Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-26593

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 19 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) elective hospital admissions, (b) first out-patient attendances following GP referral and (c) consultant-led first out-patient attendances there were in the NHS in each year since 1990, broken down by NHS board.

The information available isprovided in a document titled NHSScotland: Elective Inpatient Day Case Episodesand New Outpatient Attendances 1989-90 to 2005-06, a copy of which has been placedin the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib number 39861).

Please note that the out-patientinformation system (SMR00) started from 1 April 1991 sono earlier figures are available.

The data are brokendown by NHS board of residence. The elective hospital admissions are shown for acutespecialties only (defined as non-obstetric/non-psychiatric specialties). The newout-patient data covers consultant-led clinics and are shown separately for acutespecialties and for all specialties and for GP referrals and all referrals.

In interpreting thesedata, it should be noted that they reflect, amongst other things, changes in medicaltechnology, clinical practice, service redesign and the desire to provide care inthe most appropriate setting by whoever is the most appropriate health professional.Many procedures carried out on an in-patient/day case basis in 1990 are now providedin an out-patient setting and very often are done at a return appointment so arenot included in the figures provided. In addition to hospital premises, care isincreasingly provided in community settings, by General Practitioners (GPs), nursesand Allied Health Professionals (AHPs). The focus on health care redesign has alsomeant that more innovative ways of providing care have been introduced and, forexample, telephone consultations and/or the use of telemedicine for the follow-upof appropriate patients may provide a more responsive service to the patient butare not counted for national activity purposes.

It should also benoted that the out-patient information system (SMR00) has developed over time inthe terms of the specialties included.

Question reference: S2W-26589

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 19 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people illegally managing child prostitutes have been (a) charged, (b) convicted in each of the last five years.

There have been no prosecutionscompleted in relation to offences of controlling a child providing sexual servicesunder Section 11 of the Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences(Scotland) Act 2005 since this act came into force in October 2005.

Prior to this time, there wasno specific offence of controlling or managing a child involved in prostitution,and consequently, statistics on charges and convictions are not held centrally.

Question reference: S2W-26594

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the 10 most common offences were for which men and women were sent to prison in each of the last five years, broken down by age group.

The available information isgiven in the following tables.

Number of Males with aCharge Proved¹ in Scottish Courts, by the 10 Most Common OffencesResulting in a Custodial Sentence (using Standard Offence Categories²),by Sex and Age, 2000-01 to 2004-05^3,4

2000-01	Total Males	Under 21	21 to 30	Over 30
Shoplifting	1,723	281	1,015	427
Breach of social work orders	1,655	791	682	182
Housebreaking	1,390	397	756	237
Common assault	1,285	330	510	445
Unlawful use of vehicle	1,033	200	498	335
Other theft	1,013	241	548	224
Breach of the peace	961	163	346	452
Crimes against public justice	855	214	383	258
Drugs	763	72	355	336
Handling an offensive weapon	614	203	291	120
2001-02
Shoplifting	2,045	310	1,184	551
Breach of social work orders	1,489	588	713	188
Housebreaking	1,363	362	736	265
Common assault	1,285	318	491	476
Breach of the peace	1,123	215	389	519
Other theft	1,078	243	617	218
Unlawful use of vehicle	997	154	544	299
Crimes against public justice	931	263	419	249
Drugs	857	73	405	379
Handling an offensive weapon	614	202	284	128
2002-03
Shoplifting	2,147	261	1,318	568
Breach of social work orders	1,499	539	746	214
Common assault	1,397	344	550	503
Housebreaking	1,322	270	754	298
Breach of the peace	1,183	210	441	532
Unlawful use of vehicle	1,157	168	625	364
Crimes against public justice	951	219	424	308
Other theft	897	206	478	213
Drugs	859	68	381	410
Handling an offensive weapon	707	178	347	182
2003-04
Shoplifting	1,960	209	1,169	582
Breach of social work orders	1,596	567	764	265
Common assault	1,378	335	603	440
Housebreaking	1,197	221	706	270
Breach of the peace	1,168	235	450	483
Unlawful use of vehicle	1,065	144	561	360
Crimes against public justice	926	224	435	267
Drugs	879	50	384	445
Other theft	791	146	452	193
Serious assault and attempted murder	646	202	278	166
2004-05
Shoplifting	1,975	164	1,211	600
Common assault	1,577	363	635	579
Breach of social work orders	1,523	472	763	288
Breach of the peace	1,295	233	460	602
Housebreaking	1,100	199	600	301
Crimes against public justice	1,043	220	421	402
Unlawful use of vehicle	886	119	438	329
Drugs	833	48	373	412
Other theft	806	114	476	216
Handling an offensive weapon	744	170	382	192

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Based on standard categoriesof offences used in previous court proceedings statistical bulletins.

