- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in prison in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those were known problem drug users.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
The following table sets out the number of self-inflicted deaths in the past 10 years within Scottish prisons. Our database does not record whether the individuals were known problem drug users and this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However, it is known that three of these deaths did relate to drug overdose, and addictions prevalence testing in 2007-08 shows that 71% of all prisoners tested on admission to custody produced a positive drug test.
| Year | Number of Deaths |
| 1999-2000 | 17 |
| 2000-01 | 11 |
| 2001-02 | 11 |
| 2002-03 | 8 |
| 2003-04 | 5 |
| 2004-05 | 9 |
| 2005-06 | 10 |
| 2006-07 | 10 |
| 2007-08 | 11 |
| 2008-09 | 3 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in police custody in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those were known problem drug users.
Answer
Information on cause of death and whether those who died in police custody were known problem drug users is not held centrally. The responsibility for maintaining such records lies with individual Scottish police forces.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the use of occupancy conditions in section 75 agreements for housing in national park areas.
Answer
It is a matter for the National Park Authorities in the exercise of their planning functions to determine whether and in what circumstances section 75 agreements should properly include occupancy conditions.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27590 by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 September 2009, whether the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry will be held in Dumbarton or the Vale of Leven and what its reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
It is for the Chair of the Inquiry, Lord MacLean, to decide on an appropriate venue for the public hearings and evidence sessions. Lord MacLean met the Vale of Leven families on 25 September and this was one of the issues discussed. I understand no final decision has yet been made.
Once a suitable venue has been chosen, the decision will be posted on the Inquiry''s website. The website can be accessed at www.valeoflevenhospitalinquiry.org.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 2 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in psychiatric hospitals in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those were known problem drug users.
Answer
This information from 1998 to 2005, which is the most recent published, can be found in the
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness: Lessons for mental health care in Scotland. This report can be viewed at:
http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/suicide/prevention/nci/reports/scotlandfullreport.pdf.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 2 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies were (a) born and (b) born between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm at the Vale of Leven Hospital Community Maternity Unit, in each of the last three years.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following tables.
Number of Babies Born in the Vale of Leven Hospital
Number of Babies Born Between the Hours of 9 am and 5 pm in the Vale of Leven Hospital
As in other statistics published by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS), each birth is counted on the basis of the year in which it was registered, which may not be the same as the year in which it occurred.
Provisional figures for 2009 will not be available until March 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what experts have been appointed to assist the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry.
Answer
The inquiry Chairman, Lord MacLean, has not yet decided which witnesses, expert or otherwise, will be called upon to assist the inquiry. Lord MacLean has, however, appointed two assessors as identified on the inquiry''s website
www.valeoflevenhospitalinquiry.org.
Dr Geoff Ridgway OBE is a retired consultant in Clinical Microbiology at University College London Hospitals. His career encompassed the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases, with a special interest in genitor-urinary bacterial infections. Other research interests included hospital infection control and sterilization and disinfection technology.
Mrs Mary Waddell OBE recently retired as Director of Nursing, eastern board, Northern Ireland. Mrs Waddell has held positions of Nursing Officer, Clinical Nurse Teacher and Director of Nursing at the Mater Hospital, Belfast prior to her appointment as Director of Nursing at the eastern health and social services board in April 1990, until her retirement in May 2009.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will issue the planned guidance note on the procurement of community care services.
Answer
The Scottish Government intends to publish draft guidance on social care procurement for consultation in November 2009. We intend to publish the final guidance in February 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the provisional and outturn variances were for departmental expenditure limits (DEL) and other accounts outside DEL, in relation to allocation and consolidated accounts for 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Answer
The relevant provisional and final budget variances for DEL and Other accounts outside DEL in 2006-07 and 2007-08, as reported in the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts, are as follows:
| | Provisional | Final |
| 2006-07 | (£000) | (£000) |
| Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) | 186 | 187 |
| Other Accounts including Annual Managed Expenditure (AME) and Other (ODEL) | 56 | 69 |
| Total | 242 | 256 |
| 2007-08 | | |
| Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) | 63 | 103 |
| Other Accounts including Annual Managed Expenditure (AME) and Other (ODEL) | 153 | 172 |
| Total | 216 | 275 |
The variances between the provisional and final out-turn in the Consolidated Accounts was mainly due to additional National Insurance Contributions income. From the SBR 2008-09 we have no longer showed NIC as income bringing the presentation of the accounts and budget into line.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 26 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital expenditure will be in 2010-11, also showing the projects to which the funding applies and the cost and phasing of each project.
Answer
The Scottish Budget: Draft Budget 2010-11 document, published on 17 September 2009, states a proposed capital budget for 2010-11 of £3.2 billion. The Scottish Government''s capital expenditure plans for 2010-11 are set out according to public expenditure classification headings rather than by individual projects.
