Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-32193

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of its budget was taken up by PFI/PPP commitments in each of the last 10 years, broken down by department.

The information requested isset out in the following table.

Executive PPP Commitments as a Percentage of Departmental Budgets¹

Year	Justice²	Education	Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning	Finance and Central Services	Scottish Executive Total
1999-2000	2.4	0	1.1	0.1	0.3
2000-01	2.3	0	1	0.4	0.3
2001-02	2	0	0.8	0.7	0.4
2002-03	1.4	0	0.8	0.7	0.4
2003-04	1.1	0	0.6	0.8	0.4
2004-05	1.4	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.4
2005-06	1.2	1	0.8	0.9	0.4
2006-07 (estimate)	-	2.9	0.8	0.9	0.4

Notes:

1. The Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) budget has beenused which includes both operating and capital budgets.

2. A figure for 2006-07is not currently available.

The PPP commitments of the ScottishExecutive fall into two categories: the unitary charge for the Executive’s own PPPprojects and the support funding provided to local authority PPP projects. In thecase of the latter, the full unitary charge figure has not been shown as only thefunding provided by the Executive is a commitment for the Executive.

The table includes figures fromdevolution only.

Question reference: S2W-32195

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged (a) 10 to 16, (b) 17 to 23 and (c) 24 to 30 were diagnosed with eating disorders in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board.

The information requested isnot held centrally. Information showing the number of patients discharged from generaland psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of eating disorder is set out in thefollowing tables. Patients diagnosed with eating disorders can be seen in both settings.

Table 1: Patients aged 10 to 30 years, with any diagnosis ofeating disorder, resident in Scotland and treated in acute (non-obstetric, non-psychiatric)hospitals for years ending 31 March:

	Age Group	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	Total
Scotland	10-16	37	30	28	21	23	22	32	24	23	22	262
	17-23	26	37	29	30	43	36	46	48	42	49	386
	24-30	34	31	25	39	34	33	29	36	35	33	329
Total		97	98	82	90	100	91	107	108	100	104	977

Source: ISD, SMR01.

Table 2: Total patients aged 10 to 30 years, with any diagnosis ofeating disorder, resident in Scotland and treated in acute (non-obstetric, non-psychiatric)hospitals by NHS Board between 1997 and 2006. Given the numbers involved, totals only are provided at NHS boardlevel to protect confidentiality:

NHS Board	1997-2006 Total patients Aged 10-30
Ayrshire and Arran	64
Argyll and Clyde	55
Borders	20
Dumfries and Galloway	41
Fife	59
Forth Valley	66
Grampian	117
Greater Glasgow	151
Highland	49
Island Boards	11
Lanarkshire	54
Lothian	240
Tayside	50
Total	977

Source: ISD, SMR01.

Table 3: Patients aged10 to 30 years, with any diagnosis of eating disorders, resident in Scotland andtreated in psychiatric hospitals for years ending 31 March to 2003 (latest available):

	Age Group	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	Total
Scotland	10-16	15	22	20	22	16	11	11	117
	17-23	26	37	31	27	29	25	30	205
	24-30	34	33	27	28	27	20	22	191
Total	10-30	75	92	78	77	72	56	63	513

Source: ISD, SMR04.

Table 4: Total patientsaged 10 to 30 years, with any diagnosis of eating disorders, resident in Scotland andtreated in psychiatric hospitals between 1997 and 2003 (latest available). Given the numbers involved, totals only areprovided at NHS board level to protect confidentiality:

NHS Board	1997-2003 Total Patients Aged 10-30
Ayrshire and Arran	40
Argyll and Clyde	45
Borders	13
Dumfries and Galloway	21
Fife	49
Forth Valley	35
Grampian	51
Greater Glasgow	47
Highland	20
Island Boards	7
Lanarkshire	45
Lothian	86
Tayside	54
Total	513

Source: ISD, SMR04.

Question reference: S2W-32191

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what strategy it has in place for (a) the use of renewable energy and (b) meeting energy targets in Executive buildings.

