- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the report by the Mental Welfare Commission on the Miss X case will be published.
Answer
The MentalWelfare Commission does not propose to publish a report on the Miss X case. Avery brief anonymised summary of the case, with the Commission’s findings andits recommendations, will be available on its website next month.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive , further to the answer to question S2W-5141 by Peter Peacock on February 2004 and the point of order by Euan Robson on 13 November 2003 (Official Report, c 3234), whether the full report, with its recommendations, was not sent to Scottish Borders Council a week after 13 November 2003 as stated by Euan Robson and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
The full report, includinganalysis and conclusions, was sent to Scottish Borders Council the weekfollowing 13 November 2003. The council provided the Social Work ServicesInspectorate with written comments on 24 December 2003. These comments are being taken into account in the finalisation of thereport. No date has been set for publication.
- 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 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has provided to address alcohol misuse in each year since 1999 and what percentage of such funding was spent on advertising.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in the following table. Budgets for 2004-05 have still to be agreed.
Specific central Executivebudgets to address alcohol problems from 1999 to 2004, showing proportionatespend on national advertising.
| Year | Budget | Of which spend on national advertising | % advertising spend |
| 1999-00 | £1,361,000 | £25,000 | 1.8% |
| 2000-01 | £1,675,299 | £496,970 | 29.7% |
| 2001-02 | £1,605,840 | £315,086 | 19.6% |
| 2002-03 | £2,918,622 | £1,073,516 | 36.8% |
| 2003-04 | £2,785,458 | £785,000 | 28.2% |
Funding for services addressing alcohol problems is provided within resources allocated to NHS boards and local authorities, but is not specifically identified by the Executive.
- 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 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to collect information centrally on the level of funding allocated by NHS boards to address (a) alcohol and (b) drug misuse.
Answer
Some information on thelevel of spend by NHS boards on addressing drug misuse is currently collectedthrough drug action team corporate action plans, available at
http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm,and alcohol action team local action plans, available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/health/alcoholproblems/plans.asp.Information on direct spendon both drugs and alcohol will be collected within combined drug and alcohol actionteam plans for 2004-05. However, many services, particularly for alcohol, areprovided within a generic setting and funded from general allocations, andtherefore expenditure cannot be separately identified by the Executive. Someinformation which will be collected will also cover combined addictionsservices, where drugs and alcohol spend cannot be separately identified.
- 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 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will take at a national level, other than advertising, to address (a) alcohol and (b) drug misuse.
Answer
The Plan for Action onalcohol problems (
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/health/alcoholproblems/docs/paap-00.asp)sets out a range of actions under the headings of culture change, preventionand education, provision of services, protection and controls and delivery.The drugs strategy (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/documents-w7/tdis-00.htm)and subsequent reports identify a range of actions under the four pillars of young people, communities, treatment andavailability.
- 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 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to section 12AA of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 as amended by the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002, what monitoring is in place in respect of the notification by local authorities to carers regarding their possible entitlement to an assessment for accessing services.
Answer
From 2004-05 we will becollecting data from local authorities on the numbers of carers’ assessmentsbeing carried out. We propose to build on this by collecting additional data onthe numbers of carers requesting assessments. These indicators should provide apicture over time of local authority performance in ensuring that carers aremade aware of their right to an assessment. Other performance indicators andoutcome measures for carers will be developed in due course and we are alreadyworking closely on this with key stakeholders.
- 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 Mary Mulligan on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the Department of Trade and Industry's White Paper Fair, Clear and Competitive - The Consumer Credit Market in the 21st Century, what representations or responses it has made in relation to the White Paper, in particular with regard to the section on licensing arrangements.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has been thoroughly consulted by the Department of Trade and Industryon all areas, both during to the preparation and since the publication of the whitepaper. This demonstrates the Executive meeting the Partnership for a Better Scotland commitment to work with the DTI totackle harassment by loan sharks, introduce fairer credit schemes and newprotection from exorbitant interest rates.
- 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 fined under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000, stating in each case the value of the fine.
Answer
The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:
Number of persons fined for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002
| Year | Number fined | Average fine imposed (£) |
| 1999 | 28 | 386 |
| 2000 | 23 | 357 |
| 2001(1) | 20 | 859 |
| 2002 | 21 | 371 |
Note:
1.The relatively high figure for average fine imposedin 2001 reflects the disproportionate effect of a small number of cases withvery high fines imposed.
- 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.
