- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of police officers worked more than 48 hours per week averaged over any 17 week period in each of the last three years, broken down by police force.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many secure places for young offenders there were in each of the last three years, broken down by parliamentary region.
Answer
Any child or young person may be placed in secure accommodation either following a children's hearing, or by a local authority chief social work officer, with the agreement of the person in charge of the secure establishment, or by a court.
The number of secure places located in residential establishments available for children and young people as at 31 December in each of the last 3 years by parliamentary region is as follows:| Parliamentary Region | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Lothian | 12* | 12* | 12* |
| Mid-Scotland and Fife | 2 | 2 | Nil |
| North-East | 25* | 25* | 29** |
| Southern | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| West | 24 | 24 | 30 |
| Total | 87 | 87 | 95 |
* Includes one emergency bed** Includes two emergency beds
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for paediatric orthodontic treatment was in each of the last three years, broken down by health board area.
Answer
Most paediatric orthodontic treatments carried out within hospital and community health service settings are undertaken on an outpatient basis and information on waiting times for such treatments is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the core contractual hours for police officers were in each police force in each of the last three years; how many and what percentage of officers in each force exceeded these core hours in each of these years, and what the average number of hours worked per week per officer was in each force in each year.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much overtime each police force paid to police officers in each of the last three years and what percentage of the total salary budget of each force each of these figures represents.
Answer
This is set out in the table for the latest 3 years for which information is available.
| | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 |
| Force | Overtime £m | As % of salary budget | Overtime £m | As % of salary budget | Overtime £m | As % of salary budget |
| Central | 1.2 | 7.2 | 1.3 | 7.1 | 2.1 | 10.7 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0.9 | 8.6 | 0.9 | 8.3 | 1.0 | 9.2 |
| Fife | 1.3 | 6.4 | 1.3 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 8.4 |
| Grampian | 2.4 | 8.0 | 2.9 | 9.1 | 3.3 | 9.9 |
| Lothian and Borders | 5.0 | 7.7 | 3.2 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 7.0 |
| Northern | 1.2 | 7.4 | 1.2 | 7.1 | 1.9 | 10.5 |
| Strathclyde | 13.1 | 7.4 | 14.2 | 7.7 | 20.0 | 10.2 |
| Tayside | 1.5 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 8.1 |
| Total | 26.7 | 7.3 | 26.5 | 7.0 | 32.4 | 9.4 |
Notes: (i) For the purposes of the table above, the salary budget for each force is taken as the total pay to police officers plus overtime but excluding allowances, pensions, superannuation and national insurance. (ii) Source: Police Grant Claim form (PG1) submitted annually by police authorities
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much and what percentage of the budget made available to (a) Grampian Health Board and (b) Tayside Health Board for drug detoxification treatment was spent outwith the Grampian and Tayside areas in each of the last three years.
Answer
Figures available for the year 1998-1999 show that, for residential rehabilitation only, the spend outwith the area was for (a) Grampian Health Board £110,000 or some 66%, and for (b) Tayside Health Board, 100%. Figures are not available for 1997-98.The Drug Action Teams within both Health Board areas are working to establish local residential drug rehabilitation services in addition to the range of other treatment and other care services available for drug misusers.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discarded hypodermic needles were collected in public places in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area, and what percentage of the number collected nationally each of these figures represents.
Answer
This information is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of crime has been estimated as drug-related in each of the last five years, broken down by police force.
Answer
The recorded crime statistics in Scotland distinguish crimes involving drugs, such as cultivation, importation, possession and supply. They do not identify all drug-related crimes, such as those committed to fund a drugs habit. This more general information is not collected nationally or at police force level, and is only available from criminal justice research, such as the reports listed:
Interviewing and Drug Testing of Arrestees in Scotland: A Pilot Study of the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Methodology.
Published by the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit in 2000
The Criminal Histories of 372 Suspected Drug Offenders.
Published by the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit in 2001
Recreational Drugs and Driving: Prevalence Survey.
