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It is not possible to specifically identify the success of surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) from centrally collected data.

The numbers of men aged over 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for AAA and who were alive at least 30 days after their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999 are presented in table 1.

The numbers of men aged over 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999 are presented in table 2.

Table 1. Numbers of men aged over 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for an abdominal aortic aneurysm and who were alive at least 30 days of their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999:

Males aged over 65	Financial Year Ending 31 March
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Patients alive within 30 days	299	301	282	298	311	331	291	310	334	345
Total number of patients	329	333	320	331	336	362	317	335	360	371

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) Death Data and SMR01 (ISD Scotland) Discharges from non-obstetric/non-psychiatric NHS hospitals in Scotland. Date extracted: October 2009.

Table 2. Numbers of men aged over 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999:

Males aged over 65	Calendar Year
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Number of deaths	202	209	193	208	231	220	209	216	224	198

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). Date extracted: October 2009.

It is not possible to specifically identify the success of surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) from centrally collected data.

The numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for AAA and who were alive at least 30 days after their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999 are presented in Table 1.

The numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999 are presented in table 2.

Table 1. Numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for an abdominal aortic aneurysm and who were alive at least 30 days of their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999:

Males aged 50 to 65	Financial Year Ending 31 March
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Patients alive within 30 days	93	72	79	92	74	68	74	64	78	79
Total number of patients	99	77	86	97	77	70	77	67	78	83

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) Death Data and SMR01 (ISD Scotland) Discharges from non-obstetric/non-psychiatric NHS hospitals in Scotland. Date extracted: October 2009.

Table 2. Numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999:

Males aged 50 to 65	Calendar Year
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Number of deaths	26	30	19	31	30	16	26	22	21	19

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). Date extracted: October 2009.

Information on the cost to the NHS of prescribed medicines not taken by patients or on prescriptions written for patients but not presented for dispensing is not collected centrally. The Scottish Government supports a range of initiatives through the contractual framework for community pharmacists to minimise wastage of medicines. The introduction of the Chronic Medication Service and its associated serial dispensing component will focus on the management of repeat medicines with a view to reduce drug wastage.

Information on sickness absence is not centrally held for years 1999-2005.

NHS boards in Scotland report their sickness absence rates based on contracted hours lost rather than days lost, due to different shift patterns in the NHS Scotland workforce. The latest available information is given in the following table. As can be seen, the rate of sickness absence has fallen from a high of 5.55% in 2007 to 4.95% in 2009 and this represents over 1 million more hours being available to NHSScotland.

Further information on the statistics, including information on how the data is collected and notes to aid interpretation, is given in the Background section of the Workforce Statistics website at:

www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Hours Lost Due to Sickness Absence by NHS Board

Years Ending 31 March	2006	2007	2008	2009
	Hours Lost (Percentage of Total Workforce Hours)	Hours Lost (Percentage of Total Workforce Hours)	Hours Lost (Percentage of Total Workforce Hours)	Hours Lost (Percentage of Total Workforce Hours)
Scotland	13,130,317 (5.23%)	14,193,436 (5.55%)	13,793,175 (5.28%)	13,144,537 (4.95%)
NHS Argyll and Clyde	1,062,891	x	x	x
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	829,992	951,890	945,863	958,662
NHS Borders	226,144	242,260	251,650	250,586
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	309,863	322,110	363,971	325,337
NHS Fife	752,620	850,703	775,641	768,266
NHS Forth Valley	573,400	624,741	607,942	610,068
NHS Grampian	1,017,165	1,139,705	1,127,814	1,090,165
NHS Greater Glasgow	2,758,109	x	x	x
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	x	3,930,313	3,650,907	3,372,305
NHS Highland	469,819	681,421	671,359	700,326
NHS Lanarkshire	1,107,691	1,183,500	1,125,863	975,881
NHS Lothian	1,788,728	1,792,335	1,797,735	1,700,165
NHS Orkney	36,701	39,998	43,794	50,319
NHS Shetland	44,271	42,203	51,757	43,084
NHS Tayside	1,121,140	1,206,313	1,217,683	1,165,698
NHS Western Isles	86,953	101,722	86,809	87,984
NHS National Services Scotland	247,605	271,782	276,052	268,544
NHS 24	139,487	176,705	152,957	108,865
NHS Education For Scotland	21,080	20,549	25,024	26,988
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland	8,396	8,417	8,578	12,717
NHS Health Scotland	5,975	8,989	12,628	9,206
Scottish Ambulance Service	390,620	452,297	460,277	428,507
The State Hospital	70,262	73,531	60,850	80,479
Golden Jubilee	61,406	71,950	78,024	108,851

