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This information is not heldcentrally. NHS boards do not receive a specific budget for the treatment ofstroke. NHS boards receive an annual allocation. It is for each NHS board toutilise the funds available to meet the health care needs of its residentpopulation, including the cost of treatment for stroke, taking account of nationaland local priorities. The general allocations to boards since 1999 are asfollows:

1999-2000- £4,566.26 million

2000-01- £4,919.40 million

2001-02- £5,272.54 million

2002-03- £5,932.08 million

2003-04- £6,384.51 million

2004-05- £7,465.22 million

2005-06- £8,112.94 million.

£40 million of additionalfunding has been allocated to boards to help implement the recommendations of the CHD and Stroke Strategy since 2002. Approximately 50% of this funding wasallocated to priority projects identified by each Stroke MCN. In addition, afurther £15 million has been ring-fenced in 2006-07 to help boards improve CHDand stroke services.

The Executive’s CoronaryHeart Disease (CHD) and Stroke Strategy, drawn up in 2002 set out recommendationsto improve stroke services in NHS Scotland. NHS boards have taken action to implement these recommendations. AStroke Managed Clinical Network (MCN) has been set up in each health boardarea. These networks are a way of bringing together clinicians from all sectorsof the NHS to work with patients to deliver sustainable improvements in strokeservices. A National Advisory Committee for Stroke has been established to takeforward the implementation of the stroke elements of the strategy. £40 millionof additional funding for the period 2003-06 was allocated to boards to helptake forward the recommendations of the CHD and Stroke Strategy. Approximately50% of this funding was allocated to priority projects identified by the StrokeMCNs. These projects included: setting up Acute Stroke Units, enhancedneurovascular services, and recruiting more allied health professionals andnursing staff.

Followingon from the strategy we set a target to reduce deaths from stroke by 50% in theunder-75s between 1995 and 2010. We are on track to meet these targets as therehas been a 40% reduction in the mortality rate for the under-75s during thisperiod.

NHSQuality Improvement Scotland published its Stroke Standards in March 2004 andall boards have been visited by NHS QIS staff during 2004-05 to assess whetherthey were meeting these standards. All boards have developed action plans toincrease their compliance with the quality standards.

In their treatment of strokepatients boards are also expected to take account of evidence-based SIGN Guideline78 - Management of patients with stroke: Identification and management ofdysphagia, and SIGN Guideline 64 Management ofpatients with stroke: rehabilitation, prevention and management ofcomplications, and discharge planning. SIGN Guideline 64 is currently beingreviewed but its recommendations are not significantly affected by newevidence.

Details are as follows:

	NHS Greater Glasgow (£ Million)	NHS Highland (£ Million)
1999-2000	800.079	171.762
2000-01	864.156	184.198
2001-02	951.162	204.907
2002-03	1,034.677	222.063
2003-04	1,101.880	244.851
2004-05	1,280.160	302.818
2005-06	1,370.302	330.287

 

Scotland’s cancer strategy Cancer inScotland sets out the strategic direction for improvements in cancerservices.

Additionalinvestment in cancer services since 2001 has resulted in 300 additional staffand state of the art imaging, radiotherapy and other vital equipment across thecountry.

Inaddition a new West of Scotland Cancer Centre is being built – the biggesthospital building project funded directly by the NHS in Scotland.

Newdiagnostic waiting time standards announced last year are backed by £50 millionover three years for new equipment, scanners and additional staff.

All ofthis hard work is bringing significant improvement in survival. Deaths fromcancer have fallen by 14.8% since 1995. This means more Scots are now livingwith and beating cancer.

We have funded a range of measureswhich contribute to crime prevention including Make our Communities Safer Challenge Competition, the Community Safety Partnership Award Programme, AntisocialBehaviour funding and our investment in record numbers of police officers.

Underthe Make our Communities Safer Challenge Competition which ended in March 2002,the awards detailed in the following table were made:

Argylland Bute

Year	Project	Award
1998-99	Rothesay Town Centre CCTV	£63,300
1999-2000		£0
2000-01	Campbeltown CCTV	£9,500
2001-02	Dunoon New Community Schools	£8,100

 

West Dunbartonshire

Year	Project	Award
1998-99		£0
1999-2000	Dumbarton Town Centre CCTV	£160,000
2000-01	New Bonhill CCTV	£140,000
2001-02	Clydebank Trust CCTV Youth Shelters	£129,440 £18,500

 

On1 April 2002 we introduced a new Community Safety Partnership (CSP)Award Programme for all local authority-led CSPs. The programme assists CSPs toidentify and address their local community safety priorities, including crime prevention.The awards for 2002-03 onwards are set out in the following table:

Year	Argyll and Bute	West Dunbartonshire
2002-03	£84,127	£118,491
2003-04	£78,465	£122,875
2004-05	£87,609	£120,508
2005-06	£75,097.39	£108,594
2006-07	£75,097.39	£108,594

 

Argylland Bute and West Dunbartonshire Community Planning Partnerships have been allocatedfunding to tackle antisocial behaviour over the period 2004-08 as set out in thefollowing table. This has included funding for a range of initiatives, which includemeasures that can contribute to crime prevention, such as community wardens.

 

Year	Argyll and Bute	West Dunbartonshire
2004-05	£184,000	£1,364,000
2005-06	£204,700	£1,513,550
2006-07	£247,000	£1,765,000
2007-08	£260,000	£1,900,000

 

PoliceGAE funding is paid directly to Strathclyde Joint Police Board and it is for theChief Constable of Strathclyde Police to decide on the best use of the funding availableto him. The amount of police GAE allocated to Strathclyde Police in each year since1999 is shown in the following table.

Year	Police GAE (£000)
1998-99	328,336
1999-2000	339,260
2000-01	352,183
2001-02	370,940
2002-03	389,140
2003-04	421,023
2004-05	444,070
2005-06	476,424
2006-07	496,307

 

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

Information is not held in theform requested. For private sector dwellings, information is held by main postcodearea. In the PA postcode area, a total of 3,848 houses in the private sector arenow centrally heated as a result of the central heating programme.

Information on installationsin council properties is held at local authority level. In the West DunbartonshireCouncil area, a total of 202 council owned dwellings are now centrally heated asa result of the central heating programme. In the Argyll and Bute Council area atotal of 151 council owned dwellings had systems installed under the programme.

The information has been placedin the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 39878).

The information has been placedin the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 39879).

Details are as follows:

	(£ Million)
1999-2000	349.083
2000-01	379.134
2001-02	411.698
2002-03	435.462
2003-04	453.508
2004-05	527.517
2005-06	616.052

 

Victim Information andAdvice (VIA) can provide a service to families of victims involved in FatalAccident Inquiries. The specific availability of this service is referred to incorrespondence advising families of initial enquiries into the death by the ProcuratorFiscal and more generally publicised on the Crown Office and Procurator FiscalService (COPFS) website at www.copfs.gov.ukand in COPFS leaflets providing general information about VIA.