What the figures are for public libraries in respect of (a) net expenditure, (b) expenditure per head of population, (c) professional, non-…

This information is not held centrally by the Scottish Executive. However, the following, from figures published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting, the Library and Information Statistics Unit and the Scottish Library and Information Council’s (SLIC) Public Library Expenditure Statistics, has been put together by SLIC:

| Category
| 1995-96
| 1999-2000
| 2001-02

a
| Net expenditure
| £88,540,000
| £84,130,565
| £88,820,942

b
| Expenditure per head of population
| £17.24
| £16.85
| £17.53

c
| Professional staff
| 682
| 641
| 629


| Non-professional staff
| 2200
| 2193
| 2308


| Manual staff
| 225
| 211
| n/a

d
| Expenditure on staff
| £47,823,366
| £50,529,300
| £54,120,315

e
| The number of books and other items issued
| 50,371,673
| 41,915,979
| 36,538,039

f
| Average issues per head of population
| 9.8
| 8.62
| 7.1

g
| Book funds
| £13,330,000
| £10,612,490
| £10,032,972

h
| Funds for audio and other non-book items
| £1,290,000
| £1,643,032
| £2,334,780

i
| Number of branch libraries
| 576
| 568
| 557


| Number of mobile libraries
| 102
| 93
| 93

j
| Number of branches open for 45 hours or more per week
| 195
| 178
| 180