Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-08359

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2004
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 11 October 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8226 by Susan Deacon on 18 January 2001, what information and publicity materials are given to young people to alert them to the dangers of drug-assisted sexual assault and rape and where such material is made publicly available.

The Executive is currently running an awareness campaign on Drug Assisted Sexual Assault through its Know the Score communications strategy. The campaign is supported by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland.

This campaign – Who’s Keeping An Eye On Your Drink? – was prompted by increased police and public concern about the problem of drug assisted sexual assault. The first phase of the campaign ran over Christmas and New Year. Posters were displayed in licensed premises across Scotland and leaflets were distributed in town and city centre pubs and clubs.

An educational cd:rom, video and drink cover/straw holder have now been developed to take forward the campaign and these will be made available shortly through the Know the Score information line 0800 587 5879 and website (www.knowthescore.info). Posters and leaflets also remain available.

Question reference: S2W-10257

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average number of days is that a patient waits between requesting an appointment and seeing a GP, broken down by (a) GP practice and (b) NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-10239

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 October 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-466 by Ross Finnie of 10 June 2003, how many prosecutions there have been for litter and fly tipping offences in (a) 2002, (b) 2003 and (c) 2004 to date, broken down by local authority.

The available information is given in the table. The data for 2003 and 2004 have not yet been published; 2003 data are expected to be published towards the end of 2004.

Persons Proceeded Against in Scottish Courts where the Main Offence was a Litter Offence^1,2, by Local Authority, 2002

Local Authority	2002
City of Edinburgh	1
Dundee City	8
East Ayrshire	1
East Dunbartonshire	2
Glasgow City	2
Highland	1
Inverclyde	3
North Ayrshire	1
North Lanarkshire	1
Renfrewshire	1
Scottish Borders	1
South Ayrshire	1
South Lanarkshire	7
Stirling	2
Total	31

Notes:

1. Offences categorised as litter offences under the Scottish Executive Justice Department’s classification of crimes and offences.

2. Figures may be underestimates due to time taken to record details of some court proceedings in SCRO system.

Question reference: S2W-09770

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 October 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of administration staff to the total number of beds was in the NHS in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board area.

The following table shows the number of whole-time equivalent (WTE) administrative and clerical staff, expressed as a ratio of the average number of NHS hospital staffed beds. The figures for each NHS board area include staff employed in community health settings. The Scotland figures also include staff employed by Special Health Boards.

The ratio is based on a comparison over the period from September 1994 to March 2004, between the number of whole time equivalent administrative and clerical staff, which increased from 17,758 to 21,541 to the average number of available staffed beds in Scotland, which decreased from 42,340 to 28,879.

The decrease in the number of beds over this period reflects the shift towards providing patient care within the community. New treatments and procedures are allowing patients, who may have previously been treated in the acute sector, to be treated as day cases, outpatients or within primary care settings.

Administrative staff are defined as comprising all administrative clerical staff in Whitley Grades 1-10 (for example ward receptionists, ambulancecontrol staff, medical secretaries, clinical support staff, payroll staff and medical records staff). These staff are vital to the successful delivery of modern healthcare in a range of settings by multidisciplinary teams. They ensure that clinical and nursing staff alike are free to spend as much time as possible on what they are trained to deliver - direct patient care.

