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Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 3 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector IT projects costing over £1 million have been (a) completed within 10% of the original budget, (b) completed outwith 10% of the original budget and (c) abandoned in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Executive does not hold a central register of all public sector IT projects and therefore could only provide the information requested at disproportionate cost. This answer covers IT projects approved by the Scottish Executive Information Systems Steering Group.

Since 1999 eight IT projects costing over £1 million have been completed within 10% of the original budget; two completed outwith 10% of the original budget (both under-budget); and none abandoned.

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 3 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector IT projects costing over £1 million have been started in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Executive does not hold a central repository of all public sector IT projects that have been started in each year since 1999 and the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The following figures refer specifically to IT projects approved by the Scottish Executive Information Systems Steering Group.

There were 12 such projects started since 1999 as detailed.

IT Projects costing over £1 million started since 1999
Financial Year:	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Number:	2	1	2	3	3	1

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 3 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many mobile phones have been reported by ministers as (a) lost and (b) stolen in each year since 1999.

The numbers of mobile phones that have been reported by ministers as (a) lost and (b) stolen in each year since 1999 are as follows:

Mobile phones reported by Ministers as lost and stolen in each year
Financial Year:	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
(a) lost	0	0	0	0	0	1
(b) stolen	0	0	0	0	0	0

These figures relate only to those phones procured through Scottish Executive contracts.

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many calls to NHS 24 regarding access to an NHS dentist there have been in (a) total and (b) each NHS board in each month since 2002, broken down into (i) emergency, (ii) urgent, (iii) routine and (iv) other calls.

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions on mental health grounds in the last three years have resulted from the use of (a) pharmaceutical drugs, (b) heroin, (c) cocaine, (d) cannabis, (e) alcohol, (f) nicotine and (g) magic mushrooms

Admissions to mental illness hospitals and psychiatric units for the last three years where information is available and where substances are listed on hospital record summaries is shown in Table 1. In cases of multiple drug use, specific drugs are not always reported.

Table 1. Scottish Mental Illness Hospital and Psychiatric Unit^1,2 Discharge Records with an Explicit Diagnosis of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. Source SMR04.

Diagnosis³	Discharge Period
Mental and Behavioural Disorders Due to the Use of :	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01
Alcohol	5,121	5,269	4,789
Multiple drug use and use of other psychoactive substances	991	1,058	848
Opioids	460	522	520
Sedatives or Hypnotics	147	147	142
Cannabinoids	120	112	129
Hallucinogens	16	23	13
Cocaine	4	12	9
Tobacco	1	1	0

Notes:

1. Excludes acute hospitals and maternity hospitals.

2. Information on hospital discharges relates to episodes of care rather than individual patients. The same patient may account for several hospital admissions during the course of a year (or across years) and will be counted each time in the attached table.

3. Diagnostic information is defined by using the World health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases 10 revision (ICD10). The following ICD10 codes have been used; Mental & Behavioural Disorders Due to The Use of Alcohol F10, Multiple Drug Use & Use of Other Psychoactive Substances F19, Opioids F11, Sedatives or Hypnotics F13, Cannabinoids F12, Hallucinogens F16, Cocaine F14, Tobacco F17.

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the 10 most common reasons for calls to NHS 24 were in the last 12 months for which information is available.

Between 1 July 2004 and 30 June 2005 the 10 most common reasons for calls to NHS 24, based on the use of algorithms, were:

	Reason
1	Abdominal Pain Adult
2	Vomiting
3	Chest Pain
4	Breathing Difficulty Adult
5	Sore Throat
6	Abdominal Pain
7	Fever Toddler (Age 1-4 years)
8	Headache Adult
9	Rash Toddler (Age 1-4 years)
10	Cough Adult

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive which drugs have been removed from the NHS prescription blacklist in each year since 1997.

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of testicular cancer per 1,000 men has been in each year since 1990, broken down by NHS board.

Cancer Scenarios Scottish Executive 2001 (updated in 2004)) projected that cancer incidence will continue to increase, due partly to an ageing population. However, as a result of raised awareness, earlier detection and improved treatment fewer people are dying from the disease.

