- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police hours, on average, are spent on court duty each week and what percentage of total police hours these figures represent, broken down by force area in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally and is a matter for each police force. However, once the contract for prisoner escorting and court custody is fully rolled out, this will enable up to 300 police officers, who would previously have spent time in court, to be released for deployment to other operational duties.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have not attained any standard grades in English or mathematics on leaving school, in each local authority area, in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed a table with the information requested in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 33285).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many warrants have been issued to individuals for non-appearance in court in each year since 1999, broken down by force area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of schoolchildren has attained a standard grade in a foreign language in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
I have placed a table with the information requested in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 33284).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many problem drug users were registered in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
There is no central register of drug users in Scotland. However, the Scottish Drug Misuse Database collects information on drug users at the point of their coming into contact with drug treatment services. This information can be found at
www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planned admissions for in-patient and day-case treatment have been cancelled in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
There are many reasons why planned admissions to hospital for inpatient and day case treatment may be cancelled, such as the absence of key staff on sick leave and/or an unexpected short term increase in the number of emergency admissions. When a patient’s admission is cancelled we expect NHSScotland to reschedule their admission as soon as possible, taking into account the clinical needs of the patient.
Information on the number of planned admissions for inpatient and day case treatment (including non-surgical treatment) recorded as cancelled for the years ending 31 March 2000 to 2004 inclusive, by NHS board of residence is given in the table.
NHS boards are expected to adopt best practice in managing admissions to reduce the incidence of cancellations and thus improve patients’ experience of waiting. Best practice advice was included in “Managing Waiting Times: A Good Practice Guide”, issued to the NHS in 2003. In addition, there are concerns about the accuracy and quality of data recorded by hospitals on cancelled admissions. The Executive is working with NHS National Services Scotland to address these concerns through its strategic review of health and care statistics.
NHSScotland – Cancellations Of Planned Admissions For Inpatient Or Day Case Treatment, By NHS Board: Years Ending 31 March 2000 To 2004P Inclusive
| NHS Board | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04P |
| Argyll and Clyde | 1,042 | 1,398 | 1,090 | 1,480 | 916 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 461 | 374 | 323 | 276 | 243 |
| Borders | 437 | 458 | 348 | 328 | 261 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 277 | 151 | 98 | 534 | 421 |
| Fife | 1,472 | 1,076 | 975 | 949 | 1,188 |
| Forth Valley | 446 | 588 | 730 | 604 | 930 |
| Grampian | 1,835 | 1,963 | 1,789 | 1,857 | 1,902 |
| Greater Glasgow1 | 3,210 | 4,3191 | 5,740 | 4,6111 | 3,446 |
| Highland | 899 | 1,081 | 1,009 | 884 | 1,283 |
| Lanarkshire | 409 | 387 | 468 | 1,301 | 1,750 |
| Lothian | 2,238 | 2,575 | 2,213 | 2,362 | 2,409 |
| Orkney | 20 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 15 |
| Shetland | 25 | 17 | 34 | 9 | 2 |
| Tayside | 1,455 | 1,478 | 1,287 | 1,300 | 1,185 |
| Western Isles | 6 | 10 | 25 | 36 | 70 |
| Scotland | 14,232 | 15,889 | 16,136 | 16,546 | 16,021 |
Source: ISD Scotland (Form ISD (1)).
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Note:
1. Excludes data from the Southern General Hospital for years ending March 2001 and 2003.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 2 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made, or plans to make, to Her Majesty's Government in support of legislative measures to prohibit the adaptation of exhausts of vehicles that are to be used on public highways.
Answer
We are in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of transport-related issues.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-dependent babies were born in each of the last five years.
Answer
The following table showsthe available information on babies discharged from Neonatal Units with adiagnosis involving drug misuse.
Neonatal discharges (1,2)recording drug misuse (3)
| Financial Year | Number of Discharges |
| 1997-98 | 217 |
| 1998-99 | 245 |
| 1999-2000 | 325 |
| 2000-01 | 329 |
| 2001-02* | 258 |
| 2002-03* | 276 |
Source : ISD ScotlandNeonatal Discharge Summary (SMR11) and Scottish Birth Record (SMR11).
Notes:
1 A baby may be admitted toand discharged from neonatal care more than once. These figures relate to thetotal number discharges, not to the number of individual babies.
2 Includes births where NHS boardof residence is unknown or outside Scotland.
3 Drug misuse is definedusing the following International Classification of Disease (10th Rev.) codes:
·P04.4- Foetus and newborn affected by maternal use ofdrugs of addiction.
·P96.1- Neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal useof drugs of addiction.
4.* - Incomplete data.
Data for 01/02and 02/03 are considered incomplete. This is due partly to the introduction of the Scottish Birth Record (SBR) which replaces the SMR11 (sick babies only). TheSBR is currently being incrementally implemented across Scotland with a view to recording information on all birthsby Spring/Summer 2005.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths there were in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area, expressed also per 100,000 head of population.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following table. The figures for 2003 will be available at the end of August 2004.
| Health Board Area | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| | No | Rate per 100,000 pop | No | Rate per 100,000 pop | No | Rate per 100,000 pop | No | Rate per 100,000 pop | No | Rate per 100,000 pop |
| Scotland | 249 | 4.9 | 291 | 5.7 | 292 | 5.8 | 332 | 6.6 | 382 | 7.6 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 23 | 5.4 | 30 | 7.1 | 31 | 7.4 | 22 | 5.2 | 31 | 7.4 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 4 | 1.1 | 15 | 4.0 | 20 | 5.4 | 35 | 9.5 | 33 | 9.0 |
| Borders | 1 | 0.9 | | | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.9 | | |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 4 | 2.7 | 7 | 4.7 | 7 | 4.7 | 8 | 5.4 | 9 | 6.1 |
| Fife | 13 | 3.8 | 9 | 2.6 | 12 | 3.4 | 11 | 3.1 | 12 | 3.4 |
| Forth Valley | 2 | 0.7 | 8 | 2.9 | 4 | 1.4 | 9 | 3.2 | 24 | 8.6 |
| Grampian | 26 | 4.9 | 38 | 7.2 | 31 | 5.9 | 46 | 8.7 | 47 | 9.0 |
| Greater Glasgow | 93 | 10.6 | 100 | 11.5 | 104 | 12.0 | 96 | 11.1 | 126 | 14.5 |
| Highland | 1 | 0.5 | 7 | 3.3 | 1 | 0.5 | 5 | 2.4 | 8 | 3.8 |
| Lanarkshire | 21 | 3.8 | 23 | 4.1 | 29 | 5.2 | 24 | 4.3 | 37 | 6.7 |
| Lothian | 37 | 4.8 | 39 | 5.1 | 37 | 4.8 | 54 | 6.9 | 39 | 5.0 |
| Orkney | | | | | | | | | | |
| Shetland | 1 | 4.4 | | | 1 | 4.5 | 1 | 4.6 | 1 | 4.6 |
| Tayside | 23 | 5.8 | 14 | 3.6 | 14 | 3.6 | 19 | 4.9 | 14 | 3.6 |
| Western Isles | | | 1 | 3.7 | | | 1 | 3.8 | 1 | 3.8 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in Scotland over each of the last three years as a direct or indirect result of a hospital-acquired infection.
Answer
The General Register Officefor Scotland collates information on the cause of death, collected when a deathis registered, using the World Health Organisation’s InternationalClassification of Diseases (ICD). Not all infections have a specific ICD code; inaddition, there is no way of distinguishing deaths involving infectionsacquired in hospital from those acquired in the community using ICD codes.