Ratio of WTE Administrative Staff¹ per Average Staffed Bed²

	At 30th September	At 31 March
	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Scotland³	0.42	0.43	0.43	0.45	0.47	0.50	0.54	0.59	0.66	0.72	0.75
Argyll and Clyde	0.39	0.36	0.35	0.34	0.37	0.38	0.40	0.44	0.49	0.53	0.58
Ayrshire and Arran	0.33	0.37	0.37	0.38	0.41	0.41	0.44	0.48	0.53	0.59	0.63
Borders	0.38	0.40	0.39	0.38	0.39	0.47	0.48	0.48	0.56	0.55	0.55
Dumfries and Galloway	0.37	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.40	0.45	0.56	0.62	0.67	0.65	0.71
Fife	0.38	0.38	0.38	0.39	0.41	0.44	0.45	0.51	0.56	0.60	0.60
Forth Valley	0.28	0.30	0.30	0.31	0.33	0.34	0.40	0.44	0.51	0.59	0.60
Grampian	0.36	0.36	0.34	0.35	0.35	0.38	0.41	0.45	0.46	0.49	0.49
Greater Glasgow	0.44	0.46	0.48	0.49	0.51	0.53	0.55	0.62	0.70	0.73	0.76
Highland	0.36	0.39	0.40	0.40	0.43	0.45	0.49	0.51	0.58	0.64	0.67
Lanarkshire	0.31	0.34	0.35	0.37	0.38	0.39	0.41	0.48	0.54	0.57	0.58
Lothian	0.41	0.43	0.44	0.47	0.50	0.52	0.55	0.55	0.56	0.63	0.65
Orkney	0.21	0.23	0.24	0.25	0.30	0.39	0.46	0.59	0.66	0.70	0.72
Shetland	0.41	0.44	0.46	0.56	0.65	0.65	0.66	0.73	0.84	0.85	0.89
Tayside	0.37	0.39	0.38	0.42	0.45	0.47	0.51	0.59	0.61	0.69	0.71
Western Isles	0.29	0.27	0.31	0.31	0.32	0.36	0.38	0.44	0.48	0.49	0.50

Notes:

1 At 30 September each year except 2004 which is at 31 March – all staff in Administration and Clerical (A and C) grades.

2 Average staffed beds during year 30 Sept 1994-2003 and ending 31 March 2004.

3 Includes Special Health Boards.

Part of the increase since 1997 can be attributed to a reclassification of some staff on “senior managers” grades to “administrative and clerical” grades.

Trends in “senior managers” and “administrative and clerical” grades are show on table G1 on the Scottish Health Statistics web page at http://www.isdscotland.org/.

Question reference: S2W-09772

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 October 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of administration staff to the total number of whole-time equivalent doctors was in the NHS in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board area.

The following table shows the ratio of whole-time equivalent (WTE) administrative staff to WTE NHS Hospital and Community (HCHS) doctors at 30 September 1994-2003.

The ratio is based on a comparison over the period from September 1994 to September 2003 between the number of WTE administration staff (which increased from 17,758 to 20,960), to the number of WTE doctors (which increased from 7,105 in 1994 to 9,268 in 2003).

Administrative staff are defined as comprising all administrative clerical staff in Whitley Grades 1-10 (for example ward receptionists, ambulancecontrol staff, medical secretaries, clinical support staff, payroll staff and medical records staff). These staff are vital to the successful delivery of modern healthcare in a range of settings by multidisciplinary teams. They ensure that clinical and nursing staff alike are free to spend as much time as possible on what they are trained to deliver - direct patient care.

Ratio of Administrative Staff¹ to Doctors²

Whole-Time Equivalent at 30 September

	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Scotland ³	2.50	2.41	2.21	2.08	2.08	2.07	2.11	2.16	2.17	2.26
Argyll and Clyde	3.26	2.91	2.70	2.46	2.51	2.45	2.48	2.67	2.67	2.61
Ayrshire and Arran	2.40	2.48	2.16	2.11	2.14	2.17	2.23	2.38	2.41	2.62
Borders	3.03	3.16	2.97	2.51	2.55	2.64	2.56	2.47	2.47	2.40
Dumfries and Galloway	2.78	2.87	2.69	2.51	2.51	2.37	2.50	2.68	2.49	2.57
Fife	3.08	2.90	2.63	2.43	2.38	2.39	2.34	2.38	2.51	2.55
Forth Valley	2.64	2.57	2.36	2.08	2.03	2.03	2.18	2.22	2.21	2.24
Grampian	2.30	2.17	1.90	1.66	1.57	1.59	1.62	1.52	1.43	1.49
Greater Glasgow	1.92	1.89	1.74	1.67	1.64	1.58	1.60	1.65	1.65	1.69
Highland	2.49	2.52	2.23	2.09	2.13	2.13	2.20	2.26	2.10	2.54
Lanarkshire	2.25	2.37	2.33	2.24	2.13	2.04	2.01	2.12	2.10	2.16
Lothian	2.01	1.90	1.74	1.65	1.67	1.65	1.66	1.65	1.63	1.67
Orkney	3.46	3.99	3.34	3.47	3.52	2.52	3.06	4.09	3.36	3.37
Shetland	3.72	3.29	4.96	5.40	3.76	4.83	3.76	3.94	4.38	3.94
Tayside	2.09	2.10	1.91	1.92	1.95	1.83	1.91	1.93	1.84	1.92
Western Isles	3.03	2.78	2.73	3.12	2.91	3.08	3.23	3.01	3.37	3.49

