Questions and answers

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-02045

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

To ask the Scottish Executive how many planned admissions for inpatient and day case treatment have been cancelled in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Information on plannedadmissions for in-patient and day case treatment that have been cancelled forthe years ending 31 March 2003 to 2006 by NHS board is shown in the followingtable. Data for the year ending 31 March 2007 is not yet complete.

Table 1: Cancellation ofPlanned Admissions for In-Patient or Day Case Treatment;

By Health Board Area: Years ending 31 March 2003-2007

In-patients	2003	2004	2005	2006
Scotland	9,380	7,959	6,898	7,111
Ayrshire and Arran	197	170	366	478
Borders¹	148	119	159	70
Fife	373	543	498	594
Greater Glasgow and Clyde¹	3,829	2,274	1,639	1,486
Highland	440	541	522	536
Lanarkshire	322	542	539	138
Grampian	1,036	1,116	1,013	1,000
Orkney	7	6	3	17
Lothian	1,347	1,441	1,164	1,609
Tayside	850	711	652	545
Forth Valley	277	459	321	620
Western Isles	14	36	22	12
Dumfries and Galloway¹	534	-	-	-
Shetland	6	1	-	6

Day cases	2003	2004	2005	2006
Scotland	7,341	7,383	8,081	7,513
Ayrshire and Arran	79	73	130	179
Borders¹	180	142	180	67
Fife	576	645	747	675
Greater Glasgow and Clyde¹	2,433	2,087	1,861	1,679
Highland	448	743	1,053	1,103
Lanarkshire	979	950	1,447	365
Grampian	821	786	704	625
Orkney	8	9	19	24
Lothian	1,015	968	1,029	1,490
Tayside	450	474	539	493
Forth Valley	327	471	312	753
Western Isles	22	34	53	19
Dumfries and Galloway¹	-	-	-	-
Shetland	3	1	7	41

Note:1 Information is missing/incomplete for the following locations:

Borders General Hospital; year ending 2006

SouthernGeneral Hospital; years ending 2003, 2005and 2006

VictoriaInfirmary, Glasgow; years ending 2005 and 2006

Dumfriesand Galloway Royal Infirmary; years ending 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Question reference: S3W-02025

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 encourage the flying of the Saltire throughout Scotland all year round.

Question reference: S3W-02021

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were on the sex offenders’ register in each of the last five years.

The number of sex offendersrecorded by the Scottish Police Services Authority as being registered withScottish Police Forces in the last five years is shown in the following table.

Year	Number of Registrations
2002	1,724
2003	1,926
2004	2,244
2005	2,677
2006	3,122
2007 (1 June)	3,445

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-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-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.

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-01432

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-967 by Stewart Stevenson on 22 June 2007, whether it will commission research into the connection between weight and sleep disorders.

Question reference: S3W-02036

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of GP practices in each NHS board prescribe methadone.

The table shows thepercentage of GP practices (by NHS board area) that prescribed methadonehydrochloride for the year ending 31 March 2007.

NHS Board	%
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	29.4%
NHS Borders	63.0%
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	64.1%
NHS Fife	81.8%
NHS Forth Valley	59.4%
NHS Grampian	75.0%
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	79.8%
NHS Highland	53.8%
NHS Lanarkshire	52.5%
NHS Lothian	87.1%
NHS Orkney	31.6%
NHS Shetland	30.8%
NHS Tayside	70.7%
NHS Western Isles	22.2%

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