The Executive continues to demonstrateits support of renewable technologies by choosing to purchase 100% of the electricityrequired to run it’s buildings from new renewable sources. We have set a targetto reduce the emissions caused by energy use on our estate by 12.6%, from 1999-2000levels, by March 2011 building to an overall reduction of 30% by March 2020. Thesetargets will principally be delivered through improvements in efficiency on ourexisting estate but we are also currently investigating options for the installationof microgeneration technologies at a number of our buildings.

The Executive is working in partnershipwith it’s projects and property maintenance contractor to develop an energy actionplan during 2007 looking at both better management of existing systems and wherebetter technology can be utilised to reduce the carbon emissions relative to theoperation of our buildings. We will be commencing a project later this year to replacethe lighting, heating and cooling systems and controls at Meridian Court,one of our main buildings in Glasgow, to substantially improve the facilities available whiledelivering improvements in energy efficiency. We are also continuing to raise awarenessof the simple and effective measures such as turning off unnecessary lighting andswitching off computers, printers and photocopiers when not in use. This will beaddressed at both the corporate level through Executive-wide initiatives and atthe local level through the developing environmental management systems in our targetbuildings and our network of Environmental Guardians who are tasked with promotingbetter practices within the workplace.

Question reference: S2W-32252

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many day nurseries have (a) closed and (b) opened since 2003, broken down into (i) private, voluntary and independent and (ii) maintained nurseries.

Question reference: S2W-32154

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) violent assaults and (b) arrests took place in hospitals in each of the last 10 years, broken down by police force area.

Question reference: S2W-32151

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many gun-related crimes there were in each of the last 10 years, broken down by police force area.

The number of gun-related crimeor offences by police force area, from 1996-97 to 2005-06 are shown in the followingtable:

Crimes and Offences Recordedby Police in which a Firearm was Alleged to have Been Used, by Police Force

	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	29	33	69	42	56	33	22	19	35	17
Dumfries and Galloway	33	22	14	9	14	45	34	22	25	27
Fife	42	23	23	25	21	26	33	12	11	10
Grampian	76	66	66	80	68	72	74	41	33	38
Lothian and Borders	211	189	242	227	225	214	297	329	407	418
Northern	8	9	10	0	0	5	0	0	2	11
Strathclyde	928	637	552	536	522	531	520	452	531	474
Tayside	154	75	75	56	54	77	54	83	92	73
Total	1,481	1,054	1,051	975	960	1,003	1,034	958	1,136	1,068

Question reference: S2W-32145

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many 16-year-olds were recorded as homeless in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority area.

The following table gives thenumber of households assessed as homeless where the main applicant was aged 16.This information is available from 2002-03 onward.

Households Assessedas Homeless with Main Applicant Aged 16: 2002-03 to 2005-06

	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Aberdeen City	50	30	30	30
Aberdeenshire	40	45	35	30
Angus	20	30	20	30
Argyll and Bute	40	40	35	30
Clackmannanshire	15	20	25	25
Dumfries and Galloway	25	35	45	35
Dundee City	25	20	20	20
East Ayrshire	15	25	25	20
East Dunbartonshire	5	5	10	5
East Lothian	15	5	15	30
East Renfrewshire	5	5	15	5
Edinburgh, City of	195	170	165	140
Eilean Siar	5	5	5	5
Falkirk	45	30	25	45
Fife	85	140	110	140
Glasgow City	240	210	245	205
Highland	40	65	60	70
Inverclyde	15	15	20	10
Midlothian	20	25	30	25
Moray	5	15	15	20
North Ayrshire	70	60	35	50
North Lanarkshire	50	50	75	75
Orkney	-	5	5	5
Perth and Kinross	20	25	25	10
Renfrewshire	15	25	20	25
Scottish Borders, The	20	30	20	15
Shetland	10	-	-	-
South Ayrshire	20	15	20	25
South Lanarkshire	65	45	45	45
Stirling	15	20	25	25
West Dunbartonshire	25	25	35	40
West Lothian	70	45	65	60
Scotland	1,295	1,275	1,320	1,295

Source: HL1 returns submittedby local authorities to the Scottish Executive Development Department AnalyticalServices Division (Housing Statistics).

