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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S2W-13840

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact of the reported shortfall of almost £5 million will have on frontline police services and manpower throughout the Lothian and Borders police force area.

The amount of Grant Aided Expenditure allocated to Lothian and Borders Police for 2005-06 is £179 million, an increase of £10 million on 2004-05. Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board has set the budget for Lothian and Borders Police for 2005-06 equal to this amount.

The number of police officers in Lothian and Borders Police at December 2004 was 2,785 (whole-time equivalents), up from 2,717 a year previously.

Question reference: S2W-13819

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to address any shortage of skilled nurses to manage the caseloads of patients with hepatitis C.

The Scottish Executive is committed to building nursing capacity within NHSScotland and is on track to achieve the Partnership Agreement target of attracting 12,000 nurses and midwives to NHS Scotland by 2007.

In addition, the Facing the Future initiative for recruitment and retention of nurses is supporting and promoting a range of measures to boost the number of qualified nurses in NHSScotland, which is now at an all time high of 39,000 whole-time equivalents (WTE).

Information on clinical nurse specialists employed in NHSScotland was collected for the first time at 30 September 2003. Across Scotland nurse specialists who treat and care for patients with hepatitis C can beidentified under the following titles: gastro-intestinal specialist nurses, hepatology specialist nurses and substance misuse specialist nurses. Information on staff in post by NHS board and clinical area of work is published in the report Clinical Nurse Specialists – Results from the Pilot Data Collection. This report is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Information on Clinical Nurse Specialists is now collected annually at 30 September each year and compliments other intelligence and data for workforce planning purposes.

Question reference: S2W-13841

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact will be for residents in the Scottish Borders and East Lothian of the reported £5 million shortfall within Lothian and Borders Police.

Question reference: S2W-13830

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the launch of its hepatitis C action plan will be accompanied by a financial commitment and, if so, whether this will be new funding and whether it will be ring-fenced.

Question reference: S2W-13820

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are sufficient resources available to ensure that people with hepatitis C are treated and counselled (a) inside and (b) outside hospital.

Question reference: S2W-13829

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether its hepatitis C action plan will have (a) a public and (b) a medical professional component.

Question reference: S2W-13827

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding has been identified for further preventative innovations to combat the spread of hepatitis C.

In addition to their unified budgets, the Executive already gives over £8 million per year to NHS boards in earmarked resources for work to prevent bloodborne viruses, including hepatitis C. NHS boards use these resources in a variety of ways taking account of local need, including awareness-raising initiatives and needle exchange schemes.

In October 2004, linked to SR2004, it was announced that an additional £6 million per annum would be provided for drug treatment and rehabilitation services in 2005-06. This brings the total to £32.5 million per annum, an increase of 23% on 2004-05.

Question reference: S2W-13821

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are substantial support services available for people diagnosed with hepatitis C.

Question reference: S2W-13441

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the population was in (a) 1999 and (b) 2004 and what the projected population figures are for 2010, broken down by Scottish parliamentary constituency.

Sub-national population estimates and projections are not calculated for Scottish parliamentary constituencies. Information for local authority and health board areas is available on the General Register Office for Scotland website at http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/index.html.

Results from the 2001 Census, published by the Registrar General on 25 March 2003, show that the resident population at 29 April 2001 for each Scottish parliamentary constituency was:

Parliamentary Constituency	Total Population
Aberdeen Central	70,104
Aberdeen North	69,935
Aberdeen South	72,086
Airdrie and Shotts	77,762
Angus	77,083
Argyll and Bute	63,443
Ayr	71,382
Banff and Buchan	76,871
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	52,405
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	81,388
Central Fife	75,092
Clydebank and Milngavie	67,517
Clydesdale	81,888
Coatbridge and Chryston	66,789
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	64,552
Cunninghame North	69,124
Cunninghame South	66,693
Dumbarton	76,074
Dumfries	80,595
Dundee East	76,557
Dundee West	68,512
Dunfermline East	70,115
Dunfermline West	65,508
East Kilbride	83,893
East Lothian	76,365
Eastwood	89,311
Edinburgh Central	74,270
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	74,555
Edinburgh North and Leith	75,571
Edinburgh Pentlands	73,963
Edinburgh South	81,413
Edinburgh West	82,575
Falkirk East	75,956
Falkirk West	69,235
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale	67,170
Glasgow Anniesland	63,385
Glasgow Baillieston	64,106
Glasgow Cathcart	61,847
Glasgow Govan	61,555
Glasgow Kelvin	64,472
Glasgow Maryhill	64,628
Glasgow Pollok	62,756
Glasgow Rutherglen	65,720
Glasgow Shettleston	55,926
Glasgow Springburn	69,324
Gordon	78,720
Greenock and Inverclyde	62,478
Hamilton North and Bellshill	70,817
Hamilton South	60,743
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber	85,390
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	79,562
Kirkcaldy	63,598
Linlithgow	72,160
Livingston	86,554
Midlothian	64,327
Moray	79,003
Motherwell and Wishaw	65,630
North East Fife	75,116
North Tayside	78,651
Ochil	74,826
Orkney Islands	19,245
Paisley North	61,100
Paisley South	66,358
Perth	78,400
Ross, Skye and Inverness West	71,119
Roxburgh and Berwickshire	57,480
Shetland Islands	21,988
Stirling	69,272
Strathkelvin and Bearsden	81,252
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale	65,898
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	79,217
West Renfrewshire	67,134
Western Isles	26,502

Question reference: S2W-13279

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 3 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has that local authorities may have moved funding from handyman services and aids and adaptations for tenants in the socially-rented sector in order to provide the required contributions to funding the Care and Repair Scheme.

Aids and adaptations andhandyman services for tenants in the social rented sector are funded from rentsand specific grants from Communities Scotland. This funding would not beeligible to be used to support Care and Repair services, which work to improvehousing conditions in the private sector.

Additional information onCare and Repair funding is available in the report “Care and Repair NationalIndicators 2003-04” published by Communities Scotland:

http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/web/FILES/carerepair2004.pdf.