- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish council tax collection rates for each local authority since 1997, broken down into total tax (a) due for collection, (b) collected and (c) the percentage of which has actually been collected.
Answer
The Scottish Government publishes detailed statistics on collection rates each year. The latest publication can be seen at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/06/22095121/0.
This data is at council level and includes the percentages for each council. The billed and collected amounts are published at the Scotland level.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of hospital-acquired infection (HAI) there have been in each year since 1997, also broken down by (a) type of infection, (b) number of deaths resulting from HAI, (c) NHS board and (d) hospital.
Answer
Data on specific selected healthcare associated infections (HAIs) were only routinely collected following the issue of Health Department Letter HDL (2001) 57 in 2001, and the information sought is not held in the format requested. It is also the case that there are no accurate or complete historical records available in Scotland to indicate whether an HAI (as opposed to a specific individual organism) was the cause of death, or whether the deceased contracted the infection in hospital.
However, a range of reports on key infections are routinely published in Scotland which help to inform the drive and the focus of our HAI agenda. These are: quarterly rates of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias (last published on 1 April 2008); quarterly rates of Clostridium difficile (last published on 2 April 2008) and annual rates of Surgical Site Infections (last published on 5 March 2008). All publications are available from the Health Protection Scotland (HPS) website:
http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/pubs/index.aspx.
In addition, the thorough Scottish HAI National Point Prevalence Survey published on 11 July 2007 provides detailed information on the estimated prevalence of HAI in Scotland and of the specific types of HAI in adult inpatients in acute and community hospitals in Scotland. The findings in the survey provided the basis of our new HAI Delivery Plan, which was put in place on 1 April. The survey is also available from the HPS website.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 21 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many adoptions were carried out in each year since 1967, broken down by (a) age of those adopted and (b) local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following tables. The figures are compiled on the basis of year of registration rather than year of occurrence. A breakdown of this information by local authority area is not held centrally by the Scottish Executive.
Year | Age |
Under Six months | 6-8 Months | 9-11 Months | 12-17 Months | 18-23 Months |
1967 | 277 | 713 | 289 | 184 | 76 |
1968 | 308 | 700 | 327 | 207 | 65 |
1969 | 315 | 700 | 308 | 222 | 81 |
1970 | 244 | 594 | 274 | 175 | 78 |
1971 | 185 | 583 | 269 | 154 | 64 |
1972 | 195 | 504 | 208 | 132 | 63 |
1973 | 216 | 520 | 195 | 134 | 69 |
1974 | 167 | 382 | 171 | 124 | 44 |
1975 | 135 | 370 | 182 | 78 | 58 |
1976 | 102 | 319 | 164 | 97 | 32 |
1977 | 89 | 327 | 135 | 87 | 36 |
1978 | 84 | 211 | 102 | 63 | 20 |
1979 | 36 | 188 | 124 | 55 | 28 |
1980 | 70 | 206 | 101 | 58 | 32 |
1981 | 69 | 178 | 71 | 53 | 30 |
