- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many briefings have been held between Scottish ministers and (a) the Director General of the Security Service, MI5, and (b) other directors from the Security Service since 3 May 2007.
Answer
The Scottish Ministers arebriefed by the Security Service on matters relevant to Scotland asand when appropriate. In line with established practice it would not beappropriate to comment further on operational matters relating to the Security Service.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were on the sex offenders’ register in each of the last five years.
Answer
The number of sex offendersrecorded by the Scottish Police Services Authority as being registered withScottish Police Forces in the last five years is shown in the following table.
Year | Number of Registrations |
2002 | 1,724 |
2003 | 1,926 |
2004 | 2,244 |
2005 | 2,677 |
2006 | 3,122 |
2007 (1 June) | 3,445 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planned admissions for inpatient and day case treatment have been cancelled in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Information on plannedadmissions for in-patient and day case treatment that have been cancelled forthe years ending 31 March 2003 to 2006 by NHS board is shown in the followingtable. Data for the year ending 31 March 2007 is not yet complete.
Table 1: Cancellation ofPlanned Admissions for In-Patient or Day Case Treatment;
By Health Board Area: Years ending 31 March 2003-2007
In-patients | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
Scotland | 9,380 | 7,959 | 6,898 | 7,111 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 197 | 170 | 366 | 478 |
Borders1 | 148 | 119 | 159 | 70 |
Fife | 373 | 543 | 498 | 594 |
Greater Glasgow and Clyde1 | 3,829 | 2,274 | 1,639 | 1,486 |
Highland | 440 | 541 | 522 | 536 |
Lanarkshire | 322 | 542 | 539 | 138 |
Grampian | 1,036 | 1,116 | 1,013 | 1,000 |
Orkney | 7 | 6 | 3 | 17 |
Lothian | 1,347 | 1,441 | 1,164 | 1,609 |
Tayside | 850 | 711 | 652 | 545 |
Forth Valley | 277 | 459 | 321 | 620 |
Western Isles | 14 | 36 | 22 | 12 |
Dumfries and Galloway1 | 534 | - | - | - |
Shetland | 6 | 1 | - | 6 |
Day cases | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
Scotland | 7,341 | 7,383 | 8,081 | 7,513 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 79 | 73 | 130 | 179 |
Borders1 | 180 | 142 | 180 | 67 |
Fife | 576 | 645 | 747 | 675 |
Greater Glasgow and Clyde1 | 2,433 | 2,087 | 1,861 | 1,679 |
Highland | 448 | 743 | 1,053 | 1,103 |
Lanarkshire | 979 | 950 | 1,447 | 365 |
Grampian | 821 | 786 | 704 | 625 |
Orkney | 8 | 9 | 19 | 24 |
Lothian | 1,015 | 968 | 1,029 | 1,490 |
Tayside | 450 | 474 | 539 | 493 |
Forth Valley | 327 | 471 | 312 | 753 |
Western Isles | 22 | 34 | 53 | 19 |
Dumfries and Galloway1 | - | - | - | - |
Shetland | 3 | 1 | 7 | 41 |
Note:1 Information is missing/incomplete for the following locations:
Borders General Hospital; year ending 2006
SouthernGeneral Hospital; years ending 2003, 2005and 2006
VictoriaInfirmary, Glasgow; years ending 2005 and 2006
Dumfriesand Galloway Royal Infirmary; years ending 2004, 2005 and 2006.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it will make to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, whose responsibility covers official flag flying, to remove the rule that the department applies with regard to the flying of the Saltire and the Union flag when flown together that the Saltire must never be flown in a superior position to the Union flag.
Answer
The union flag is flown outside Scottish Government buildings on 18 dates a year by Royal Command. The Saltire flies outside Scottish Government buildings throughout the year.
The Scottish Government believes that the Saltire is Scotland''s national flag and all such matters should be the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Ministers.Such matters are currently the subject of a consultation exercise following the Government''s publication of the constitutional reform green paper The Governance of Britain, published on Tuesday 3 July 2007.
The flag-flying guidelines apply to the Scottish Government, its related agencies and associated departments. A copy is held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43157).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage the flying of the Saltire throughout Scotland all year round.
Answer
I refer the member to thequestion S3W-2022 answered on 26 July 2007. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive on what percentage of applications to Disclosure Scotland for disclosure checks no charge was levied in (a) each year since its establishment and (b) each of the last six months.
Answer
The cost of disclosurechecks for volunteers working in the voluntary sector with children and adultsat risk is met by Scottish Ministers. The following table sets out the numberand percentage of applications to Disclosure Scotland for which ScottishMinisters met the fee.
Period | Applications from volunteers in the voluntary sector working with children and adults at risk | Percentage |
2002-03 | 9,242 | 6.53% |
2003-04 | 30,119 | 9.42% |
2004-05 | 38,351 | 8.59% |
2005-06 | 56,172 | 10% |
2006-07 | 54,084 | 7.74% |
January 2007 | 3,450 | 8% |
February 2007 | 4,316 | 8.42% |
March 2007 | 5,191 | 9% |
April 2007 | 4,771 | 10% |
May 2007 | 5,178 | 9% |
June 2007 | 4,745 | 8% |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for disclosure checks have been processed by Disclosure Scotland in each week since 1 April 2004 and what the average processing time has been.
Answer
Disclosure Scotland canprovide this information on a monthly basis. Since April 2004 the number ofapplications and the average turnaround time for correctly completedapplications where there was no need to gather information from police forcesis set out in the following table.
