- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of its drug misuse budget was spent on (a) health-related and (b) justice-related services, in each year since 1999.
Answer
We do not hold all of thisinformation centrally, as some drug misuse expenditure is deployed within coreor mainstream budgets. A review by our policy unit estimated that, in 1999, 38%of such resources was spent on treatment and rehabilitation, and 46% onenforcement.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources have been allocated to the NHS for alcohol treatment in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Funding for servicesaddressing alcohol problems is provided within resources allocated to NHS boardsand local authorities, but is not specifically identified by the Executive. The release of funding isconditional on alcohol action teams having agreed outcome expectations and systemsin place to measure key indicators. We will be monitoring the use of the newresources through alcohol and drug action team annual reporting arrangements.
We will be announcingspecific funding for the implementation of local alcohol action plans,including treatment and support priorities, in the near future.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been spent by social inclusion partnerships on addressing (a) alcohol and (b) drug misuse in each year since their inception.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is asfollows:
Separate social inclusion partnership(SIP) funding has been allocated since 2000 to tackle controlled drugs asdefined under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 but is not allocated specifically toaddress alcohol. Although projects dealing with controlled drugs can includesupport to address alcohol misuse details of these are not held centrally.
The total grant expenditureacross the SIP network under the SIP Tackling Drugs Misuse grant amounted to£0.844 million in 2000-01, £1.088 million in 2001-02 and £1.693 million in2002-03. Expenditure details are not yet available for 2003-04.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been fined under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000, stating in each case the value of the fine.
Answer
The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:
Number of persons fined for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002
| Year | Number fined | Average fine imposed (£) |
| 1999 | 28 | 386 |
| 2000 | 23 | 357 |
| 2001(1) | 20 | 859 |
| 2002 | 21 | 371 |
Note:
1.The relatively high figure for average fine imposedin 2001 reflects the disproportionate effect of a small number of cases withvery high fines imposed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the Department of Trade and Industry's White Paper Fair, Clear and Competitive - The Consumer Credit Market in the 21st Century, what representations or responses it has made in relation to the White Paper, in particular with regard to the section on licensing arrangements.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has been thoroughly consulted by the Department of Trade and Industryon all areas, both during to the preparation and since the publication of the whitepaper. This demonstrates the Executive meeting the Partnership for a Better Scotland commitment to work with the DTI totackle harassment by loan sharks, introduce fairer credit schemes and newprotection from exorbitant interest rates.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many fixed penalty notices have been issued by each local authority under the Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003.
Answer
As the provisions containedin the Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003 only came into effect on 22 October lastyear this information is not yet available. However, as indicated in myresponse to S2W-5987 on 26 February 2004, we intend to undertake a survey towards the end of2004 to establish how effective the provisions have been and this will includeseeking details from local authorities as to the number of fixed penalties theyhave issued.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5925 by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004, whether the number of patients awaiting a first appointment at the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh included any patients who had been on the waiting list in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03.
Answer
Some of the patients waitingfor a first appointment at the Sleep Centre were referred in the course of2002-03. None were referred before 2002-03.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency dental admissions there have been in each financial year since 1999-2000, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isbeing compiled by the Information and Statistics Division of the CommonServices Agency, but it will take some time to complete.
I will write to the memberas soon as the information is available and will arrange for a copy of myletter to be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-504 by Mr Tom McCabe on 10 June 2003, how many dentists there have been whose patient registration status shows withdrawn in each financial year from 1999-2000 to 2001-02 and this financial year to date, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is provided in the following table. The presence of a dentist indicates that the status of at least one of his patients is “withdrawn”. The data do not necessarily indicate all NHS general dentists who have notified patients of their withdrawal of NHS services. In some cases, dentists may not formally request that a patient’s registration be withdrawn; instead, the registration may simply be allowed to lapse.
Number of NHS General Dentists with at Least One Patient whose Registration Status shows “withdrawn”1,2 as at 12 February 2004.
| NHS Board Area | April 1999 to March 2000 | April 2000 to March 2001 | April 2001 to March 2002 | April 2003 to December 2003 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 72 | 73 | 75 | 27 |
| Borders | 23 | 23 | 28 | 12 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 81 | 80 | 59 | 26 |
| Fife | 82 | 82 | 82 | 44 |
| Greater Glasgow | 209 | 203 | 190 | 64 |
| Highland | 32 | 41 | 37 | 16 |
| Lanarkshire | 116 | 122 | 96 | 31 |
| Grampian | 104 | 95 | 94 | 56 |
| Orkney | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Lothian | 150 | 143 | 129 | 48 |
| Tayside | 86 | 97 | 82 | 42 |
| Forth Valley | 63 | 62 | 54 | 25 |
| Western Isles | 7 | 8 | 7 | 4 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 24 | 23 | 20 | 16 |
| Shetland | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Scotland | 1,055 | 1,056 | 956 | 413 |
Notes:
1. Based on patients whoseregistration status shows “withdrawn” and where the start date of theregistration period is between the dates in question. This occurs when there isa request for the registration record to be withdrawn (usually a request fromthe dentist, approved by the health board). It also includes withdrawalscarried out where more than one active registration exists for the same patientas part of data cleansing. This means that some withdrawals may be carried outvia an internal process.
2. A dentist can be presentin more than one health board.
Source: MIDAS (ManagementInformation & Dental Accounting System).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the cost of continuous positive airway pressure machines should be attributed to the community pharmacy budget and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Continuous positive airwaypressure machines may be used in the treatment of sleep apnoea. These machines arenot attributed to primary care budgets because patients whose symptoms suggestthey may be suffering from sleep apnoea are referred by their GP’s to hospitalspecialist clinics for diagnosis and treatment. If needed they are suppliedthrough the hospital service, with the cost being met from the hospital’sbudget and the patients care being managed by a relevant specialist.
