Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-17141

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of robberies in each year since 1993 involved young people as either (a) the victim, (b) the offender or (c) both in (i) Scotland and (ii) each police force area.

Question reference: S2W-17145

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total funding for the NHS was in each year since 2000, expressed in cash and real terms at 1998-99 prices.

Expenditure on health in Scotland since 2000-01 is set out in the table.

Year	Expenditure (£000)	Expenditure at 1998-99 Prices (£000)
2000-01	5,379,811	5,204,606
2001-02	6,198,221	5,847,473
2002-03	6,632,881	6,049,883
2003-04	7,138,352	6,327,578
2004-05	8,080,620	7,023,753

The expenditure figure for 2000-01 is on a cash basis but, following the Government wide change to resource accounting and budgeting, those for 2001-02 onwards are on a resource basis which includes non-cash items such as capital charges and depreciation. The figures for 2001-02 and 2002-03 include capital charges at 6% while those for 2003-04 onwards reflect a Government wide reduction in capital charges to 3.5%. The figure for 2004-05 is the budget following the Spring Budget Revision because audited accounts for 2004-05 are not yet available.

Question reference: S2W-17146

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual percentage real terms increase in funding was for the health service in each year since 2000.

Annual percentage real terms increases in expenditure on health in Scotland since 2000-01 are set out in the following table.

Year	Real Terms Increase
2000-01	7.6%
2001-02	12.4%
2002-03	3.5%
2003-04	4.6%
2004-05	11.0%

Due to the introduction of resource accounting and budgeting in 2001-02 and the reduction of capital charges from 6% to 3.5% in 2003-04, these percentage increases should not be used for direct comparison purposes. The percentage increase for 2004-05 is based on the budget following the Spring Budget Revision because audited accounts for 2004-05 are not yet available.

Question reference: S2W-17140

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of offenders arrested for the possession of a knife in each year since 2000 were under the age of 18 in (a) Scotland and (b) each police force area.

Information on arrests is not held centrally. The available information, which relates to persons with a charge proved of handling an offensive weapon, is given in the following table.

Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Handling an Offensive Weapon¹, 2000-03: Percentage Where Offender Aged Under 18

Police Force area	Having in a Public Place an Article with a Blade or a Point				Possession of an Offensive Weapon³
Police Force area	2000	2001	2002	2003²	2000	2001	2002	2003²
Central	13	18	8	9	13	11	11	6
Dumfries and Galloway	20	8	10	14	10	16	13	14
Fife	-	10	-	-	17	9	24	11
Grampian	11	13	14	15	3	15	8	10
Lothian and Borders	8	16	11	8	17	17	16	17
Northern	27	12	13	12	5	17	9	10
Strathclyde	13	11	10	12	15	16	14	15
Tayside	8	8	7	17	20	19	7	14
Scotland	13	12	10	11	15	16	14	14

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes estimated data.

3. Knives cannot be identifiedseparately from other types of offensive weapons in the data held for this crimecategory.

Question reference: S2W-17152

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the uniformed police (a) establishment and (b) strength was and how many police probationers there were in each police force in each year from 2001 to 2005.

Central Government stopped setting establishments for Police forces in 1996. Since then, the number of officers in any force has been set by individual chief constables based on operational requirements.

Police strength figures (whole-time equivalent) for 2001 to 2005 are shown in the following table.

Force	Police Strength as at 31 March
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Central	728	715	732	760	832
Dumfries and Galloway	474	477	477	488	480
Fife	849	905	928	980	996
Grampian	1,259	1,243	1,268	1,338	1,370
Lothian and Borders	2,645	2,671	2,682	2,748	2,803
Northern	666	681	687	683	702
Strathclyde	7,287	7,287	7,426	7,430	7,668
Tayside	1,151	1,163	1,159	1,156	1,166

Source: Quarterly Strength Returns from forces.

The number of probationers in each force from 2001 to 2005 is not held centrally.

Question reference: S2W-17156

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs of education services were in each prison operated by the Scottish Prison Service in each of the last five years.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

The information is given in the following table:

	£ Million
1999-2000	1.6
2000-01	1.6
2001-02	2.0
2002-03	2.3
2003-04	2.9

Figures for individual prisons are not available.

Question reference: S2W-17147

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultant posts are currently vacant and, of these, how many have been vacant for over six months, broken down by specialty and NHS board area.