Source: ISD Scotland

Notes:

1 At 30 September each year - all staff in administration and clerical (A and C) grades.

2 Doctors includes all hospital and community medical and dental staff (including consultants, doctors in training etc)

3 Includes Special Health Boards.

Part of the increase since 1997 can be attributed to a reclassification of some staff on “senior managers” grades to “administrative and clerical” grades.

Trends in “senior managers” and “administrative and clerical” grades are show on table G1 on the Scottish Health Statistics web page at http://www.isdscotland.org/.

Question reference: S2W-09771

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 October 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of administration staff to the total number of whole-time equivalent nurses was in the NHS in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board area.

The following table shows the ratio of whole-time equivalent (WTE) administrative staff to qualified WTE Nursing and Midwifery staff at 30 September 1994-2003 and at 31 March 2004.

The ratio is based on a comparison over the period from September 1994 to March 2004, between the number of WTE administration staff, which increased from 17,758 to 21,541, to the number of qualified WTE nursing and midwifery staff, which increased from 35,270 to 39,037.

New figures published by Information Services Division on 12 August show that numbers of nursing and midwifery staff are at their highest level since reporting began ten years ago. The number of people training as nurses and midwives has also increased to an all time high of 8,986, an increase of three per cent over the last year and more than 35 per cent more than in 1997. Incentives such as more flexible working and the Return to Practice initiative, which has already attracted over 400 nurses to the profession, have combined to make these professions even more attractive and this is reflected in these new figures.

Administrative staff are defined as comprising all administrative clerical staff in Whitley Grades 1-10 (for example ward receptionists, ambulancecontrol staff, medical secretaries, clinical support staff, payroll staff and medical records staff). These staff are vital to the successful delivery of modern healthcare in a range of settings by multidisciplinary teams. They ensure that clinical and nursing staff alike are free to spend as much time as possible on what they are trained to deliver - direct patient care.

Ratio of Administrative staff ¹ to Qualified Nurses²

	Whole Time Equivalent at 30 September	At 31 March
1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Scotland³	0.50	0.50	0.47	0.47	0.47	0.47	0.48	0.50	0.53	0.55	0.55
Argyll and Clyde	0.54	0.50	0.48	0.46	0.47	0.46	0.48	0.50	0.52	0.52	0.51
Ayrshire and Arran	0.42	0.43	0.40	0.39	0.40	0.40	0.42	0.43	0.46	0.49	0.51
Borders	0.43	0.44	0.41	0.39	0.38	0.42	0.41	0.42	0.46	0.45	0.44
Dumfries and Galloway	0.42	0.44	0.40	0.41	0.40	0.40	0.42	0.44	0.45	0.45	0.47
Fife	0.43	0.41	0.40	0.41	0.41	0.39	0.39	0.41	0.43	0.45	0.45
Forth Valley	0.38	0.40	0.38	0.37	0.37	0.36	0.39	0.41	0.46	0.47	0.47
Grampian	0.47	0.45	0.41	0.40	0.39	0.38	0.40	0.40	0.41	0.41	0.41
Greater Glasgow	0.52	0.52	0.51	0.49	0.49	0.48	0.47	0.50	0.52	0.53	0.53
Highland	0.40	0.41	0.39	0.39	0.40	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.44	0.47	0.48
Lanarkshire	0.39	0.40	0.40	0.41	0.41	0.40	0.41	0.43	0.46	0.48	0.48
Lothian	0.49	0.49	0.47	0.46	0.46	0.44	0.44	0.44	0.44	0.47	0.47
Orkney	0.19	0.20	0.22	0.24	0.26	0.29	0.30	0.38	0.42	0.44	0.45
Shetland	0.32	0.35	0.39	0.41	0.41	0.43	0.42	0.44	0.52	0.50	0.54
Tayside	0.40	0.41	0.38	0.39	0.40	0.42	0.43	0.45	0.46	0.48	0.49
Western Isles	0.30	0.28	0.31	0.35	0.34	0.36	0.38	0.38	0.40	0.41	0.42

