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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-28285

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its employees resided in the Scottish Borders region in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-28427

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 18 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 26 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people from new EU member states have registered with a GP in the Scottish Borders in each month since January 2004.

Question reference: S2W-28293

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 26 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been raised in business rates from the premises of firms in East Lothian with a rateable value of below £8,000 in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-28301

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many armed police raids have taken place in each police force area in each year since 1999.

The available information isgiven in the following table. Information on armed police raids is notcollected centrally. Deployment of firearms officers is an operational matterfor the relevant chief constable.

Operations Against PersonKnown or Believed to be Armed

Police Force	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central Scotland	10	8	1	6	3	1	3
Dumfries and Galloway	6	3	15	11	6	4	4
Fife	5	5	6	8	13	5	9
Grampian	17	11	11	6	6	6	1
Lothian and Borders	66	94	96	165	197	181	150
Northern	7	10	5	0	1	4	3
Strathclyde	17	14	24	103	131	117	203
Tayside	13	5	5	1	1	3	1

Source: Her Majesty’sInspectorate of Constabulary.

Question reference: S2W-28294

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 26 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been raised in business rates from the premises of firms in East Lothian with a rateable value of between £7,999 and £15,000 in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-28282

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 26 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been raised in business rates from the premises of firms in the Scottish Borders with a rateable value of below £8,000 in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-28283

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 26 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been raised in business rates from the premises of firms in the Scottish Borders with a rateable value of between £7,999 and £15,000 in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-27883

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 25 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many laboratory facilities there are in Scotland to test for anthrax and where they are located.

Question reference: S2W-28298

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 25 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many accidents involving children under 16 occurred in the home in East Lothian in each year since 1999.

NHS treatment for unintentionalinjuries may be provided in a number of health settings including general practice,accident and emergency departments and as an in-patient in a hospital.

Data held centrally on patientstreated in accident and emergency units and by general practice does not allow theidentification of the place where the injury occurred.

However, information is availablefor patients who are admitted to hospital as an emergency in-patient as a resultof their injury. This is shown in table 1 for years ending 31 March 1999 to 31 March 2005.

Table 1: Emergency HospitalAdmissions^1,2 as a Result of an Unintentional Injury, which hasOccurred in the Home³ – Under 16 Years, by Area of Residence, YearEnding 31 March

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Numbers
Scotland	4,727	4,499	4,166	4,158	3,789	3,531	3,428
East Lothian	89	95	84	82	62	59	69
Crude Discharge Rate per 100,000⁴
Scotland	471.5	452.0	423.0	428.5	396.7	374.3	366.5
East Lothian	487.4	512.7	448.0	437.0	331.3	319.1	373.5

Notes:

1. SMR01 dataare derived from in-patient and day case discharge summaries from non-obstetric,non-psychiatric specialties in general acute NHS hospitals in Scotland.

2. Figures arebased on episodes of care. Each episode is initiated by an admission and is endedby a discharge. A patient with more than one episode of care in any one year oracross years will be counted each time he/she receives an episode of care.

3. SMR01 admissiontype code 33 – “Patient Injury - Home Accident (including accidental poisoning inthe home)”.

4. Rate per100,000 population, General Register Office for Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-28291

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 25 September 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many accidents involving children under 16 occurred in the home in (a) the Scottish Borders and (b) Scotland in each year since 1999.

NHS treatment for unintentionalinjuries may be provided in a number of health settings including general practice,accident and emergency departments and as an inpatient in a hospital.

Data held centrally on patientstreated in accident and emergency units and by general practice does not allow theidentification of the place where the injury occurred.

However, information is availablefor patients who are admitted to hospital as an emergency inpatient as a resultof their injury. This is shown in table 1 for years ending 31 March 1999 to 31 March 2005.

Table 1: Emergency HospitalAdmissions^1,2 as a Result of an Unintentional Injury, which hasOccurred in the Home³ – Under 16 Years, by Area of Residence, YearEnding 31 March

Numbers	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Scotland	4,727	4,499	4,166	4,158	3,789	3,531	3,428
NHS Borders	91	107	101	89	74	63	62
Crude Discharge Rate per 100,000⁴
Scotland	471.5	452.0	423.0	428.5	396.7	374.3	366.5
NHS Borders	451.4	532.5	501.9	440.9	367.0	311.4	305.9

Notes:

1. SMR01 dataare derived from inpatient and day case discharge summaries from non-obstetric,non-psychiatric specialties in general acute NHS hospitals in Scotland.

3. SMR01 admissiontype code 33 – “Patient Injury - Home Accident (including accidental poisoning inthe home)”.

4. Rate per100,000 population, General Register Office for Scotland.