Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-02039

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there have been to Disclosure Scotland for (a) basic, (b) standard and (c) enhanced disclosures in (i) each year since its establishment and (ii) each of the last 12 months.

It is not possible toprovide separate figures for standard and enhanced disclosures. The informationthat is available is set out in the following table.

Period	Applications Received
Period	Basic	Standard/Enhanced
2002-03	2,191	136,429
2003-04	178,818	187,162
2004-05	129,630	245,067
2005-06	209,484	331,267
2006-07	258,396	340,711
July 2006	21,035	30,141
August 2006	20,329	28,779
September 2006	19,633	30,411
October 2006	22,007	27,510
November 2006	22,461	32,455
December 2006	16,171	22,978
January 2007	21,328	23,751
February 2007	22,958	28,329
March 2007	28,339	32,292
April 2007	24,829	24,982
May 2007	28,601	30,328
June 2007	27,666	31,285

Question reference: S3W-02022

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to fly the Saltire permanently over governmental buildings for which it has responsibility.

Question reference: S3W-02026

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it plans to make for the responsibility for official flag stations in Scotland to be devolved to Scottish ministers.

Question reference: S3W-02050

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many briefings were held between Scottish ministers and (a) the Director General of the Security Service, MI5, and (b) other directors from the Security Service from 3 May 2006 to 2 May 2007.

Question reference: S3W-02023

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue guidance to all non-departmental public bodies for which it has responsibility to encourage them to fly the Saltire as the principal flag above those of their properties for which there is an existing flagpole.

Question reference: S3W-02051

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Security Service, MI5, has in any of its briefings to Scottish ministers disclosed what percentage of the estimated 2,700 active files held on individuals resident in Scotland are on persons who are duly elected representatives of (a) a Scottish local authority, (b) the UK Parliament, (c) the European Parliament and (d) the Scottish Parliament.

Question reference: S3W-02029

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 25 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area and expressed per 100,000 head of population.

The following figures werecompiled by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). The figures areexpressed as number of drug-related deaths and the rate per 100,000 head of population.

Drug-RelatedDeaths¹ in Scotland, Numbers and Rates NHS Board Area,2001-2005

Number ofDrug Deaths

NHS Board area	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Scotland	332	382	317	356	336
Ayrshire and Arran	35	33	19	20	15
Borders	1	0	2	2	7
Dumfries and Galloway	8	9	9	7	7
Fife	11	12	12	17	21
Forth Valley	9	24	12	16	14
Grampian	46	47	37	39	23
Greater Glasgow and Clyde²	117	152	131	151	111
Highland²	6	13	10	12	13
Lanarkshire	24	37	25	33	40
Lothian	54	39	40	36	57
Orkney	0	0	0	0	0
Shetland	1	1	0	0	1
Tayside	19	14	19	23	26
Western Isles	1	1	1	0	1

Rate Per100,000 Population

NHS Board area	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Scotland	6.6	7.6	6.3	7.0	6.6
Ayrshire and Arran	9.5	9.0	5.2	5.4	4.1
Borders	0.9	0.0	1.8	1.8	6.4
Dumfries and Galloway	5.4	6.1	6.1	4.7	4.7
Fife	3.1	3.4	3.4	4.8	5.9
Forth Valley	3.2	8.6	4.3	5.7	4.9
Grampian	8.7	9.0	7.1	7.4	4.4
Greater Glasgow and Clyde²	9.8	12.7	11.0	12.7	9.3
Highland²	2.0	4.3	3.3	4.0	4.3
Lanarkshire	4.3	6.7	4.5	5.9	7.2
Lothian	6.9	5.0	5.1	4.6	7.2
Orkney	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Shetland	4.6	4.6	0.0	0.0	4.5
Tayside	4.9	3.6	4.9	5.9	6.7
Western Isles	3.8	3.8	3.8	0.0	3.8

Notes:

1 Alldeaths coded to ICD10 codes: F11-F16, F19: Deaths coded to ICD10 codes X40-X44,X60-X64, X85, Y10-Y14, where a drug listed under the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971)was known to be present in the body at the time of death.

2 New NHSBoard areas including parts of former Argyll and Clyde.

Question reference: S3W-01923

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent by each NHS board in each of the last five years on (a) administration and (b) management, expressed (i) as a percentage of its total budget and (ii) per head of population.

Administrative andmanagement staff make an invaluable contribution to the operation of the healthservice, organising services in a way which provides equitable access to thehighest possible levels of sustainable quality care and ensuring that thepatient's journey through the system is made as smooth as possible, for examplethrough effective management of patient records and efficient scheduling ofappointments.

