, are a matter for clinical decision in consultation with all relevant professionals and the individual. Guidance to NHS boards in August 2005, available at drew further attention to this care option.

Advice including dietary management regarding the treatment and care for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder sufferers is provided by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidance Network in SIGN 52 - Attention Deficit and Hyperkinetic Disorders in Children and Young People. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland has undertaken a review of the implementation of SIGN 52. The findings will be published on 25 April.

The available information is given in the following table.

Persons Proceeded Against for Selling Alcohol Illegally¹ by Approximate Local Authority Area² 2003-04 to 2005-06

Local Authority	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Aberdeen City	3	-	3
Aberdeenshire	1	1	-
Angus	-	-	-
Argyll and Bute	-	-	-
Clackmannanshire	-	3	1
Dumfries and Galloway	2	3	6
Dundee City	6	-	-
East Ayrshire	4	8	6
East Dunbartonshire	-	2	-
East Lothian	-	-	2
East Renfrewshire	-	-	-
Edinburgh, City of	3	5	8
Eilean Siar	-	-	-
Falkirk	5	2	4
Fife	5	1	-
Glasgow City	4	7	7
Highland	-	1	2
Inverclyde	1	1	-
Midlothian	-	2	2
Moray	3	-	-
North Ayrshire	1	-	-
North Lanarkshire	-	-	6
Orkney Islands	3	-	-
Perth and Kinross	-	1	1
Renfrewshire	5	5	-
Scottish Borders	-	3	4
Shetland Islands	-	3	-
South Ayrshire	4	-	11
South Lanarkshire	2	8	18
Stirling	3	4	3
West Dunbartonshire	2	-	1
West Lothian	-	-	-
Scotland3	57	60	87

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Incorporates an approximate mapping of sheriff courts into local authority areas. Some sheriff courts will deal with cases from more than one local authority area. Some local authority areas, including East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Midlothian and North Ayrshire, do not contain a sheriff court.

3. Includes courts which could not be mapped to approximate local authority areas.

The available information is given in the following table.

Persons Proceeded Against in Scottish Courts for Selling Alcohol to Underage Persons¹ by Age² and Approximate Local Authority Area³, 2003-04 to 2005-06

Ìý Local Authority Area	2003-04		2004-05		2005-06
	under 18	18 and over	under 18	18 and over	under 18	18 and over
Aberdeen City	-	2	-	-	-	3
Aberdeenshire	-	-	-	-	-	-
Angus	-	-	-	-	-	-
Argyll and Bute	-	-	-	-	-	-
Clackmannanshire	-	-	-	3	-	1
Dumfries and Galloway	-	2	1	2	-	6
Dundee City	-	5	-	-	-	-
East Ayrshire	-	3	-	5	-	4
East Dunbartonshire	-	-	-	2	-	-
East Lothian	-	-	-	-	-	2
East Renfrewshire	Ìý	Ìý			Ìý	Ìý
Edinburgh, City of	-	3	-	5	-	5
Eilean Siar	-	-	-	-	-	-
Falkirk	-	4	-	2	-	4
Fife	-	5	-	1	-	-
Glasgow City	-	3	-	7	1	6
Highland	-	-	-	1	-	2
Inverclyde	-	1	-	-	-	-
Midlothian	-	-	-	2	-	1
Moray	-	1	-	-	-	-
North Ayrshire	-	1	-	-	-	-
North Lanarkshire	-	-	-	-	-	1
Orkney Islands	1	2	-	-	-	-
Perth and Kinross	-	-	-	-	-	1
Renfrewshire	-	5	-	3	-	-
Scottish Borders	-	-	-	2	-	4
Shetland Islands	-	-	-	3	-	-
South Ayrshire	-	4	-	-	-	9
South Lanarkshire	-	1	-	8	-	17
Stirling	-	2	-	3	-	2
West Dunbartonshire	-	2	-	-	-	1
West Lothian	-	-	-	-	-	-
Scotland	1	46	1	49	1	69

Notes:

1. Where this is the main offence. Includes the offences of Sale of drink to person under 18 and Wholesaler selling liquor to person under 18, the figures do not include those prosecuted for the offence of proxy purchase under section 68(3) of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976

2. Excludes a small number where age is unknown.

3. Incorporates an approximate mapping of sheriff courts into local authority areas. Some sheriff courts will deal with cases from more than one local authority area. Some local authority areas, including East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Midlothian and North Ayrshire, do not contain a sheriff court.

Figures for driving prosecutions involving drugs alone are not available. However, the number of persons proceeded against for drink or drug driving offences in the years 2003-04 to 2005-06 is given in the following table.

Persons Proceeded Against for Drink/Drug driving Offences^1,2 in Scottish Courts, by Approximate Local Authority³, 2003-04 to 2005-06

Local Authority Area	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Aberdeen City	66	73	68
Aberdeenshire	20	31	27
Angus	25	18	27
Argyll and Bute	13	20	25
Clackmannanshire	8	6	9
Dumfries and Galloway	35	48	46
Dundee City	58	36	23
East Ayrshire	41	46	44
East Dunbartonshire	-	-	-
East Lothian	25	14	10
East Renfrewshire	-	-	-
Edinburgh, City of	87	94	91
Eilean Siar	8	9	6
Falkirk	48	38	33
Fife	74	84	58
Glasgow City	222	220	224
Highland	78	87	79
Inverclyde	30	30	20
Midlothian	-	-	-
Moray	21	20	15
North Ayrshire	-	-	-
North Lanarkshire	44	47	34
Orkney Islands	7	5	5
Perth and Kinross	28	45	33
Renfrewshire	44	45	60
Scottish Borders	24	23	21
Shetland Islands	7	2	3
South Ayrshire	42	43	30
South Lanarkshire	78	89	113
Stirling	27	21	24
West Dunbartonshire	48	59	48
West Lothian	48	32	51
Scotland4	1,256	1,285	1,228

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes the offences of driving motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs, in charge of a motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs, failure to provide a breath specimen at the roadside, and failure to provide a breath, blood or urine specimen at police station.

3. Incorporates an approximate mapping of sheriff courts into local authority areas. Some sheriff courts will deal with cases from more than one local authority area. Some local authority areas, including East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Midlothian and North Ayrshire, do not contain a sheriff court.

4. Includes courts which could not be mapped to approximate local authority areas.

Scotland at present has no system of sentencing guidelines. However, the Scottish Government believes that there is a case for guidelines to deliver more consistent and transparent sentencing and for setting up a sentencing council to create them. We consider that there needs to be further consultation and dialogue with key interests, principally the judiciary, on this issue.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-11224 on 7 April 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at .

Yes. Schedule 1 of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002 states that keeping fingernails and toenails trimmed should not be charged for.

We will be providing local government with record levels of funding over the period covered by the spending review 2008-11. The vast majority of the funding will be provided by means of a block grant. It is the responsibility of each local authority to allocate the total financial resources available to it on the basis of local needs and priorities having first fulfilled its statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities including the Scottish Government''s key strategic objectives and the full terms of the concordat, which includes the provision of free school meals for P1 to P3 from 2010.

This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at .

All answers to oral parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s Official Report website, the search facility for which can be found at:

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Transport Scotland is currently reviewing the funding options available for the Forth replacement crossing.

A decision on this matter will be made later in 2008.