- 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 imprisoned under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000.
Answer
The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:
Number of persons given a custodial sentence for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002 is shown in the following table.
| Year | Number |
| 1999 | 2 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 2001 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 |
- 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 Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000.
Answer
The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:
Number of persons convicted for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002
| Year | Number |
| 1999 | 39 |
| 2000 | 40 |
| 2001 | 34 |
| 2002 | 30 |
- 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 level of resources it provides for drug treatment and rehabilitation services.
Answer
According to the Executive’sPolicy Unit Review of Drugs Expenditure
http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/publications/abstracts/PUDrugExpenRev.htm,38%of the total expenditure of £141.5 million on tackling drug misuse in 1999 wasallocated for drug treatment and rehabilitation services.As indicated in my answer toS2W-6199 on 9 March 2004, the Executive has made additional resources of£33.7 million specifically available for drug treatment and rehabilitationservices during the three years from 2001-02 to 2003-04. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the searchfacility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been given under the Rural Transport Fund to Scottish Borders Council in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03, broken down by project.
Answer
The Rural Transport Fund comprises three elements: the Rural Community Transport Initiative (RCTI), the Rural Petrol Stations Grant Scheme (RPSGS) and the Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant Scheme (RPPTGS). Scottish Borders Council received no funding under RCTI or RPSGS, but received RPPTG of £0.158 million in 1999-2000, £0.167 million in 2000-2001, £0.193 million in 2001-02 and £0.212 million in 2002-03. Councils are free to spend these funds as they see fit. The following tables show Scottish Borders Council’s distribution of these funds in 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02. The Council has yet to provide data for 2002-03. We shall continue to pursue the Council and provide the missing information separately as soon as it is received.
Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant 1999-2000 Scottish Borders Council Expenditure
| Route | Amount |
| Service 67: Kelso - Galashiels/Galashiels - St Boswells | £47,290 |
| Service 30: St Boswells & Lauderdale to Edinburgh | £0 |
| Service 73: Selkirk - Galashiels | £2,548 |
| Service 102: Peebles - West Linton-Edinburgh | £25,052 |
| Service 223: Yetholm - Kelso-Coldstream-Berwick | £4,383 |
| Service 67: Kelso - Galashiels (evening service) | £6,566 |
| Service 7:3 Selkirk-Galashiels (evening service) | £3,388 |
| Service 92: Peebles - West Lothian | £2,804 |
| Service 60: Berwick - Duns | £479 |
| Services 23/67: Berwick - Kelso/Kelso - Galashiels | £12,676 |
| Service 64: Kelso - Roxburgh - St Boswells | £2,816 |
| Service 37: Chirnside - Ayton - Eyemouth | £12,865 |
| Service 31: Selkirk - Edinburgh/Edinburgh - Newcastle | £24,850 |
| Service 195: Galashiels - Carlisle | £12,000 |
| Service 114: Jedburgh - Bonchester Bridge - Hawick | £2,901 |
| Service 174: Ettrick-Selkirk | £2,109 |
| Ettrick-Ettrickbridge (community bus route) | £1,202 |
| Service 130: Moffat - Yarrow-Galashiels | £6,365 |
| Kelso - Coldstream - Wooler - Newcastle | £2,881 |
| Total | £173,175 |
Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant 2000-2001 Scottish Borders Council Expenditure
| Route | Amount |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels/Galashiels - St Boswells | £41,779 |
| Service 30 St Boswells & Lauderdale to Edinburgh | £16,311 |
| Service 73 Selkirk - Galashiels | £3,060 |
| Service 102 Peebles - West Linton - Edinburgh | £33,378 |
| Service 223 Yetholm - Kelso - Coldstream - Berwick | £4,548 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels | £6,697 |
| Service 73 Selkirk - Galashiels | £3,456 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels | £4,841 |
| Service 20 Kelso - Jedburgh - Hawick | £4,189 |
| Service 37 Chirnside - Ayton - Eyemouth | £15,907 |
| Service 31 Selkirk - Edinburgh/Edinburgh - Newcastle | £14,535 |
| Service 195 Galashiels - Carlisle | £12,240 |
| Service 61 Earlston - Galashiels | £2,555 |
| Service 174 Ettrick - Selkirk | £5,565 |
| Ettrick-Ettrickbridge (community bus route) | £1,065 |
| Service 130 Moffat - Yarrow - Galashiels | £6,365 |
| Kelso - Coldstream - Wooler - Newcastle | £2,938 |
| Defecit brought forward from previous year | £15,175 |
| Total | £194,604 |
Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant 2001-2002 Scottish Borders Council Expenditure
| Route | Amount |
| Service 61 Earlston - Galashiels | £2,800 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels | £6,878 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels | £4,972 |
| Service 73 Selkirk Galashiels (Sunday service) | £2,669 |
| Service 73 Selkirk - Galashiels | £3,549 |
| Service 195 Galashiels - Carlisle | £35,573 |
| Service 102 Peebles - West Linton - Edinburgh | £64,797 |
| Service 102 Peebles - West Linton | £13,200 |
| Service 223 Yetholm - Kelso - Coldstream - Berwick (to 30/7/01) | £1,732 |
| Service 20 Kelso - Jedburgh - Hawick | £1,588 |
| Service 223 Yetholm - Kelso - Coldstream - Berwick (from 30/7/01) | £3,465 |
| Service 37 Chirnside - Ayton - Eyemouth | £18,537 |
| Service 31 Selkirk - Edinburgh/Edinburgh - Newcastle | £16,425 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels/Galashiels - St Boswells | £11,375 |
| Service 31 Selkirk - Edinburgh/Edinburgh - Newcastle | £6,532 |
| Service 195 Galashiels - Carlisle | £7,911 |
| Service 174 Ettrick - Selkirk | £12,979 |
| Ettrick-Ettrickbridge (community bus service) | £1,003 |
| Service 130 Moffat - Yarrow - Galashiels | £5,243 |
| Kelso-Coldstream - Wooler - Newcastle | £2,938 |
| Capital expenditure (Footway between Fountainhall and bus stops on A7) | £12,500 |
| Defecit brought forward from previous year | £27,604 |
| Total | £266,270 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors local authority funding for the provision of purchased bus services.
Answer
The provision of localsupported bus services is a matter for local authorities which receive funding forsuch services by means of formula allocation from the Executive. The provisionof supported bus services is covered by normal public procurement andaccountability rules. The Scottish Executive requires authorities to provide periodic financialreturns on supported bus services.
- 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-5926 by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004 and the reduction in funding for the Sleep Centre in the current financial year from the 2001-02 and 2002-03 levels, whether it intends to increase funding to the centre and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Funding of the Sleep Centrein Edinburgh is a matter for NHS Lothian. I understand that theapparent reduction in funding referred to was a consequence of Grampian NHSBoard setting up a local sleep disorder service in 2003-04. Patients fromGrampian no longer require to travel to Edinburgh for treatment, and Grampian NHS Board, therefore, nolonger makes payments to NHS Lothian in respect of this service. There is noindication that overall funding for sleep disorder patients in Scotland hasbeen reduced.
- 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 funding by NHS boards for referrals to the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh is ring-fenced.
Answer
NHS boards are responsiblefor arranging and funding treatment for their residents in other NHS boardareas, where that is appropriate. Core funding for the Sleep Centre is part ofNHS Lothian’s general financial allocation.
