- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the criteria for recording patient falls in hospital are consistent in each NHS board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12086 on 28 April 2008. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients who were recorded as falling in hospital sustained additional injury as a result in each year since 2003, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12086 on 28 April 2008. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 28 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body who authorised the changes to workplace lighting in the MSP block.
Answer
The decision to reduce energy consumption in the members'' building by changing lighting controls was taken by the Director of Technology and Facilities Management. The Environmental Performance Manager developed the details of the scheme.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 28 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what estimates have been made of energy usage in the Parliament on Wednesday and Thursday evenings compared with that on Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Answer
Based on electricity used in the building between 1 March and 19 April 2008, on average 4,141kWh of electricity was used on Monday and Tuesday evenings (18:00 to 24:00) and 4,210kWh on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, a difference of 1.6% in terms of overall usage.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 28 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many users were consulted about changes to workplace lighting in the MSP block prior to the lighting above desk areas being permanently switched off at a cost of £8,000.
Answer
The lights above desks in the MSP building have not been permanently switched off. The lighting controls in the area have been amended to allow the lights above researcher''s desks to be switched off by the central lighting system when the desks are mostly likely to be unoccupied; previously these lights were on 24 hours a day. This will reduce electricity use in the building and contribute towards our environmental policy to improve energy efficiency. These changes will reduce electricity and maintenance costs and will pay for themselves in approximately three years.
All members and their staff were informed by e‘mail of the changes which were due to be made to the area, but it is accepted that more detail could have been provided and consultation on the details of the changes undertaken. The evolving needs of building users will be taken into account and the lights programmed accordingly.
The Parliament''s consumption of energy needs to be managed responsibly and the support of all building users in achieving our energy reduction targets is appreciated.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many communications support posts for deaf and partially hearing people there were in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many interpreters for deaf and partially hearing people there were in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold centrally the information requested.
I am however able to provide information on the number of British Sign Language interpreters registered with the Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (SASLI), by region, as at 31 December 2007
| Area | Interpreters | Trainees |
| Aberdeen and Moray | Registered: 4 | Trainee: 1 |
| Tayside | Registered: 3 | |
| Fife | Registered: 3 | |
| Edinburgh | Registered: 9 | Trainee: 2 |
| Highland | Registered: 6 | |
| Glasgow | Registered: 18 | Trainee: 6 |
| Ayrshire | Registered: 5 | Trainee: 1 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | Registered: 1 | |
| Central Scotland | Registered: 4 | |
| Outwith Scotland | Registered: 2 | |
| Total | Registered: 55 | Trainee: 10 |
Note: Registered Interpreters are interpreters who have been assessed and registered by the association as fit to practice in all domains.
Associate Interpreters are interpreters who have been granted membership of the association and are undertaking the post registration associates program leading to full registration.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) complaints related to incidents of criminality were received by police forces from members of the public and (b) police investigations took place following complaints related to incidents of criminality in each year since 1999, broken down by constabulary.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The police recorded crime statistics do not identify whether the crimes recorded were made known to them by members of the public.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints related to breaches under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 were received by police forces in each year since enactment, broken down by constabulary.
Answer
The information requested cannot be shown separately, but is contained in the figures shown below.
Number of Election Offences Recorded by Police Force Area, 2000-01 to 2006-07.
| Police Force | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Central | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grampian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lothian and Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strathclyde | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tayside | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All Scotland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many investigations into fraud were carried out by police forces in each year since 1999, broken down by constabulary.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table.
Number of Crimes of Fraud Recorded by the Police by Police Force Area, 1999-2000 to 2006-07
| Police Force | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Central | 632 | 694 | 871 | 1,152 | 1,235 | 781 | 1,077 | 633 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 478 | 293 | 440 | 514 | 460 | 1,066 | 212 | 262 |
| Fife | 1,348 | 1,747 | 1,130 | 1,333 | 1,279 | 1,296 | 866 | 710 |
| Grampian | 3,840 | 3,260 | 2,936 | 1,922 | 1,349 | 1,630 | 1,120 | 727 |
| Lothian and Borders | 5,456 | 6,217 | 5,087 | 4,325 | 4,630 | 7,242 | 2,241 | 1,741 |
| Northern | 675 | 965 | 971 | 940 | 674 | 934 | 744 | 566 |
| Strathclyde | 6,983 | 6,227 | 5,370 | 4,844 | 4,711 | 4,200 | 3,873 | 3,781 |
| Tayside | 1,208 | 640 | 590 | 798 | 939 | 1,158 | 941 | 912 |
| All Scotland | 20,620 | 20,043 | 17,395 | 15,828 | 15,277 | 18,307 | 11,074 | 9,332 |