Within “All Medical Specialties”, the number of consultants in post within NHS Scotland has increased by 14.6% between 1999 and 2004, from 2,835.9 whole-time equivalents (WTE) to 3,249.8 WTE. At 30 September 2004, for “All Medical Specialties”, there were 276.4 WTE vacant consultant posts, of which 109.1 WTE had been vacant for six months or more.

Information on staff in post and vacancies in NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Section B gives vacancy information for consultants employed in NHS Scotland. In particular, table B11 shows the whole-time equivalent, the vacancy rate and the over six month vacancy rate, shown as a percentage of the establishment, broken down by specialty and NHS board. The latest available figures are at 30 September 2004.

Question reference: S2W-17150

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and by what percentage, each NHS board budget increased in each of the last five years (a) in total and (b) per capita and what the cumulative increase was over this period.

Details are as follows:

NHS Board	2000-01 Total Budget Increase (£000)	2000-01 Total Budget Increase (%)	2000-01 Per Capita Increase (£)	2000-01 Per Capita Increase (%)
Argyll and Clyde	29,208	7.3	74	7.8
Ayrshire and Arran	26,734	7.8	75	8.2
Borders	5,698	5.6	49	5.1
Dumfries and Galloway	5,777	3.9	47	4.6
Fife	22,189	7.4	60	7.1
Forth Valley	20,888	8.6	74	8.4
Grampian	32,505	7.1	65	7.5
Greater Glasgow	61,779	6.8	70	7.0
Highland	15,383	7.8	74	7.8
Lanarkshire	35,695	7.5	64	7.5
Lothian	48,377	7.1	56	6.4
Orkney	948	4.4	55	5.1
Shetland	1,854	7.5	97	8.9
Tayside	28,894	7.3	82	8.1
Western Isles	2,888	7.8	125	9.3
Total	338,817	7.2	67	7.3

Note: All boards received a minimum annual increase of 5.1% in initial unified budget. Total budget increases shown include funds relating to recurring and non-recurring allocations. Annual comparisons are, therefore, not necessarily comparing like with like.

NHS Board	2001-02 Total Budget Increase (£000)	2001-02 Total Budget Increase (%)	2001-02 Per Capita Increase (£)	2001-02 Per Capita Increase (%)
Argyll and Clyde	25,190	5.9	67	6.6
Ayrshire and Arran	19,198	5.2	66	6.7
Borders	4,443	4.2	41	4.1
Dumfries and Galloway	8,708	5.7	45	4.2
Fife	14,255	4.5	43	4.7
Forth Valley	11,762	4.4	38	4.0
Grampian	14,945	3.1	24	2.6
Greater Glasgow	62,294	6.4	117	10.8
Highland	17,837	8.4	84	8.2
Lanarkshire	40,983	8.0	89	9.7
Lothian	42,268	5.8	60	6.4
Orkney	2,123	9.5	126	11.0
Shetland	1,603	6.0	99	8.3
Tayside	33,524	7.9	77	7.0
Western Isles	4,078	10.2	195	13.3
Total	303,211	6.0	70	7.0

Note: All boards received a minimum annual increase of 5.5% in initial unified budget. Total budget increases shown include funds relating to recurring and non-recurring allocations. Annual comparisons are, therefore, not necessarily comparing like with like.

NHS Board	2002-03 Total Budget Increase (£000)	2002-03 Total Budget Increase (%)	2002-03 Per Capita Increase (£)	2002-03 Per Capita Increase (%)
Argyll and Clyde	22,421	4.9	59	5.4
Ayrshire and Arran	26,260	6.8	75	7.1
Borders	6,301	5.7	54	5.2
Dumfries and Galloway	10,762	6.6	77	7.0
Fife	19,501	5.8	53	5.6
Forth Valley	18,361	6.6	65	6.6
Grampian	36,112	7.2	74	7.7
Greater Glasgow	83,256	8.0	99	8.3
Highland	15,864	6.9	80	7.3
Lanarkshire	19,657	3.5	36	3.6
Lothian	3,135	0.4	4	0.4
Orkney	1,198	4.9	63	4.9
Shetland	2,735	9.7	126	9.8
Tayside	14,827	3.2	42	3.6
Western Isles	2,646	6.0	117	7.0
Total	283,036	5.3	58	5.5

Note: All boards received a minimum annual increase of 6.8% in initial unified budget. Total budget increases shown include funds relating to recurring and non-recurring allocations. Annual comparisons are, therefore, not necessarily comparing like with like.

