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All premises owned or run by an NHS board, from operating theatres to office areas, are audited against the compliance tool and the national cleaning specification standards and there is a rectification process embedded in the monitoring system for managers to develop and implement an action plan to address any issues, as required. The results of the A1 and A2 hospitals are reported to the Scottish Government''s Health Directorates.

The income received from prescription charges in 2007-08, broken down by NHS board, is set out in the following table:

NHS Board	Prescription Charge Income1,2 (£000)
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	3,460
NHS Borders	1,131
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	1,552
NHS Fife	3,488
NHS Forth Valley	3,019
NHS Grampian	5,781
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	9,985
NHS Highland	3,278
NHS Lanarkshire	5,471
NHS Lothian	7,351
NHS Orkney	201
NHS Shetland	282
NHS Tayside	3,758
NHS Western Isles	292
Total	49,048

Notes:

1. Excludes charges to English stoma providers

2. The NHS Scotland total may not equal the sum of the NHS boards total due to rounding.

Data collected by the Scottish Government on adaptations to the homes of disabled people does not distinguish between different types of adaptations. Information for the period requested on public expenditure on adaptations such that is available is contained in the answer to question S3W-16514 on 6 October 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk./webapp/wa.search.

Local authorities'' expenditure on adaptations to their own stock and expenditure by local authority social work departments on minor adaptations and equipment is not separately recorded.

	2006-07 £ Million	2007-08 £ Million
Private Sector Adaptations	17.688	*
Adaptations by Registered Social Landlord	11.244	13.260

Note: *Figures for 2007-08 are not yet available.

In 2006-07 identifiable expenditure on pandemic flu preparedness was £10,739,435 from the Public Health and Workplace Health budget, £8,000 from the Civil Defence and Emergency Planning budget and £2,750 from the General Register Office for Scotland''s (GROS) budget.

In 2007-08 identifiable expenditure was £5,236,505 from the Public Health and Workplace Health budget, £38,583 from the Civil Defence and Emergency Planning budget, £9,000 from the Scottish Prison Service and £2750 from GROS'' budgets.

In 2008-09, resource funding of £8,000,000 and capital funding of £2,900,000 is available for pandemic flu preparedness from the Improving Health and Better Public Health budget. The estimated expenditure from the Civil Defence and Emergency Planning budget is £6,000.

In 2007-08, there was a higher pandemic flu expenditure from the Civil Defence and Emergency Planning budget. This reflects a contribution towards a UK-wide programme of public engagement research.

General pandemic preparedness work and associated expenditure in other areas of the Scottish Government is carried out as part of normal Scottish Government activity and separate costs are therefore not available.

Medical management of prisoners in standard police cells and legalised cells of prisoners with an untreated drug dependency or who are enrolled in a drug treatment programme is determined at a local level. Each police force in Scotland has arrangements in place for the health care of those in their custody. A prisoner would generally only be allocated a legalised police cell if there were not enough time to take him or her to a prison, having been remanded or convicted in court. Prisoners would therefore only spend a very short time in such a cell before either being taken back to court or transferred to a prison.

The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and Her Majesty''s Inspectorate of Constabulary are currently looking at the range of existing arrangements for provision of medical services in police custody with a view to identifying best practice models which can be deployed to suit local circumstances.

Provision of medical services in police custody is determined at a local level, and each police force in Scotland has arrangements in place for the health care of those in their custody. In January 2009, Tayside Police and NHS Tayside will begin a three year pilot partnership to provide police surgeon services, covering custody health care, forensic services, and training and development. The model of service provision subsequently adopted will be informed by the evaluation of the pilot.

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

On publication of the report we cross checked our approach against that contained within the Blakey report. We are pleased to say that the key recommendations contained within the report are generally in line with our current approach in tackling the threat posed by the introduction of illegal drugs into prisons. I will arrange for more details to be forwarded by letter.

The estimated cost of the phased abolition of prescription charges over the next three years is £17 million, £24 million and £32 million, respectively. An allocation of £17 million, based on income in 2007-08, has been made to boards for 2008-09 and is split as follows:

NHS Board	£000
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	1,207
NHS Borders	396
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	536
NHS Fife	1,212
NHS Forth Valley	1,044
NHS Grampian	1,999
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	3,459
NHS Highland	1,143
NHS Lanarkshire	1,894
NHS Lothian	2,543
NHS Orkney	70
NHS Shetland	98
NHS Tayside	1,298
NHS Western Isles	102

 

The precise effect on each NHS board''s annual income will be monitored during the course of each financial year and will inform future allocations to boards.

No specific funding is provided to NHS boards for specialist medical services for prisoners. All NHS boards receive an annual allocation of funds. It is for each NHS board to decide how best to utilise these funds to meet the health care needs of its resident population, including those in prison, taking account of national and local priorities.