The following tables show the incidence of male testicular cancer in health board areas from 1990-2001 and the crude rates per 100,000 population for Scotland. Adult cancer rates are conventionally presented per 100,000 population.

Male testicular cancer (ICD-10 C62), Scotland

Table (a) Number of Registrations by Health Board Area of Residence from 1990-2001

Health Board Area	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Argyll and Clyde	7	16	11	11	14	11	14	17	18	14	25	13
Ayrshire and Arran	12	12	11	11	12	11	14	12	11	15	21	13
Borders	2	1	2	3	0	5	2	4	3	2	5	3
Dumfries and Galloway	2	4	4	5	5	11	8	6	12	8	11	7
Fife	12	11	12	10	15	9	13	10	14	7	10	16
Forth Valley	5	2	3	10	16	6	13	13	7	14	8	10
Grampian	24	27	26	17	24	32	24	21	24	14	21	22
Greater Glasgow	29	37	22	33	33	23	23	29	34	33	29	40
Highland	11	10	7	11	10	5	8	13	17	6	6	15
Lanarkshire	28	20	23	13	14	18	22	21	19	19	19	26
Lothian	17	30	23	28	33	27	20	31	31	35	40	35
Orkney Islands	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	2
Shetland Islands	2	0	1	1	3	2	0	0	2	3	2	1
Tayside	12	5	13	14	15	7	8	9	16	18	17	14
Western Isles	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	1

Table (b) Crude Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population for Scotland

Year of Diagnosis	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Scotland¹	165	176	159	167	196	171	170	189	209	189	216	221
- crude rates per 100,000 population	6.8	7.2	6.5	6.8	8.0	7.0	6.9	7.7	8.6	7.8	8.9	9.1

Note: 1. Includes cases where the health board of residence was not known. Source: Scottish Cancer Registry, ISD.

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of breast cancer per 1,000 women has been in each year since 1990, broken down by NHS board.

Cancer Scenarios (Scottish Executive 2001 (updated in 2004)) projected that cancer incidence will continue to increase, due partly to an ageing population. However, as a result of raised awareness, earlier detection and improved treatment fewer people are dying from the disease.

The following tables show the incidence of female breast cancer in health board areas from 1990-2001 and the crude rates per 100,000 population for Scotland. Adult cancer rates are conventionally presented per 100,000 population.

Female breast cancer (ICD-10 C50), Scotland

Table (a) Number of Registrations by Health Board Area of Residence from 1990-2001

Health Board Area	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Argyll and Clyde	238	320	276	301	253	297	287	300	275	300	336	293
Ayrshire and Arran	217	260	261	242	242	260	271	252	318	260	260	300
Borders	92	47	63	89	63	55	101	69	68	134	70	79
Dumfries and Galloway	91	89	102	127	79	90	100	116	107	112	128	127
Fife	192	279	206	192	257	207	194	283	196	214	326	188
Forth Valley	127	155	208	170	154	217	154	145	235	203	158	222
Grampian	308	333	310	288	297	319	313	318	317	390	367	343
Greater Glasgow	577	556	601	535	592	598	615	622	651	604	672	554
Highland	122	134	178	141	160	140	128	164	167	149	164	156
Lanarkshire	285	316	333	323	324	315	340	380	375	422	373	368
Lothian	483	459	489	475	457	537	489	498	549	549	498	559
Orkney Islands	11	19	12	8	19	9	12	15	4	15	21	7
Shetland Islands	13	10	14	11	14	16	10	10	26	8	7	20
Tayside	234	239	240	271	252	299	321	251	298	285	286	310
Western Isles	21	5	12	42	24	22	27	24	14	27	13	21

Table (b) Crude Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population for Scotland

Year of diagnosis	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Scotland¹	3011	3222	3305	3217	3189	3387	3365	3447	3600	3672	3690	3570
- crude rates per 100,000 population	114.2	122.1	125.2	121.7	120.4	127.8	127.2	130.5	136.5	139.3	140.3	135.7

Source: Scottish Cancer Registry, ISD.

Note: 1. Includes cases where the health board of residence was not known.

IT Projects costing over £1 million completed within/without 10% of budget

(a) within 10%

(b) outwith 10%

(c) abandoned

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 1 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have had to sell their homes to pay for their long-term elderly care in each year since 1997.