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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-31149

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 1 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has plans to fund a pilot mediation programme and, if so, which project or projects it plan to fund.

Question reference: S2W-31151

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26217 by Mr Tom McCabe on 12 June 2006, whether it will now publish its Brix note, Fiscal Autonomy, Financial Independence and Full Fiscal Power, in light of recent public focus on this issue.

Question reference: S2W-31145

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Des McNulty on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning enforcement officers there were in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S2W-31148

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Des McNulty on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many planners it estimates are required in the public sector as a consequence of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006.

The Financial Memorandum accompanyingthe Planning etc. (Scotland) Bill set out estimates for the impact of the provisionsof the bill. This included an estimate that, on average, each planning authorityin Scotland might need to employ the approximate equivalent of anadditional three planning staff. The memorandum also indicated the possible implicationsfor the Scottish Executive Planning Divisions and the Scottish Executive InquiryReporters Unit. The actual number of qualified planners required will also dependon the extent to which authorities deploy technical or support staff to performappropriate functions in the modernised planning system.

Question reference: S2W-30842

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the locations of residential detoxification programmes for discharged prisoners, showing the number of places available on each programme in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30841

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment is made of the availability of residential detoxification programmes for prisoners whose offences are alcohol or drug related to enable offenders to move straight from custody into such programmes.

I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:

There is no assessment madeof the availability of residential detoxification programmes. However,prisoners with identified substance misuse problems are assessed by enhanced addictioncasework services as a part of the wider integrated case management process.Should the community integration plan identify that the prisoner requires aresidential detoxification programme on release, links are made withappropriate community based service providers to carry out a full assessmentwhilst the individual is in prison. Where this does not happen (due to sentencelength) a referral will be made to the appropriate service provider in thecommunity who has the responsibility of assessing for residential care places.

Question reference: S2W-30968

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths have occurred as a result of alcoholic liver disease in each year since 1997, broken down by age and sex of patient and by hospital.

The information requested isset out in the following tables.

Deaths from Alcoholic Liver Disease,by Sex and Age Group, Scotland, 1997 - 2005

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Persons All ages	527	565	638	779	866	957	976	876	976
Under 30	3	5	4	8	7	2	6	8	5
30-44	98	97	116	135	140	160	159	145	162
45-59	246	292	299	367	392	464	440	413	449
60-74	164	148	187	237	295	297	329	269	319
75 and over	16	23	32	32	32	34	42	41	41
Males All ages	366	388	426	537	599	660	675	603	638
Under 30	0	4	4	5	6	1	4	6	2
30-44	66	62	79	93	93	113	106	100	98
45-59	168	206	196	254	264	310	297	279	290
60-74	122	100	124	162	215	214	235	188	221
75 and over	10	16	23	23	21	22	33	30	27
Females All ages	161	177	212	242	267	297	301	273	338
Under 30	3	1	0	3	1	1	2	2	3
30-44	32	35	37	42	47	47	53	45	64
45-59	78	86	103	113	128	154	143	134	159
60-74	42	48	63	75	80	83	94	81	98
75 and over	6	7	9	9	11	12	9	11	14

Deaths from Alcoholic Liver Disease,by Hospital, Scotland, 1997-2005

Hospital	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary	9	13	20	18	31	21	31	32	32
Ayr Hospital	11	8	10	15	16	20	24	19	16
Borders General Hospital	3	1	4	0	7	7	4	5	6
Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock	24	14	19	29	27	25	24	24	22
Doctor Gray's Hospital, Elgin	4	1	6	3	5	2	8	6	5
Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary	3	8	1	7	9	7	8	10	10
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary	5	7	6	9	11	11	12	9	9
Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow	7	13	15	13	9	17	26	22	16
Glasgow Royal Infirmary	33	24	44	58	59	60	64	51	39
Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride	10	19	25	17	20	17	24	28	27
Inverclyde Royal Hospital	12	21	20	14	30	31	21	19	21
Law Hospital, Carluke	20	17	29	29	5	0	0	0	0
Monklands General Hospital, Airdrie	11	30	11	23	28	30	31	25	31
New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh	0	0	0	0	0	0	36	42	67
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee	14	18	14	24	25	31	42	41	32
Perth Royal Infirmary	4	5	9	7	4	10	7	5	7
Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline	5	2	8	16	9	16	9	13	15
Raigmore Hospital, Inverness	8	6	12	18	10	15	20	21	10
Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley	30	38	18	45	32	47	42	32	55
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh	30	27	45	49	59	52	22	0	0
Southern General Hospital, Glasgow	17	28	23	26	36	27	41	41	31
St John's Hospital, Livingston	10	13	6	11	14	14	23	10	16
Stirling Royal Infirmary	14	6	12	13	15	22	21	16	15
Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow	23	18	20	24	21	21	29	16	23
Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria	5	2	9	7	5	18	20	10	9
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy	4	7	8	14	17	15	5	9	13
Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow	25	21	22	32	32	24	34	36	29
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh	7	10	10	12	13	12	17	12	17
Western Infirmary, Glasgow	24	30	20	19	30	23	28	25	34
Wishaw General Hospital	0	0	0	0	15	29	28	23	36
Total for other hospitals with fewer than 20 cases 1997-2005	31	18	22	17	25	28	36	31	33
Hospital total	403	425	468	569	619	652	737	633	676
Non-hospital total	124	140	170	210	247	305	239	243	300
Scotland	527	565	638	779	866	957	976	876	976

Question reference: S2W-30935

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related admissions there were to hospitals in each year since 1997, broken down by age and sex of patient and by hospital.

Information is provided onthe number of discharges from Scottish general/acute hospitals and Scottishmental and psychiatric hospitals by hospital, gender and 10-year age groupsfrom 1997-98 to 2004-05.

Tables 1 to 8 showalcohol-related discharges from Scottish general/acute hospitals by hospital,gender and 10 to year age groups (under 15 years, 15 to 24 years, 25 to 34years, 35 to 44 years, 45 to 54 years, 55 to 64 years, and 65 years and over).

Tables 9-16 showalcohol-related discharges from Scottish mental and psychiatric hospitals byhospital, gender and 10 to year age groups (under 15 years, 15 to 24 years, 25to 34 years, 35 to 44 years, 45 to 54 years, 55 to 64 years, and 65 years andover).

A copy of these tables havebeen placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41496).

Question reference: S2W-30934

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the additional cost to health services has been as a result of the increase in primary diagnoses of alcoholism in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-30936

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related admissions there were to hospitals in each year since 1997, broken down by age, sex and hospital.

Patients undergoing hospitaltreatment for alcohol related dependency can be treated in acute generalhospitals or psychiatric units/mental illness hospitals. Information onreadmission is available separately for patients treated in each of these butis not readily available for patients who move between the two.

Tables 1a to 1c and 2a to 2cof Patients admitted to hospital with an alcohol-related dependency andsubsequently readmitted within 1 day, 1 week and 1 month since 1997 by NHSBoard contain this information a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41572).