- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 12 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many rehabilitation beds are available in each health board area for registered drug users, expressed on a per capita basis and as a ratio to the number of registered drug users in each area.
Answer
Information in the form requested is not held centrally. The term "registered drug" user no longer exists and I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-16963 on 8 August.Rehabilitation for those addicted to drugs is provided through a variety of services and in a variety of settings, many of which are community-based and do not involve residential care. Beds provided within the NHS and the voluntary sector for rehabilitation will also be available for anyone with a clinical need, including people from outwith the health board in which the beds are situated.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) reception and (b) non-reception drug tests have been carried out on new inmates at each local prison in each of the last three years and this year to date, and in the Scottish Prison Service as a whole, giving the figures also as a percentage of new inmates in each case.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:The readily available information is in the table:
Prison | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
Reception Tests | Total Tests | Reception Tests | Total Tests | Reception Tests | Total Tests | Reception Tests | Total Tests3 |
| Aberdeen | 186 | 779 | 147 | 904 | 135 | 1,079 | | 189 |
| Barlinnie | | 2,868 | | 3,413 | 100 | 2,700 | | 705 |
| Dumfries1 | 8 | 2992 | 2 | 91 | 17 | 176 | | 91 |
| Edinburgh | | 1,409 | | 2,604 | 64 | 2,014 | | 1,157 |
| Greenock | | 523 | 22 | 544 | 129 | 885 | | 289 |
| Inverness | | 262 | | 251 | 17 | 296 | | 61 |
| Perth | | 1,159 | 86 | 1,233 | 147 | 1,842 | | 948 |
| SPS | 239 | 14,297 | 477 | 17,178 | 689 | 15,680 | | 7,076 |
Notes:
1. Local prison only, not including Young Offenders Institution (YOI), which holds long-term inmates transferred from other establishments.2. Figures include local prison and YOI, as disaggregated figures not available for that period.3. To 24 August 2001 (reception test figures not yet available).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide for the last three years and the current year to date, for each local prison establishment, the number of staff in each category and number of inmates, giving the staff/inmates ratio in each case.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The information is not readily available and could not be produced except at disproportionate cost. Prisoner populations and staff in post figures are given in Appendices 2 and 7 of the SPS Annual Reports, copies of which are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current rate of staff turnover is in the Scottish Prison Service compared to the five-year period prior to the introduction of the Staff Structure Review instigated in March 1995.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current staff turnover is at HMP Kilmarnock in relation to the Scottish Prison Service as a whole.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The SPS does not hold information on staff turnover at Kilmarnock. It is solely a matter for Premier Prison Services, the operators of the prison. Staff turnover in the Scottish Prison Service was 4.4% in the year to 31 March 2001.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what outstanding hours in lieu are owed to staff in each local and open prison establishment, listed by staff category and giving the totals for each establishment and the Scottish Prison Service as a whole.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The readily available information is as follows:Net TOIL Balance by Establishment at 1 August 2001
| Establishment | Time off in Lieu (TOIL) Balance |
| HMP Aberdeen | 9,861 |
| HMP Barlinnie | 4,452 |
| HMP Castle Huntly | 817 |
| HMP Cornton Vale | 2,797 |
| HM YOI Dumfries | 6,596 |
| HMP Edinburgh | 3,146 |
| HMP YOI Glenochil | 2,864 |
| HMP Greenock | 2,263 |
| HMP Inverness | 1,320 |
| HMP Low Moss | 1,509 |
| HMP Noranside | 1,648 |
| HMP Perth | 2,814 |
| HMP Peterhead | 7,833 |
| HMP Polmont | 4,699 |
| HMP Shotts | 3,760 |
Total | 56,379 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of prisoners who received drug treatment in the last three years re-offended following release within (a) one month, (b) three months and (c) any period.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:This information is not available. However, SPS has recently estimated that 46% of those released from prison custody return to prison within two years (Return to Custody in Scottish Prisons, SPS Research and Evaluation Services, 2001). Re-offending not resulting in prison custody is not included in that figure.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when new resources will be made available to HM Prison Aberdeen in order to improve drug treatment facilities for inmates and what form these new resources will take.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:HM Prison, Aberdeen will benefit from expanded in-prison addictions casework provision from late autumn 2001. Short-term post-release support "throughcare" by SPS will become available offering facilitation support to address their housing, employment, education and training, personal finance and health needs in the period leading up to and for 12 weeks after release.Additional addictions nursing support is being introduced this autumn and support from psychologists is also now being made available to the prison to further develop the quality of treatment.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GPs (a) retired, (b) resigned and (c) took up post in each of the last five years in each health board area.
