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The system usedfor ticket bookings does not record enquiries which do not result in asuccessful booking.  The following table shows the number of times when eachMSP has been able to book tickets for Debating Chamber public gallery ticketsin the period from 23 May 2007 to 8 November 2007, and the total number oftickets that each MSP has received for FMQT during that period.  The numbers inthe FMQT column may be lower than the column showing the number of bookings, asthe latter includes bookings for business other than FMQT.

	Number of Bookings	Number of Tickets for FMQT
Brian Adam	16	31
Bashir Ahmad	1	2
Bill Aitken	2	4
Wendy Alexander	3	1
Alasdair Allan	5	16
Jackie Baillie	13	38
Claire Baker	3	14
Richard Baker	1	0
Sarah Boyack	7	2
Rhona Brankin	1	0
Gavin Brown	2	5
Keith Brown	5	12
Robert Brown	1	2
Derek Brownlee	4	5
Bill Butler	4	13
Aileen Campbell	4	4
Jackson Carlaw	4	3
Malcolm Chisholm	10	6
Angela Constance	2	2
Cathie Craigie	3	9
Bruce Crawford	6	8
Roseanna Cunningham	8	34
Margaret Curran	1	0
Bob Doris	12	16
Helen Eadie	5	2
Fergus Ewing	8	8
Patricia Ferguson	1	0
Alex Fergusson	12	149
Joe FitzPatrick	2	0
George Foulkes	1	0
Murdo Fraser	4	4
Karen Gillon	14	180
Marlyn Glen	4	2
Trish Godman	7	32
Charlie Gordon	4	30
Christine Grahame	3	15
Rhoda Grant	3	5
Robin Harper	9	2
Christopher Harvie	3	0
Patrick Harvie	1	0
Hugh Henry	2	0
Jamie Hepburn	6	5
Jim Hume	8	0
Fiona Hyslop	1	1
Adam Ingram	7	4
Cathy Jamieson	1	0
Alex Johnstone	4	0
James Kelly	2	0
Andy Kerr	5	11
Johann Lamont	3	5
John Lamont	9	70
Marilyn Livingstone	10	11
Richard Lochhead	9	51
Kenny MacAskill	12	38
Lewis Macdonald	12	37
Margo MacDonald	4	1
Ken Macintosh	11	90
Paul Martin	1	10
Tricia Marwick	9	23
Jim Mather	1	0
Michael Matheson	2	10
Stewart Maxwell	2	4
Frank McAveety	1	0
Tom McCabe	1	25
Jack McConnell	1	5
Jamie McGrigor	4	0
Alison McInnes	2	0
Ian McKee	1	4
David McLetchie	18	10
Michael McMahon	2	25
Stuart McMillan	1	2
Duncan McNeil	1	2
Pauline McNeill	4	0
Des McNulty	9	7
Nanette Milne	2	30
Margaret Mitchell	3	2
Alasdair Morgan	3	14
Mary Mulligan	3	0
Alex Neil	1	2
Hugh O'Donnell	2	0
Irene Oldfather	3	5
John Park	3	0
Gil Paterson	3	5
Peter Peacock	5	9
Cathy Peattie	6	56
Mike Pringle	20	23
Jeremy Purvis	10	6
Shona Robison	2	21
Mike Rumbles	2	28
Michael Russell	5	0
Alex Salmond	22	57
John Scott	10	10
Tavish Scott	1	0
Richard Simpson	6	14
Elaine Smith	2	0
Elizabeth Smith	4	26
Iain Smith	1	0
Margaret Smith	3	0
Nicol Stephen	10	0
Stewart Stevenson	2	25
David Stewart	1	0
Jamie Stone	3	2
Nicola Sturgeon	5	4
John Swinney	22	192
Dave Thompson	1	0
Jim Tolson	2	1
Stefan Tymkewycz	3	1
Maureen Watt	4	30
Andrew Welsh	1	0
Sandra White	9	6
Karen Whitefield	2	2
David Whitton	2	0
Bill Wilson	1	2
John Wilson	4	4

 

All patients who areurgently referred by a GP are subject to the 62 day national target waiting time.

The Cancer Performance Support Team has been working directlywith NHS boards to ensure critical timed pathways are in place backed up by robustinter-hospital transfer agreements to support delivery of the target. Boards alsotrack all urgent referrals and weekly monitoring is routine to support local operationaldelivery teams.

I have made it clearto all NHS boards that I expect this 62 day urgent referral to treatment targetto be achieved from the end of this year.

Firearm statisticsbroken down by division and sub-division are not held centrally. The figures requestedfor Strathclyde police force area are provided in the following table:

Number of RecordedCrimes and Offences Involving Firearms in Strathclyde, where a Firearm was Firedand Caused Injury, 1997-98 to 2006-07

Year	Fired Resulting in Fatal Injury	Fired Resulting in Other Injury	Total Number where Firearm Fired and Caused Injury
1997-98	5	155	160
1998-99	5	131	136
1999-2000	2	155	157
2000-01	3	203	206
2001-02	5	197	202
2002-03	3	204	207
2003-04	2	146	148
2004-051	7	207	214
2005-062	7	102	109
2006-072	6	151	157

Notes:

1. The ScottishCrime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2004. Figures for some crime categories may have beeninflated by this.

