- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers are expected to retire in the next (a) three and (b) five years.
Answer
The estimated numbers of policeofficers expected to retire in the next three years (2004-05 to 2006-07) andfive years (2004-05 to 2008-09) are 1,420 and 2,530 respectively. These estimatesexclude any retirements on the grounds of ill-health.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers there were per 1000 of the population in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the following table.
Number of Police Officers Per 1,000 Population
Force | As at 31 March |
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
Central Scotland Police | 2.59 | 2.64 | 2.57 | 2.64 | 2.71 |
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 3.07 | 3.27 | 3.26 | 3.27 | 3.32 |
Fife Constabulary | 2.40 | 2.43 | 2.61 | 2.66 | 2.78 |
Grampian Police | 2.31 | 2.43 | 2.39 | 2.46 | 2.56 |
Lothian & Borders Police | 2.02 | 3.00 | 3.05 | 3.06 | 3.09 |
Northern Constabulary | 2.34 | 2.40 | 2.47 | 2.51 | 2.47 |
Strathclyde Police | 3.13 | 3.23 | 3.32 | 3.39 | 3.40 |
Tayside Police | 2.93 | 3.00 | 3.01 | 3.02 | 2.99 |
Scotland | 2.87 | 2.96 | 3.01 | 3.01 | 3.09 |
Source: The figures were calculatedusing (i) police officer numbers from Quarterly Strength Returns made to the JusticeDepartment by each police force and (ii) population estimates as published by theGeneral Register Office for Scotland in June each year.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many settlements in, or out of, court have been made, subsequent to legal action being taken against a hospital, in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Theinformation required is not held centrally by the Health Department.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 12 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug offences were committed in each of the last five years, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer
The information available centrally on drug offences recorded by the police relates to unitary authorities. Information for each of the last five years is given in the following table:
Drug Crimes Recorded by the Police by Council Area, Scotland, 1999 to 2003
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
Aberdeen City | 1,617 | 1,334 | 1,550 | 2,071 | 1,689 |
Aberdeenshire | 717 | 724 | 787 | 757 | 741 |
Angus | 458 | 306 | 401 | 489 | 520 |
Argyll and Bute | 372 | 450 | 389 | 512 | 584 |
Clackmannanshire | 232 | 234 | 295 | 351 | 336 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 700 | 448 | 649 | 775 | 919 |
Dundee City | 738 | 707 | 904 | 1,167 | 1,307 |
East Ayrshire | 773 | 787 | 785 | 950 | 910 |
East Dunbartonshire | 284 | 318 | 465 | 460 | 479 |
East Lothian | 208 | 340 | 217 | 507 | 371 |
East Renfrewshire | 312 | 428 | 342 | 296 | 316 |
Edinburgh, City of | 2,927 | 2,858 | 3,118 | 3,863 | 3,008 |
Eilean Siar (W.Isles) | 83 | 47 | 112 | 94 | 93 |
Falkirk | 680 | 624 | 844 | 831 | 882 |
Fife | 1,508 | 1,248 | 1,645 | 1,944 | 1,804 |
Glasgow City | 7,791 | 8,845 | 9,388 | 9,330 | 10,100 |
Highland | 1,296 | 926 | 1,370 | 1,434 | 1,605 |
Inverclyde | 769 | 901 | 995 | 1,145 | 1,040 |
Midlothian | 326 | 402 | 404 | 444 | 378 |
Moray | 288 | 261 | 261 | 324 | 355 |
North Ayrshire | 721 | 845 | 872 | 1,054 | 1,041 |
North Lanarkshire | 2,175 | 1,817 | 2,197 | 3,105 | 2,960 |
Orkney Islands | 58 | 29 | 27 | 41 | 64 |
Perth and Kinross | 784 | 611 | 745 | 959 | 1,071 |
Renfrewshire | 1,198 | 1,073 | 1,224 | 1,212 | 1,205 |
Scottish Borders | 719 | 733 | 661 | 647 | 618 |
Shetland Islands | 95 | 82 | 98 | 87 | 80 |
South Ayrshire | 752 | 537 | 896 | 992 | 722 |
South Lanarkshire | 1,482 | 1,512 | 1,864 | 1,733 | 2,397 |
Stirling | 385 | 427 | 838 | 735 | 727 |
West Dunbartonshire | 515 | 712 | 666 | 941 | 1,114 |
West Lothian | 907 | 865 | 1,166 | 1,129 | 1,029 |
