The SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT YEARBOOK 1986

edited by DAVID McCRONE First published 1986

Published by

Unit for the Study of Government in Department of Politics University of 31 Buccleuch Place

ISBN 0 9509626 3 5

Printed by Microprint- Port Seton Scottish Government Yearbook 1986

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page 1. A Commentary The Editor 1 2. The Year at Westminister 5 Martin Dowie 3. The Appleby Version 20 Christopher Harvie 4. The Politics of Rate Support Grant Distribution 23 Arthur Midwinter, Colin Mair and Charles Ford 5. Local v. Central Government: the spending conflict 36 David Scott 6. Parliament and Scottish Moral Legislation in the 1970s 49 Jim Carnie 7. Lost in the Haar: A Critique of Mental Health in Focus 70 Nancy Drucker 8. Social Work with discharged prisoners 93 Stewart Black, Alex Robertson and Theresa Stephenson 9. Racism in Scotland 108 Robert Miles and Lesley Muirhead The Politics of Privatisation 10. Privatisation and the Tarnishing of the Scottish Public Sector 137 Richard Parry 11. The Welfare State, Privatisation and the Voluntary Sector 157 Alistair Grimes 12. Private Health Care in Scotland 172 Clare Donnelly 13. The Deregulation of Local Bus Services in Scotland 187 Tony Mackay Industrial Change and Regional Policy 14. Regional Industrial Policy 211 Hugh Begg and Stewart McDowell 15. Disinvestment and Industrial Change 225 16. Occupational Change in Modern Scotland 240 Steve Kendrick Scottish Government Yearbook 1986

Reference Section Scottish Legislation 1984 273 Hamish MeN Henderson Scottish Opinion Polls 283 Allan Macartney Scottish Government Reference 287 Richard Parry Recent Publications in Scottish Government and Politics 299 Chris Allen

The Yearbook is edited on behalf of the Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland at The . Additional copies of the Yearbook, backcopies of the nine previous volumes and further information about The Unit's activities can be obtained from Mrs. Helen Ramm at 31 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JT, Scotland.