Notes:

1 All staff in Administration and Clerical (A and C) grades at 30 September each year except for 2004 which is at 31 March.

2 Excludes agency, bank and unqualified nursing and midwifery staff.

3 Includes Special Health Boards.

Part of the increase since 1997 can be attributed to a reclassification of some staff on “senior managers” grades to “administrative and clerical” grades.

Trends in “senior managers” and “administrative and clerical” grades are shown on table G1 on the Scottish Health Statistics web page at http://www.isdscotland.org/.

Question reference: S2W-10669

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 29 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the social work expenditure on care of the elderly was in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority and expressed also per head of population.

The information requested is given in the following table.

Net Expenditure Per Local Authority on Older People

	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
£000	£ Per Head	£000	£ Per Head	£000	£ Per Head	£000	£ Per Head	£000	£ Per Head
Scotland	263,990	52.05	301,856	59.62	293,192	57.89	316,513	62.62	769,997	152.25
Aberdeen City	3,253	15.15	13,418	62.89	13,412	63.29	14,643	69.97	29,626	143.40
Aberdeenshire	10,796	47.51	11,717	51.61	12,619	55.61	13.219	58.16	29,285	127.70
Angus	8,175	74.61	7,967	73.20	6,919	63.85	8,019	74,16	20,944	194.79
Argyll and Bute	5,252	57.32	5,056	55.53	6,297	68.97	7,119	78.20	16,885	184.94
Clackmannanshire	1,873	38.84	2,938	60.99	1,889	39.30	2,623	54.72	5,710	119.76
Dumfries and Galloway	8,020	54.10	8,583	58.18	7,941	53.73	7,857	53.34	22,326	151.66
Dundee City	9,183	62.06	8,666	59.11	8.941	61.47	9,152	63.48	23,606	164.97
East Ayrshire	5,696	47.25	5,526	46.00	5,684	47.25	6,008	50.17	18,057	156.92
East Dunbartonshire	591	5.44	541	4.98	836	7.73	643	5.99	9,769	91.32
East Lothian	5,127	57.53	4,934	54.87	4,491	49.80	4,751	52.35	13,582	149.11
East Renfrewshire	3,642	41.14	4,482	50.34	4,759	53.22	5,535	61.76	12,416	138.45
Edinburgh City	16,260	36.36	16,218	36.17	17,497	38.97	19,380	43.25	56,934	126.98
Eilean Siar	3,721	136.74	3,852	143.77	3,842	145.25	4,094	156.24	8,379	321.03
Falkirk	9,431	65.23	9,363	64.73	9,380	64.57	10.606	72.87	22,266	138.88
Fife	18,484	53.26	18,842	54.09	18,766	53.65	20,361	58.06	54,532	154.90
Glasgow City	44,964	77.13	60,634	105.08	44,959	77.69	46,835	81.12	102,876	178.27
Highland	13,391	64.01	16,064	76.81	17,764	85.03	17,895	85.98	36,745	175.75
Inverclyde	4,663	54.66	5,034	59.46	5,025	59.72	5,547	66.35	14,315	172.37
Midlothian	3,116	38.65	3,654	45.05	3,878	47.90	3,826	46.52	10,045	126.02
Moray	4,352	50.14	4,952	57.10	5,707	65.60	5,056	58.29	11,458	131.01
North Ayrshire	5,707	41.61	6,173	45.27	6,408	47.18	7,526	55.48	18,102	133.07
North Lanarkshire	16,879	52.39	18,610	57.90	20,463	63.71	21,541	67.03	56,803	176.51
Orkney Islands	1,853	95.44	2,037	105.58	2,081	108.30	2,288	119.10	4,166	215.74
Perth and Kinross	5,952	44.03	7,500	55.57	7,056	52.29	8,003	59.21	22,099	162.50
Renfrewshire	9,366	53.70	8,564	49.31	10,240	59.24	10,731	62.41	23,856	139.53
Scottish Borders	6,367	60.18	5,931	55.82	5,750	53.77	6,080	56.61	15,980	147.58
Shetland Islands	1,321	58.70	1,192	53.75	1,525	69.45	2,147	97.84	4,847	221.63
South Ayrshire	6,736	59.69	8,068	71.85	7,952	70.90	8,793	78.74	19,848	177.88
South Lanarkshire	13,402	44.29	13,489	44.63	13,908	46.00	16,630	55.04	45,319	149.56
Stirling	3,156	36.93	3,570	41.43	3,697	42.89	2,974	34.52	11,163	129.25
West Dunbartonshire	7,049	74.66	7,516	80.02	7,295	78.17	8,361	90.06	13,582	147.12
West Lothian	6,213	40.14	6,767	43.09	6,207	39.03	8.274	51.73	15,766	97.98

