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Funding for well man clinicsacross Scotland was provided by the Executive during 2004-05 and 2005-06.NHS Greater Glasgow was included in this pilot programme.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will usethe experience gained from the well man pilots to build on and engage with men atrisk of ill-health in their area, with particular focus on Prevention 2010 areas.

This is a matter for NHS GreaterGlasgow and Clyde. I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-26356on 5 June 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

This is a matter for individualNHS boards. The information requested is not held centrally.

The “ringfenced” HomelessnessTask Force funding allocated to local authorities to tackle homelessness in theirareas must be spent on the implementation of homelessness strategies, in a way whichis consistent with the achievement of the recommendations of the Homelessness TaskForce. The funding is subject to a set of standard terms and conditions as set outin the offer of grant letters which local authorities receive.

Local authorities also receivefunding which was originally associated with the Rough Sleepers Initiative, anda general homelessness allocation. These, like the Homelessness Task Force funding,are provided for the implementation of homelessness strategies. However, while badgedfor this purpose, these two lines are now distributed via the Revenue Support Grantwhich local authorities receive automatically on a weekly basis. As such they areunhypothecated, and local authorities are not obliged to spend these monies on homelessnessactivity.

There was a meeting of officialson 18 August 2005 to discuss the council’s school estate managementplan, and an official attends meetings of the council’s schools PPP projectboard.

The number of permanent staffemployed in the core departments of the Scottish Executive, Executive agenciesand associated departments in each of the cities, also expressed as a percentageof the working age population, is shown in the following table:

	City	SE Staff	% of Workforce*
(a)	Edinburgh	7,748.2	2.51%
(b)	Glasgow	2,399.5	0.63%
(c)	Aberdeen	551.6	0.41%
(d)	Dundee	185.7	0.21%
(e)	Inverness	282.5	N/A

Note: *The workforce figuresare based on the working age populations provided by GRO(S). These are producedby local authority area. Comparable figures for working age population in Inverness arenot available.

The following table sets outthe number of custodial convictions for carrying a knife or offensive weapon ina public place, broken down as requested. New guidelines on the prosecution of knifecrime will come into effect on 1 July 2006, following the end of the knife amnesty which commencedon 24 May, which will mean that those carryingor using a knife will be held in custody and may be prosecuted before a sheriffand jury, enabling sheriffs to impose a more severe punishment.

Custodial Convictions in ScottishCourts for Handling an Offensive Weapon¹, 2000-01 to 2004-05

Scotland	Possession of an Offensive Weapon2	Having in a Public Place an Article with a Blade or a poInt	Total
2000-01	281	351	632
2001-02	264	363	627
2002-03	276	451	727
2003-04	264	400	664
2004-05	303	458	761
Aberdeen
2000-01	7	4	11
2001-02	6	7	13
2002-03	4	5	9
2003-04	7	3	10
2004-05	8	5	13
Dundee
2000-01	6	10	16
2001-02	8	15	23
2002-03	8	9	17
2003-04	6	11	17
2004-05	12	10	22
Edinburgh
2000-01	22	28	50
2001-02	15	28	43
2002-03	15	42	57
2003-04	15	39	54
2004-05	17	41	58
Glasgow
2000-01	135	142	277
2001-02	119	133	252
2002-03	137	197	334
2003-04	121	134	255
2004-05	132	165	297
Stirling
2000-01	1	1	2
2001-02	2	2	4
2002-03	2	3	5
2003-04	5	3	8
2004-05	-	3	3

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

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

The regulation and safety ofmedicines are reserved and are the responsibility of the Medicines and Healthcareproducts Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The MHRA and the Commission on Human Medicinesrun the UK’s spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting scheme, the Yellow Card Scheme.

The Scottish Executive does nothold information on the number of reports of suspected adverse drug reactions receivedvia the Yellow Card Scheme.

The MHRA publishes on its websiteanonymised aggregated reports of suspected adverse drug reactions broken down bydrug and by reporter type. Data which provide a greater level of detail and whichcould potentially lead to the identification of individual reporters or patientsrequire an application to the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee. Applicationforms can be found on their website www.mhra.gov.uk.

The Information requested isshown in the following table. The increase in the numbers of patients, over theperiod, with a diagnosis of adverse drug reactions may, in part, be explained byimprovements in the recording of secondary diagnoses in recent years. Data priorto 1997 has not been included in the table because the different coding structureused to collect it does not allow for a direct comparison.

Acute Hospital (Non-Obstetric,Non-Psychiatric) In-Patient and Day Case Discharges with any Diagnosis of AdverseDrug Reactions^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}: by NHS Board of Residence – Years Ending31 March 1997 to 2005

Year of Discharge

NHS Board/Area of Residence	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Argyll and Clyde	296	323	478	565	537	490	592	493	517
Ayrshire and Arran	298	310	438	503	540	617	531	462	483
Borders	45	48	70	83	84	101	97	88	88
Dumfries and Galloway	206	220	206	230	235	269	314	325	293
Fife	316	317	343	408	439	470	448	494	608
Forth Valley	163	167	190	206	206	155	167	184	275
Grampian	491	624	598	567	582	577	613	748	669
Greater Glasgow	899	989	988	971	1075	858	813	820	828
Highland	117	133	126	161	127	159	124	151	240
Lanarkshire	276	278	359	304	344	378	331	339	367
Lothian	769	880	941	900	972	859	1,115	1,247	1,343
Orkney	15	16	20	8	7	13	15	19	15
Shetland	11	17	20	16	19	24	10	29	23
Tayside	212	263	262	328	352	408	402	367	364
Western Isles	9	7	42	40	42	26	28	28	43
Scotland Residents Total	4,123	4,592	5,081	5,290	5,561	5,404	5,600	5,794	6,156
Outwith Scotland and not known	44	57	42	44	34	52	53	44	54

Notes:

1. These statistics arederived from data collected on discharges from non-obstetric andnon-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland

2. Up to six diagnoses (oneprincipal, five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoseshave been used to select adverse drug reactions. All codes were selected fromthe International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Other HealthRelated Problems, tenth revision (ICD10):

3. Adverse drug reactionscan be the reason for admission to a hospital or can have occurred whilst inhospital as a result of medication.

4. Please note it is notpossible to distinguish between prescribed and non-prescribed drugs.

5. A patient will be countedonce in each year. Patients may be counted more than once across years.

The following table shows figuresfor funding made available to Dundee City Council since 1999-2000, to deal withissues of homelessness, broken down into the different funding lines.

2006-07
Rough Sleepers Initiative in Grant Aided Expenditure (unhypothecated)	262,000
Homelessness Task Force	498,867
GAE (unhypothecated)	111,000
2005-06
RSI in GAE (unhypothecated)	260,000
Homelessness Task Force	486,700
GAE (unhypothecated)	93,000
2004-05
RSI in GAE (unhypothecated)	251,000
Homelessness Task Force	486,700
GAE (unhypothecated)	90,000
2003-04
RSI in GAE (unhypothecated)	240,000
Homelessness Task Force	200,000
Housing Act	270,000
GAE (unhypothecated)	110,000
2002-03
RSI in GAE (unhypothecated)	240,000
Homelessness Task Force	73,000
Housing Act	287,000
GAE (unhypothecated)	105,000
2001-02
RSI in GAE (unhypothecated)	203,366
Housing Act	88,900
GAE (unhypothecated)	99,000

 

2000-01
RSI	241,459
Temporary accommodation grant	40,000
GAE (unhypothecated)	97,000
1999-2000
RSI	602,625
GAE (unhypothecated)	100,000