Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-18046

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30537 by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 November 2002, which NHS boards operate a scheme for reimbursement of travel costs of patients eligible for assistance under the statutory travel schemes where this is viewed as an extension of the patients' treatment costs and deemed clinically necessary.

Question reference: S2W-18042

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) children and (b) adults have been receiving hospital dialysis in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

The information is set outin the table. Due to the small number of children involved, the data have notbeen split by age.

NHS Board Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Argyll and Clyde	81	79	96	106	112	124
Ayrshire and Arran	61	63	77	87	95	97
Borders	14	15	16	21	19	22
Dumfries and Galloway	40	38	44	44	48	43
Fife	68	75	78	78	86	94
Forth Valley	46	59	63	70	77	78
Greater Glasgow	268	276	273	286	293	288
Grampian	96	106	128	150	135	150
Highland	28	32	46	53	69	72
Lanarkshire	115	128	142	161	168	162
Lothian	168	159	156	168	182	206
Tayside	105	99	94	107	116	121
No NHS Board reported *	7	9	11	11	14	48

Source:Scottish Renal Registry.

Notes:

On groundsof patient confidentiality, the Island NHS Boards have not been includedbecause of the very small patient numbers.

* NHS boardof residence is derived from the patient’s postcode. Some postcodes weremissing. It is not possible to determine if these patients are receivingdialysis in their own NHS Board area.

Question reference: S2W-18045

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30537 by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 November 2002, whether it has any plans to review the criteria for eligibility for travelling expenses contained within the NHS Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988 as amended by the NHS (Travelling and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 1996.

The criteria for eligibilityfor travelling expenses are contained within The National Health Service (TravellingExpenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 asamended by The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission ofCharges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004, The National Health Service(Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2)Regulations 2004, The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remissionof Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005 and The National HealthService (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) Amendment(No. 2) Regulations 2005. In addition NHS Boards have discretion to reimbursetravelling expenses for patients who are not eligible under the statutoryschemes where it is deemed to be an extension of treatment costs. There are currentlyno plans to review the criteria.

Question reference: S2W-18052

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many discharges with alcohol-related liver disease there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

Information on all alcohol-relatedliver disease discharges from general acute hospitals during 1999-2000 to 2004-05is shown in the following table.

ScottishGeneral Acute Hospital ^1,2 Discharge Records with an ExplicitDiagnosis of Alcoholic Liver Disease ³ ;1999-2000 to 2004-05

Area of Residence	Discharge Period
	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05 ^p
Total	5,576	6,217	7,109	7,430	8,302	8,522
Scotland Residents	5,554	6,166	7,057	7,375	8,272	8,472
Argyll and Clyde	503	536	628	692	662	668
Ayrshire and Arran	285	332	428	466	582	622
Borders	87	88	100	77	52	73
Dumfries and Galloway	118	123	165	176	178	153
Fife	390	427	465	413	440	552
Forth Valley	217	257	325	303	301	328
Grampian	372	404	433	409	518	540
Greater Glasgow	1468	1719	1787	1926	2267	2154
Highland	185	133	211	281	349	382
Lanarkshire	594	614	761	965	1089	1215
Lothian	969	1151	1333	1202	1250	1260
Tayside	330	318	366	411	521	433
Islands ⁴	36	64	55	54	63	92
Other ⁵	22	51	52	55	30	50

Source:SMR01 (valid records only).

Date: 25 July 2005.

Ref: 20052231.

Notes:

^Pprovisional

1. Includesacute hospitals (excludes maternity hospitals, mental illness hospitals andpsychiatric units).

2.Information on hospital discharges relates to episodes of inpatient or day casecare rather than individual patients. The same patient may account for severalhospital admissions during the course of a year (or across years) and will becounted each time in the attached table. Transfer cases have been included.

3.Diagnostic information is defined by using the World Health Organisation’sInternational Classification of Diseases 10^th Revision (ICD10).Alcoholic Liver Disease: K70.

4. Orkney,Shetland and Western Isles.

5. Patientsresident outwith Scotland and patients where the area ofresidence is not known.

Question reference: S2W-18051

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related acute hospital discharges of people under 24 there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

Information on allalcohol-related discharges from general acute hospitals for people aged under24 by NHS board area during 1999-2000 to 2004-05 is shown in the following table.