1982 | 91 | 179 | 60 | 36 | 24 |
1983 | 85 | 151 | 58 | 38 | 21 |
1984 | 70 | 120 | 39 | 33 | 16 |
1985 | 51 | 92 | 55 | 42 | 19 |
1986 | 56 | 64 | 43 | 45 | 22 |
1987 | 33 | 62 | 59 | 54 | 27 |
1988 | 35 | 48 | 49 | 49 | 20 |
1989 | 16 | 55 | 42 | 60 | 23 |
1990 | 21 | 42 | 49 | 34 | 15 |
1991 | 9 | 54 | 38 | 39 | 19 |
1992 | 4 | 41 | 26 | 36 | 50 |
1993 | 10 | 31 | 31 | 29 | 17 |
1994 | 3 | 32 | 26 | 23 | 13 |
1995 | 1 | 22 | 17 | 26 | 18 |
1996 | 2 | 19 | 28 | 19 | 12 |
1997 | - | 14 | 12 | 20 | 16 |
1998 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 14 |
1999 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 20 | 11 |
2000 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 23 |
2001 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 24 | 20 |
2002 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 10 |
2003 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 19 |
2004 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 33 | 15 |
2005 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 25 | 26 |
2006 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 22 |
Year | Age |
2 Years | 3-4 Years | 5-9 Years | 10-14 Years | 15 Years and Over | Not Specified |
1967 | 96 | 152 | 211 | 88 | 76 | - |
1968 | 76 | 160 | 199 | 79 | 53 | - |
1969 | 110 | 159 | 265 | 86 | 43 | - |
1970 | 120 | 164 | 272 | 102 | 34 | - |
1971 | 90 | 193 | 272 | 70 | 23 | 1 |
1972 | 74 | 152 | 247 | 85 | 32 | - |
1973 | 84 | 228 | 346 | 106 | 28 | - |
1974 | 89 | 206 | 326 | 135 | 35 | - |
1975 | 81 | 222 | 367 | 179 | 34 | - |
1976 | 80 | 205 | 408 | 189 | 45 | - |
1977 | 79 | 193 | 425 | 202 | 60 | - |
1978 | 46 | 176 | 367 | 254 | 55 | - |
1979 | 58 | 149 | 280 | 181 | 59 | - |
1980 | 49 | 135 | 434 | 261 | 66 | - |
1981 | 36 | 99 | 316 | 224 | 54 | - |
1982 | 46 | 144 | 343 | 236 | 63 | - |
1983 | 43 | 126 | 324 | 246 | 80 | - |
1984 | 39 | 104 | 281 | 220 | 61 | - |
1985 | 37 | 98 | 268 | 205 | 82 | - |
1986 | 31 | 120 | 350 | 266 | 78 | - |
1987 | 62 | 123 | 322 | 223 | 88 | - |
1988 | 42 | 99 | 283 | 171 | 72 | - |
1989 | 31 | 103 | 262 | 196 | 62 | 1 |
1990 | 59 | 129 | 276 | 150 | 41 | 5 |
1991 | 51 | 112 | 288 | 159 | 48 | - |
1992 | 41 | 128 | 308 | 151 | 38 | - |
1993 | 49 | 108 | 312 | 186 | 38 | - |
1994 | 31 | 97 | 257 | 159 | 22 | 2 |
1995 | 27 | 114 | 232 | 145 | 33 | - |
1996 | 28 | 72 | 231 | 146 | 28 | - |
1997 | 29 | 72 | 192 | 88 | 28 | - |
1998 | 23 | 73 | 198 | 128 | 22 | - |
1999 | 36 | 68 | 176 | 117 | 27 | - |
2000 | 26 | 75 | 123 | 85 | 19 | - |
2001 | 50 | 82 | 161 | 92 | 21 | - |
2002 | 49 | 65 | 130 | 73 | 26 | - |
2003 | 39 | 75 | 170 | 88 | 32 | - |
2004 | 33 | 63 | 143 | 67 | 18 | - |
2005 | 37 | 74 | 155 | 81 | 23 | - |
2006 | 40 | 71 | 150 | 73 | 26 | - |
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to encourage people to register as organ donors.
Answer
The focus of all organ donation advertising and publicity campaigns in recent years has been to encourage people in Scotland to add their name to the NHS organ donor register. This counts as a form of authorisation in terms of the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006, which is intended to make sure that the wishes people express in life are acted on after their death. It is also important that people let their nearest relatives know their wishes.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered organ donors there have been in each year since 1999.
