To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-33327 by Ross Finnie on 31 January 2003, how the £3 million for local anti-litter initiatives was allocated, broken down by local authority, and how it monitors the effectiveness of these local schemes.

The £3 million for local anti-litter initiatives as answered in question S1W-33327 relates to indicative figures received from local authorities as part of the £95 million End Year Flexibility funding for Quality of Life activities for 2002. Councils made the decisions at a local level on the most appropriate levels of additional spending on improving the local environment and/or services for children and young people.

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/webapp/search_wa.

Local Environmental Audit and Management System (LEAMS) will provide a performance indicator for street cleanliness to be published by Audit Scotland in 2005. The impact of any additional funding that Councils choose to spend from the Quality of Life funds should be captured within this new performance indicator.

The estimated £3 million spend by local authorities for local anti-litter initiatives in 2002 is set out in the table.