ScottishGeneral Acute Hospital ^1,2 Discharge Records for Patients aged under24 with an Explicit Diagnosis of an Alcohol Related Condition ³;1999-2000 to 2004-05

Area of Residence	Discharge Period
	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05 ^p
Total	3,739	3,538	3,915	3,880	3,493	3,269
Scotland Residents	3,651	3,476	3,828	3,803	3,423	3,215
Argyll & Clyde	343	337	283	294	288	293
Ayrshire & Arran	419	339	468	503	474	418
Borders	76	75	80	113	85	77
Dumfries & Galloway	118	122	96	105	92	69
Fife	244	208	236	239	167	198
Forth Valley	103	116	146	152	164	105
Grampian	472	358	401	389	415	385
Greater Glasgow	625	599	626	587	456	580
Highland	193	225	268	268	269	194
Lanarkshire	280	286	388	321	250	238
Lothian	416	430	471	454	432	397
Tayside	279	300	290	282	221	167
Western Isles	31	38	37	60	69	49
Islands ⁴	83	81	75	96	110	94
Other ⁵	88	62	87	77	70	54

Source:SMR01 (valid records only).

Date: 25 July 2005.

Ref:20052230.

^pprovisional.

Notes:

1. Includesacute hospitals (excludes maternity hospitals, mental illness hospitals and psychiatricunits).

2. Informationon hospital discharges relates to episodes of inpatient or day case care ratherthan individual patients. The same patient may account for several hospitaladmissions during the course of a year (or across years) and will be countedeach time in the table. Transfer cases have been included.

3. Diagnosticinformation is defined by using the World Health Organisation’s InternationalClassification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD10). Alcohol related conditions: F10,R780, Y90, Y91, Z637, Z811, Z864, Z714, Z502, T506, Y573, T510, T519, X45, X65,Y15, O354, Q860, P043, Z721, Z133, G621, G721, K860, I426, K70, K292, G312,E52.

4. Orkney,Shetland and Western Isles.

5. Patientsresident outwith Scotland and patients where the area ofresidence is not known.

Question reference: S2W-18055

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many admissions to hospital of people under 24 with acute intoxication there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

Information on all acuteintoxication discharges from general acute hospitals for people aged under 24during 1999-2000 to 2004-05 is shown in the following table.

ScottishGeneral Acute Hospital ^1,2 Discharge Records for Patients forPatients aged under 24 with an Explicit Diagnosis of Acute Intoxication ³; 1999-2000 to 2004-05

Area of Residence	Discharge Period
	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05 ^p
Total	2,314	2,023	2,182	2,047	1,757	1,553
Scotland Residents	2,259	1,988	2,127	2,003	1,716	1,531
Argyll and Clyde	213	192	171	173	190	173
Ayrshire and Arran	309	256	322	395	344	301
Borders	55	53	60	83	66	53
Dumfries and Galloway	50	36	26	29	23	21
Fife	122	106	94	106	69	63
Forth Valley	53	69	97	61	74	45
Grampian	355	237	283	240	183	146
Greater Glasgow	332	282	277	212	143	182
Highland	149	162	194	185	158	113
Lanarkshire	157	150	201	164	102	138
Lothian	208	193	163	121	135	133
Tayside	203	201	180	162	142	101
Islands ⁴	53	51	59	72	87	62
Other ⁵	55	35	55	44	41	22

Source:SMR01 (valid records only).

Date: 25 July 2005.

Ref:20052232.

Notes:

^pprovisional.

1. Includesacute hospitals (excludes maternity hospitals, mental illness hospitals andpsychiatric units).

2.Information on hospital discharges relates to episodes of inpatient or day casecare rather than individual patients. The same patient may account for severalhospital admissions during the course of a year (or across years) and will becounted each time in the attached table. Transfer cases have been included.

3.Diagnostic information is defined by using the World Health Organisation’sInternational Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD10). AcuteIntoxication: F100

4. Orkney,Shetland and Western Isles

5. Patientsresident outwith Scotland and patients where the area ofresidence is not known.

Question reference: S2W-18056

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 10 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals to the Reporter to the Children’s Panel regarding children with personal alcohol problems there have been in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Children’sReporter Administration collates data in line with the grounds for referral setout in section 52(2) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995. Section 52(2)(j) sets out the ground forreferral where a child has misused alcohol or any drug. The data collected bythe Administration does not differentiate between the two areas of concern. Inthat light the number of referrals under Section 52(2)(j) since 1999 is set outin the following table :

Year	Number of Referrals to the Children’s Reporter under s52(2)(j)
1999-2000	1,260
2000-01	1,272
2001-02	1,697
2002-03	1,854
2003-04	1,969

Question reference: S2W-17820

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of salaries was in each of its departments in each year since 1999.

The information requested isset out in the following table. Restructuring of Departments in the ScottishExecutive over the period affects some of the year on year comparisons.