Answer
Robust information on the numbers of GPs who retire or resign is not available since many do not supply a reason for leaving. Table 1 shows the numbers of GPs, by health board area, who ceased to practise as GP Principals in each of the last five years. Table 2 shows the numbers of GPs who took up post over the same period. A direct comparison between Tables 1 and 2 does not take full account of the impact of the increasing move into salaried general practice. For example, of the 29 salaried GPs currently employed under the Personal Medical Services scheme in Scotland, 28 were previously employed as GP Principals. Although they are recorded (in Table 1) as having ceased to practise as Principals they are still providing GP services.Table 1: Number of GPs Who Ceased to Practise as Principals
| Year Ending 30 September |
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Scotland | 197 | 152 | 148 | 138 | 166 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 14 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 13 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 13 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 14 |
| Borders | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 8 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 4 |
| Fife | 6 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 6 |
| Forth Valley | 16 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 10 |
| Grampian | 14 | 14 | 19 | 10 | 23 |
| Greater Glasgow | 41 | 27 | 28 | 23 | 19 |
| Highland | 10 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 13 |
| Lanarkshire | 12 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 17 |
| Lothian | 36 | 25 | 18 | 12 | 26 |
| Orkney | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Shetland | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Tayside | 19 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
| Western Isles | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Notes:1. Source: General Medical Practitioner Database, ISD Scotland.2. Data included those who moved from one health board to another and those who both took up post and left during the year.Table 2: Number of GPs Who Took Up Post as Principals | Year Ending 30 September |
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Scotland | 245 | 203 | 184 | 176 | 172 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 13 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 18 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 14 |
| Borders | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 7 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 6 |
| Fife | 14 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 10 |
| Forth Valley | 19 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 10 |
| Grampian | 22 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 25 |
| Greater Glasgow | 44 | 31 | 32 | 23 | 16 |
| Highland | 16 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| Lanarkshire | 21 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 15 |
| Lothian | 43 | 31 | 21 | 26 | 24 |
| Orkney | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Shetland | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| Tayside | 24 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 12 |
| Western Isles | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Notes:1. Source: General Medical Practitioner Database, ISD Scotland.2. Data included those who moved from one health board to another and those who both took up post and left during the year.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 28 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of GPs to patients is in each health board area.
Answer
The ratio of GPs to patients in each health board area is shown in the following table.
Ratio of GPs to patients¹, by Health Board (As at 1 October 2000)
| | Ratio of GPs to Patients |
| Scotland | 1:1510 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 1:1415 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 1:1539 |
| Borders | 1:1351 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 1:1254 |
| Fife | 1:1528 |
| Forth Valley | 1:1494 |
| Grampian | 1:1543 |
| Greater Glasgow | 1:1600 |
| Highland | 1:1104 |
| Lanarkshire | 1:1728 |
| Lothian | 1:1586 |
| Orkney | 1:806 |
| Shetland | 1:1179 |
| Tayside | 1:1529 |
| Western Isles | 1:953 |
Source: General Medical Practitioner Database, ISD Scotland.Notes:1. Based on WTE of unrestricted principals and their equivalents in PMS practices, including vacant posts.