Source: LFR 3 returns to the Scottish Executive

Notes:

1. Net expenditure is expenditure to be financed from grants, non-domestic rates, council taxes and balances.

2. All per head figures based on mid-year estimates of Scotland population.

3. For 1998-99 to 2001-02 revenue contributions to capital and support service costs have been apportioned notionally, pro rata to expenditure on operating costs.

4. There are two reasons for the large increase in 2002-03:

(a) Figures from 1998-99 to 2001-02 exclude items such as home care, equipment and adaptations, community alarms, lunch clubs and meals on wheels. There items were included in the older people category from 2002-03 as a result of a review of the local financial returns.

(b) The introduction of free personal care from 1 July 2002.

Question reference: S2W-10665

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were admitted to hospital suffering from hypothermia in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) age and (b) NHS board area.

The table below shows the numberof discharges from hospital with a diagnosis of hypothermia, by NHS board of residenceand age.

	Year Ending March
Board of Residence	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004^P
All Areas
All Ages	346	320	233	278	239
0-14	12	17	8	13	8
15-24	33	23	24	20	18
25-44	49	61	37	36	34
45-64	86	66	51	83	64
65-74	65	41	43	40	34
75-84	48	49	27	44	40
85+	53	63	43	42	41
Argyll and Clyde
All ages	21	17	27	18	14
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	5	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	7	6	6	*
45-64	6	*	5	*	5
65-74	*	*	5	*	*
75-84	5	*	*	*	5
85+	*	*	6	*	*
Ayrshire and Arran
All ages	52	47	29	31	19
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	5	*
25-44	9	*	6	*	7
45-64	12	9	*	5	*
65-74	11	8	5	7	*
75-84	7	10	7	6	5
85+	9	15	*	7	*
Borders
All ages	*	*	*	*	*
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	*	*	*	*
45-64	*	*	*	*	*
65-74	*	*	*	*	*
75-84	*	*	*	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	*
Dumfries and Galloway
All ages	11	*	12	*	8
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	6	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	*	*	*	*
45-64	*	*	*	*	*
65-74	*	*	*	*	*
75-84	*	*	6	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	*
Fife
All ages	23	28	11	19	10
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	8	*	*	*
45-64	5	*	*	13	*
65-74	*	7	*	*	*
75-84	*	5	*	*	*
85+	*	6	5	*	*
Forth Valley
All ages	*	13	*	16	9
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	*	*	*	*
45-64	*	*	*	6	*
65-74	*	*	*	*	*
75-84	*	5	*	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	*
Grampian
All ages	24	25	23	27	25
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	5	*	*	*	6
45-64	*	5	6	7	*
65-74	*	*	*	*	5
75-84	*	*	*	*	*
85+	*	5	7	9	*
Greater Glasgow
All ages	61	49	33	43	40
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	6	*	*	6	7
45-64	9	13	11	16	8
65-74	16	7	10	7	6
75-84	12	9	*	10	9
85+	15	13	6	*	9
Highland
All ages	27	29	21	25	34
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	10	*	*	*
45-64	10	7	8	7	8
65-74	6	*	*	9	*
75-84	*	*	*	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	11
Lanarkshire
All ages	17	10	5	8	17
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	*	*	*	*
45-64	7	*	*	*	*
65-74	*	*	*	*	8
75-84	*	*	*	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	*
