- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to fly the Saltire permanently over governmental buildings for which it has responsibility.
Answer
The Scottish Government doesfly the Saltire at all its buildings. The flag flying guidance has, sinceSeptember 2005 stated that “The Saltire should now be flown every day.”
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what average time is taken by Disclosure Scotland to respond to applications for disclosure checks.
Answer
At week ending 15 July 2007, theaverage turnaround time for correctly completed applications where there was noneed to gather information from police forces was 6.9 days.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of applications to Disclosure Scotland have fallen outwith the turnaround times stipulated by each service agreement for (a) basic, (b) standard and (c) enhanced disclosures in (i) each year since its establishment and (ii) each of the last six months.
Answer
Disclosure Scotlandmeasures performance for Basic applications, and for standard and enhancedapplications against a service level agreement target of 14 calendar days.
The information requested isset out in the following table.
| Period | % of Applications Outwith SLA |
| Basic | Standard/Enhanced |
| 2002-03 | 1.0% | 7.9% |
| 2003-04 | 2.0% | 24.6% |
| 2004-05 | 1.2% | 22.8% |
| 2005-06 | 0.1% | 6.0% |
| 2006-07 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| January 2007 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| February 2007 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| March 2007 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| April 2007 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| May 2007 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| June 2007 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications to Disclosure Scotland for disclosure checks have been returned to the applicants due to errors in (a) each year since its establishment and (b) each of the last six months, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of applications in each category of disclosure.
Answer
Disclosure Scotland hasbeen recording application returns since April 2004. They do not gatherinformation separately for the different levels of check. The availableinformation is provided in the following table.
| Period | Number of Applications Returned | % of Applications Returned |
| 2004-05 | 36,870 | 9.84% |
| 2005-06 | 44,828 | 8.29% |
| 2006-07 | 47,270 | 7.89% |
| January 2007 | 3,255 | 7.22% |
| February 2007 | 3,847 | 7.50% |
| March 2007 | 4,917 | 8.11% |
| April 2007 | 3,522 | 7.07% |
| May 2007 | 4,974 | 8.44% |
| June 2007 | 4,740 | 8.04% |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there have been to Disclosure Scotland for (a) basic, (b) standard and (c) enhanced disclosures in (i) each year since its establishment and (ii) each of the last 12 months.
Answer
It is not possible toprovide separate figures for standard and enhanced disclosures. The informationthat is available is set out in the following table.
| Period | Applications Received |
| Basic | Standard/Enhanced |
| 2002-03 | 2,191 | 136,429 |
| 2003-04 | 178,818 | 187,162 |
| 2004-05 | 129,630 | 245,067 |
| 2005-06 | 209,484 | 331,267 |
| 2006-07 | 258,396 | 340,711 |
| July 2006 | 21,035 | 30,141 |
| August 2006 | 20,329 | 28,779 |
| September 2006 | 19,633 | 30,411 |
| October 2006 | 22,007 | 27,510 |
| November 2006 | 22,461 | 32,455 |
| December 2006 | 16,171 | 22,978 |
| January 2007 | 21,328 | 23,751 |
| February 2007 | 22,958 | 28,329 |
| March 2007 | 28,339 | 32,292 |
| April 2007 | 24,829 | 24,982 |
| May 2007 | 28,601 | 30,328 |
| June 2007 | 27,666 | 31,285 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for disclosure checks have been processed by Disclosure Scotland in each week since 1 April 2004 and what the average processing time has been.
Answer
Disclosure Scotland canprovide this information on a monthly basis. Since April 2004 the number ofapplications and the average turnaround time for correctly completedapplications where there was no need to gather information from police forcesis set out in the following table.