Answer
Numbers on the organ donor register at the end of each year are as follows:
| Year End |
Country | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
England | 3,951,466 | 5,781,002 | 6,802,302 | 7,749,727 | 8,505,695 |
Northern Ireland | 136,391 | 140,431 | 147,698 | 154,655 | 218,189 |
Scotland | 426,944 | 641,016 | 743,293 | 861,670 | 993,534 |
Wales | 331,465 | 421,794 | 477,152 | 520,904 | 566,737 |
Total (UK) | 4,846,266 | 6,984,243 | 8,170,445 | 9,286,956 | 10,284,155 |
| Year End |
Country | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
England | 9,375,895 | 10,306,342 | 11,313,654 | 12,174,756 |
Northern Ireland | 258,825 | 304,744 | 352,197 | 393,513 |
Scotland | 1,116,472 | 1,224,440 | 1,376,563 | 1,500,743 |
Wales | 608,133 | 655,371 | 716,027 | 762,327 |
Total (UK) | 11,359,325 | 12,490,897 | 13,758,441 | 14,831,339 |
Source: UK Transplant.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-10471 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2008, what the total number of (a) emergency response and (b) non-emergency vehicles in the Scottish Ambulance Service’s (SAS’s) fleet was in each year since 2001, also broken down by SAS division.
Answer
The following table gives details of the numbers of emergency response and non-emergency response vehicles in the Scottish Ambulance Service''s fleet in each year since 2001-02.
| Vehicle Type | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
East Central | Emergency | 78 | 83 | 83 | 86 | 88 | 86 | 88 |
Non-Emergency | 116 | 116 | 116 | 121 | 122 | 118 | 116 |
Others | 34 | 36 | 36 | 40 | 42 | 38 | 38 |
Total | 228 | 235 | 235 | 247 | 252 | 242 | 242 |
North East | Emergency | 58 | 58 | 59 | 63 | 68 | 62 | 62 |
Non-Emergency | 52 | 52 | 52 | 57 | 57 | 55 | 62 |
Others | 23 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 21 | 22 |
Total | 133 | 136 | 137 | 148 | 153 | 138 | 146 |
North West | Emergency | 65 | 65 | 65 | 66 | 70 | 68 | 69 |
Non-Emergency | 24 | 24 | 25 | 29 | 29 | 32 | 28 |
Others | 19 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 23 |
Total | 108 | 109 | 111 | 119 | 123 | 122 | 120 |
South East | Emergency | 69 | 70 | 70 | 69 | 70 | 68 | 70 |
Non-Emergency | 79 | 79 | 79 | 85 | 85 | 85 | 90 |
Others | 60 | 62 | 62 | 68 | 68 | 58 | 61 |
Total | 208 | 211 | 211 | 222 | 223 | 211 | 221 |
South West | Emergency | 115 | 115 | 115 | 133 | 133 | 121 | 121 |
Non-Emergency | 118 | 117 | 119 | 127 | 128 | 124 | 133 |
Others | 47 | 49 | 49 | 55 | 55 | 48 | 48 |
Total | 280 | 281 | 283 | 315 | 316 | 293 | 302 |
West Central | Emergency | 97 | 108 | 110 | 111 | 114 | 125 | 118 |
Non-Emergency | 129 | 129 | 129 | 157 | 157 | 157 | 155 |
Others | 46 | 50 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 49 | 49 |
Total | 272 | 287 | 289 | 319 | 322 | 331 | 322 |
Scotland | Total | 1,245 | 1,276 | 1,283 | 1,386 | 1,406 | 1,354 | 1,353* |
Information supplied by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Note: *2007-08 figures vary from those provided in the answer to question S3W-10471 on 10 March 2008, as some vehicles are moved between divisions and are disposed of and replaced. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers of (a) emergency response and (b) non-emergency vehicles were employed by the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) in each year since 1997, also broken down by SAS division.
Answer
The following table gives details of the number of drivers of both emergency and non-emergency vehicles employed by the Scottish Ambulance Service in each year since 1997, also broken down by Ambulance Service division. In the case of the emergency services virtually all of these staff are either paramedics or technicians.
