The information requested is not held centrally. The application of health and safety at work regulations is an operational matter and therefore the responsibility of the relevant chief constable.

Records of manufacturing jobs created by inward investors which have been lost over a five year period are not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.The numbers given for loss of manufacturing jobs are based on figures supplied by the Scottish Executive and relate to jobs lost by companies whose ultimate parent is based outwith Scotland regardless of whether the company was initially attracted to Scotland by LiS or its partners. The number of jobs lost in Glasgow since 1995 by companies whose primary activity is manufacturing and whose ultimate parents are based outwith Scotland are listed below:

1995-96	93
1996-97	1,220
1997-98	400
1998-99	68
1999-2000	167

Over the same period, Locate in Scotland and its partners helped attract 776 manufacturing jobs to Glasgow and a total of 9,313 jobs across all sectors.

No such estimate of costs has been made. Capital allocations are issued annually on the basis of bids submitted by Forces. Following the distribution of the allocations it is for Forces to determine their spending priorities.

Figures for Glasgow and Dundee are available from September 1995 to September 1998. In addition, an estimate for September 1999 is given for Scotland in the table belowEmployee jobs in Manufacturing, 1995-1999 (000s)

Year	Scotland	Glasgow	Dundee
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999	321 316 322 316 300	34.7 31.3 32.0 31.9	10.6 12.1 10.6 12.0

Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Employment Survey, and quarterly employee job estimates.

Under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, the courts already have extensive powers to recover fines (including possible seizure of earnings). We have no plans to modify those powers at present.

Race crime units have been suggested in a response to the consultation on our action plan for implementing the recommendations in the MacPherson Report on the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. The suggestion is being considered by the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Steering Group in Scotland but there are no current plans to establish such units.

Between the late 1980s when it became apparent that the bridge was suffering from a number of serious structural problems, and 1 April 1996 when the M8 through Glasgow was adopted as a trunk road, Strathclyde Regional Council, the local roads authority, incurred expenditure of approximately £11.6 million.

The estimated final cost of the current strengthening contract is £31.5 million. Since the M8 was adopted as a trunk road all costs in connection with the bridge have been the responsibility of The Scottish Office, now the Scottish Executive.

This type of technical information relating to the operational management of the structure has not been published in the past and it is not proposed to do so in the future.

Decisions on the recruitment, deployment and the ratio of special to regular constables are operational matters for chief constables. A report on the role of the special constabulary was prepared by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and presented to the Police Advisory Board for Scotland last year. It recognised that there would be benefits in developing and enhancing the opportunities for members of the special constabulary to contribute to community policing. The recommendations contained in the report are currently being implemented by forces.

The Scottish Executive welcomed the establishment by the Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) of a Voluntary Sector Health Network. The Network, which was launched on 10 May, gives the voluntary sector a collective voice to represent its interests and concerns to the Scottish Parliament, statutory health bodies and wider community health interests.