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The available information is given in the following table.

Persons Proceeded Against for Selling Alcohol to Persons Aged Under 18¹ by Approximate Local Authority Area², 2008-09.

Local Authority	2008-09
Aberdeen City	8
Aberdeenshire	7
Angus	1
Argyll and Bute	5
Clackmannanshire	0
Dumfries and Galloway	10
Dundee City	5
East Ayrshire	7
East Dunbartonshire	1
East Lothian	7
East Renfrewshire	3
Edinburgh, City of	7
Eilean Siar	0
Falkirk	7
Fife	13
Glasgow City	13
Highland	6
Inverclyde	0
Midlothian	0
Moray	0
North Ayrshire	0
North Lanarkshire	22
Orkney Islands	0
Perth and Kinross	0
Renfrewshire	8
Scottish Borders	14
Shetland Islands	0
South Ayrshire	7
South Lanarkshire	31
Stirling	1
West Dunbartonshire	6
West Lothian	13
Scotland	202

Notes:

1. Where the main offence is under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976 Sections 67, 68(1) & 68(7). The offence under section 68 covers Licence holders, their employees and agents.

2. Incorporates an approximate mapping of sheriff courts into local authority areas. Some sheriff courts will deal with cases from more than one local authority area. Four local authority areas, namely East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Midlothian and North Ayrshire, do not contain a sheriff court.

The following table gives the number of liquor licences suspended in 2007, the most recent year for which data is available.

The data on suspensions do not include the reason for suspension and it is therefore not possible to identify whether suspensions are due to a particular offence.

Local Authority	Liquor Licences Suspended
Angus	1
Dundee City	1
East Ayrshire	2
East Lothian	2
Edinburgh, City of	3
Fife	5
Glasgow City	2
Highland	1
Moray	1
North Lanarkshire	4
Perth and Kinross	4
Stirling	1
West Lothian	2
Scotland	29

Notes:

1. The legislation under which these licences were granted does not make provision for the revocation of a licence. Legislation was recently passed which does make such a provision and came fully into force on 1 September 2009.

2. Transitional arrangements were in place from February 2008 pending the full implementation of the new legislation and data collection was suspended during this period to avoid unnecessary burden on local authorities.

3. A data collection of liquor licensing statistics under the new legislation is currently being planned. We expect the first statistics to become available later in 2010.

Source: Data provided by local authority licensing boards to Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.

There were 116 convictions in 2008-09 and the average fine was £244 where the main offence was under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976 Sections 67 and 68. Offences under sections 67 and 68 cover Licence holders, their employees and agents; it is not possible to disaggregate these.

The Scottish Government does not centrally hold information on the number of recorded unauthorised viewings of the ECS by health professionals. It is the responsibility of individual health boards to report and investigate in line with their own local policies and procedures. Nevertheless it is understood that (a) there have been three cases of inappropriate access and one case reported to Procurator Fiscal, (b) there have been no prosecutions to date and (c) one case is currently being investigated by the GMC.

If a patient decides to opt out then information is deleted from the ECS database. The only information held about a patient that has opted out will be the patient forename, surname, CHI number and opt out status.

The information requested is not held centrally.

Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) Guideline 62 on Prophylaxis of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) recommends interventions to reduce the incidence of VTE, including general measures, surgical interventions, mechanical methods and pharmacological treatments. Clinicians in NHS Scotland are expected to follow the recommendations in the guideline, a revised version of which is due to be published in October 2010.

The Scottish Government is aware that there may be concerns over the health impact from some nanomaterials and is working with relevant regulatory bodies and stakeholders on possible solutions to these problems.

In advance of the publication of the UK Nanotechnology Strategy, Mr Swinney wrote to Lord Drayson, Minister for Science and Innovation, on 11 March 2010, outlining our concerns that nanomaterials may not be covered by the provisions of the REACH Regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals), and welcoming the continued work of the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on the REACH Competent Authorities Sub-Group on Nanomaterials.

In addition, the Centre for Nano Safety at Edinburgh Napier University will inform the design of safer products; help regulators generate legislation to protect humans and the environment, and will allow consumers to make informed choices.

Regulation for nanotechnology is UK-wide and as such is a reserved matter. The Scottish Government will continue to work with other government and regulatory bodies to ensure that any related health issues are properly addressed. The Scottish Government welcomes the UK Nanotechnology Strategy published on 11 March 2010 and its aim to widen the voluntary reporting scheme to include nanotechnology products as well as materials.

It is not possible, from centrally held information, to identify people who die as a result of preventable hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE), the collective name for Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism.

However, the following table shows the total number of deaths (in and out of hospital) since 2007 as a result of VTE.

Underlying Cause of Death	Registration Year
	2007	2008	2009P
Deep Vein Thrombosis1a	112	117	110
Other Venous thromboembolism1b	27	20	23
Pulmonary embolism2	257	225	193
Total	396	362	326

Source: General Register Office for Scotland.

^PFigures for 2009 are provisional, pending the finalisation of the data for 2009.

1a. ICD 10 code: I80.2.

1b. ICD 10 codes: I80 (excl I80.2), I82 (excl. I82.0), O22.3, O22.9, O87.1, O87.9.

2. ICD 10 codes: I26, O88.2.

There are two adult medium secure units in Scotland, the Orchard Clinic, Edinburgh and Rowanbank, Glasgow. The Memorandum of Procedure on Restricted Patients defines an escape as An escape will have taken place when a restricted patient breaches a physical barrier, for example, breaks out of a locked ward

No people have escaped from either the Orchard Clinic or Rowanbank in the years 2007, 2008 or 2009.

In the same period there have been a small number of absconds from these units are as follows:

2007: Two from the Orchard Clinic, 2008: One each from the Orchard Clinic and Rowanbank, 2009: One from the Orchard Clinic.

The Memorandum of Procedure on Restricted Patients defines an abscond as An abscond will have taken place when a restricted patient is absent without authority

from a ward, work placement, open supervision (i.e. supervision which does not require the use of physical restraints nor continued oversight), or exceeds his or her authorised suspension of detention, or makes away from an escort. An abscond may be for a brief period of time or for longer.

No patients are currently at large.