The reply was the same to both questions: this information is not held centrally. In other words, no-one knows. That was in June 2002, and the situation is no different now. No department collects this information, so contacting all 32 local authorities in Scotland to ask what they spent on youth work with an aim of comparing it would be a fruitless task.
Sylvia Murray, policy manager at the children and young people team of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, says: "You have to compare apples with apples, but this would be like comparing apples, pears and oranges with the odd grape thrown in."
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