- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 March 2005
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Current Status:
Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Executive what the Did Not Attend rate was for (a) inpatient and (b) outpatient appointments in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Awaiting answer
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 29 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been for the offence of driving while using a hand-held mobile phone.
Answer
Prosecutions for driving using a hand-held mobile telephone are taken under regulation 110 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 which came into force on 1 December 2003.
Since that date, 625 reported charges under regulation 110 in respect of using a mobile telephone have been the subject of criminal proceedings in court.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 24 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have (a) had proceedings taken against them and (b) received (i) an adjudication or (ii) a criminal conviction for assault against (1) another prisoner and (2) a member of staff, in each prison since 1995.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
Most of the information requested is not available.
The number of adjudications for “assault” as reported in the SPS Annual Reports are as follows:
Financial Year | Total Adjudications for Assault |
1995-96 | 764 |
1996-97 | 793 |
1997-98 | 773 |
1998-99 | 633 |
1999-2000 | 626 |
2000-01 | 667 |
2001-02 | 691 |
2002-03 | 760 |
2003-04 | 750 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 24 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 for procuring a child to beg in each year since 1997.
Answer
No convictions under section 4 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 were recorded for the period 1997-2003.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will reply to my letter of 11 January 2004 regarding flooding at Stirling Village, Peterhead.
Answer
I replied to your letter of 11 January 2005 on 21 February 2005.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths have occurred on motorways in (a) total and (b) each local authority area in each year since 1997.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following table. This was produced from data, about injury road accidents, which were collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the
Stats 19 statistical returns. Information for 2004 is not yet available. In accordance with the normal definitions of road accident statistics,
motorways include A(M) roads.
Local Authority | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
East Renfrewshire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh, City of | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Falkirk | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
Fife | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Glasgow City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
North Lanarkshire | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Perth and Kinross | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Lanarkshire | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
Stirling | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Lothian | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Scotland | 15 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 11 | 24 | 12 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 21 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of dentists in each (a) NHS board and (b) parliamentary constituency have stopped taking NHS patients in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. NHS boards may hold this information.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 21 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of dentists in (a) Scotland and (b) each parliamentary constituency accept NHS patients.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. NHS boards may hold this information.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time has been for (a) emergency and (b) routine dental treatment in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested is currently being validated by the Information Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland. I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and will arrange for a copy of my reply to be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 21 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate students declared themselves bankrupt in 2004.
Answer
The Accountant in Bankruptcy (AIB) collects information on sequestrations in Scotland. The AIB have informed me that information on the number of undergraduate and postgraduate students declaring themselves bankrupt is not collected.