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The intake targets for new entrants to nursing and midwifery pre-registration programmes in both 2008-09 and 2009-10 were 3,060.

The Scottish Government''s Mental Health Division currently provides the Samaritans (in Scotland) with a core grant of £33,000 per year (2010-13) under the grant scheme associated with section 16b of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

This grant was awarded following an application by the Samaritans for funding to maintain the staff post of their Scottish Development Manager, the core office costs associated with this, publicity work, and to support branches with regional training, events and expenses for volunteers.

1. Community health partnerships are not separate statutory bodies. They are committees or sub-committees of NHS boards and are accountable for their performance to NHS boards. Where an NHS board and local authority have established a community health and care partnership then both the NHS board and local authority monitor their performance.

2. The Scottish Government commissioned independent research into the progress that community health partnerships and community health and care partnerships have made since their inception. The report was published in May 2010.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-28833 on 16 November 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

NHS boards have not been given an indication of their likely capital allocations for 2011-12. NHS boards will be informed of their 2011-12 capital allocations early in 2011, following approval of the Scottish budget by the Scottish Parliament.

There are no capital projects approved by the Scottish Government at final business case stage which are not yet legally committed.

Information on the number of general practitioners (GPs) that have gained completed certificate of training in each of the last three years and projected for 2010 and 2011 is as detailed in the following table:

GPs	2007	2008	2009	Projected Number for 2010	Projected Number for 2011
Number	268	248	258	247	331

Source: NHS Education for Scotland.

Information on the number of physiotherapists employed by each NHS board in each of the last three years is available on the National Services Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Allied%20health%20professions%202009.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment .

Information on projected numbers of physiotherapists for 2010-11 is not centrally held. However, NHS boards published their projected staff in post (whole time equivalent) changes for 2010-11 on 3 June 2010 which can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/06/NHSWorkforce2010.

As we announced in June, increased demand and pressures on public expenditure, and the fact that our budget for 2011-12 is not yet set, require us to review the scheme in December 2010. We will take stock of spend to date and the numbers of young people in receipt of educational maintenance allowance (EMA). This will allow us to consider whether further adjustment to the EMA programme is needed in order to control pressure on the budget. We have no plans to end it.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-31307 on 1 March 2010 which specifies the number of managers not included on Agenda for Change. The reasons for not including certain posts under Agenda for Change contractual arrangements is set out in the circular HDL(2006)59 (http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/HDL2006_59.pdf). There was an independently chaired review of the executive and senior management pay arrangements which is published on the SHOW website and the link is http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/publications/DC20100315Pay.pdf.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.