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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S2W-23365

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 1 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made with regard to extending the nationwide concessionary travel scheme to identified carers of people who qualify for the scheme.

Question reference: S2W-23359

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 1 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what supported accommodation is currently available for 16 to 18-year-olds who are not entitled to jobseekers allowance but who are living independently, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-23363

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 1 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 16 to 18 were living independently having left foster care in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-23360

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 1 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what weekly payment is made to 16 to 18-year-olds who are living independently, are not in full-time education and not entitled to jobseekers allowance, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-23110

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 1 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many social work assistants there have been in each local authority area in each year since 1999.

The number of social work assistants working in each local authority is available in the Staff Of Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services publications. Between 1999 and 2004 (the latest year for which information is available) the number of social work assistants were as follows:

Year

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

SW Assistants (Number)

247

912

1,039

1,226

1,482

2,162

SW Assistants

(Whole-Time Equivalent)

225

799

889

1,049

1,303

1,917

As a result of changes in the classifications used on census forms, figures are not strictly comparable across years. Fuller information is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16135/7725.

Question reference: S2W-23218

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful prosecutions have taken place in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by category of offence.

Question reference: S2W-23219

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports were made to the police in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by category of offence.

Question reference: S2W-22964

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients who were not undernourished when admitted to hospital were undernourished when they left hospital in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) age group.

This information is not held centrally. However, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland published Clinical Standards on Food, Fluid and Nutritional Care in Hospitals in September 2003. These were developed in response to research which showed that patients in hospital could be at risk of malnutrition. The standards cover patient assessment on admission to hospital; the delivery of food and nutrition, and education and training of staff. The standards are published at: www.qualityimprovementscotland.com/nhsqis/files/Food,%20Fluid%20Nutrition.pdf.

Question reference: S2W-22787

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by George Reid on 28 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S2W-12593 by George Reid on 19 January 2005, what information it has on how many Sewel motions have been passed by the Parliament in each parliamentary year since 1999.

Figures are given in the following table:

Numbers of Sewel/Legislative Consent Motions Passed

Session 1
12 May 1999 – 11 May 2000	7
12 May 2000 – 11 May 2001	16
12 May 2001 – 11 May 2002	7
12 May 2002 – 31 March 2003	9
Total Session 1	39
Session 2
7 May 2003 -6 May 2004	13
7 May 2004– 6 May 2005	9
7 May 2005 – to date	6
Total Session 2	28
Total to date	67

Further information can be found in these SPICe Factsheets, which are available on the Parliament’s website:

Sewel Motions: Session 1:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/factsheets/documents/SewelMotionsSession1.pdf.

Sewel Motions/LCM: Session 2:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/factsheets/documents/SewelMotionsandLegislativeConsentMotionsSession2.pdf.

Question reference: S2W-22960

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the prevalence of malnutrition in people aged (a) under 15, (b) 16 to 35, (c) 36 to 50, (d) 51 to 75 and (e) 76 and over in each year since 1999, broken down by (i) NHS board area and (ii) parliamentary constituency.

Centrally held information can provide details for patients where malnutrition is identified on their hospital records. These figures may represent an undercount of the true number of cases because malnutrition could be an underlying reason for admission to hospital and, as such, will not always be recorded.

The Scottish Parliament Information Centre holds tables (Bib. number 38937) which present the number of patients discharged from acute hospitals in Scotland with a diagnosis of malnutrition broken down by NHS board of residence (table 1) and Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (table 2). Patients with more than one discharge in a year are only counted once.