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
North East | Emergency | 129 | 134 | 135 | 144 | 151 | 163 | 182 |
Non-Emergency | 16 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 27 | 37 |
North and West | Emergency | 146 | 151 | 154 | 165 | 171 | 176 | 188 |
Non-Emergency | 13 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
East Central | Emergency | 244 | 257 | 272 | 277 | 287 | 304 | 327 |
Non-Emergency | 61 | 66 | 75 | 85 | 96 | 114 | 133 |
West Central | Emergency | 283 | 293 | 324 | 334 | 360 | 383 | 427 |
Non-Emergency | 82 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 97 | 116 | 144 |
South East | Emergency | 196 | 203 | 209 | 217 | 224 | 235 | 262 |
Non-Emergency | 36 | 37 | 39 | 42 | 48 | 59 | 80 |
South West | Emergency | 302 | 309 | 317 | 325 | 329 | 350 | 385 |
Non-Emergency | 51 | 56 | 62 | 69 | 72 | 85 | 102 |
Scotland | Emergency | 1,300 | 1,347 | 1,411 | 1,462 | 1,522 | 1,611 | 1,771 |
Non-Emergency | 259 | 273 | 296 | 321 | 353 | 420 | 516 |
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
North East | Emergency | 191 | 201 | 222 | 230 |
Non-Emergency | 43 | 49 | 57 | 65 |
North and West | Emergency | 194 | 202 | 209 | 215 |
Non-Emergency | 22 | 25 | 29 | 36 |
East Central | Emergency | 332 | 357 | 377 | 392 |
Non-Emergency | 147 | 156 | 156 | 187 |
West Central | Emergency | 442 | 465 | 483 | 536 |
Non-Emergency | 158 | 186 | 207 | 267 |
South East | Emergency | 269 | 292 | 302 | 325 |
Non-Emergency | 85 | 95 | 101 | 122 |
South West | Emergency | 410 | 439 | 452 | 461 |
Non-Emergency | 117 | 134 | 160 | 188 |
Scotland | Emergency | 1,838 | 1,956 | 2,045 | 2,159 |
Non-Emergency | 572 | 645 | 710 | 865 |
Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average response time was for emergency ambulance call-outs in each year since 1997, also broken down by Scottish Ambulance Service division.
Answer
The following table gives details of the average response time for emergency call-outs in each year since 2003-04 broken down by Scottish Ambulance Service Division. 2003-04 was the first year during which priority-based dispatch was fully operational; figures for the earlier years are not comparable.
SAS Division | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
East Central | 8.43 | 8.16 | 7.97 | 8.77 | 8.50 |
North and West | 9.06 | 9.51 | 9.71 | 9.21 | 8.89 |
North East | 8.27 | 7.59 | 7.37 | 7.45 | 7.12 |
South East | 8.21 | 8.13 | 7.96 | 8.92 | 8.53 |
South West | 9.71 | 9.18 | 8.70 | 8.54 | 8.22 |
West Central | 8.93 | 9.21 | 8.93 | 9.48 | 7.89 |
Scotland* | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 8.2 |
Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Note: *Figure covers mainland Scotland only “ Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles not subject to the same performance measures.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-10470 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2008, how many complaints were registered against (a) emergency call-outs and (b) non-emergency bookings in each year since 1997, also broken down by Scottish Ambulance Service division.
Answer
The data system used by the Scottish Ambulance Service to capture information on complaints does not include a field which distinguishes between emergency and non-emergency activity.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 17 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions in the last year CalMac ferries between Gourock and Dunoon were (a) cancelled but excluded from the route’s reliability figures, (b) cancelled and included in the route’s reliability figures, (c) delayed but excluded from the route’s punctuality figures and (d) delayed and included in the route’s reliability figures.
Answer
CalMac Ferries Ltd has provided the following figures relating to the year ending 29 February 2008:
(a) Sailings cancelled but excluded from the route''s reliability figures “ 99.
(b) Sailings cancelled and included in the route''s reliability figures “ 292.
(c) Sailings delayed but excluded from the route''s punctuality figures “ 85.
(d) Sailings delayed and included in the route''s punctuality figures “ 106.
The sailings which are included in the reliability and punctuality figures are those sailings where the operator is entitled to relief for factors beyond its control, such as adverse weather.