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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-24296

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Richard Simpson on 4 April 2002

Expenditure on tackling drug misuse spans a variety of programmes and funding streams, and the Executive does not hold all of this information centrally.At the end of 1999, however, the Executive's Policy Unit Review of Drugs Expenditure:http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/publications/abstracts/PUDrugExpenRev.htm estimated that £141.5 million is spent each year on action to tackle drugs (£56.1 million specific spend and £85.4 million generic spend ie where a proportion of service time is related to drugs work). In 2000-01, extra resources of £1 million were provided for drugs-related activity in each of three separate areas ie drugs treatment, drugs rehabilitation and work by Social Inclusion Partnerships. In 2001-02, the Executive has made available an additional £28.866 million, bringing the level of funding on tackling drugs to over £170 million per annum.

Question reference: S1W-24295

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Richard Simpson on 4 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of funding for drug treatment and rehabilitation services was in (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99, (d) 1999-2000, (e) 2000-01 and (f) 2001-02, broken down by NHS board area.

The following table details the resources allocated to NHS boards for drug treatment services since 1998-99, broken down by NHS board area. Funding for drug services prior to 1998-99 was arranged by contract between the Common Services Agency and individual Boards and the information is not available centrally.

NHS Board	1998-99(£000)	1999-2000(£000)	2000-01(£000)	2001-02(£000)
Argyll and Clyde	709	901	984	1,111
Ayrshire and Arran	403	535	609	737
Borders	68	96	118	160
Dumfries and Galloway	61	96	124	298
Fife	328	445	514	698
Forth Valley	103	172	226	462
Grampian	750	972	1,085	1,283
Greater Glasgow	2,871	3,502	3,670	4,387*
Highland	86	137	181	300
Lanarkshire	333	497	607	862
Lothian	2,263	2,776	2,922	3,214
Orkney	11	16	20	24
Shetland	28	37	42	46
Tayside	933	1,151	1,225	1,348
Western Isles	13	20	25	43
Total	8,960	11,352	12,352	14,973

Note:*Funding does not include additional resources of £250,000 allocated to Greater Glasgow NHS Board in 2001/02 to meet the treatment costs of the Glasgow Drug Court pilot.Local authorities fund rehabilitation services from their Grant Aided Expenditure settlements. Details of the level of funding on drug rehabilitation by NHS board or local authority area are not therefore available centrally. However, additional resources for rehabilitation were earmarked within local authorities' Grant Aided Expenditure for 2001-02. These are outlined in the following table:

Local Authority	Annual Additional Funding for 2001-02 (£000)
Aberdeen City	282
Aberdeenshire	302
Angus	146
Argyll and Bute	119
Clackmannanshire	65
Dumfries and Galloway	195
Dundee City	192
East Ayrshire	161
East Dunbartonshire	147
East Lothian	120
East Renfrewshire	119
Edinburgh, City of	600
Eilean Siar	37
Falkirk	192
Fife	464
Glasgow City	812
Highland	277
Inverclyde	113
Midlothian	108
Moray	113
North Ayrshire	185
North Lanarkshire	436
Orkney	26
Perth and Kinross	178
Renfrewshire	235
Scottish Borders	141
Shetland	30
South Ayrshire	152
South Lanarkshire	408
Stirling	113
West Dunbartonshire	126
West Lothian	205
Scotland	6,800

Question reference: S1W-24120

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 27 March 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive which parts of the contract for HM Prison Kilmarnock were omitted in the version of the contract published by the Scottish Prison Service.

Question reference: S1W-23049

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 March 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made towards the provision of ambulatory oxygen on prescription for people with lung disease.

Question reference: S1W-21183

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19197 by Iain Gray on 16 November 2001, what the total cost was to it of the tender process in respect of HM Prison Kilmarnock.

Question reference: S1W-22752

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 19 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions Tony Gauci was brought to Scotland by (a) the police or (b) the Crown Office.

Question reference: S1W-22751

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 19 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates any visits to Scotland were made by Tony Gauci and what the cost was of facilitating any such visits.

Question reference: S1W-22750

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 19 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any sightseeing trips around Scotland were organised during Tony Gauci's visits; to what locations any such trips were made, and what the cost was of each such trip.

Question reference: S1W-22753

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 19 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18301 by Mr Jim Wallace on 4 October 2001, how many offences there were in the Central Scotland Police force area involving the possession of knives in 2001 and how many homicides there were in the area involving the use of knives in (i) 2000 and (ii) 2001.

Question reference: S1W-21900

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 8 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a report on the progress made with each of the 58 recommendations contained within the Summary of the Review of the Investigation of Road Deaths in Scotland by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service Quality and Practice Review Unit.