NHS Board	2003-04 Total Budget Increase (£000)	2003-04 Total Budget Increase (%)	2003-04 Per Capita Increase (£)	2003-04 Per Capita Increase (%)
Argyll and Clyde	32,803	6.9	83	7.3
Ayrshire and Arran	33,080	8.0	90	8.0
Borders	9,381	8.0	78	7.1
Dumfries and Galloway	11,927	6.9	82	7.0
Fife	29,043	8.2	79	7.8
Forth Valley	18,037	6.1	63	6.0
Grampian	37,761	7.0	72	7.0
Greater Glasgow	57,965	5.2	66	5.1
Highland	19,794	8.0	89	7.5
Lanarkshire	50,008	8.7	89	8.6
Lothian	97,395	12.6	124	12.4
Orkney	1,337	5.2	62	4.7
Shetland	2,334	7.5	111	7.9
Tayside	22,156	4.7	60	4.9
Western Isles	3,750	8.1	150	8.5
Total	426,771	7.5	84	7.5

Note: All boards received a minimum annual increase of 7.4% in initial unified budget. Total budget increases shown include funds relating to recurring and non-recurring allocations. Annual comparisons are, therefore, not necessarily comparing like with like.

NHS Board	2004-05 Total Budget Increase (£000)	2004-05 Total Budget Increase (%)	2004-05 Per Capita Increase (£)	2004-05 Per Capita Increase (%)
Argyll and Clyde	61,607	12.1	152	12.5
Ayrshire and Arran	62,306	14.0	168	13.8
Borders	18,253	14.4	156	13.3
Dumfries and Galloway	24,586	13.3	160	12.7
Fife	52,770	13.8	141	13.0
Forth Valley	35,318	11.3	117	10.5
Grampian	50,143	8.7	94	8.6
Greater Glasgow	130,920	11.1	150	11.0
Highland	40,636	15.2	179	14.0
Lanarkshire	72,482	11.6	125	11.1
Lothian	71,366	8.2	80	7.2
Orkney	3,763	13.9	179	12.8
Shetland	2,383	7.2	104	6.8
Tayside	55,103	11.1	138	10.7
Western Isles	4,263	8.5	151	7.8
Total	685,899	11.3	130	10.8

Note: All boards received a minimum annual increase of 6.75% in initial unified budget. Total budget increases shown include funds relating to recurring and non-recurring allocations. Annual comparisons are, therefore, not necessarily comparing like with like.

Health Board	2000-01 to 2004-05 Budget Increase (£000)	2000-01 to 2004-05 Budget Increase (%)	2000-01 to 2004-05 Per Capita Increase (£)	2000-01 to 2004-05 Per Capita Increase (%)
Argyll and Clyde	171,229	42.8	434	46.2
Ayrshire and Arran	167,578	49.2	473	52.0
Borders	44,076	43.5	378	39.8
Dumfries and Galloway	61,760	41.7	410	40.6
Fife	137,758	46.2	376	44.0
Forth Valley	104,366	42.8	357	40.7
Grampian	171,466	37.6	329	38.0
Greater Glasgow	396,214	43.5	502	49.9
Highland	109,514	55.4	506	53.3
Lanarkshire	218,825	45.8	403	47.5
Lothian	262,541	38.5	323	37.0
Orkney	9,369	43.7	486	44.5
Shetland	10,909	44.0	537	49.3
Tayside	154,504	39.0	399	39.1
Western Isles	17,625	47.8	737	55.1
Total	2,037,734	43.0	409	44.2

Note:

1. Total budget includes recurring and non-recurring Hospital and Community Health revenue allocations and demand led Family Health Services expenditure/indicative allocation.

2. Per capita has been calculated using the mid year estimates of population for each year.

Question reference: S2W-17149

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Euan Robson on 13 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have been registered on the child protection register in each of the last three years.

Each local authority in Scotland has a child protection register. Child protection statistics were published on 31 October 2004, in Children’s Social Work Statistics 2003-2004. Table 3.8 shows the number of children on each of the local authority child protection registers at 31 March in 2002, 2003 and 2004. These figures are available on the Scottish Executive website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00369-32.asp.

Question reference: S2W-17144

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) total and (b) per capita health expenditure has been in Greater Glasgow in each of the last five years.

The net revenue expenditure by Greater Glasgow Health Board in each of the last five financial years for which information is available is shown in the table. This is shown as (a) total and (b) per capita expenditure for each of those years.

	Total (£000)	Per Capita (£)
1999-2000	901,072	989
2000-01	970,992	1,074
2001-02	1,047,930	1,207
2002-03	1,134,553	1,310
2003-04	1,215,315	1,403

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