2. From 2005-06,and particularly 2006-07, the figures are expected to provide a fuller coverageof crimes and offences following clarification in the counting rules and thescope of the statistical return. For further details see statistical bulletinCrJ/2007/10, Notes 5.15-5.17.

Firearm statisticsbroken down by division and sub-division are not held centrally. The figures requestedfor Strathclyde police force area are provided in the following table:

Number of RecordedCrimes and Offences Involving Firearms in Strathclyde

Police Force Area,1997-98 to 2006-07

Year	Number of Recorded Crimes and Offences
1997-98	637
1998-99	552
1999-2000	536
2000-01	522
2001-02	531
2002-03	520
2003-04	452
2004-051	531
2005-062	474
2006-072	691

Notes:

1.The Scottish Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2004. Figures for some crime categoriesmay have been inflated by this.

2.From 2005-06, and particularly 2006-07, the figures are expected to provide a fullercoverage of crimes and offences following clarification of the counting rules andthe scope of the statistical return. For further details see statistical bulletinCrJ/2007/10, Notes 5.15-5.17.

It is not known whatpercentage of total firearms offences are committed with legally or illegally heldfirearms. This is because, although the firearm certificate status of the accusedis collected as part of the statistical return, in a large proportion of cases theperpetrator or weapons alleged to have been used in the commission of a crime arenot identified by the police. In a number of cases the firearm itself is not actuallyseen but identified based on the type of damage caused. Furthermore, it should benoted that a large proportion of offences are committed using air weapons, whichcan be legally held without a licence.

The firearm certificatestatus of the accused in firearms offences are shown in the following table:

Crimes and OffencesInvolving Firearms, 1997-98 to 2006-07: by Certificate Status of Accused,Firearms Certificate Status of Accused

Year	All	Holds Valid Certificate	Certificate Not Required (e.g. air weapon)	Certificate Not Held - Stolen weapon	Certificate Not Held - Other	Weapon Unidentified and not Recovered	No Accused Details
1997-98	1,054	12	330	5	97	22	588
1998-99	1,051	13	320	-	115	28	575
1999-2000	975	5	301	-	117	5	547
2000-01	960	6	298	1	125	30	500
2001-02	1,003	4	276	3	105	58	557
2002-03	1,034	8	339	-	52	76	559
2003-04	958	10	231	-	35	110	572
2004-05	1,136	5	323	-	51	49	708
2005-06	1,068	12	336	2	49	57	612
2006-07	1,245	14	575	11	64	50	531

Note:Figures relate to the number of crimes and offences and not the number ofaccused. An accused may be recorded against a number of crimes.

Information by hospitalward is not collected centrally. However, figures for the specialties Child Psychiatryand Adolescent Psychiatry and are given in the following table.

Average AvailableStaffed Hospital Beds for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Specialties in Scotland

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Child Psychiatry	30	23	15	16	11	9	8	8	9
Adolescent Psychiatry	39	40	48	43	38	32	35	35	35

Source:ISD(S)1.

Work to reduce inappropriateadmissions to adult beds is showing real progress. There were 186 such admissionslast year, a significant reduction from the 290 recorded for 2002. This progressreflects our drive to increase the number of dedicated beds for this important caregroup from 44 beds to 56 by 2010 and our attention on improving provision to supportchildren and young people in the community, to prevent inappropriate admissionsand to facilitate earlier and safe discharge from hospital care.

The information requestedis supplied for the years 1998-99 to 2004-05 (the latest year available) in Table1: Number of Babies Born in Maternities Recording Drug Misuse by Hospital, YearEnding 31 March, a copy of which is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 43944).

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:

Information in theformat requested is not held centrally.

The average waitingtime on the central heating programme reported by the managing agent since2002-03 is shown in the following table:

Year	Average Waiting Time (Months)
2002-03	8
2003-04	8
2004-05	5-6
2005-06	5-6
2006-07	5
2007-08 (current)	5-6

 

In 2006-07, 25,133householders applied to the programme and in 2007-08, 15,197 have applied, to theend of September.

We continue our workwith NHS boards and other partners to deliver the objectives from the Mental Healthof Children and Young People’s Framework (Bib. number 38415) and Delivering a HealthyFuture (Bib. number 42137) designed to achieve early and sustained change and improvementon all aspects of child and adolescent mental health care.

We are seeing progressin delivering the key timetabled milestones including attention on training andworkforce planning; increasing bed numbers; better early intervention; supportedtransitions; improved primary care, and improved planning and delivery of specialistcare for children and young people with mental health problems.

Work to reduce inappropriateadmissions to adult beds is showing real progress. There were 186 such admissionslast year, a significant reduction from the 290 recorded for 2002. This progressreflects our drive to increase the number of dedicated beds for this important caregroup from 44 beds to 56 by 2010 and our attention on improving provision to supportchildren and young people in the community, to prevent inappropriate admissionsand to facilitate earlier and safe discharge from hospital care.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:

There is no maximumwaiting time guarantee for applicants to the central heating programme.

The programme is demand-led.As such, waiting times are dependent on the number of householders applying, theavailable resources, installer capacity and technical variations around type ofsystem, planning considerations etc.