All Scotland | 31,870 | 31,431 | 36,175 | 40,379 | 40,465 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 12 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16169 by Mr Jim Wallace on 14 June 2002, how many crimes and offences involving firearms were recorded in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following table:
Crimes and Offences Recorded by the Police in Scotland in which a Firearm was Alleged to have Been Used, 1998-99 to 2002-03
| Financial Year |
1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03P |
Crimes and offences involving firearms | 1,066 | 982 | 970 | 1,000 | 979 |
PProvisional.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 8 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the net expenditure on public libraries was in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Net expenditure on library service for 2001-02 and 2002-03, and estimated expenditure for 2003-04, is show, by local authority, in the table below:
Council | Actual 2001-02 Net Expenditure (£000) | Actual 2002-03 Net Expenditure (£000) | Budget Estimate 2003-04 Net Expenditure (£000) |
Aberdeen | 3,002 | 3,550 | 3,780 |
Aberdeenshire | 3,184 | 3,048 | 3,959 |
Angus | 1,633 | 1,664 | 1,835 |
Argyll and Bute | 1,236 | 1,332 | 1,160 |
Clackmannanshire | 836 | 748 | 862 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 2,340 | 2,576 | 2,466 |
Dundee | 3,582 | 3,812 | 3,949 |
East Ayrshire | 2,005 | 1,924 | 1,987 |
East Dunbartonshire | 2,553 | 2,398 | 2,648 |
East Lothian | 1,357 | 1,377 | 1,363 |
East Renfrewshire | 1,853 | 1,972 | 1,992 |
Edinburgh | 9,163 | 10,150 | 10,637 |
Eilean Siar | 698 | 660 | 744 |
Falkirk | 2,512 | 2,586 | 2,863 |
Fife | 6,011 | 6,287 | 6,747 |
Glasgow | 10,947 | 10,100 | 13,005 |
Highland | 3,535 | 3,860 | 4,301 |
Inverclyde | 1,322 | 1,345 | 1,353 |
Midlothian | 1,178 | 1,181 | 1,163 |
Moray | 1,501 | 1,584 | 1,679 |
North Ayrshire | 2,003 | 2,407 | 2,833 |
North Lanarkshire | 5,678 | 5,546 | 5,745 |
Orkney | 1,245 | 2,045 | 664 |
Perth and Kinross | 2,906 | 3,061 | 3,097 |
Renfrewshire | 3,742 | 3,885 | 3,847 |
Scottish Borders | 1,459 | 1,461 | 1,579 |
Shetland | 781 | 873 | 983 |
South Ayrshire | 1,721 | 1,834 | 1,873 |
South Lanarkshire | 5,753 | 5,357 | 4,944 |
Stirling | 1,665 | 1,710 | 1,793 |
West Dunbartonshire | 1,787 | 2,223 | 2,327 |
West Lothian | 1,851 | 1,959 | 2,005 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 8 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) domestic and (b) overseas tourists have visited Scotland in each of the last three years, broken down by tourist board area.
Answer
The number of domestic and overseas visitors to each of the area tourist board (ATB) areas in Scotland in the last three years for which data is available is as follows:
| (millions) |
2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
Domestic | Overseas | Total | Domestic | Overseas | Total | Domestic | Overseas | Total |
Aberdeen and Grampian | 1.91 | 0.17 | 2.08 | 1.54 | 0.13 | 1.67 | 1.83 | 0.15 | 1.98 |
Angus and Dundee | 0.80 | 0.05 | 0.85 | 0.58 | 0.05 | 0.63 | 0.56 | 0.05 | 0.61 |
AILLST* | 2.54 | 0.19 | 2.73 | 2.24 | 0.19 | 2.43 | 2.42 | 0.21 | 2.63 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 0.87 | 0.09 | 0.96 | 1.21 | 0.08 | 1.29 | 0.99 | 0.07 | 1.06 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 1.15 | 0.05 | 1.20 | 0.90 | 0.04 | 0.94 | 0.92 | 0.04 | 0.96 |
Edinburgh and Lothians | 3.38 | 0.94 | 4.32 | 3.69 | 0.87 | 4.56 | 3.96 | 0.87 | 4.83 |
Gr Glas and Clyde Vall | 3.40 | 0.50 | 3.90 | 3.20 | 0.48 | 3.68 | 3.34 | 0.46 | 3.80 |
Highlands of Scotland | 2.72 | 0.41 | 3.13 | 2.53 | 0.36 | 2.89 | 2.44 | 0.36 | 2.80 |
Kingdom of Fife | 0.82 | 0.09 | 0.91 | 0.75 | 0.08 | 0.83 | 0.73 | 0.09 | 0.82 |
Perthshire | 1.22 | 0.10 | 1.32 | 0.94 | 0.10 | 1.04 | 1.06 | 0.10 | 1.16 |
Scottish Borders | 0.45 | 0.03 | 0.48 | 0.38 | 0.04 | 0.42 | 0.52 | 0.04 | 0.56 |
Scotland | 19.26 | 2.62 | 21.88 | 17.96 | 2.42 | 20.38 | 18.77 | 2.44 | 21.21 |
Notes:
* Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and the Trossachs.