Department	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
	(£000)	(£000)	(£000)	(£000)	(£000)	(£000)
Development	11,242	13,103	14,829	17,228	16,968	10,997
Education	11,962	13,570	8,012	9,373	9,872	10,725
Enterprise, Transport & Lifelong Learning	7,896	8,611	9,409	9,779	11,605	18,610
Environment & Rural Affairs	22,622	24,442	28,996	29,121	30,647	32,688
Finance and Central Services	10,981	13,342	19,318	17,674	18,699	16,465
Health	8,745	10,107	11,426	12,335	13,497	13,758
Justice	7,718	8,780	8,961	6,924	8,089	8,957
Corporate Services (1) (including OPS and LPS)	16,317	17,480	20,605	26,806	31,693	37,651
	97,483	109,435	121,556	129,240	141,070	149,851

Note: 1. OPSIs Office of the Permanent Secretary; LPS is Legal and Parliamentary Services.

Question reference: S2W-17816

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 9 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16432 by Colin Boyd QC on 8 July 2005, how many reported (a) assaults, (b) petty assaults and (c) breaches of the peace, excluding a charge of racial aggravation, there were in each year since 2002-03, broken down by police force.

Petty assault does not existas a classification within the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’soperational database. All cases reported by the police which involve an assaultinclude a detailed description of the circumstances and nature of the assault.

The following table providesa breakdown of charges of assault and breach of the peace that did not includea racial aggravation.

Charges not including aRacial Aggravation

Charge	Police Force	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Assault	Central	2,768	3,152	3,315
	Dumfries and Galloway	950	1,278	1,140
	Fife	2,567	2,563	3,011
	Grampian	3,013	2,680	2,954
	Lothian and Borders	2,520	2,689	3,304
	Northern	2,071	2,330	2,448
	Strathclyde	16,587	17,365	18,881
	Tayside	3,029	3,360	4,107
Assault Total		33,505	35,417	39,160
Breach of the Peace	Central	5,259	3,845	4,950
	Dumfries and Galloway	1,623	2,229	2,507
	Fife	4,065	3,955	4,227
	Grampian	4,832	4,300	4,278
	Lothian & Borders	8,320	7,928	8,837
	Northern	4,613	4,923	5,229
	Strathclyde	43,219	45,559	47,442
	Tayside	6,694	7,192	7,046
Breach of the Peace Total		78,625	79,931	84,516

Notes:

1. There are 124 separate charge codes containing theword 'assault'. The results in this table are restricted to thefollowing charges - assault; assault injury; assault to danger of life; assaultdisfigurement; assault severe injury; assault severe injury and danger of life;assault to severe injury, disfigurement; assault to severe injury,disfigurement, danger of life; assault to severe injury, disfigurement,impairment; assault to severe injury, impairment; assault to severe injury,impairment, danger of life.

2. The Crown Officeand Procurator Fiscal Service’s operational database is accused-based. The figures in the table therefore relate to the number of persons charged withassault rather than the number of assaults that gave rise to such charges.

Question reference: S2W-17817

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 9 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16432 by Colin Boyd QC on 8 July 2005, how many reported (a) assaults, (b) petty assaults and (c) breaches of the peace, including a charge of racial aggravation, there were in each year since 2002-03, broken down by police force.

Petty assault does not existas a classification within the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’soperational database. All cases reported by the police which involve an assaultinclude a detailed description of the circumstances and nature of the assault.

The following table providesa breakdown of the charges of assault and breach of the peace that included aracial aggravation.

Charges Including a RacialAggravation

Charge	Police Force	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Assault	Central	4	6	16
	Dumfries and Galloway	0	4	4
	Fife	11	9	8
	Grampian	12	14	18
	Lothian and Borders	52	54	92
	Northern	8	20	11
	Strathclyde	201	239	334
	Tayside	22	30	46
Assault Total	310	376	529
Breach of the Peace	Central	8	7	32
	Dumfries and Galloway	1	13	18
	Fife	39	37	34
	Grampian	16	11	20
	Lothian and Borders	55	33	72
	Northern	27	35	41
	Strathclyde	113	157	207
	Tayside	26	50	63
Breach of the Peace Total	285	343	487

Notes:

1. There are 124 separate charge codes containing theword “assault”. The results in this table are restricted to the followingcharges - assault; assault injury; assault to danger of life; assaultdisfigurement; assault severe injury; assault severe injury and danger of life;assault to severe injury, disfigurement; assault to severe injury,disfigurement, danger of life; assault to severe injury, disfigurement,impairment; assault to severe injury, impairment; assault to severe injury,impairment, danger of life.

2. The Crown Officeand Procurator Fiscal Service’s operational database is accused-based. The figures in the table therefore relate to the number of persons charged withassault rather than the number of assaults that gave rise to such charges.

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