Lothian
All ages	17	17	13	29	21
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	*	*	*	*
45-64	*	*	*	5	10
65-74	*	*	5	9	5
75-84	*	*	*	8	*
85+	*	9	*	*	*
Orkney
All ages	*	*	7	6	*
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	*	*	*	*
45-64	*	*	*	*	*
65-74	*	*	*	*	*
75-84	*	*	*	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	*
Shetland
All ages	*	6	*	*	5
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	*	*	*	*
45-64	*	*	*	*	*
65-74	*	*	*	*	*
75-84	*	*	*	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	*
Tayside
All ages	50	45	23	34	12
0-14	*	5	*	*	*
15-24	*	6	*	*	*
25-44	5	8	7	*	*
45-64	14	11	*	9	*
65-74	12	*	*	*	*
75-84	8	9	*	6	*
85+	10	*	6	10	*
Western Isles
All ages	*	*	6	*	*
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	*	*	*	*	*
45-64	*	*	*	*	*
65-74	*	*	*	*	*
75-84	*	*	*	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	*
Other
All ages	26	24	13	16	20
0-14	*	*	*	*	*
15-24	*	*	*	*	*
25-44	10	10	*	6	*
45-64	11	9	6	7	11
65-74	*	*	*	*	*
75-84	*	*	*	*	*
85+	*	*	*	*	*

Notes:

*Numbersunder five have been suppressed in line with ISD(Scotland)’s policy of maintaining patient confidentiality – this reducesthe risk of the indirect identification of patients.

^PInformation for the year ended 31 March 2004 is provisional.

Question reference: S2W-10668

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 29 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support (a) it and (b) its agencies provided to voluntary organisations in each of the last five years (i) in total and (ii) broken down by organisation.

Centrally held details of direct Scottish Executive financial support to the voluntary sector are only available from 2000-01 and these are as follows:

2000-01	£34,530,578
2001-02	£38,860,792
2002-03	£228,403,745
2003-04	£262,864,116

In addition to direct Scottish Executive grants the voluntary sector has received considerable financial support through indirect funding from public bodies such as local authorities, NHS boards, NHS TRUSTS and the enterprise networks. Resources allocated through these organisations are as follows:

2000-01	£265,202,768
2001-02	£304,489,736
2002-03	£131,300,945
2003-04	£112,001,623

Information on financial support earmarked for the voluntary sector in 2004-05 will be published in November 2004.

Tables containing a breakdown of the organisations provided with Scottish Executive grant funding have been placed in the Parliament’s reference centre (Bib. numbers 33880 - direct and 33881 - indirect).

Question reference: S2W-10667

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 29 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many affordable homes are currently required and how many are planned to be built in the next five years, broken down by local authority area.

Preliminary findings from the Executive’s review of affordable housing were published on 7 July 2004. This included work undertaken by Professor Bramley of Heriot Watt University, to assess the national picture of affordable housingneed. Details of the findings and the Bramley Report can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/about/DD/H3/00019504/page1661430580.aspx.

Our plans for future investment in affordable housing will be announced following the outcome of the Spending Review.

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