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Question reference: S2W-30968

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths have occurred as a result of alcoholic liver disease in each year since 1997, broken down by age and sex of patient and by hospital.

The information requested isset out in the following tables.

Deaths from Alcoholic Liver Disease,by Sex and Age Group, Scotland, 1997 - 2005

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Persons All ages	527	565	638	779	866	957	976	876	976
Under 30	3	5	4	8	7	2	6	8	5
30-44	98	97	116	135	140	160	159	145	162
45-59	246	292	299	367	392	464	440	413	449
60-74	164	148	187	237	295	297	329	269	319
75 and over	16	23	32	32	32	34	42	41	41
Males All ages	366	388	426	537	599	660	675	603	638
Under 30	0	4	4	5	6	1	4	6	2
30-44	66	62	79	93	93	113	106	100	98
45-59	168	206	196	254	264	310	297	279	290
60-74	122	100	124	162	215	214	235	188	221
75 and over	10	16	23	23	21	22	33	30	27
Females All ages	161	177	212	242	267	297	301	273	338
Under 30	3	1	0	3	1	1	2	2	3
30-44	32	35	37	42	47	47	53	45	64
45-59	78	86	103	113	128	154	143	134	159
60-74	42	48	63	75	80	83	94	81	98
75 and over	6	7	9	9	11	12	9	11	14

Deaths from Alcoholic Liver Disease,by Hospital, Scotland, 1997-2005

Hospital	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary	9	13	20	18	31	21	31	32	32
Ayr Hospital	11	8	10	15	16	20	24	19	16
Borders General Hospital	3	1	4	0	7	7	4	5	6
Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock	24	14	19	29	27	25	24	24	22
Doctor Gray's Hospital, Elgin	4	1	6	3	5	2	8	6	5
Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary	3	8	1	7	9	7	8	10	10
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary	5	7	6	9	11	11	12	9	9
Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow	7	13	15	13	9	17	26	22	16
Glasgow Royal Infirmary	33	24	44	58	59	60	64	51	39
Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride	10	19	25	17	20	17	24	28	27
Inverclyde Royal Hospital	12	21	20	14	30	31	21	19	21
Law Hospital, Carluke	20	17	29	29	5	0	0	0	0
Monklands General Hospital, Airdrie	11	30	11	23	28	30	31	25	31
New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh	0	0	0	0	0	0	36	42	67
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee	14	18	14	24	25	31	42	41	32
Perth Royal Infirmary	4	5	9	7	4	10	7	5	7
Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline	5	2	8	16	9	16	9	13	15
Raigmore Hospital, Inverness	8	6	12	18	10	15	20	21	10
Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley	30	38	18	45	32	47	42	32	55
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh	30	27	45	49	59	52	22	0	0
Southern General Hospital, Glasgow	17	28	23	26	36	27	41	41	31
St John's Hospital, Livingston	10	13	6	11	14	14	23	10	16
Stirling Royal Infirmary	14	6	12	13	15	22	21	16	15
Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow	23	18	20	24	21	21	29	16	23
Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria	5	2	9	7	5	18	20	10	9
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy	4	7	8	14	17	15	5	9	13
Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow	25	21	22	32	32	24	34	36	29
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh	7	10	10	12	13	12	17	12	17
Western Infirmary, Glasgow	24	30	20	19	30	23	28	25	34
Wishaw General Hospital	0	0	0	0	15	29	28	23	36
Total for other hospitals with fewer than 20 cases 1997-2005	31	18	22	17	25	28	36	31	33
Hospital total	403	425	468	569	619	652	737	633	676
Non-hospital total	124	140	170	210	247	305	239	243	300
Scotland	527	565	638	779	866	957	976	876	976

Question reference: S2W-30934

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the additional cost to health services has been as a result of the increase in primary diagnoses of alcoholism in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-30936

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related admissions there were to hospitals in each year since 1997, broken down by age, sex and hospital.

Patients undergoing hospitaltreatment for alcohol related dependency can be treated in acute generalhospitals or psychiatric units/mental illness hospitals. Information onreadmission is available separately for patients treated in each of these butis not readily available for patients who move between the two.

Tables 1a to 1c and 2a to 2cof Patients admitted to hospital with an alcohol-related dependency andsubsequently readmitted within 1 day, 1 week and 1 month since 1997 by NHSBoard contain this information a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41572).

Question reference: S2W-31150

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Des McNulty on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what projected funding is for planning aid at the end of this financial year, broken down into constituent parts.

Planning Aid for Scotland isa charity independent of the Scottish Executive. In the financial year 2006-07,the projected funding for Planning Aid for Scotland will be up to £232,760 from the Scottish Executive. Thisis made up of the following funding streams:

Core funding - £100,000 fromthe Scottish Executive Planning Division;

Funding for a VolunteerDevelopment Officer - £24,000 from the Planning Development Budget;

Reach Out - £43,796 from theRace Equality, Integration and Community Support Fund,

Planning for People -£57,487 from the Sustainable Action Fund,

PAS also received £7,477 fortheir supporting work on the PAN on Community Engagement in seeking views fromharder to reach communities of interest.

The Executive is not awareof the projected funding expected by Planning Aid for Scotland from other sources.

Question reference: S2W-30831

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much public money has been allocated by Scottish ministers to Scottish Gas or its parent company, British Gas, over the last seven years in connection with any projects or programmes initiated by Scottish ministers in which Scottish Gas is a partner.

Question reference: S2W-30830

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review or terminate any existing contracts that its departments or agencies have with Scottish Gas following the company’s recent announcement that it intends to introduce £5 fines for customers who do not pay within 28 days.

Question reference: S2W-30832

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations Scottish ministers have made to Scottish Gas following recent price rises and the announcement that the firm intends to levy a £5 fine on customers who pay late, in light of any impact of such actions on vulnerable and low-income families across Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-30969

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is in respect of regulations dealing with transportation of puppies and other companion animals.

Question reference: S2W-30597

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 16 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive why the number of heating and insulation installations under the Warm Deal programme has fallen significantly in the last two years.

I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:

The number of central heatingand warm deal installations over the last two full years are shown in the followingtables:

Year	Central Heating Installations
2004-05	13,022
2005-06	14,047

The number of Warm Deal measuresinstalled over the last two years has decreased relative to the number of installationsundertake in 2003-04. The figures are shown in the following table:

Year	Warm Deal Installations
2004-05	14,953
2005-06	15,499

Both programmes show a year onyear increase.

Question reference: S2W-30598

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 16 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what restrictions it placed on Eaga in relation to highlighting the number of installations under the Warm Deal programme.