1. The total number of visitors to Scotland in 2000, 2001 and 2002 was 20.7 million, 19.1 million and 20.1 million respectively. The table above shows a slightly higher total because a visitor moving between e.g. two ATB areas is counted as making two visits.
2. Due to small sample sizes, there are no area figures for Orkney, Shetland or Western Isles Tourist Boards.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of bank and agency nurses for (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The cost of bank nurses, broken down by NHS board area, is shown in the table below. Information on agency nurses is published in tables E12 to E15 on the Scottish Health Statistics website at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Table E14 provides a breakdown of agency nurse costs by NHS board area. Information for the year 2003-04 is not currently available.
Table A: Cost of Bank Nursing and Midwifery staff; trend by NHS Board
| Bank Cost |
1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
Total | 21,604,589 | 24,887,686 | 31,262,459 | 38,964,926 |
Qualified | 12,583,106 | 14,500,531 | 17,418,060 | 21,009,771 |
Argyll and Clyde | 1,062,302 | 916,881 | 1,433,734 | 1,439,255 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 597,460 | 712,906 | 636,966 | 670,635 |
Borders | 441,479 | 388,994 | 499,133 | 577,034 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 26,108 | 52,375 | 131,702 | 112,050 |
Fife | 816,222 | 1,017,115 | 993,307 | 1,353,110 |
Forth Valley | 285,853 | 357,867 | 490,591 | 1,223,219 |
Grampian | 1,816,785 | 2,231,590 | 2,183,714 | 2,453,245 |
Greater Glasgow | 2,205,412 | 2,669,129 | 3,014,238 | 3,889,517 |
Highland | 701,147 | 867,490 | 1,057,952 | 1,153,761 |
Lanarkshire | 509,310 | 853,111 | 790,805 | 1,271,099 |
Lothian | 2,892,078 | 3,169,205 | 4,827,831 | 5,399,373 |
Orkney | 72,737 | 92,516 | 164,120 | 182,335 |
Shetland | 79,335 | 90,038 | 100,874 | 141,900 |
Tayside | 887,211 | 906,948 | 950,294 | 871,909 |
Western Isles | 103,215 | 158,853 | 128,788 | 213,512 |
Special Health Boards | 69,780 | 10,803 | 8,614 | 46,711 |
Unqualified | 9,021,483 | 10,387,155 | 13,844,399 | 17,955,155 |
Argyll and Clyde | 610,977 | 589,300 | 1,099,805 | 1,227,354 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 841,888 | 1,099,425 | 1,182,610 | 1,425,957 |
Borders | 351,405 | 406,807 | 519,456 | 538,621 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 5,307 | - | 15,413 | 3,261 |
Fife | 572,585 | 578,472 | 624,662 | 747,370 |
Forth Valley | 190,639 | 304,281 | 395,774 | 1,210,864 |
Grampian | 977,906 | 1,265,578 | 1,514,693 | 1,504,279 |
Greater Glasgow | 1,824,883 | 2,455,682 | 3,500,659 | 4,842,372 |
Highland | 371,654 | 445,277 | 558,409 | 687,574 |
Lanarkshire | 413,156 | 661,852 | 762,735 | 1,117,152 |
Lothian | 2,342,527 | 1,917,739 | 2,797,841 | 3,609,200 |
Orkney | 24,598 | 26,321 | 51,865 | 56,755 |
Shetland | 49,532 | 51,090 | 52,765 | 64,455 |
Tayside | 161,643 | 470,356 | 653,401 | 778,223 |
Western Isles | 59,288 | 118,029 | 116,884 | 149,803 |
Special Health Boards | 240,168 | 1,655 | 2,824 | 3,021 |
Source: Earning Related Base Of Data
Bank nurses are employees of NHSScotland whilst agency nurses are employed by private nursing agencies and both are utilised by individual NHS employers to cover temporary nursing gaps. These gaps will continue to occur but employers have been encouraged to follow the guidance in Temporary Measures the Accounts Commission for Scotland Report 2000 on reducing usage and costs through a hierarchy of options in which preference for bank is higher than more expensive agency nurses.
The Partnership Agreement commits to implementing nationally co-ordinated nursing bank arrangements in Scotland and a project is currently examining a range of options to reduce the reliance on agency nurses, assist nurse placement across Scotland and improve patient services. This will report in the autumn.
The Scottish Health Workforce Plan 2004 Baseline report published inApril 2004, focuses on our drive to increase our capacity, reduce waiting times,improve outcomes and provide care in new and better ways.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital debt is owed by each local authority, expressed as also per capita.
Answer
The information requested is given in table 10 of the Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics 2002-03 published by The Scottish Executive in 2004, a copy of which is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32947).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of all victims of sexual assault in each of the last five years was children.
Answer
The statistics available centrally on crimes of sexual assault recorded by the police do not enable the age of the victim to be identified.