- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any fisheries projects will be abandoned or reduced as a result of the recent budget announcement and, if so, which specific projects will be affected.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-16765. These are the only savings planned in the fisheries programmes.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 8 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by constituency and parliamentary region or by the most appropriate available geographical area of the location of the holders of the first 100,000 individual learning accounts.
Answer
The Executive's target of 100,000 Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs) was achieved on 11 June 2001. The nearest date for which ILAs are broken down geographically is for the period ended 30 June. The following details are provided below by Local Enterprise Company (LEC) area:-
LEC Areas | No. of ILAs Opened |
Argyll & Islands | 1,265 |
Ayrshire | 8,678 |
Borders | 2,455 |
Caithness & Sutherland | 1,148 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 3,563 |
Dunbartonshire | 7,285 |
Fife | 10,563 |
Forth Valley | 4,042 |
Glasgow | 12,508 |
Grampian | 13,651 |
Inverness & Nairn | 1,849 |
Lanarkshire | 7,889 |
Lochaber | 672 |
Lothian & Edinburgh | 17,922 |
Moray/Badenoch/ Strathspey | 1,896 |
Orkney | 532 |
Renfrewshire | 8,206 |
Ross & Cromarty | 1,071 |
Shetland | 343 |
Skye & Lochalsh | 490 |
Tayside | 9,003 |
Western Isles | 601 |
Unassigned | 372 |
Total (Scotland) | 116,004 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 8 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug addicts are (a) registered and (b) estimated to live in each health board area, giving each figure (i) as a percentage of the national figure and (ii) as a proportion of the population in each area.
Answer
The term "registered drug addict" no longer exists. Information on the numbers of people misusing drugs is not held centrally. However the Scottish Executive has commissioned the Centre for Drugs Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow to conduct a prevalence study to estimate the number of problem drug misusers at national and local level. The results of this study will be available shortly.
The following table shows the number of new individual patients reported to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database for the year ending 31 March 2000, as a percentage of the national figure and as a proportion of the population in each area.
Number of New Patients/Clients reported to Scottish Drug Misuse Database 1-4| | No. of New Patients | % of Scotland figures | Proportion of population. 15-54 years |
Scotland | 11 237 | 100% | 0.4% |
By Heath Board of Residence | | | |
Argyll and Clyde | 1 255 | 11.2% | 0.5% |
Ayrshire and Arran | 1 181 | 10.5% | 0.6% |
Borders | 80 | 0.7% | 0.1% |
Dumfries and Galloway | 199 | 1.8% | 0.3% |
Fife | 434 | 3.9% | 0.2% |
Forth Valley | 280 | 2.5% | 0.2% |
Grampian | 1 348 | 12.0% | 0.5% |
Greater Glasgow | 3 274 | 29.1% | 0.6% |
Highland | 124 | 1.1% | 0.1% |
Lanarkshire | 543 | 4.8% | 0.2% |
Lothian | 2 012 | 17.9% | 0.4% |
Orkney | - | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Shetland | 17 | 0.2% | 0.1% |
Tayside | 550 | 4.9% | 0.3% |
Western Isles | 14 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Outside Scotland | 8 | 0.1% | |
1. The definition of "new" is (a) the person is attending the particular service for the first time ever, or (b) the person has attended before but not within the previous six months.
2. Misuse of alcohol is reported to the database only if it is used as a secondary drug.
3. All figures exclude penal establishment inmates.
4. As compliance rates for services in each health board area may vary, and reports will depend on the availability of local services, direct comparisons to estimate prevalence may be inappropriate.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 8 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive ehat steps are being taken to help the fishing industry to recruit crews.
Answer
I understand that certain sectors of the fishing industry are having difficulty in retaining crew members. We expect that the impact of the Executive's decommissioning scheme on the viability and profitability of vessels will assist in attracting crews.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 8 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed specifically to work directly with young offenders in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Information on the number of people employed specifically to work directly with young offenders is not collected centrally.Information on the number of staff in local authority social work departments is given in the statistical bulletin Staff of Scottish Local Authority Social Work Departments, 1999, published in January 2001 and is available on the Scottish Executive web site. The bulletin provides a local authority staff breakdown for criminal justice social work, but this does not identify the age of the clients.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 6 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is seeking a ban on industrial fishing as part of the review of the Common Fisheries Policy or through any other forum.
Answer
A decision to ban or limit industrial fishing must be based on scientific evidence. We are working with colleagues in DEFRA to establish the impact of the industrial fisheries on the marine ecosystem, both in terms of bycatch of other fish and the importance of sandeels as a food source for other species. We have had useful discussions with Danish fisheries managers. We have also placed observers on Danish vessels and at Danish ports. We are currently analysing the collected data and we intend to meet again with Danish managers in due course.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GP co-operatives are funded by the Scottish Executive, which co-operatives these are and how much funding is given to each.
Answer
There are some 37 GP Out-of-Hours Co-operatives in Scotland - these are not directly funded by the Executive but an Out-of-Hours Development Fund (£5.742 million for 2001-02) is allocated to health boards to support improvements in out-of-hours services, including the development of out-of-hours co-operatives. Details of the funding of individual out-of-hours co-operatives are not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 31 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any justice projects will be abandoned or reduced as a result of the recent budget announcement and, if so, which specific projects will be affected.
Answer
There will be no projects abandoned or reduced following the announcement of savings on the justice budget.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 31 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list by police force area the amount of illegal drugs sei'ed by the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency.
Answer
The following table contains estimates, by police force area, of the weights of Class A and Class B controlled drugs seized within Scotland in operations involving the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency during the period 1 April 2000 to 31 March 2001.
| Force | Class A Weight | Class B Weight | Ecstasy Tablets |
| | Kilos | Thousands |
| Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary | - | - | 10.0 |
| Central Scotland Police | 1.9 | 13.0 | 0.3 |
| Fife Constabulary | 0.8 | - | - |
| Grampian Police | 1.6 | - | 5.0 |
| Lothian & Borders Police | 4.7 | 177.7 | 24.9 |
| Northern Constabulary | 0.5 | 20.0 | - |
| Strathclyde Police | 22.3 | 139.6 | 18.4 |
| Tayside Police | 3.3 | 7.7 | 8.0 |
| Total | 35.1 | 358.0 | 66.6 |
Seizures by individual forces would be additional to these amounts.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 31 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any agricultural projects will be abandoned or reduced as a result of the recent budget announcement and, if so, which specific projects will be affected.
Answer
The impact of the budget announcement on planned agricultural and other Rural Development and Environment spending is set out in the reply to question S1W-16765.
