Chamber and committees

The Executive offers no suchguidance.

The number of continuous stayswith a diagnosis of hypothermia over the last five years is presented by NHS boardin table 1 and by age in table 2.

Table 1. Numberof Continuous Stays^1,2 Discharged with a Diagnosis of Hypothermia³by NHS Board of Residence; for Financial Years 2001-02 to 2005-06

NHS Board	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Argyll and Clyde	27	16	16	25	24
Ayrshire and Arran	26	26	16	27	24
Borders	2	-	1	3	3
Dumfries and Galloway	10	2	8	6	5
Fife	10	12	7	18	15
Forth Valley	4	15	8	12	8
Grampian	23	24	21	24	22
Greater Glasgow	27	31	27	26	23
Highland	21	23	28	16	24
Lanarkshire	4	7	12	11	10
Lothian	8	25	17	17	19
Orkney	7	6	3	1	3
Shetland	4	2	5	1	4
Tayside	22	31	12	16	12
Western Isles	6	1	1	3	2
Scotland	201	221	182	206	198

Notes:

These figures are derived fromlinked records on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01)in Scotland.

A continuous stay is an unbrokenperiod of time that a patient spends in hospital. A patient may change consultant,significant facility, specialty, hospital and/or provider unit during a continuousstay.

Up to six diagnoses (one primary,five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses were used to selectfor hypothermia. The following code was used from the International Classificationof Diseases 10th revision (ICD10): T68.-.

- denotes a zero value.

Table 2: Number ofContinuous Stays^1,2 Discharged with a Diagnosis of Hypothermia³by Age Group; for residents of Scotland; for Financial Years 2001-02 to 2005-06

Age Group	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
0-14	8	12	8	6	5
15-24	21	18	15	15	18
25-44	31	27	28	31	43
45-64	44	61	48	49	35
65-74	33	32	20	33	25
75-84	22	37	37	44	39
85+	42	34	26	28	33
All Ages	201	221	182	206	198

Source: ISD Scotland(SMR01), Ref: IR2007-01629.

Notes:

These figures are derived fromlinked records on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01)in Scotland.

A continuous stay is an unbrokenperiod of time that a patient spends in hospital. A patient may change consultant,significant facility, specialty, hospital and/or provider unit during a continuousstay.

Up to six diagnoses (one primary,five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses were used to selectfor hypothermia. The following code was used from the International Classificationof Diseases 10th revision (ICD10): T68.-.

Details on local authority recyclingrates up to 2005-06 are available on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency(SEPA) website at:www.sepa.org.uk/nws/data/data_digest.htm.Data on municipal waste recycledup to June 2006 is also available from the SEPA website at www.sepa.org.uk/nws/data/returns.htm.

Young Scot receives£750,000 per annum from the Scottish Executive. As the National Youth InformationAgency for Scotland they take forward a range of projects and initiatives to provideyoung people across Scotland with information and other services to help them makeinformed life choices and play an active part in their own communities.

There are approximately337,000 Young Scot branded cards in circulation throughout all 32 of Scotland’s local authorities.

These are a mixtureof the original non smart cards (issued prior to April 2006) and the replacementNational Entitlement Card (smartcard) which has been available to all young peoplesince April 2006. The immediate priority has been to issue the cards to those youngpeople who are entitled to the Young Persons Concessionary Travel Scheme (whichhas been operational since January 2007).

Work is currentlyon-going with all local authorities (and in conjunction with Young Scot) to replaceall the original non smart cards.

There is currentlyno information available on what percentage of these cards are held by secondaryschool pupils in each local authority. However, when the new national card managementsolution is in place (October 2007) such management information will be available.

The Scottish Executiveprior to May 2007 has not commissioned any reports into extending the Borders railwaybeyond Tweedbank.

National ServicesScotland (NSS) is given an annual capital allocationof c.£5 million to meet minor capital requirements across all its internal divisions.All further capital funding is by way of additional allocation from the HealthDepartment for specific projects. The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service(SNBTS), a division of NSS, has not received any specific allocations from theHealth Department during the four year period in question.

The funding shownfor SNBTS, the Protein Fractionation Centre (PFC) and Alba Bioscience (Alba) hastherefore been made available from the minor capital fund allocated to NSS.

The information requested,including a split of the total capital funding between funding for specific projectsand the minor capital fund, is as follows:

Year	Total Capital Funding to NSS (£ Million)	Capital Funding for Specific Projects1 (£ Million)	Minor Capital Fund (£ Million)	Capital Funding to SNBTS2 (£ Million)	Capital Funding to PFC (£ Million)	Capital Funding to Alba (£ Million)
2003-04	18.4	13.9	4.5	1.45	0.32	0.09
2004-05	25.9	19.4	6.5	0.74	0.03	0.04
2005-06	21.9	16.9	5	2.34	0.63	0.05
2006-07	34.6	29.3	5.3	2.04	0.14	0.12

 

The recentlypublished Scottish Planning Policy 6: Renewable Energy (SPP6) stipulatesthat prospective developers must adequately address the cumulative impact of theirproposal. It also requires that Planning Authorities take account of projects thathave already been built, as well as those consented but not yet built and thosethat are currently at the application stage. This, together with existing ScottishNatural Heritage guidance, should ensure that cumulative impacts are effectivelymitigated. At this stage, we have no plans to commission research.

This informationis not held centrally. We continue our discussions the Ministry of Defence andNHS boards to develop new models of service delivery for veterans.

Currentarrangements include assessment and out-patient service for those members of the reserved forces demobilised since January 2003 whose mental health isassessed to have suffered primarily as a result of their operationaldeployment. In-patient care is provided by NHS boards through normal referralprocesses subject to the terms on the priority to be attached for treatment forthose veterans in receipt of a service related pension.

There arecurrently no Scottish Executive staff on special leave for the purpose ofTerritorial Army or reservist duty with or without pay.