- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of (a) drug and (b) alcohol addiction involving people aged (i) under 16 and (ii) 16 to 18 have been recorded in (1) total and (2) each NHS board area in each of the last five years, showing year-on-year percentage changes and expressed also as a percentage of the population within that age bracket.
Answer
Information showing the number of new individuals coming into contactwith drug treatment services aged under 16, and between 16 and 18, for theyears 2000-01 to 2004-05 has been placedin the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 38667).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices have ceased providing NHS dental services in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
In the requested period 133 practicesceased and 137 practices began providing NHS general dental services.
The information requested forthe financial years 1999-2000 to 2004-05 is detailed in the tables: Number of DentalPractices that Ceased Providing NHS General Dental Services. For comparison detailsof the number of dental practices in Scotland that have commenced providing NHS general dental servicesover the same period are also provided in tables: Number of dental practicesthat began providing NHS general dental services. Copies of these tables havebeen placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers: 38690 and38691).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have been admitted to each hospital in each NHS board area for (a) drug-related and (b) alcohol-related conditions in each of the last five years, showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
Information showing the number of children (aged under 16) dischargedwith an alcohol related or drug misuse diagnosis has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib.number 38666).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Answered by Tavish Scott on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road traffic (a) fatalities and (b) injuries there were in each of the last three years, broken down by (i) police force area and (ii) parliamentary region, expressed also as a percentage of all road traffic accidents and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
I shall reply to the member as soon as possible.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2006
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police stations were closed in each police force area in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005, and (d) 2003 to 2005, also stating what percentage of the total number of police stations in each force area the figures represented.
Answer
The information requested isnot held in the format requested or for all of the time periods stipulated. I referthe member to the answers to questions, S2W-9973 and S2W-10733 on 9 and 29 September2004 respectively. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Answered by Tavish Scott on 24 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road deaths have been caused by drug driving in each of the last five years, including 2006, broken down by police force area and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
The information requested is not available.
Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the Stats 19 statistical report form. Prior to 2005, these returns did not record any information about the causes of the accidents. However, limited information for 2005 and later years will become available in due course, as a new set of questions about the factors which may have contributed to the occurrence of accidents has been added to the Stats 19 returns.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 January 2006
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Answered by Johann Lamont on 24 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to improve the resilience of homes and the built environment in respect of the impacts of climate change.
Answer
I have asked Dr. Paul Stollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), to answer. His response is as follows:
The Scottish Building Standards Technical Handbooks include reference to The Design Guidance on Flood Damage to Dwellings and Preparing for Floods. Both documents describe the likely effects of flooding on materials and elements of the building and assess various forms of construction and measures to reduce the risk of flood damage in dwellings.
The resilience of buildings at risk of flooding is addressed in Scottish Planning Policy 7 – Planning and Flooding, which says that water resistant materials and forms of construction should be used as appropriate and conditions may be attached to planning permissions.
Planning Advice Note 69: Planning and Building Standards Advice on Flooding, published by the Scottish Executive in 2004, includes advice on flood resistant and resilient materials, and construction techniques. It has been referenced in replacement pages for the technical handbooks, due to be issued in February 2006. Additionally, the SBSA has also contributed to research presently being carried out by the Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) on Improving the Flood Resistance of Buildings Through Improved Materials, Methods and Details.
New guidance will be issued by the SBSA on 1 February on greywater recycling and rainwater harvesting to reduce dependence on mains water. Guidance on sustainable urban drainage systems has been included in building regulations for several years. The agency also is soon to go to consultation on proposals to revise the guidance to the building regulations to take account of increased incidence of driving rain and wind loading and changed snow loadings.
Together with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the other devolved administrations, the Scottish Executive is consulting on a National Adaptation Policy Framework that will develop a strategic approach to climate change adaptation and assist in identifying key risks and opportunities from the impacts of climate change.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies were born with a drug dependency in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area, showing year-on-year percentage changes and expressed also as a percentage of all births.
Answer
The information requested can be accessed via the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 38634).
This table includes analyses for the five year period up to 2002-03, the latest year for which data is available. ISD Scotland are currently collating the data for 2003-04 and these will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre in due course.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Answered by Colin Boyd on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been for the supply of alcohol to under-age customers in each of the last five years, broken down by police board area and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s Case Management Database records details of the charges against each accused in terms of the specific common law or statutory offence that is alleged to have been committed. The following table shows the total number of charges reported in the last three financial years where procurators fiscal commenced court proceedings for contraventions of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976, Section 68(1)&(7) which relate to a licensee or agent or employee selling alcohol to a person under 18 years.
Court Proceedings Commenced: Contraventions of Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976, Section 68(1)&(7)
| Police Force Area | Financial Year 2002-03 | Financial Year 2003-04 | Financial Year 2004-05 | % Change 2002-03 to 2003-04 | % Change 2003-04 to 2004-05 |
| Central Scotland Police | 6 | 17 | 13 | +183% | -24% |
| Dumfries and Galloway Police | 2 | 5 | 11 | +150% | +120% |
| Fife Constabulary | 25 | 4 | 4 | -84% | 0% |
| Grampian Police | 14 | 1 | 2 | -93% | +100% |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 16 | 14 | 21 | -13% | +50% |
| Northern Constabulary | 0 | 4 | 11 | N/a | +175% |
| Strathclyde Police | 46 | 70 | 81 | +52% | +16% |
| Tayside Police | 6 | 7 | 3 | +17% | -57% |
Notes:
1. The information in this table has been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s Case Management Database. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processing of reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies. The database is charge-based. The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the number of individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.
2. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service completed an upgrade of its electronic case management system in April 2002. Only case records created after that date contain complete data which is capable of electronic analysis.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Answered by Peter Peacock on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students sat exams at (a) standard, (b) higher and (c) advanced higher grade in (i) biology, (ii) chemistry, (iii) physics, (iv) French, (v) German and (vi) Spanish in each local authority area in each of the last six years, showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
A table showing the number of entries and year-on-year percentage change for National Qualifications courses in biology, chemistry, physics, French, German and Spanish in each local authority area from 2000-05 has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 38630).