Administration ExpenditureAnalysis

(a) The amount spent by NHSBoards in the last 5 years, expressed both as (i) a percentage of total budget;and (ii) per head of population is givenin the following table.

NHS Board	2001-02			2002-03
NHS Board	Admin Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop	Admin Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop
	£000s	%	£	£000s	%	£
Argyll and Clyde	4,228	1.0%	10.0	4,388	1.0%	10.4
Ayrshire and Arran	3,267	0.9%	8.7	2,257	0.6%	6.1
Borders	1,636	1.6%	15.3	1,539	1.4%	14.4
Dumfries and Galloway	1,844	1.2%	12.6	1,277	0.8%	8.6
Fife	3,327	1.1%	9.5	2,583	0.8%	7.4
Forth Valley	2,605	1.0%	9.4	1,888	0.7%	6.8
Grampian	4,355	0.9%	8.3	3,456	0.7%	6.6
Greater Glasgow	8,043	0.8%	8.9	9,449	0.9%	10.9
Highland	2,875	1.4%	13.8	2,824	1.3%	13.5
Lanarkshire	3,919	0.8%	7.0	2,852	0.5%	5.2
Lothian	6,747	0.9%	8.6	4,486	0.6%	5.8
Orkney	765	3.5%	39.3	589	2.5%	30.6
Shetland	619	2.3%	27.6	611	2.0%	27.8
Tayside	4,683	1.1%	12.1	2,721	0.6%	7.0
Western Isles	1,562	3.8%	57.5	1,446	3.2%	54.7
Total	50,475			42,366

NHS Board	2003-04			2004-05
NHS Board	Admin Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop	Admin Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop
	£000s	%	£	£000s	%	£
Argyll and Clyde	4,913	1.0%	11.8	5,588	1.1%	13.4
Ayrshire and Arran	2,747	0.7%	7.5	2,938	0.6%	8.0
Borders	1,427	1.1%	13.2	1,592	1.1%	14.6
Dumfries and Galloway	1,777	1.0%	12.1	1,898	0.9%	12.8
Fife	3,738	1.0%	10.6	4,306	1.0%	12.1
Forth Valley	2,165	0.7%	7.7	2,619	0.8%	9.3
Grampian	4,140	0.8%	7.9	3,578	0.6%	6.8
Greater Glasgow	12,410	1.1%	14.3	11,721	0.9%	13.5
Highland	3,065	1.3%	14.7	4,858	1.6%	23.0
Lanarkshire	4,028	0.7%	7.3	4,380	0.7%	7.9
Lothian	5,010	0.5%	6.4	4,168	0.4%	5.3
Orkney	626	2.4%	32.4	640	2.1%	32.8
Shetland	641	2.0%	29.3	736	2.0%	33.5
Tayside	3,909	0.8%	10.1	5,162	0.9%	13.3
Western Isles	1,522	3.2%	58.3	2,112	3.9%	80.4
Total	52,118			56,296

NHS Board	2005-06
NHS Board	Admin Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop
	£000s	%	£
Argyll and Clyde	5,255	0.9%	12.7
Ayrshire and Arran	3,565	0.6%	9.7
Borders	1,697	1.1%	15.5
Dumfries and Galloway	2,063	0.9%	13.9
Fife	3,813	0.8%	10.7
Forth Valley	2,638	0.7%	9.3
Grampian	3,850	0.6%	7.3
Greater Glasgow	11,137	0.8%	12.8
Highland	4,529	1.4%	21.2
Lanarkshire	11,564	1.6%	20.8
Lothian	7,920	0.8%	10.0
Orkney	777	2.2%	39.7
Shetland	804	2.1%	36.5
Tayside	5,591	1.0%	14.3
Western Isles	2,257	7.4%	85.6
Total	67,460

Administration

The boards’ spending onadministration costs are taken from note 6 of the published Annual Accountsfor each respective financial year.

The definition of administrationexpenditure has changed over the period due to changes in accounting guidanceand also in the configuration of the health service, particularly thedissolution of NHS trusts. Consequently the figures shown may not be entirelycomparable over these years.

Expenditure will include thecosts associated with the board's responsibilities for the planning andcommissioning of health care for its resident population (such as statutory reporting, strategic planning,commissioning of health care and financial projections), but not those costs associated with the provision ofhealth care and other non clinical services provided by the board.

Management ExpenditureAnalysis

(b) The amount spent by eachNHS board in the last five years on management, expressed both as (i) apercentage of total budget; and (ii) per head of population is given in the following table.