| Period | Applications Processed | Average Turnaround (days) |
| April 2004 | 51,857 | 13 |
| May 2004 | 38,810 | 13.8 |
| June 2004 | 38,932 | 17 |
| July 2004 | 55,686 | 21.5 |
| August 2004 | 50,113 | 10.3 |
| September 2004 | 30,611 | 4 |
| October 2004 | 29,521 | 3.5 |
| November 2004 | 37,012 | 3.5 |
| December 2004 | 26,279 | 4 |
| January 2005 | 26,641 | 3.3 |
| February 2005 | 30,689 | 4.3 |
| March 2005 | 33,307 | 4.6 |
| April 2005 | 35,965 | 4 |
| May 2005 | 33,571 | 4 |
| June 2005 | 42,808 | 5.5 |
| July 2005 | 42,217 | 7.3 |
| August 2005 | 42,017 | 7 |
| September 2005 | 50,897 | 4.7 |
| October 2005 | 50,012 | 5.6 |
| November 2005 | 56,033 | 7.3 |
| December 2005 | 40,265 | 12.1 |
| January 2006 | 55,215 | 10.8 |
| February 2006 | 49,356 | 3.8 |
| March 2006 | 54,344 | 4.4 |
| April 2006 | 46,005 | 3.7 |
| May 2006 | 51,607 | 2.4 |
| June 2006 | 53,592 | 1.8 |
| July 2006 | 50,771 | 2.3 |
| August 2006 | 49,272 | 1.7 |
| September 2006 | 38,602 | 2.5 |
| October 2006 | 56,059 | 4 |
| November 2006 | 52,611 | 3.8 |
| December 2006 | 42,409 | 4.4 |
| January 2007 | 46,492 | 4.1 |
| February 2007 | 46,528 | 3.6 |
| March 2007 | 51,944 | 4.3 |
| April 2007 | 57,857 | 5.1 |
| May 2007 | 55,090 | 4.1 |
| June 2007 | 55,799 | 3.8 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many briefings have been held between Scottish ministers and (a) the Director General of the Security Service, MI5, and (b) other directors from the Security Service since 3 May 2007.
Answer
The Scottish Ministers arebriefed by the Security Service on matters relevant to Scotland asand when appropriate. In line with established practice it would not beappropriate to comment further on operational matters relating to the Security Service.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many briefings were held between Scottish ministers and (a) the Director General of the Security Service, MI5, and (b) other directors from the Security Service from 3 May 2006 to 2 May 2007.
Answer
I refer the member to thequestion S3W-2049 answered on 26 July 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it plans to make for the responsibility for official flag stations in Scotland to be devolved to Scottish ministers.
Answer
The Scottish Government believes that all such matters should be the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish ministers. There are no immediate plans to make representations on this issue.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planned admissions for inpatient and day case treatment have been cancelled in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Information on plannedadmissions for in-patient and day case treatment that have been cancelled forthe years ending 31 March 2003 to 2006 by NHS board is shown in the followingtable. Data for the year ending 31 March 2007 is not yet complete.
Table 1: Cancellation ofPlanned Admissions for In-Patient or Day Case Treatment;
By Health Board Area: Years ending 31 March 2003-2007
| In-patients | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Scotland | 9,380 | 7,959 | 6,898 | 7,111 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 197 | 170 | 366 | 478 |
| Borders1 | 148 | 119 | 159 | 70 |
| Fife | 373 | 543 | 498 | 594 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde1 | 3,829 | 2,274 | 1,639 | 1,486 |
| Highland | 440 | 541 | 522 | 536 |
| Lanarkshire | 322 | 542 | 539 | 138 |
| Grampian | 1,036 | 1,116 | 1,013 | 1,000 |
| Orkney | 7 | 6 | 3 | 17 |
| Lothian | 1,347 | 1,441 | 1,164 | 1,609 |
| Tayside | 850 | 711 | 652 | 545 |
| Forth Valley | 277 | 459 | 321 | 620 |
| Western Isles | 14 | 36 | 22 | 12 |
| Dumfries and Galloway1 | 534 | - | - | - |
| Shetland | 6 | 1 | - | 6 |
| Day cases | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Scotland | 7,341 | 7,383 | 8,081 | 7,513 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 79 | 73 | 130 | 179 |
| Borders1 | 180 | 142 | 180 | 67 |
| Fife | 576 | 645 | 747 | 675 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde1 | 2,433 | 2,087 | 1,861 | 1,679 |
| Highland | 448 | 743 | 1,053 | 1,103 |
| Lanarkshire | 979 | 950 | 1,447 | 365 |
| Grampian | 821 | 786 | 704 | 625 |
| Orkney | 8 | 9 | 19 | 24 |
| Lothian | 1,015 | 968 | 1,029 | 1,490 |
| Tayside | 450 | 474 | 539 | 493 |
| Forth Valley | 327 | 471 | 312 | 753 |
| Western Isles | 22 | 34 | 53 | 19 |
| Dumfries and Galloway1 | - | - | - | - |
| Shetland | 3 | 1 | 7 | 41 |
Note:1 Information is missing/incomplete for the following locations:
Borders General Hospital; year ending 2006
SouthernGeneral Hospital; years ending 2003, 2005and 2006
VictoriaInfirmary, Glasgow; years ending 2005 and 2006
Dumfriesand Galloway Royal Infirmary; years ending 2004, 2005 and 2006.
