- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the prescribing budget was (a) nationally and (b) for each NHS board in each year since 1997, both in real and cash terms.
Answer
NHS boards do not have a ring-fenced prescribing budget. Expenditure on Prescribing is met from within their overall budget allocations.
Information on expenditure for Prescribing is provided in following tables:
1. Drug Expenditure for Financial Years Ending 31 March 1997 to 31 March 2008
Provided in Cash Terms (Bib. number 46770).
2. Drug Expenditure for Financial Years Ending 31 March 1997 to 31 March 2008
Provided in Real Terms (Bib. number 46771).
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of total expenditure each local authority spent on frontline services in each year since 1999.
Answer
Local authorities'' financial returns do not differentiate between expenditure on front line services and, for example, back office administration costs. Local authorities'' total expenditure by service for the period 1999-2007 is available on the Scottish Government''s website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16945/SLGFS.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it would cost to remove the car park charges from the PFI hospital car parks in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.
Answer
In advance of detailed discussions between the relevant NHS boards and their PFI providers, it is not possible to provide the likely cost of removing car park charges from those three car parks provided through PFI contracts. It is understood that this may be in the order of tens of millions of pounds.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies have been born addicted to drugs in each year since 1997, also broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) local authority area.
Answer
The information requested in each year from 1997-98 to 2004-05 is provided in a document containing four tables, a copy of which is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 46517).
Information for 2005-06 and 2006-07 will become available in the 2008 Drugs Misuse Report, which is due to be released later this year at:
http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/publications/abstracts/ISDbull.htm.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency contraception treatments were dispensed by the NHS in each year since 1997, also broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) local authority area.
Answer
The figures below show the numbers of prescription items dispensed in Scotland for Levonorgestrel
® products licensed for use as emergency hormonal contraception (EHC). The following table gives figures by NHS board for 1997-98 to 2007-08, information by local authority is not held centrally.
These figures do not capture all emergency contraception treatments supplied under the NHS. Depending on the model of service delivery some data from Family Planning Clinics and Community Pharmacies is not held centrally.
| | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| NHS Scotland | 0 | 0 | 864 | 19,134 | 29,706 |
| NHS Argyll and Clyde 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 1,057 | 1,752 |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 0 | 0 | 60 | 1,388 | 1,935 |
| NHS Borders | 0 | 0 | * | 692 | 963 |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 | 15 | 605 | 1,008 |
| NHS Fife | 0 | 0 | 56 | 1,728 | 2,260 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 0 | 0 | 128 | 1,545 | 2,076 |
| NHS Grampian | 0 | 0 | 96 | 2,199 | 3,200 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow | 0 | 0 | 190 | 3,451 | 4,637 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| NHS Highland (pre April 2006) | 0 | 0 | 68 | 1,243 | 1,629 |
| NHS Highland (post April 2006)2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 85 | 1,884 | 3,158 |
| NHS Lothian | 0 | 0 | 51 | 1,684 | 4,354 |
| NHS Orkney | 0 | 0 | * | 125 | 176 |
| NHS Shetland | 0 | 0 | * | 161 | 196 |
| NHS Tayside | 0 | 0 | 47 | 1,275 | 2,198 |
| NHS Western Isles | 0 | 0 | * | 97 | 164 |
| | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| NHS Scotland | 32,563 | 31,894 | 27,198 | 25,751 | 22,343 | 20,905 |
| NHS Argyll and Clyde 1 | 2,033 | 2,060 | 1,831 | 1,714 | - | - |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 1,606 | 1,302 | 1,009 | 968 | 783 | 714 |
| NHS Borders | 988 | 880 | 881 | 773 | 713 | 614 |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 1,007 | 1,006 | 614 | 589 | 435 | 445 |
| NHS Fife | 1,812 | 1,617 | 1,150 | 1,054 | 808 | 709 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 2,215 | 2,284 | 1,967 | 1,471 | 1,282 | 1,037 |
| NHS Grampian | 3,154 | 3,038 | 2,761 | 2,594 | 2,176 | 2,190 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow | 5,139 | 5,123 | 4,634 | 4,946 | - | - |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde2 | - | - | - | - | 5,613 | 5,035 |
| NHS Highland (pre April 2006) | 1,792 | 1,675 | 1,461 | 1,479 | - | - |
| NHS Highland (post April 2006)2 | - | - | - | - | 1,623 | 1,541 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 3,864 | 3,924 | 3,427 | 3,145 | 2,927 | 2,772 |
| NHS Lothian | 6,083 | 6,093 | 5,060 | 4,790 | 4,065 | 3,968 |
| NHS Orkney | 193 | 235 | 162 | 115 | 86 | 99 |
| NHS Shetland | 231 | 212 | 188 | 182 | 152 | 130 |
| NHS Tayside | 2,256 | 2,261 | 1,914 | 1,814 | 1,559 | 1,548 |
| NHS Western Isles | 190 | 184 | 139 | 117 | 121 | 103 |
Notes:
