- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have developed change and innovation plans and, of these plans, which have been (a) accepted and (b) referred back for revision and what the reasons were for such referrals
Answer
Eighteen NHS boards have developedchange and innovation Plans. Fifteen are Unified NHS boards and three arespecial boards (the State Hospital, National Services Scotland and the Scottish AmbulanceService).
All 2003-04 plans were acceptedwith only minor alterations being suggested or requested and none were sent backfor any significant revision.
All 2004-05 plans, other thanthat for the State Hospital, have been accepted. The State Hospital hasbeen asked to provide more detail in their change and innovation plan.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been distributed through the Change and Innovation Fund in each of the last two years, broken down by NHS board and hospital.
Answer
The answer to the question askedis set out in the following table.
Information is not availablecentrally on how funding for change and innovation is distributed within NHS boardareas. Each board’s Change and Innovation Plan details the activity that they willundertake and, in some cases, this is identified by area.
| NHS Board area | Total Funding for Change and Innovation in 2003-04 | Total Funding for Change and Innovation in 2004-05 |
| Argyll and Clyde | £2.153 million | £2.153 million |
| Ayrshire and Arran | £1.892 million | £1.892 million |
| Borders | £536,000 | £536,000 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | £783,000 | £783,000 |
| Fife | £1.631 million | £1.631 million |
| Forth Valley | £1.296 million | £1.296 million |
| Grampian | £2.292 million | £2.292 million |
| Greater Glasgow | £4.803 million | £4.803 million |
| Highland | £1.101 million | £1.101 million |
| Lanarkshire | £2.621 million | £2.621 million |
| Lothian | £3.444 million | £3.444 million |
| Orkney | £106,000 | £106,000 |
| Shetland | £127,000 | £127,000 |
| Tayside | £2,010 million | £2.010 million |
| Western Isles | £204,000 | £204,000 |
| National Services Scotland | £722,000 | £722,000 |
| Scottish Ambulance Service | £545,000 | £545,000 |
| The State Hospital | £106,000 | £0 |
| Total Funding | £26.372 million | £26.266 million |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of rape in each of the last 10 years had a previous conviction for the same offence in total and broken down into (a) police force area and (b) sheriff court district.
Answer
The available data indicates that between 1993 and 2002 one person, in Lothian and Borders in 2001, was convicted of rape having previously been convicted of rape. The data held centrally does not cover convictions for rape prior to 1989 or outwith Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers were on long-term sick leave in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The number of officers on long-termsick leave at any given time is not held centrally. Information on the number oflong-term sick absences, defined as periods of sick leave of more than 28 days duration,for each the last five years available, is shown in the following table.
Number of Long-Term SickAbsences for Police Officers in Scottish Forces
| | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Central Scotland Police | 51 | 79 | 66 | 75 | 78 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 27 | 37 | 34 | 37 | 34 |
| Fife Constabulary | 54 | 50 | 57 | 53 | 56 |
| Grampian Police | 75 | 91 | 55 | 66 | 48 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 296 | 254 | 338 | 324 | 365 |
| Northern Constabulary | 39 | 32 | 49 | 50 | 63 |
| Strathclyde Police | 1,015 | 815 | 812 | 740 | 788 |
| Tayside Police | 240 | 124 | 140 | 114 | 97 |
| All Forces | 1,797 | 1,482 | 1,551 | 1,459 | 1,529 |
Note: Sourceis Annual Statistical Returns from forces as submitted to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21756 by Ross Finnie on 14 January 2002, which areas are designated nitrate vulnerable 'ones (NVZs); what guidance and grant assistance has been issued to farmers on NVZs, and what the results of the monitoring of river water quality have been in each of the last five years, broken down by river.
Answer
Four areas were designated as nitrate vulnerable zones (NVZs) on the basis of nitrate concentrations in groundwater: Moray, Aberdeenshire, Banff and Buchan; Strathmore and Fife; Lothian and Borders, and Lower Nithsdale: they comprise 14% of the land area of Scotland. A detailed guidance pack was issued to all farmers in the NVZs in 2003, and the NVZ Grant Scheme provides assistance for installing or improving livestock slurry or manure storage systems or silage effluent tanks. The river water results in the NVZs over the past five years, shown as the number of surface monitoring sites within set ranges of average concentrations, are as follows:
| NVZ Area * | mg/l nitrate | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Moray, Aberdeenshire, Banff, Buchan | 0-25 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| Moray, Aberdeenshire, Banff, Buchan | 25-40 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Moray, Aberdeenshire, Banff, Buchan | ¡Ý 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strathmore, Fife | 0-25 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| Strathmore, Fife | 25-40 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
| Strathmore, Fife | 40-50 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Strathmore, Fife | ¡Ý 50 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lothian, Borders | 0-25 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 16 |
| Lothian, Borders | 25-40 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Lothian, Borders | ¡Ý 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lower Nithsdale | 0-25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Note: *In some NVZs the data represents more than one site on a single river.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 17 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which sporting bodies received funding from (a) sportscotland and (b) other sources in each of the last five years and how much was allocated in each case
Answer
This information is published in
sportscotland’s Annual Reports and Annual Lottery Sports Fund reports. Copies of these can be obtained from
sportscotland and/or accessed online via the
sportscotland website,
www.sportscotland.org.uk.
We do not have the information on what awards were made to sporting bodies by sources other than sportscotland over the last five years.
If the member wishes information about a specific body or category of body, sportscotland would be pleased to assist if it can.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of fire-raising as the main charge in each of the last five years (i) in total and (ii) broken down by police force area.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table.
Persons Proceeded Against in Scottish Courts for Fire-Raising1, 1998-2002
| Police Force Area | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 20022 |
| Total number proceeded against: | |
| Central | 10 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 14 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 8 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
| Fife | 13 | 10 | 18 | 14 | 18 |
| Grampian | 9 | 13 | 10 | 18 | 16 |
| Lothian and Borders | 20 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 24 |
| Northern | 14 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 11 |
| Strathclyde | 56 | 56 | 60 | 63 | 52 |
| Tayside | 20 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 17 |
| Scotland | 150 | 139 | 134 | 152 | 157 |
| Number with charge proved: | |
| Central | 10 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 12 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 6 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Fife | 10 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Grampian | 6 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 10 |
| Lothian and Borders | 19 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 22 |
| Northern | 14 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 |
| Strathclyde | 41 | 44 | 44 | 45 | 48 |
| Tayside | 16 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 16 |
| Scotland | 122 | 108 | 103 | 119 | 135 |
Notes:
1. Where main offence.
2. Recording delays mean that persons proceeded against where the charge was not proved may be under-stated in the totals for persons proceeded against.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many out-patients were waiting for (a) less than 9 weeks, (b) less than 13 weeks, (c) less than 26 weeks, (d) more than 26 weeks and (e) more than 52 weeks for an NHS appointment, broken down by individual speciality and NHS board, in the most recent quarter for which figures are available.
Answer
The information requested has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number: 33399).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS consultant posts are currently vacant, broken down by speciality and NHS board area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-9293, answered on 15 July 2004. 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/search_wa.Information on consultant vacancy rates within each specialty is available within Tables B11 (Whole Time Equivalent) and B12 (Headcount) on the ISD website at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been treated for depression in each year since 2000, broken down by age.
Answer
The information that has been requested is not held centrally.
The only information collated centrally is the estimated episodes of face-to-face consultations for people presenting with depressive symptoms with a general practitioner.
