Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-02030

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 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staffed hospital beds there have been in each category of care in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Local authority	Total Claimants
Aberdeen City	1,773
Aberdeenshire	1,189
Angus	1,463
Argyll and Bute	1,127
Clackmannanshire	855
Dumfries and Galloway	2,005
Dundee City	3,447
East Ayrshire	2,596
East Dunbartonshire	938
East Lothian	634
East Renfrewshire	606
Edinburgh, City of	5,759
Eilean Siar (Western Isles)	386
Falkirk	2,168
Fife	6,343
Glasgow City	14,232
Highland	2,161
Inverclyde	2,060
Midlothian	745
Moray	1,088
North Ayrshire	3,334
North Lanarkshire	5,348
Orkney Islands	104
Perth and Kinross	1,142
Renfrewshire	2,730
Scottish Borders	829
Shetland Islands	150
South Ayrshire	1,763
South Lanarkshire	3,937
Stirling	907
West Dunbartonshire	2,241
West Lothian	2,333
Scotland	76,393

Question reference: S3W-02047

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 how many (a) residential, (b) nursing and (c) mentally infirm elderly people’s care beds have been available in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area and showing the total annual cost of providing the beds in each category.

The number of beds availablein Care Homes for older people is given in the following table. Care Homes forolder people will cater for older people with varying levels of need includingnursing care and dementia. Beds are not categorised as (a) residential, (b)nursing and (c) mentally infirm and are therefore presented as a total.

Table: Number of Beds Availablein Care Homes for Older People, by Local Authority

Local Authority	Mar-02	Mar-03	Mar-04	Mar-05	Mar-06
Aberdeen City	1,697	1,613	1,606	1,586	1,553
Aberdeenshire	1,991	2,017	1,975	1,966	1,905
Angus	1,026	1,018	1,057	1,029	1,063
Argyll and Bute	777	802	776	745	734
Clackmannanshire	234	234	234	234	234
Dumfries and Galloway	1,226	1,226	1,209	1,224	1,186
Dundee City	1,021	996	998	986	957
East Ayrshire	889	844	840	804	854
East Dunbartonshire	597	601	601	527	532
East Lothian	724	696	690	701	712
East Renfrewshire	556	554	554	554	551
Edinburgh, City of	3,155	3,089	3,093	2,981	2,916
Eilean Siar	218	218	218	219	219
Falkirk	944	946	927	935	912
Fife	2,457	2,479	2,458	2,594	2,670
Glasgow City	4,637	4,620	4,569	4,541	4,526
Highland	2,021	1,993	1,981	1,996	1,956
Inverclyde	583	595	580	608	624
Midlothian	625	587	586	591	588
Moray	549	537	555	582	583
North Ayrshire	1,288	1,237	1,227	1,225	1,095
North Lanarkshire	1,708	1,788	1,830	1,960	2,100
Orkney	98	104	100	100	136
Perth and Kinross	1,444	1,446	1,419	1,408	1,412
Renfrewshire	1,157	1,167	1,208	1,270	1,273
Scottish Borders	840	854	826	835	804
Shetland Islands	142	142	142	143	144
South Ayrshire	900	901	966	938	913
South Lanarkshire	2,524	2,570	2,926	2,869	2,831
Stirling	693	637	638	690	639
West Dunbartonshire	563	557	557	623	605
West Lothian	844	856	897	852	872
Scotland	38,128	37,924	38,243	38,316	38,099

Source: Scottish Care HomeCensus (1).

Net expenditure on CareHomes for Older People was published in the Statistics Release FreePersonal and Nursing Care, Scotland 2002-03 to 2005-06 on the 26 June 2007 and can be accessed at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/06/22152540/13.

The expenditure figurescannot be compared with the bed numbers at local authority level as localauthorities will support residents in Care Homes outside of their councilboundary.

Question reference: S3W-02032

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 how many dental practices have ceased providing NHS dental services in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Theinformation requested is provided in the following table.

Numberof Practices that Ceased Providing NHS General Dental Services^1,2 inthe Years Ending 31 March 2000-2007

NHS Board Area	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Scotland	14	21	22	19	20	40	28	39
Argyll and Clyde	-	-	2	-	1	3	2	x
Ayrshire and Arran	2	2	3	-	-	5	2	7
Borders	-		-	-	-	1	-	1
Dumfries and Galloway	-	2	-	-	-	-	3	3
Fife	-	-	2	-	1	2	2	1
Forth Valley	-	1	-	3	-	3	2	9
Grampian	-	1	2	1	4	3	1	-
Greater Glasgow	2	3	4	4	2	4	4	x
Greater Glasgow and Clyde³	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	6
Highland	3	4	3	3	2	3	2	x
Highland³	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	1
Lanarkshire	1		1	1	-	2	1	3
Lothian	2	4	2	4	5	9	5	4
Orkney	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	2
Shetland	1	1	-	1	-	-	2	-
Tayside	2	3	1	2	5	4	2	1
Western Isles	1		1	-	-	1	-	1

Source: DAS (ManagementInformation & Dental Accounting System).

Notes:

- no data.

x notapplicable.

1.Some practices may cease providing NHS general dentalservices permanently, while some may do so only temporarily. Some practices mayclose and re-open in another location.

2.The number ofpractices with at least one dentist providing NHS general dental services on 1April of the year in question but not on the 31 March the following year.

3.The dissolution of NHS Argyll and Clyde tookeffect from 1 April 2006. From this date, dental practices from NHS Argyll andClyde are included in figures for NHS Highland and NHS Greater Glasgow andClyde.