Notes:

1. All assessments in period.

2. Due to small numbers, figureshave been rounded to the nearest five, and may therefore not sum to the Scotland total.

3. Due to the live nature of the data collection system, figures are updated on a continuous basis and the informationpublished here may differ from that published previously.

4. The following symbols areused in the tables:

- nil.

.. missing.

Question reference: S2W-32152

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of credit card fraud were committed in each of the last 10 years, broken down by police force area.

Question reference: S2W-32035

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many instances of (a) offences against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) burglary, (e) theft, (f) fraud, (g) drug offences and (h) motoring offences have been recorded (i) since 1997 and (ii) in the last 12 months in each police force area.

Then information requested aboutthe number of instances of burglary recorded since 1997 in each police force areais given in The numbers of violent crimes,vehicle thefts and burglaries in each police authority and local authority areafrom 1986 to 1994, and 1995-96 to 2005-06, a copy of which was placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre(Bib. number 41211) in response to Mr Stevenson’s earlier request.

The other information requestedis given in the following tables. The phrase ‘offences against the person’ is not a standard definition for Scottish crimes.We have interpreted this as the total of crimes of violence, crimes of indecency,offensive weapon offences, minor assaults and breach of the peace.

Recorded Crimes of (a)Offences Against the Person Since 1997-98 by Police Force Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	6,660	6,286	6,660	6,697	7,962	8,438	8,640	9,753	9,328
Dumfries and Galloway	3,738	3,887	3,435	3,074	3,065	3,527	4,974	5,188	4,603
Fife	8,330	8,034	8,265	8,237	9,089	9,706	10,164	12,911	11,747
Grampian	15,814	15,793	16,593	15,451	16,587	15,599	15,279	19,741	20,539
Lothian and Borders	21,516	21,817	22,941	23,384	23,346	22,911	22,366	24,808	26,433
Northern	7,191	7,535	6,912	7,097	7,609	7,971	8,615	9,826	9,528
Strathclyde	76,984	77,532	79,807	78,687	80,040	81,957	84,019	101,241	96,805
Tayside	10,295	11,284	11,084	10,236	11,114	11,596	12,432	11,760	12,825
All Scotland	150,528	152,168	155,697	152,863	158,812	161,705	166,489	195,228	191,808

Recorded Crimes of (b)Sexual Offences Since 1997-98 by Police Force Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	225	220	110	187	299	301	268	247	404
Dumfries and Galloway	116	146	126	146	101	83	133	106	136
Fife	383	303	372	316	461	554	504	516	479
Grampian	911	816	604	500	574	653	733	858	966
Lothian and Borders	1,171	1,265	974	891	988	1,272	1,319	1,339	1,170
Northern	180	249	178	214	245	267	325	345	339
Strathclyde	3,915	3,508	3,057	3,040	2,976	2,981	3,007	3,446	2,541
Tayside	513	564	461	433	350	512	497	467	523
All Scotland	7,414	7,071	5,882	5,727	5,994	6,623	6,786	7,324	6,558

Recorded Crimes of (c)Robbery Since 1997-98 by Police Force Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	57	74	88	73	83	86	65	69	89
Dumfries and Galloway	26	27	51	45	46	61	45	34	37
Fife	93	122	149	171	179	212	190	218	183
Grampian	226	290	375	240	298	280	238	221	240
Lothian and Borders	719	683	752	738	757	739	803	637	678
Northern	32	27	31	19	27	30	44	52	40
Strathclyde	3,237	3,647	3,345	2,874	3,042	3,099	2,625	2,326	2,152
Tayside	161	157	140	133	160	129	151	179	134
All Scotland	4,551	5,027	4,931	4,293	4,592	4,636	4,161	3,736	3,553