NHS Board	2001-02			2002-03
NHS Board	Management Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop	Management Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop
	£000s	%	£	£000s	%	£
Argyll and Clyde	23,896	5.8%	56.4	25,680	5.9%	61.0
Ayrshire and Arran	20,259	5.7%	54.3	22,454	5.9%	61.0
Borders	7,241	7.1%	67.7	7,882	7.2%	73.7
Dumfries and Galloway	8,939	6.0%	61.3	9,212	5.8%	62.3
Fife	19,397	6.4%	55.4	19,142	5.9%	54.7
Forth Valley	12,637	5.0%	45.5	15,764	5.9%	56.5
Grampian	31,862	6.9%	60.9	34,923	7.0%	66.4
Greater Glasgow	74,003	7.8%	81.8	81,850	7.9%	94.3
Highland	12,041	5.9%	57.7	12,663	5.7%	60.6
Lanarkshire	35,659	7.0%	63.5	36,903	6.8%	66.7
Lothian	47,758	6.7%	60.9	57,599	7.7%	73.9
Orkney	1,076	4.9%	55.2	1,260	5.3%	65.6
Shetland	1,152	4.3%	51.3	1,280	4.2%	58.3
Tayside	30,434	7.2%	78.9	33,260	7.5%	85.6
Western Isles	1,992	4.9%	73.3	2,037	4.6%	77.0
Total	328,346			361,909

NHS Board	2003-04			2004-05
NHS Board	Management Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop	Management Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop
	£000s	%	£	£000s	%	£
Argyll and Clyde	25,548	5.4%	61.3	35,411	6.7%	85.2
Ayrshire and Arran	24,387	5.9%	66.4	25,601	5.0%	69.6
Borders	7,790	6.3%	71.9	10,872	7.4%	99.5
Dumfries and Galloway	7,438	4.1%	50.5	9,222	4.3%	62.3
Fife	22,823	6.3%	64.8	20,014	4.7%	56.5
Forth Valley	17,285	6.0%	61.8	18,261	5.4%	64.8
Grampian	35,849	6.8%	68.5	31,650	5.2%	60.4
Greater Glasgow	92,369	8.4%	106.6	81,322	6.4%	93.8
Highland	13,775	5.6%	65.9	16,513	5.5%	78.1
Lanarkshire	40,907	7.2%	73.9	42,742	6.5%	76.9
Lothian	58,732	6.4%	75.3	63,475	6.6%	80.6
Orkney	1,245	4.8%	64.5	1,269	4.1%	65.1
Shetland	1,556	4.9%	71.1	2,277	6.3%	103.8
Tayside	34,813	7.4%	90.1	38,966	7.1%	100.5
Western Isles	2,355	5.0%	90.2	1,881	3.5%	71.6
Total	386,871			399,478

NHS Board	2005-06
NHS Board	Management Costs	% of Budget	£ per head of pop
	£000s	%	£
Argyll and Clyde	37,743	6.1%	91.2
Ayrshire and Arran	28,566	5.2%	77.8
Borders	7,618	4.8%	69.4
Dumfries and Galloway	9,975	4.3%	67.2
Fife	20,989	4.5%	58.8
Forth Valley	19,868	5.3%	69.9
Grampian	34,010	5.2%	64.7
Greater Glasgow	85,757	6.3%	98.8
Highland	18,432	5.6%	86.3
Lanarkshire	42,035	5.8%	75.5
Lothian	57,194	5.7%	72.2
Orkney	1,427	4.1%	72.8
Shetland	2,390	6.3%	108.6
Tayside	38,413	6.7%	98.6
Western Isles	1,849	3.2%	70.1
Total	406,265

Management

The boards’ spending onmanagement costs are taken from the Scottish Financial Return (SFR) 5.2,which is completed by each hospital and submitted to the NHS National ServicesScotland Information and Statistics Division for publication in the Costs Book.

This expenditure reports thehospital management and administrative costs which includes the followingsupport services:

Medical: HospitalMedical/Paramedical Administrative Support;

Nursing: Senior Nursing andHospital Administrative Support;

Medical Records;

General: Hospitaladministration, including senior management; and

Agency: Administrativeagency staff and agency services

Budgets

The total budget for eachBoard is taken as their Revenue Resource Limit (RRL) which is reported in theirAnnual Accounts.

Population

The figures for thepopulation of each board area are published by the General Register Office for Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-02017

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and by what percentage, each NHS board budget increased in each year from 1999-2000 to 2004-05 (a) in total and (b) per capita and what each board’s average annual increase was over that timescale.

Question reference: S3W-02035

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 25 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting times are for residential (a) drug and (b) alcohol detoxification treatment in each NHS board.

I refer the member to thequestion S3W-1465 answered on 19 July 2007. Please note that parliamentaryquestion S3W-1465 asked about ‘residential rehabilitation services’ rather than“residential detoxification treatment”. Data on both these options are collatedin the Waiting Times Information Framework.

All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

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