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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-30147

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 8 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of child mortality has been in each year since 1999, also broken down by local authority area.

The information requested isgiven in the following table. To aid comparison, the table also gives an averagerate for the period 1999-2005.

Deaths Aged Under 16, by CouncilArea, 1999-2005

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	1999-2005 Rate¹
Scotland	451	457	449	432	429	411	439	45.7
Aberdeen City	12	15	12	12	19	17	14	42.4
Aberdeenshire	25	19	21	15	16	16	14	38.0
Angus	7	8	8	8	10	9	11	42.7
Argyll and Bute	7	12	5	5	3	5	6	36.7
Clackmannanshire	4	4	5	2	6	6	9	52.4
Dumfries and Galloway	10	9	12	12	14	6	8	37.2
Dundee City	13	11	22	16	16	7	17	57.5
East Ayrshire	13	11	17	11	7	8	20	52.9
East Dunbartonshire	6	6	8	8	4	13	3	32.0
East Lothian	6	9	4	7	7	5	9	36.1
East Renfrewshire	3	9	10	6	6	8	8	37.7
Edinburgh, City of	46	49	31	36	31	37	26	50.4
Eilean Siar	1	-	4	2	1	1	3	34.7
Falkirk	17	9	20	11	11	11	17	48.5
Fife	29	18	23	43	22	39	33	43.7
Glasgow City	61	73	62	64	56	71	44	59.1
Highland	18	17	14	14	15	13	17	38.1
Inverclyde	8	7	10	7	11	10	10	56.3
Midlothian	6	8	8	5	3	7	10	40.7
Moray	10	7	10	5	8	9	7	46.4
North Ayrshire	13	13	21	10	14	5	14	47.8
North Lanarkshire	21	43	37	27	46	31	31	51.7
Orkney Islands	2	-	1	1	1	2	1	30.2
Perth and Kinross	12	3	9	9	10	9	10	34.8
Renfrewshire	18	15	13	24	22	12	12	50.3
Scottish Borders	7	6	4	12	10	8	7	38.2
Shetland Islands	3	-	-	-	5	4	2	42.1
South Ayrshire	7	17	12	9	8	9	13	53.6
South Lanarkshire	33	32	16	26	16	11	20	37.2
Stirling	5	7	8	2	7	4	3	31.1
West Dunbartonshire	11	9	10	12	9	15	17	65.3
West Lothian	17	11	12	11	15	3	23	38.1

Note: 1 Average annual rateper 100,000 population aged under 16.

Question reference: S2W-30207

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware that NHS Lothian has no funding available at the Department of Sleep Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to provide a gum shield device for my constituent, Mr Neil Waugh, to prevent extreme snoring and that he is therefore unable to undertake his employment on train maintenance which is safety-critical, and what concerns the Executive has about this lack of funding.

the Scottish Executive is investing record resources in the NHS in Scotland. Healthboards have received uplifts in resources with an average 7.25% increase in fundingin 2006-07, well above the rate of inflation. It is for each NHS board to plan anddeliver services within these resources to meet the needs of its resident population.

At present there is no provisionby NHS Lothian for the fitting and supply of mandibular repositioning splints. However,NHS Lothian and the Department of Sleep Medicine are currently exploring ways ofproviding this service.

Question reference: S2W-30055

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has provided for the rehabilitation of offenders addicted to (a) alcohol and (b) drugs in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Executive has providedfunding to local authorities for the rehabilitation of offenders with substancemisuse problems in two main ways:

The following figures are forsection 27(1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 which provides funding both for those offenderssubject to community disposals and those discharged from custody, excluding thecosts of specific court orders such as Drug Treatment and Testing Orders or drugcourts. Information for years 1999-2000 and 200-01 is not available.

In addition, £6.8 million perannum was provided to local authorities in financial years 2001-02 to 2003-04 specificallyto support drug rehabilitation services, to which offenders in the community willhave had access. Thereafter this funding was incorporated into Grant Aided Expenditure(GAE).

	2001-02 (£)	2002-03 (£)	2003-04 (£)	2004-05 (£)	2005-06 (£)	2006-07 (£)
Alcohol	201,742	238,694	247,291	253,291	259,623	259,623
Drugs	313,067	469,482	482,189	614,597	654,373	654,373
Total (alcohol and drug addiction)	514,089	708,176	729,480	867,888	1,813,996	1,813,996

Question reference: S2W-30054

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what rehabilitation programmes have been in place for individuals discharged from custody with (a) alcohol addiction and (b) alcohol or drug addiction in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

The Scottish Executive provideslocal authorities with funding to provide the offender rehabilitation programmes,which they consider necessary in their local areas. Information on the programmesin the form requested is not held centrally. The answer to question S2W-30055 on7 December 2006, sets out the information available centrally.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Question reference: S2W-30164

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce seasonal cash grants to help low-income families.

Question reference: S2W-30051

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what data it holds on the number of young people aged 16 and under who receive rehabilitation treatment as a result of alcohol misuse.

Question reference: S2W-30048

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26185 by Hugh Henry on 16 June 2006, whether it intends that information on the number of young people undergoing rehabilitation as a result of alcohol misuse will be held centrally and, if so, when this will be achieved.

Question reference: S2W-30026

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers directly responsible for causing death or injury whilst under the influence of alcohol had a previous conviction for drink driving, broken down by (a) year since 1996 and (b) police force area.

Question reference: S2W-30027

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were (a) killed and (b) injured by a driver who was under the influence of alcohol and who also had a previous conviction for drink driving, broken down by (a) year since 1996 and (b) police force area.

The available information onthe numbers of drink-drive accidents and casualties in Scotland is derivedfrom the GB-wide estimates compiled by the Department for Transport. The latestestimates are included at table 22 of Road Accidents Scotland 2005which was published by the Scottish Executive in November 2006, a copy of whichis available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41118).These and other statistics collected centrally do not include information aboutany previous convictions that drivers involved in drink-drive accidents may have.

Question reference: S2W-29780

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many women’s refuge spaces there were in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

The information requested isnot held centrally. Scottish Women’s Aid can provide information on the number ofrefuge spaces provided by affiliated women’s aid groups over the period requested.

The Executive has invested £12million since 2000 in providing 186 new, upgraded or refurbished refuge spaces,which include over 600 individual bed spaces, and the National Group to AddressViolence Against Women has established a “Domestic Abuse Accommodation and SupportProvision” subgroup which will be considering future need.