- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of dental appointments were missed in each of the last three years and what the cost was of such non-attendance, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Under Paragraph 34 of Schedule 1 of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996, a dentist is permitted to charge patients who do not turn up for their appointments.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many regulations were (a) revoked and (b) simplified in order to reduce bureaucracy by each of its departments in each of the last three years.
Answer
Regulations can be revoked or simplified both by specific instruments addressing these regulations and by elements contained in more wide-ranging instruments. It is therefore not possible to give figures for reductions in bureaucracy. The Executive works to ensure that all regulations are necessary and proportionate. In particular, for regulations which impact on business, charities and the voluntary sector, the use of the Regulatory Impact Assessment and the Review Regulatory Impact Assessment should guarantee that regulations are proportionate, necessary and fit for purpose when they are introduced and remain so over time.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many residential beds there were for the treatment of alcohol misuse in the (a) public and (b) private sector in each NHS board area in each of the last three years, and expressed (i) per capita and (ii) per alcohol misuser.
Answer
Information on the number of residential beds for the treatment of alcohol misuse in the public and private sector in each NHS board area is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many false alarms each fire service received in each of the last three years, also expressed as a percentage of the overall number of calls.
Answer
The information is as follows:
| Fire Brigade | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| FA | % | FA | % | FA | % |
| Central Scotland | 2,602 | 51.4 | 2,537 | 48.4 | 2,699 | 46.9 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 784 | 40.3 | 657 | 31 | 764 | 36.7 |
| Fife | 3,159 | 46 | 3,096 | 46 | 2,926 | 42.6 |
| Grampian | 3,135 | 39 | 3,342 | 41.1 | 3,181 | 39.4 |
| Highland and Islands | 1,953 | 41.6 | 2,187 | 40 | 2,116 | 41.5 |
| Lothian and Borders | 9,399 | 46.8 | 10,209 | 47.7 | 10,695 | 47.7 |
| Strathclyde | 25,165 | 44.2 | 26,179 | 42.9 | 27,146 | 43.8 |
| Tayside | 3,943 | 43.4 | 3,915 | 43.4 | 4,297 | 43.5 |
| Scotland Total | 50,140 | 46 | 52,122 | 43.8 | 53,824 | 44 |
Notes:FA: The number of false alarm incidents attended by each brigade in the financial year.%: The number of false fire alarm incidents attended by brigades as a percentage of all incidents. These figures include well-intentioned calls and faulty apparatus as well as malicious calls.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacant consultant posts there currently are in each acute hospital and expressed as a percentage of the complement of each hospital and how long the post has been vacant in each case.
Answer
The latest available information on the number of consultant vacancies in each acute trust, is shown in the following table. Information at hospital level is not held centrally.Consultant Vacancies in Acute Trusts in NHSScotland: Headcount at 30 September 2001
| | Establishment | In Post | Total Vacancies | Length of Vacancy | Vacancies as a % of Establishment |
| < 6 Months | 6 Months or More | Total | 6 Months or More |
| Argyll and Clyde Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 164 | 151 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 7.9 | 3.0 |
| Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 138 | 136 | 2 | 2 | - | 1.4 | - |
| Borders Acute Hospital NHS Trust | 49 | 47 | 2 | 2 | - | 4.1 | - |
| Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals NHS Trust | 69 | 68 | 1 | - | 1 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| Fife Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 129 | 116 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 10.1 | 9.3 |
| Forth Valley Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 112 | 110 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.8 | 0.9 |
| Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust | 308 | 295 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 4.2 | 0.6 |
| North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust | 469 | 462 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust | 211 | 209 | 2 | 2 | - | 0.9 | - |
| Yorkhill NHS Trust | 115 | 112 | 3 | 3 | - | 2.6 | - |
| Highland Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 102 | 102 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 226 | 207 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 8.4 | 4.9 |
| Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust | 445 | 437 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| West Lothian Healthcare NHS Trust1 | 85 | 80 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5.9 | 3.5 |
| Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust | 270 | 262 | 8 | 8 | - | 3.0 | - |
| Orkney Health Board2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shetland Health Board2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | - | 2 | 22.2 | 22.2 |
| Western Isles Health Board2 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 20.0 | 13.3 |
Source: ISD(M)4 Medical and Dental Census ISD Scotland.Notes:West Lothian Healthcare is an integrated trust providing acute and primary care services. It is not possible to provide separate data for each of these services.Orkney Health Board, Shetland Health Board and Western Isles Health Board are special health boards providing acute and primary care services. It is not possible to provide separate data for each of these services.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent budgets allocated by Scottish Enterprise National (SEN) to each network company are, expressed (a) as a percentage of the overall SEN budget and (b) per capita.
Answer
This is an operational matter for the enterprise networks.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of GP appointments were missed in each of the last three years and what the cost was of such non-attendance, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. A service-led group, chaired by a NHS Trust Chief Executive, has been established to consider the issue of missed appointments. NHS boards and trusts, together with primary care teams are already working to ensure that wherever possible if an appointment is cancelled it can be filled by another patient. Patients also have a responsibility to ensure that where they are likely to have difficulty in attending an appointment they inform their practice or clinic as soon as possible.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many awards the Scottish Arts Council has made in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area expressed (i) per capita and (ii) as a percentage of the overall number of awards made in each year.
Answer
I have referred the question to the Scottish Arts Council asking that a response be made directly to the member.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many limited partnership tenancies there are in the agricultural sector and how many such tenancies have been created in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of prison inmates tested positive for drugs at reception into prison in each quarter in each of the last three years, broken down by prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Readily available information on reception drug test results are published annually in the Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland annual bulletin. The figures for 1998-99 to 2000-01 are at tables 106 and 107 in the 2001 report (Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2001, Information and Statistics Division, 2002). The figures for 2001-02 will be published in the next annual bulletin.
