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There are no plans to review the criteria for the designation of Social Inclusion Partnerships.

The whole of Glasgow, including SIP areas, benefit from a range of Scottish Executive policies designed to promote social justice by tackling poverty and disadvantage including Sure Start, the childcare strategy and the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund. Glasgow City Council has been allocated £6 million under the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund for 2001-02 which will be used to improve services for children aged 5-18 across the city. We also work with the UK Government to tackle poverty through programmes such as the New Deals and the Tax Credits.Communities Scotland is also involved in activities in all parts of Glasgow to provide high quality housing and to support housing associations to develop and deliver services to support disadvantaged communities.

The public consultation on the recommendations of the Scottish Charity Law Commission's Report (Bib. No. 14703) closed on 30 September. An analysis of the responses is almost complete and will be published on the Executive's website as soon as possible.The membership of the Charity Law Advisory Forum which I announced on 23 October will be published shortly. The Advisory Forum will provide an opportunity for the voluntary sector and key agencies to contribute to the analysis of issues and options for implementation, which will need to be addressed in and beyond the legislative process. This will add value to the recent wider consultations, enabling ministers to decide how precisely to take forward the commission's recommendations.The Executive will publish its full response to the commission's report later this year but there is no room in the legislative timetable for a Bill before the next Scottish parliamentary elections.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-21447.

There are at present two projects in Glasgow which have received Social Inclusion Partnership funding and which are currently under investigation by Glasgow City Council's Internal Audit Department because of alleged irregularities in the use of Social Inclusion Partnership funds.

The administrative costs claimed by Glasgow City Council for the Social Inclusion Partnerships operating in Glasgow in 2000-01 were £392,062.

Sinclair Knight Merz have recently been commissioned to undertake a study into rail links to these airports. It is too early to say what the outcome will be. The final report containing the consultants' conclusions and recommendations is expected in autumn this year.

The Scottish Executive's Standard Terms and Conditions of Grant for the Social Inclusion Fund sets out our requirements in relation to grants made under this funding package and in particular the obligations of the grant recipient for Social Inclusion Partnership (SIP) funding.Under these conditions all land and buildings and all moveable property with a value of £50,000 or more purchased with the aid of Social Inclusion Partnership Fund funding shall be owned by the grant recipient and shall not be disposed of during the grant funding period without the consent of Scottish ministers.In the event of a SIP funded project closing down what would happen to the monies allocated to the project and any equipment purchased by the project using public funds will depend on the specific terms and conditions under which the grant had been allocated by the grant recipient, which at present will be the local authority, to the SIP. The terms and conditions of grant adopted by grant recipients are formulated by themselves, not the Executive and therefore vary across Scotland.

I refer the member to Table 2 in the answer given to question S1W-21050 on 10 January 2002.

While there have been no formal evaluation studies on the impact of community policing, this is one of the aspects of policing routinely considered by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary during its primary inspections of forces.