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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.

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Question reference: S2W-06207

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been imprisoned under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000.

The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:

Number of persons given a custodial sentence for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002 is shown in the following table.

Year	Number
1999	2
2000	4
2001	3
2002	0

Question reference: S2W-06201

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources have been allocated to the NHS for alcohol treatment in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Funding for servicesaddressing alcohol problems is provided within resources allocated to NHS boardsand local authorities, but is not specifically identified by the Executive. The release of funding isconditional on alcohol action teams having agreed outcome expectations and systemsin place to measure key indicators. We will be monitoring the use of the newresources through alcohol and drug action team annual reporting arrangements.

We will be announcingspecific funding for the implementation of local alcohol action plans,including treatment and support priorities, in the near future.

Question reference: S2W-06206

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been fined under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000, stating in each case the value of the fine.

The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:

Number of persons fined for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002

Year	Number fined	Average fine imposed (£)
1999	28	386
2000	23	357
2001⁽¹⁾	20	859
2002	21	371

Note:

1.The relatively high figure for average fine imposedin 2001 reflects the disproportionate effect of a small number of cases withvery high fines imposed.

Question reference: S2W-06199

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of its drug misuse budget was spent on (a) health-related and (b) justice-related services, in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-06205

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000.

The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:

Number of persons convicted for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002

Year	Number
1999	39
2000	40
2001	34
2002	30

Question reference: S2W-06200

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been spent by social inclusion partnerships on addressing (a) alcohol and (b) drug misuse in each year since their inception.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is asfollows:

Separate social inclusion partnership(SIP) funding has been allocated since 2000 to tackle controlled drugs asdefined under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 but is not allocated specifically toaddress alcohol. Although projects dealing with controlled drugs can includesupport to address alcohol misuse details of these are not held centrally.

The total grant expenditureacross the SIP network under the SIP Tackling Drugs Misuse grant amounted to£0.844 million in 2000-01, £1.088 million in 2001-02 and £1.693 million in2002-03. Expenditure details are not yet available for 2003-04.

Question reference: S2W-06522

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any information on a national or NHS board area basis on any incidents in which a patient's health or recovery has been put at risk due to outdated equipment and, if so, whether it will provide such information for each year from 1999-2000 to date.

Question reference: S2W-06518

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what central information it has on the status of medical equipment in NHS boards and whether it will take steps to introduce a specific national medical equipment management standard, as referred to in recommendation 5 of Audit Scotland's report, Better Equipped to Care? - Follow-up report on managing medical equipment.

The Scottish Executive only holds central information on the monetary value of medicalequipment as an integral part of the summarised annual accounts for the NHS.NHS bodies themselves are required to maintain asset registers which detail themedical equipment owned by that body. The Scottish Executive will be considering fully therecommendations of Audit Scotland’s report Better Equipped to Care? – Follow upreport on managing medical equipment including recommendation 5 and willrespond in due course.

Question reference: S2W-06372

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the Department of Trade and Industry's White Paper Fair, Clear and Competitive - The Consumer Credit Market in the 21st Century, what representations or responses it has made in relation to the White Paper, in particular with regard to the section on licensing arrangements.

The Scottish Executive has been thoroughly consulted by the Department of Trade and Industryon all areas, both during to the preparation and since the publication of the whitepaper. This demonstrates the Executive meeting the Partnership for a Better Scotland commitment to work with the DTI totackle harassment by loan sharks, introduce fairer credit schemes and newprotection from exorbitant interest rates.

Question reference: S2W-06498

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5962 by Malcolm Chisholm of 25 February 2004, what the cost was of providing free personal care for the 780 people under 65 with dementia.