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The available information isgiven in the following tables.

Table 1: Acute Hospital(Non-Obstetric, Non Psychiatric) In-Patient and Day Case Discharges ¹with any Diagnosis of Eating Disorder ² for Years Ending 31 March

NHS Board of Residence	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
All areas	238	239	267	222	281	309	297
Argyll and Clyde	19	14	25	13	18	11	20
Ayrshire and Arran	19	23	15	22	22	27	9
Borders	0	1	5	5	2	3	3
Dumfries and Galloway	16	9	12	10	15	21	10
Fife	6	31	25	13	11	18	7
Forth Valley	10	14	11	17	10	12	8
Grampian	36	38	17	17	32	51	39
Greater Glasgow	50	47	57	45	66	60	47
Highland	12	12	21	14	24	11	28
Lanarkshire	17	10	16	10	16	18	25
Lothian	34	29	52	42	44	63	83
Orkney Islands	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Shetland Islands	0	0	1	1	4	0	2
Tayside	15	6	5	9	15	11	15
Western Isles	4	2	3	3	2	0	1
Other 3	0	3	2	1	0	2	0

Source: ISD SMR01.

Notes:

1. Episodes of care notindividual patients (may include multiple episodes for individual patientswithin period).

2. A main or any one of upto five supplementary diagnosis of eating disorder.

Anorexia Nervosa .

 Atypical Anorexia Nervosa .

 Bulimia Nervosa.

 Atypical Bulimia Nervosa.

 Overeating associated withother psychological disturbances.

 Vomiting associated withother psychological disturbances.

 Other eating disorders.

 Eating disorderunspecified.

3. Not Scotland, nofixed abode or unknown.

Table 2: PsychiatricHospital In-Patient Discharges with any Diagnosis¹ of EatingDisorder ² for years ending 31 March³

NHS Board of Residence	1999	2000	2001
All areas	157	147	147
Argyll and Clyde	12	9	12
Ayrshire and Arran	16	10	9
Borders	1	2	2
Dumfries and Galloway	4	6	3
Fife	7	10	12
Forth Valley	14	13	10
Grampian	22	14	9
Greater Glasgow	16	15	19
Highland	12	7	4
Lanarkshire	16	17	15
Lothian	18	19	30
Tayside	15	23	15
Western Isles	0	2	3
Other 4	4	0	4

Source: ISD SMR04.

Notes:

1. Episodes of care, notindividual patients (may include multiple episodes of care for individualpatients within period).

2. A main or any one of upto five supplementary diagnosis of eating disorder.

 Anorexia Nervosa.

 Atypical Anorexia Nervosa.

 Bulimia Nervosa.

 Atypical Bulimia Nervosa.

 Overeating associated withother psychological disturbances.

 Vomiting associated withother psychological disturbances.

 Other eating disorders.

 Eating disorder unspecified.

3. Incomplete datasubmission for later years.

4. Not Scotland, nofixed abode or unknown.

Complete data on theinformation requested is not available.

Irefer the member to the answer to question S2W-25345 on 3 May 2006. The answer providesthe available data for in-patient andday case discharges from acute and psychiatric hospitals for those with anydiagnosis of eating disorder.

All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

The information requested isnot held centrally. The commitment to publish a National Mental Health DeliveryPlan this year will include consideration of how we set targets for mental health services and how weperformance manage and measure progress.

Phase One of the review examinedthe existing tolling structures, including the impact of tolls and the way in whichpotential changes to tolls could help achieve the Scottish Executive’s environmental and economicobjectives of reducing pollution and congestion. Phase Two included an examinationof the broader issues relating to the management, operation and maintenance of thetolled bridges, including an assessment of how the tolled bridges relate to thenew regional and national transport arrangements.

Only a small number of responsesto the public consultation on Phase Two of the review raised concerns about thecosts of tolls to the Scottish economy. Since the announcement of the review outcomeson 1 March 2006, a number of members and local authorities have voiced concernsabout the impact of tolls on the economies of Fife and Dundee. We are committedto examining the economic, social and environmental impact and cost of retainingor removing tolls from the Tay and Forth bridges, in response to these concerns. This new workwill focus on these issues, rather than the more strategic work undertaken to date.

This information is not heldcentrally.

Aggregated data on the birthprevalence of cardiovascular anomalies have been published in the Scottish Perinataland Infant Mortality and Morbidity Review Advisory Group (SPMMRAG) annual reportssince 2001. The most recently published data for infants born in Scotland withcongenital heart anomalies by year is:

1999	233
2000	270
2001	266
2002	232
2003	289

 

The information requested ispresented in the following table.

Deaths from Eating Disorders¹,Scotland, 1999-2004

1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
3	2	1	2	5	6

Note: 1. 1999: ICD9 codes 307.1(Anorexia nervosa) and 307.5 (Other and unspecified disorders of eating),  2000-04:ICD10 codes F50.0 - F50.9 (Eating disorders).

Whether a local authority wasbreaching its statutory duties in operating a waiting list would depend on the circumstancesof the case. Waiting lists may be an appropriate way of managing access to services,provided that they are actively managed and that local authorities make some provisionto meet the person’s needs in the short-term and provide a more satisfactory solutionin the longer term.

I will notify the Convener of the Health Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into these and related issues,once discussions with COSLA have concluded.

Our discussions with local authoritieson the operation of free personal care will continue as part of our current policyevaluation and while we consider its implications with all relevant stakeholders.Local authorities are represented on the reference group overseeing this evaluation.We will decide nearer that time how best to communicate the outcomes to the Parliamentand other interested parties.