Question reference: S3W-02046

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 how many clinical psychologists have been employed in child and adolescent mental health teams in each NHS board area in each year since 2002.

The information requested isnot available centrally. However information on clinical staff employed inChild and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in NHS Scotland in 2005 canbe found in Workforce Planning for Specialist Child and Adolescent MentalHealth Services in NHS Scotland, Characteristics of the Specialist CAMHSWorkforce at 31 May 2005 Report, which can be found at the following address: www.isdscotland.org\isd\files\CAMHS05.pdf.

Question reference: S3W-02031

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

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of computer misuse there have been in each of its departments since 1999, broken down by category of misuse, and how many of these cases resulted in disciplinary action.

Since 1999 and until May2007 there have been 178 recorded breaches of the Scottish Executive IT Code ofConduct in core departments by Scottish Executive staff. There have been nocases of misuse recorded since May 2007. The recorded breaches are broken downby department as follows:

Development	20
Education	15
Environment and Rural Affairs	39
Enterprise Tourism and Lifelong Learning	26
Finance and Central Services	17
Health	12
Justice	22
Office of the Permanent Secretary	27
Total	178

There is a range ofdisciplinary penalties which the Scottish Executive can impose depending uponthe seriousness of the breach. Disciplinary action was taken in each of thesecases.

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-02005

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 23 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses have been (a) built and (b) renovated in each local authority area in the (i) private and (ii) social rented sector in each of the last five years, broken down into (A) housing association and (B) local authority builds.

The information requested onhow many houses have been built is given in tables 1a, 1b and 1c of Private,Local Authority and Housing Associations House Completions 2002-2006, a copy ofwhich has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib.number 43218). The tables provide the number of private, local authority andhousing association houses built in each local authority area between 2002 and2006.

Although partial informationis available from various sources on improvements to dwellings there is nocentrally held comprehensive source of information that would provide ameaningful picture of the level of renovation work carried out in recent years.

Question reference: S3W-02016

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 23 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of households were living in property that was below tolerable standard in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

The Scottish House ConditionSurvey, which is the only consistent national source of information on housesbelow tolerable standard, estimates that there were 20,000 households living inhouses below the standard in 2002. This is 0.9% of all households in Scotland. Becauseof the small number of houses identified in the survey as below the tolerablestandard the survey cannot provide estimates for individual councils.Councils provide the Executive with annual estimates of the number of below tolerable standarddwellings in the council area. Research conducted on behalf of the Executiveinto the basis for local and national estimates – Research into the basis forlocal and national estimates of the number of BTS houses in Scotland by DTZPieda Consulting in association with Dr J I Ansell - concluded that there weresignificant variations between councils in the way in which they interpret thestandard when compiling their estimates, and that there are also weaknesses inthe estimates stemming from the use ofunsatisfactory baseline data and imperfect methods used to update estimates.This report has been published by Scottish Executive Central Research Unit in2000 and is available on the Scottish Executive website http://www.scotland.gov.uk/cru/resfinds/drf90-00.asp.

The following table is basedon councils’ estimates of the total number of occupied dwellings belowtolerable standard for each of the past 5 years.

Table 1 - Occupied BTSproperties as a percentage of households

	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Scotland	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%
Aberdeen City	1%	1%	1%	0%	0%
Aberdeenshire	Not Known		1%	2%	2%
Angus	1%	1%	1%	1%	0%
Argyll and Bute	15%	15%	15%	7%	7%
Clackmannanshire	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%
Dumfries and Galloway	1%	1%	0%	0%	0%
Dundee City	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%
East Ayrshire	1%	1%	1%	1%	0%
East Dunbartonshire	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
East Lothian	3%	2%	2%	2%	2%
East Renfrewshire	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Edinburgh	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Eilean Siar¹	25%	18%
Falkirk¹	0%	0%
Fife	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Glasgow¹	8%
Highland	4%	4%	4%	4%	4%
Inverclyde	4%	3%	3%	2%	2%
Midlothian	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Moray	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%
North Ayrshire	4%	4%	4%	4%	4%
North Lanarkshire	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Orkney	11%	9%	5%	5%	3%
Perth and Kinross	3%	3%	3%	2%	2%
Renfrewshire	1%	1%	1%	1%	0%
Scottish Borders	7%	6%	6%	6%	5%
Shetland	4%	4%	4%	4%	4%
South Ayrshire	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%
South Lanarkshire	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%
Stirling	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%
West Dunbartonshire	1%	1%	0%	0%	0%
West Lothian	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%

Source: Scottish ExecutiveHousing Statistics Imp2 returns, GROS mid-year Household Estimates.

Note:

1. Data not provided.

Question reference: S3W-02020

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff have been (a) seconded from, (b) transferred from, (c) seconded to and (d) transferred to other UK departments in each year since 1999.

Temporary movement betweenUK Government departments is defined as a loan rather than a secondment. Thenumbers loaned from and to and transferred from and to the Scottish Executiveto other UK Government Departments are contained in the following table.Additionally, under an arrangement with the Home Office the Scottish Executivehave, as at 1 July 2007, 381 staff on loan to the Criminal InjuriesCompensation Authority in Glasgow.

Year	Seconded (loan) from UK Government Departments	Transferred from UK Government Departments	Seconded(loan) to UK Government Departments	Transferred to UK Government Departments
1999		59	1	14
2000		22		14
2001	1	45		11
2002		43	1	24
2003	1	34	2	23
2004	11	25	13	13
2005	6	30	12	13
2006	11	30	17	18
2007	11	28	17	11

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