- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 1 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 16 to 18 were living independently having left foster care in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 1 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what weekly payment is made to 16 to 18-year-olds who are living independently, are not in full-time education and not entitled to jobseekers allowance, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 1 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many social work assistants there have been in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
Answer
The number of social work assistants working in each local authority is available in the
Staff Of Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services publications. Between 1999 and 2004 (the latest year for which information is available) the number of social work assistants were as follows:
| Year | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| SW Assistants (Number) | 247 | 912 | 1,039 | 1,226 | 1,482 | 2,162 |
| SW Assistants (Whole-Time Equivalent) | 225 | 799 | 889 | 1,049 | 1,303 | 1,917 |
As a result of changes in the classifications used on census forms, figures are not strictly comparable across years. Fuller information is available at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16135/7725.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful prosecutions have taken place in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by category of offence.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports were made to the police in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by category of offence.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients who were not undernourished when admitted to hospital were undernourished when they left hospital in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) age group.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. However, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland published Clinical Standards on Food, Fluid and Nutritional Care in Hospitals in September 2003. These were developed in response to research which showed that patients in hospital could be at risk of malnutrition. The standards cover patient assessment on admission to hospital; the delivery of food and nutrition, and education and training of staff. The standards are published at:
www.qualityimprovementscotland.com/nhsqis/files/Food,%20Fluid%20Nutrition.pdf.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S2W-12593 by George Reid on 19 January 2005, what information it has on how many Sewel motions have been passed by the Parliament in each parliamentary year since 1999.
Answer
Figures are given in the following table:
Numbers of Sewel/Legislative Consent Motions Passed
| Session 1 |
| 12 May 1999 – 11 May 2000 | 7 |
| 12 May 2000 – 11 May 2001 | 16 |
| 12 May 2001 – 11 May 2002 | 7 |
| 12 May 2002 – 31 March 2003 | 9 |
| Total Session 1 | 39 |
| Session 2 |
| 7 May 2003 -6 May 2004 | 13 |
| 7 May 2004– 6 May 2005 | 9 |
| 7 May 2005 – to date | 6 |
| Total Session 2 | 28 |
| Total to date | 67 |
Further information can be found in these SPICe Factsheets, which are available on the Parliament’s website:
Sewel Motions: Session 1:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/factsheets/documents/SewelMotionsSession1.pdf.Sewel Motions/LCM: Session 2:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/factsheets/documents/SewelMotionsandLegislativeConsentMotionsSession2.pdf.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the prevalence of malnutrition in people aged (a) under 15, (b) 16 to 35, (c) 36 to 50, (d) 51 to 75 and (e) 76 and over in each year since 1999, broken down by (i) NHS board area and (ii) parliamentary constituency.
Answer
Centrally held information can provide details for patients where malnutrition is identified on their hospital records. These figures
may represent an undercount of the true number of cases because malnutrition could be an underlying reason for admission to hospital and, as such, will not always be recorded.
The Scottish Parliament Information Centre holds tables (Bib. number 38937) which present the number of patients discharged from acute hospitals in Scotland with a diagnosis of malnutrition broken down by NHS board of residence (table 1) and Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (table 2). Patients with more than one discharge in a year are only counted once.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children were classified as undernourished in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area and expressed both in real terms and as a percentage of the child population.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally for all years or for all local authority areas.
The Scottish Parliament Information Centre holds tables (Bib. number 38938) which show, those local authority areas available:
Tables 1a, 1b & 1c: Children identified as undernourished (the 2% of the population with the lowest BMI) for those who have received a 39 to 42 month pre-school review, by local authority area and year of birth.
Tables 2a, 2b & 2c: Children identified as undernourished (the 2% of the population with the lowest BMI) for those who have received a primary 1, 7 and secondary 3 review (aged approximately four to five, 11 to 12 and 14 to 15 years respectively), by local authority area and year of birth.
It should be noted that there is no set international definition for undernourished children, hence the tables offer an indication only. Although underweight for their age, such children do not necessarily suffer from any health problems.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has funded into malnutrition in the general population in each year since 1999 and how much funding was allocated in each case.
Answer
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO), within the Scottish Executive Health Department, has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health and health care needs in Scotland.
Since 1999, the CSO has funded one research project in 2002 on the impact of malnutrition in Scottish school children and adolescents at a cost of £16,748.
In this time, the CSO has also funded a number of research projects on nutrition and nutrient deficiencies in groups of people at risk from malnourishment. In particular, the CSO has funded four research projects on nutrition in older people at a total cost of £424,502 including a recently funded trial on whether oral nutritional supplements to malnourished older people after hospital discharge can reduce disability.