Recorded Crimes of (e) TheftSince 1997-98 by Police Force Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	6,694	7,433	7,573	6,829	6,308	6,360	6,604	6,289	5,682
Dumfries and Galloway	3,346	3,129	3,188	2,960	2,866	3,602	3,374	3,128	3,043
Fife	9,555	10,216	12,351	11,301	11,257	11,874	12,784	13,004	10,766
Grampian	19,305	19,839	21,867	20,029	18,727	16,827	16,069	15,958	15,989
Lothian and Borders	33,592	34,666	37,709	34,652	34,906	33,426	34,990	32,489	31,842
Northern	4,422	4,543	4,820	4,660	4,743	4,467	4,512	4,595	4,454
Strathclyde	93,017	97,932	90,685	83,751	78,986	70,947	63,013	63,092	56,692
Tayside	15,241	14,023	13,622	12,898	13,738	13,022	10,944	11,464	10,669
All Scotland	185,172	191,781	191,815	177,080	171,531	160,525	152,290	150,019	139,137

Recorded Crimes of (f) FraudSince 1997-98 by Police Force Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	601	847	632	694	871	1,152	1,235	781	1,077
Dumfries and Galloway	668	396	478	293	440	514	460	1,066	212
Fife	975	762	1,348	1,747	1,130	1,333	1,279	1,296	866
Grampian	2,659	3,325	3,840	3,260	2,936	1,922	1,349	1,630	1,120
Lothian and Borders	2,296	2,016	5,456	6,217	5,087	4,325	4,630	7,242	2,241
Northern	744	874	675	965	971	940	674	934	744
Strathclyde	7,388	9,211	6,983	6,227	5,370	4,844	4,711	4,200	3,873
Tayside	850	937	1,208	640	590	798	939	1,158	941
All Scotland	16,181	18,368	20,620	20,043	17,395	15,828	15,277	18,307	11,074

Recorded Crimes of (g) DrugOffences since 1997-98 by Police Force Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	1,128	1,486	1,119	1,481	1,863	2,027	2,100	1,951	2,033
Dumfries and Galloway	910	869	615	498	589	779	1,002	935	949
Fife	1,817	2,095	1,203	1,359	1,715	1,960	1,924	2,024	1,992
Grampian	2,959	2,880	2,331	2,186	2,786	3,258	2,791	3,037	3,288
Lothian and Borders	3,828	4,046	4,854	5,258	5,697	6,393	5,801	5,914	6,204
Northern	1,511	1,229	1,452	1,188	1,701	1,653	1,960	1,722	2,229
Strathclyde	15,217	18,083	17,080	18,399	20,152	22,285	23,613	22,790	24,229
Tayside	2,065	2,131	1,720	1,712	2,247	2,583	3,084	3,450	3,323
All Scotland	29,435	32,819	30,374	32,081	36,750	40,938	42,275	41,823	44,247

Recorded Crimes of (h) MotoringOffences since 1997-98 by Police Force Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	17,004	19,517	19,572	17,499	21,507	23,663	25,962	20,148	22,641
Dumfries and Galloway	15,992	20,461	16,709	15,097	12,835	12,844	19,131	25,424	25,145
Fife	32,323	39,128	24,319	31,292	28,414	28,548	24,923	24,109	24,825
Grampian	35,974	40,635	34,385	28,692	31,233	36,745	42,758	40,077	34,184
Lothian and Borders	57,621	62,286	57,566	57,785	60,220	52,199	79,733	98,666	81,441
Northern	14,843	15,449	16,159	15,880	17,590	18,145	16,406	15,936	19,914
Strathclyde	143,789	147,822	155,731	150,273	158,702	143,992	173,494	149,345	121,859
Tayside	22,035	21,871	23,020	23,618	32,073	31,846	44,251	44,975	44,316
All Scotland	339,581	367,169	347,461	340,136	362,574	347,982	426,658	418,680	374,325

Question reference: S2W-32332

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what average life expectancy for (a) men and (b) women was in each parliamentary constituency in each year since 1997.

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