asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his latest estimate of local authority spending on the arts in Scotland.

Outturn in the current financial year is expected to be in the order of £60 million. The breakdown is as follows :

	£ million
Libraries—current	46·0
—capital	2·1
Museums and Galleries—current	10·0
—capital	1·2
Theatres and Entertainment—capital	0·7

The figures do not provide a comprehensive picture, since current expenditure on theatres and entertainment is subsumed under leisure and recreation and cannot be diaggregated.