1. NHS Argyll and Clyde ceased to exist as a single entity from April 2006.
2. From April 2006, the Argyll and Bute part of old NHS Argyll and Clyde was absorbed into NHS Highland and the remainder into NHS Greater Glasgow to become NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
*These numbers have been suppressed in order to protect against the risk of disclosure for small numbers (<5).
Data in the table refer to prescriptions dispensed by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors in Scotland, but do not take into account medicines dispensed by hospitals or hospital based clinics.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute hospital beds there were in each year since 1997, also broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) acute hospital.
Answer
Numbers of average available acute staffed beds for each NHS board and hospital in Scotland for years ending 31 March 1998 to 2008 are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 46520).
NHS board level information is also available in published tables from the ISD website:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/3426.html.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-10960 by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 April 2008, what the findings are of the NHS board reports into hospital parking charges scheduled to be with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing by 30 June 2008.
Answer
As a result of my consideration of the NHS board reports, which indicated that NHS boards were meeting the requirements of the guidance issued in January 2008, I announced on 2 September 2008 that car park charges at NHS health care sites would end with effect from 31 December 2008. Although that does not apply to those car parks provided through PFI contracts, such as at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, I have instructed NHS boards to enter into discussions with their PFI provider to explore the opportunities to reduce charges until those contracts come to an end.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 65 or over have moved from south of the border to settle in Scotland in each year since 1999.
Answer
The following table shows the estimated number of people aged 65 or over moving from England and Wales to Scotland each year since 1999.
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| 2,148 | 2,290 | 2,139 | 2,822 | 3,150 | 3,142 | 2,604 | 2,572 |
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have left (a) Scotland to live elsewhere in the United Kingdom and (b) another constituent part of the UK to live in Scotland in each year since 1999.
Answer
The following table shows the estimated number of people moving from Scotland to other parts of the UK each year since 1999.
| | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Scotland to England | 50,765 | 49,063 | 46,007 | 44,596 | 42,237 | 41,305 | 40,790 | 39,891 |
| Scotland to Wales | 1,809 | 1,775 | 1,705 | 1,692 | 1,677 | 1,677 | 1,640 | 1,572 |
| Scotland to N Ireland | 2,310 | 2,440 | 2,643 | 2,111 | 2,442 | 2,083 | 2,265 | 2,674 |
The following table shows the estimated number of people moving into Scotland from other parts of the UK each year since 1999.
| | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| England to Scotland | 46,914 | 45,122 | 52,872 | 49,050 | 56,110 | 53,393 | 54,972 | 46,059 |
| Wales to Scotland | 1,748 | 1,699 | 1,909 | 1,727 | 1,812 | 1,861 | 2,010 | 1,695 |
| N Ireland to Scotland | 2,241 | 1,972 | 1,713 | 1,968 | 1,863 | 1,559 | 2,205 | 1,844 |
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, following the findings of Dr Scott Willoughby of the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, it is satisfied that the energy soft drink, Red Bull, is safe for public consumption.
Answer
Currently there is a lack of evidence to confirm the reported adverse effects associated with energy drinks or to support their safety. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) are currently reviewing the safety of some of the constituents of so called energy drinks and are due to report on their findings shortly. The Food Standards Agency regularly review the literature on energy drinks as this is a high profile area and following the EFSA conclusions may seek the opinion of the Committee on Toxicity (COT) although no decisions have been made on this at this time.
