- 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: Monday, 09 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and by what percentage, each NHS board budget increased in each year from 1999-2000 to 2004-05 (a) in total and (b) per capita and what each board’s average annual increase was over that timescale.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in NHS Boards’ Budget Increases 1999-00 to 2004-05 tables available inthe Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 43249).
- 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 Fergus Ewing on 25 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting times are for residential (a) drug and (b) alcohol detoxification treatment in each NHS board.
Answer
I refer the member to thequestion S3W-1465 answered on 19 July 2007. Please note that parliamentaryquestion S3W-1465 asked about ‘residential rehabilitation services’ rather than“residential detoxification treatment”. Data on both these options are collatedin the Waiting Times Information Framework.
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/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 Fergus Ewing on 25 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area and expressed per 100,000 head of population.
Answer
The following figures werecompiled by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). The figures areexpressed as number of drug-related deaths and the rate per 100,000 head of population.
Drug-RelatedDeaths1 in Scotland, Numbers and Rates NHS Board Area,2001-2005
Number ofDrug Deaths
| NHS Board area | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| Scotland | 332 | 382 | 317 | 356 | 336 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 35 | 33 | 19 | 20 | 15 |
| Borders | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 8 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| Fife | 11 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 21 |
| Forth Valley | 9 | 24 | 12 | 16 | 14 |
| Grampian | 46 | 47 | 37 | 39 | 23 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde2 | 117 | 152 | 131 | 151 | 111 |
| Highland2 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 13 |
| Lanarkshire | 24 | 37 | 25 | 33 | 40 |
| Lothian | 54 | 39 | 40 | 36 | 57 |
| Orkney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shetland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tayside | 19 | 14 | 19 | 23 | 26 |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Rate Per100,000 Population
| NHS Board area | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| Scotland | 6.6 | 7.6 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 6.6 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 9.5 | 9.0 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 4.1 |
| Borders | 0.9 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 6.4 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5.4 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 4.7 | 4.7 |
| Fife | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 5.9 |
| Forth Valley | 3.2 | 8.6 | 4.3 | 5.7 | 4.9 |
| Grampian | 8.7 | 9.0 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 4.4 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde2 | 9.8 | 12.7 | 11.0 | 12.7 | 9.3 |
| Highland2 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.3 |
| Lanarkshire | 4.3 | 6.7 | 4.5 | 5.9 | 7.2 |
| Lothian | 6.9 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 7.2 |
| Orkney | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Shetland | 4.6 | 4.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.5 |
| Tayside | 4.9 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 5.9 | 6.7 |
| Western Isles | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 3.8 |
Notes:
1 Alldeaths coded to ICD10 codes: F11-F16, F19: Deaths coded to ICD10 codes X40-X44,X60-X64, X85, Y10-Y14, where a drug listed under the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971)was known to be present in the body at the time of death.
2 New NHSBoard areas including parts of former Argyll and Clyde.