Published by the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit in 2001Copies of these reports are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib numbers 7209, 12860 and 11659 respectively).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many intravenous drug users were diagnosed with hepatitis B in each of the last five years, showing any percentage increase or decrease in each year, broken down by health board area.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following table:
Hepatitis B infected drug users : 1996-2000 |
| health board1 | Number | Percentage change2 |
| Hepatitis B (Drug misuse cases) | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 1996-003 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 4 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 275 | 13 | -35 | -73 | -25 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | - | - | 1 | - | - | n/a | n/a | -100 | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | - | - | - | 2 | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | -100 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | - | - | - | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Grampian | 5 | 1 | 25 | 65 | 44 | -80 | 2400 | 160 | -32 | 780 |
| Greater Glasgow | 7 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 86 | 54 | -10 | 157 |
| Highland | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0 | n/a |
| Lanarkshire | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 50 | n/a |
| Lothian | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | -100 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| Tayside | - | - | - | 13 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | -92 | n/a |
| Not Known | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | -67 | 100 | -100 | n/a | -100 |
| Scotland | 20 | 24 | 58 | 115 | 71 | 20 | 142 | 98 | -38 | 255 |
| 1 'Health Board' refers to the persons health board of residence, or where it is not known the health board of specimen. |
| 2 Percentage change is calculated by dividing the previous year from the subsequent year, multiplying by 100 and subtracting 100. |
| 3 Percentage increase between years 1996 and 2000. |
Additional information is published in Table number 71 and pages 107 to 109 of Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2000 (Chapter 8 - HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis B and hepatitis C Infection), a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib number 10066).The publication can also be accessed at the following web address:http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/publications/00bull/Chapter8.pdf
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding was allocated to hypodermic needle exchange programmes in each of the last five years, broken down by health board area.
Answer
There is no funding exclusively set aside for the provision of needle exchange facilities.
The table sets out the funding specifically provided to boards over the last five years to assist their work in preventing the transmission of bloodborne viruses. Such work can, where appropriate, include the provision of needle exchange facilities:
| 1996-97 £m | 1997-98 £m | 1998-99 £m | 1999-2000 £m | 2000-01 £m |
| Argyle & Clyde | 0.387 | 0.387 | 0.387 | 0.341 | 0.363 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 0.414 | 0.414 | 0.414 | 0.309 | 0.303 |
| Borders | 0.113 | 0.116 | 0.116 | 0.102 | 0.106 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 0.178 | 0.180 | 0.180 | 0.132 | 0.106 |
| Fife | 0.204 | 0.151 | 0.152 | 0.225 | 0.358 |
| Forth Valley | 0.427 | 0.466 | 0.466 | 0.380 | 0.244 |
| Grampian | 0.271 | 0.271 | 0.269 | 0.386 | 0.601 |
| Greater Glasgow | 1.319 | 1.299 | 1.299 | 1.206 | 1.357 |
| Highland | 0.262 | 0.262 | 0.262 | 0.203 | 0.178 |
| Lanarkshire | 0.360 | 0.322 | 0.322 | 0.318 | 0.382 |
| Lothian | 1.603 | 1.528 | 1.528 | 1.676 | 2.206 |
| Orkney | 0.030 | 0.027 | 0.027 | 0.028 | 0.036 |
| Shetland | 0.037 | 0.033 | 0.033 | 0.039 | 0.054 |
| Tayside | 0.852 | 0.906 | 0.906 | 0.760 | 0.754 |
| Western Isles | 0.048 | 0.048 | 0.048 | 0.043 | 0.046 |
| State Hospital | 0.027 | 0.027 | 0.027 | 0.023 | 0.023 |
Total | 6.532 | 6.437 | 6.436 | 6.171 | 7.117 |
The sum being provided to boards for prevention work in 2001-02 will be £8.119m.In addition, health boards are to receive an additional £10m over the next three years for drug treatment services, some of which may be used to provide needle exchange facilities. The Executive expects expenditure by health boards on treatment to increase those in contact with services for the first time by 50% to 16,500 by 2004.Also, in 1999-2000, a sum of £4.09m was provided to boards for them to negotiate contracted pharmacy services; pharmacy-based needle exchange was one such service. This element of funding is now included in the unified budget provided to health boards on a global basis.