Period | Applications Processed | Average Turnaround (days) |
April 2004 | 51,857 | 13 |
May 2004 | 38,810 | 13.8 |
June 2004 | 38,932 | 17 |
July 2004 | 55,686 | 21.5 |
August 2004 | 50,113 | 10.3 |
September 2004 | 30,611 | 4 |
October 2004 | 29,521 | 3.5 |
November 2004 | 37,012 | 3.5 |
December 2004 | 26,279 | 4 |
January 2005 | 26,641 | 3.3 |
February 2005 | 30,689 | 4.3 |
March 2005 | 33,307 | 4.6 |
April 2005 | 35,965 | 4 |
May 2005 | 33,571 | 4 |
June 2005 | 42,808 | 5.5 |
July 2005 | 42,217 | 7.3 |
August 2005 | 42,017 | 7 |
September 2005 | 50,897 | 4.7 |
October 2005 | 50,012 | 5.6 |
November 2005 | 56,033 | 7.3 |
December 2005 | 40,265 | 12.1 |
January 2006 | 55,215 | 10.8 |
February 2006 | 49,356 | 3.8 |
March 2006 | 54,344 | 4.4 |
April 2006 | 46,005 | 3.7 |
May 2006 | 51,607 | 2.4 |
June 2006 | 53,592 | 1.8 |
July 2006 | 50,771 | 2.3 |
August 2006 | 49,272 | 1.7 |
September 2006 | 38,602 | 2.5 |
October 2006 | 56,059 | 4 |
November 2006 | 52,611 | 3.8 |
December 2006 | 42,409 | 4.4 |
January 2007 | 46,492 | 4.1 |
February 2007 | 46,528 | 3.6 |
March 2007 | 51,944 | 4.3 |
April 2007 | 57,857 | 5.1 |
May 2007 | 55,090 | 4.1 |
June 2007 | 55,799 | 3.8 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of hospital administration was for each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The amount spent by each NHSboard since 1999 on hospital administration is included in the following table.
Table 1: | NHS Hospital Management Costs 1999-2000 – 2005-06 |
1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
Argyll and Clyde | 20,196 | 22,884 | 23,896 | 25,680 | 25,548 | 35,411 | 37,743 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 15,927 | 18,632 | 20,259 | 22,454 | 24,387 | 25,601 | 28,566 |
Borders | 6,605 | 6,753 | 7,241 | 7,882 | 7,790 | 10,872 | 7,618 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 8,806 | 8,662 | 8,939 | 9,212 | 7,438 | 9,222 | 9,975 |
Fife | 15,009 | 16,066 | 19,397 | 19,142 | 22,823 | 20,014 | 20,989 |
Forth Valley | 11,510 | 11,828 | 12,637 | 15,764 | 17,285 | 18,261 | 19,868 |
Grampian | 27,188 | 29,609 | 31,862 | 34,923 | 35,849 | 31,650 | 34,010 |
Greater Glasgow | 60,056 | 72,357 | 74,003 | 81,850 | 92,369 | 81,322 | 85,757 |
Highland | 10,674 | 10,263 | 12,041 | 12,663 | 13,775 | 16,513 | 18,432 |
Lanarkshire | 30,279 | 33,315 | 35,659 | 36,903 | 40,907 | 42,742 | 42,035 |
Lothian | 41,552 | 48,099 | 47,758 | 57,599 | 58,732 | 63,475 | 57,194 |
Orkney | 731 | 885 | 1,076 | 1,260 | 1,245 | 1,269 | 1,427 |
Shetland | 835 | 872 | 1,152 | 1,280 | 1,556 | 2,277 | 2,390 |
Tayside | 29,925 | 35,005 | 30,434 | 33,260 | 34,813 | 38,966 | 38,413 |
Western Isles | 1,530 | 1,947 | 1,992 | 2,037 | 2,355 | 1,881 | 1,849 |
Total | 280,823 | 317,177 | 328,346 | 361,909 | 386,871 | 399,478 | 406,265 |
The Boards’ spending onmanagement costs are taken from the Scottish Financial Return (SFR) 5.2, whichis completed by each hospital and submitted to the NHS National ServicesScotland Information and Statistics Division for publication in the Costs Book.
This expenditure reports thehospital management and administrative costs which includes the followingsupport services:
Medical: HospitalMedical/Paramedical Administrative Support;
Nursing: Senior Nursing andHospital Administrative Support;
Medical Records;
General: Hospitaladministration, including senior management; and
Agency: Administrativeagency staff and agency services.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what average time is taken by Disclosure Scotland to respond to applications for disclosure checks.
Answer
At week ending 15 July 2007, theaverage turnaround time for correctly completed applications where there was noneed to gather information from police forces was 6.9 days.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications to Disclosure Scotland for disclosure checks have been returned to the applicants due to errors in (a) each year since its establishment and (b) each of the last six months, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of applications in each category of disclosure.
Answer
Disclosure Scotland hasbeen recording application returns since April 2004. They do not gatherinformation separately for the different levels of check. The availableinformation is provided in the following table.
Period | Number of Applications Returned | % of Applications Returned |
2004-05 | 36,870 | 9.84% |
2005-06 | 44,828 | 8.29% |
2006-07 | 47,270 | 7.89% |
January 2007 | 3,255 | 7.22% |
February 2007 | 3,847 | 7.50% |
March 2007 | 4,917 | 8.11% |
April 2007 | 3,522 | 7.07% |
May 2007 | 4,974 | 8.44% |
June 2007 | 4,740 | 8.04% |