To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-464 by Ross Finnie on 10 June 2003, what stage the development of performance indicators under the Keep Scotland Beautiful project has reached.

2003-04 reports have been collated by Keep Scotland Beautiful and have been issued to local authorities following completion of the first year operation of LEAMS. However, it has been decided by Audit Scotland that as the first year was run essentially as a pilot, the final overall marking for each local authority taken from their first year reports will not be formally published as Performance Indicators. It will be up to each individual authority to decide if they make their own report public.

The first performance indicators to be published by Audit Scotland will be the 2004-05 figures and these should be available in autumn 2005.