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No consultancy firms are being used by Inspiring Scotland in relation to the Go Play fund. The performance advisors are employed by Inspiring Scotland.

The Scottish Government has identified £4 million in 2009-11 for the Go Play programme, which is to be managed and administered by Inspiring Scotland. Inspiring Scotland have already received £2 million in 2009-2010 and are due to receive another £2 million in 2010-11.

Inspiring Scotland may expend up to £420,000 of the grant to cover the cost of employing six professional advisors. These six professional advisors are being employed over a two year period.

The contract with Inspiring Scotland states that if Inspiring Scotland employs fewer than six professional advisors over the two year period, then they will invest a pro-rata share of the said sum into direct investment of play services and capacity-building of the voluntary play sector.

The performance advisors will be dedicated to running the programme and worked closely with the charities during the application process and after decisions were made on who will receive funding. They will be monitoring the delivery of the work and providing regular performance reports.

10% of the programme funding (£400,000) will be used for core functions necessary to implement the fund, which includes management, finance, administration and communications.

In February 2010, 40 people in NHS Lanarkshire with type 1 diabetes were on insulin pump therapy.

The most recent information on the percentage of people with type 1 diabetes on insulin pump therapy, broken down by NHS board, was provided in the answer to question S3W-25079 on 15 July 2009. The 2009 Diabetes Survey, due to be published at the end of March this year, will, for the first time, contain information by NHS board on insulin pump provision.

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.

The information requested, which relates to February 2010, is included in the following table.

Number of Patients Receiving Insulin Pump Therapy in NHS Lanarkshire:

Age Range	Number of Patients
Under 18	1
18 to 30	4
31-45	16
45+	19

Source: Diabetes Managed Clinical Network, NHS Lanarkshire.

The information requested is not held centrally.

At our request, each NHS board has provided details of its planned investment in insulin pump therapy, and the associated structured education, over the next three years.

The 2010-11 Capital allocations for all NHS boards will be announced by the end of February 2010.

Since 2006, £3.79 million capital has been invested by NHS Lanarkshire in service developments across adult; old age; forensic; psychology and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Through the same period an additional £1.7 million in capital has gone into improvements in specialist regional inpatient services, for adolescents (£207,000) and medium secure care (£1.5  million). More than £2.6 million of additional ring-fenced funding has also gone into enhance substance misuse services.

In addition, two new capital developments to support patients with complex needs will open this year at Coathill Hospital, Coatbridge (£4.9 million) opening in May 2010 and Caird House, Hamilton (£8.14 million) opening in December 2010.

NHS Lanarkshire''s strategic aim for mental health inpatient services is through the provision of a single integrated inpatient unit in the north and one in the south. The unit in the north was identified in the first tranche of capital development priorities in Lanarkshire and the unit for the south remains in the second tranche. The board remains committed to achieving the strategic aim of delivering a single integrated inpatient facility in the north and in the south and are currently scoping options to maximise the benefits of their planned investment in mental health services.