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The Scottish Executive does not currently publish any performance indicators on spending by local authorities on local roads. We are, however, supporting the SCOTS local road condition survey which will, over time, provide an accurate assessment of the condition of local authority roads across Scotland. Statistics on spending by local authorities on local roads are available in Scottish Transport Statistics.

Information about the proportion of the trunk road network that has been resurfaced and surface dressed in each of the last five years can be found in Table 5.3, page 80 of Scottish Transport Statistics No. 21 published by the Scottish Executive in 2002, a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 23316).

All Scottish Police Forces engage advisers on racial equality matters. It is for Chief Constables to decide the method of engagement to ensure they achieve racial equality within their organisation and in the services their force provides.

Arrangements have been made to enhance the capability of MoD contingency plans by making available a number of red engines ("red goddesses") from the Scottish Fire Service Training School to add to the 110 green goddesses in Scotland. We have also been in touch with Fire Authorities in Scotland to ask for their assistance in making further "red goddesses" available. As a result of these actions, a total of 27 red engines have been provided for deployment by MoD.

The cost, including web conversion, for publishing and printing the 2nd Annual Report of the National Cultural Strategy amounts to about £18,000. The report has been disseminated directly, and through cultural agency networks, local authorities and the Executive's website, to known individual interests and to cultural organisations across Scotland.

Under existing legislation (section 1 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980) education authorities across Scotland must make provision for pupils with special educational needs, including dyslexia. It is therefore the statutory responsibility of the education authority to ensure that schools are adequately resourced, and that staff are properly trained to support pupils with dyslexia. Schools will use a range of strategies to support children according to each child's individual needs.The Scottish Executive has issued guidance on educational provision and support for pupils with special educational needs, including dyslexia. The guidance, Circular ED 4/96 Children and Young Persons with Special Educational Needs - Assessment and Recording, and the Manual of Good Practice in Special Educational Needs, has been disseminated widely, including to all local authorities and schools. Both documents are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. numbers 4386 and 3984). In addition, a number of local authorities issue guidance specifically on dyslexia to schools in their area.

The minor changes are as follows:1. The test administrators were not provided with the type of group training specified by the OECD. This was because the tests were administered by a member of school staff rather than by someone appointed by the contractor. The use of school staff was not in breach of OECD procedures. The fact that the test administrators would have been experienced in supervising test situations meant that group training was considered unnecessary given the disruption this would have caused to schools.2. The contractor provided the test administrators with a summary of the OECD guidance, which was used to brief the pupils.3. The specified procedures state that 35 pupils from each school should sit the tests. As most of the test administrators were school teaching staff it was considered that groups of 30 pupils would be more appropriate for Scotland. Care was taken to ensure that the sampling of students was random and the smaller group did not introduce any bias into our results.Our aim is to ensure that all aspects of current OECD regulations are complied with in the 2003 study.

The Annual Recurrent Grant for these years is as follows:

2000-01	£154,029
2001-02	£168,507
2002-03	£191,006P

^PProvisional figure.

The information requested for 1999 onwards is given on page number 7 of Examination Results in Scottish Schools 1999-2001, published by the Scottish Executive in 2001. A copy of this publication is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 17908).Prior to 1999, these statistics are presented on the basis of an individual year, rather than cumulative attainment by the end of sixth year. They are not, therefore, directly comparable with the statistics from 1999 onwards. The available pre-1999 statistics are given in the following publications, also published by the Scottish Executive Education Department, copies of which are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre:

Title	Year of Publication	Page	Bib. Number
Examination Results in Scottish Schools 1992-94	1994	69	24980
Examination Results in Scottish Schools 1993-95	1995	79	24981
Examination Results in Scottish Schools 1994-96	1996	99	24982
Examination Results in Scottish Schools 1995-97	1997	99	24983
Examination Results in Scottish Schools 1996-98	1998	99	24984
Examination Results in Scottish Schools 1997-99	1999	99	7541

The cost of printing 1,000 copies of the Draft Budget Document 2003-2004 was £5,606.52The publishing costs included the design cost of the document, which was £285.00 and the web conversion cost which was approximately £950.00. The distribution costs are expected to be similar to those for the Building a Better Scotland: Spending Proposals 2003-2006: What the money buys which came to £1,071.15.