 

Available figures for the number of people registered on the Organ Donor Register in Scotland are provided in the following table:

Registration Date	Number Registered	Added in Year
1 April 2000	420,220
1 April 2001	652,083	231,863
1 April 2002	754,983	102,900
1 April 2003	877,395	122,412
1 April 2004	1,003,109	125,714
1 April 2005	1,128,700	125,591
1 April 2006	1,252,785	124,085
1 April 2007	1,362,677	109,892
1 April 2008	1,498,412	135,735
1 April 2009	1,638,614	140,212

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant.

This information is not held in the form requested. However, available figures showing changes to the number of registrations to the Organ Donor Register each month since May 2007 are demonstrated in the following table:

Registration Date	Number Registered
1 April 2007	1,362,677
1 May 2007	1,362,717
1 June 2007	1,401,624
1 July 2007	1,401,676
1 August 2007	1,432,411
1 September 2007	1,436,401
1 October 2007	1,436,468
1 November 2007	1,469,113
1 December 2007	1,470,980
1 January 2008	1,485,176
1 February 2008	1,498,279
1 March 2008	1,498,345
1 April 2008	1,498,412
1 May 2008	1,498,465
1 June 2008	1,545,014
1 July 2008	1,555,130
1 August 2008	1,566,620
1 September 2008	1,578,824
1 October 2008	1,589,122
1 November 2008	1,602,641
1 December 2008	1,608,113
1 January 2009	1,619,746
1 February 2009	1,628,722
1 March 2009	1,638,602
1 April 2009	1,638,614
1 May 2009	1,651,237
1 June 2009	1,662,950
1 July 2009	1,680,508
1 August 2009	1,690,016
1 September 2009	1,702,124

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant.

The requested information is not available.

Information on the numbers of staffed available beds and bed occupancy in NHS Hospitals in Scotland is published on the NHS National Services Scotland Information Services Division website at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/3426.html.

It should be noted that the range of facilities provided by hospitals (including inpatient beds) makes up only a small proportion of the total services provided by the NHS in Scotland.

The information requested is not collected centrally.

ASH Scotland is the only national voluntary sector agency dealing with tobacco control issues in Scotland. The funding it receives from the Scottish Government in the form of core and project grant funding is in return for agreed outcomes which contribute to the development and delivery of effective policies to reduce the unacceptable toll smoking takes on the nation''s health.

The information requested on the funding made available to ASH Scotland in Financial Year 2008-09 is provided following:

(a) Available funding in cash terms

(i) Scottish Government funding

Core Grant	£255,000
Local Alliances Project	£60,000
Tobacco and Inequalities Project	£60,000
ASH Scotland Information Service	£62,950
Capital Grant	£30,737
*PATH	£453,150
Total	£921,837

Note: *Partnership Action on Tobacco and Health (PATH) is a joint initiative set up in 2002 to support the expansion of evidence-based smoking cessation services involving the Scottish Government, NHS Health Scotland, the NHS in Scotland and COSLA, which is co-located with and managed on behalf of the partners by ASH Scotland.

(ii) Other Public Funding

NHS Health Scotland: £34,172.

(b) As a Proportion of ASH Scotland''s Budget

ASH Scotland is an independent Scottish charity and the Scottish Government does not hold information on ASH''s total budget other than that published annually in ASH''s audited accounts. Its audited accounts for 2008-09 have not yet been published but will in due course be publicly available and can be requested directly from the charity concerned.

It should also be noted that independent reviews to examine ASH Scotland''s performance in providing value for money in relation to the funding provided by the Scottish Government to support its core activities and projects and of PATH were undertaken in 2007-08. Copies of the review findings are available on the attached links http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/08/29113558 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/08/28155352.

We are not aware of any public funds being paid to house relatives of Mr Al-Megrahi in East Renfrewshire.