3. Breach of social work ordersis included, but is not an offence itself in this context.

4. Non-payment of fines resultsin some receptions to penal establishments.

Number of Females with aCharge Proved¹ in Scottish Courts, by the 10 Most Common OffencesResulting in a Custodial Sentence (using Standard Offence Categories²),by Sex and Age, 2000-01 to 2004-05^3,4

2000-01	Total Females	Under 21	21 to 30	Over 30
Shoplifting	272	73	157	42
Breach of social work orders	164	68	75	21
Other theft	103	31	55	17
Common assault	68	25	17	26
Drugs	64	7	31	26
Crimes against public justice	57	23	28	6
Breach of the peace	37	15	12	10
Other fraud⁽⁵⁾	36	10	21	5
Serious assault and attempted murder	24	10	7	7
Fraud	22	7	10	5
2001-02
Shoplifting	374	103	190	81
Breach of social work orders	152	70	68	14
Other theft	114	26	62	26
Drugs	92	10	42	40
Common assault	69	22	30	17
Breach of the peace	69	14	23	32
Crimes against public justice	64	15	31	18
Other fraud⁽⁵⁾	47	12	23	12
Robbery	23	10	12	1
Serious assault and attempted murder	22	1	10	11
2002-03
Shoplifting	344	68	217	59
Breach of social work orders	213	40	139	34
Other theft	116	28	60	28
Common assault	113	39	38	36
Drugs	77	5	39	33
Crimes against public justice	70	16	35	19
Breach of the peace	65	12	23	30
Other fraud⁽⁵⁾	48	7	27	14
Robbery	40	11	18	11
Serious assault and attempted murder	20	7	6	7
2003-04
Shoplifting	364	53	225	86
Breach of social work orders	202	39	112	51
Other theft	107	24	56	27
Drugs	106	14	47	45
Common assault	98	32	32	34
Crimes against public justice	80	19	32	29
Breach of the peace	79	16	22	41
Other fraud⁽⁵⁾	44	4	25	15
Serious assault and attempted murder	37	12	12	13
Robbery	37	9	23	5
2004-05
Shoplifting	395	48	233	114
Breach of social work orders	173	33	106	34
Drugs	140	13	58	69
Common assault	133	41	48	44
Other theft	115	22	64	29
Breach of the peace	95	16	41	38
Crimes against public justice	78	14	42	22
Other fraud⁽⁵⁾	35	6	15	14
Serious assault and attempted murder	33	10	9	14
Fraud	32	3	18	11

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Based on standard categoriesof offences used in previous court proceedings statistical bulletins.

3. Breach of social work ordersis included, but is not an offence itself in this context.

4. Non-payment of fines resultsin some receptions to penal establishments.

5. Includes forgery, reset andembezzlement.

Question reference: S2W-26590

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of police retirements were on grounds of ill-health in each year since 1990, broken down by police force area.

The available information isshown in the following tables. Data before 1991 is not available.

Ill-Health Retirements as a Percentageof Total Police Retirements

	Central		Dumfries and Galloway		Fife		Grampian
	Officers	% of Total Retirements	Officers	% of Total Retirements	Officers	% of Total Retirements	Officers	% of Total Retirements
1991	9	53%	6	46%	6	32%	8	28%
1992	6	55%	4	37%	12	53%	10	39%
1993	7	37%	8	53%	4	18%	4	19%
1994	5	38%	3	30%	3	16%	7	33%
1995-96	5	28%	0	0%	2	16%	14	33%
1996-97	6	43%	0	0%	9	29%	10	28%
1997-98	14	58%	1	14%	4	17%	10	24%
1998-99	10	50%	2	25%	8	35%	8	25%
1999-00	7	39%	3	27%	8	29%	8	20%
2000-01	6	26%	3	27%	7	26%	11	29%
2001-02	9	45%	1	10%	5	20%	10	37%
2002-03	5	29%	1	17%	10	42%	9	23%
2003-04	1	7%	4	50%	5	29%	8	32%
2004-05	7	35%	4	31%	6	26%	8	21%

Ill-Health Retirements as a Percentageof Total Police Retirements

	Lothian And Borders		Northern		Strathclyde		Tayside
	Officers	% of Total Retirements	Officers	% of Total Retirements	Officers	% of Total Retirements	Officers	% of Total Retirements
1991	44	54%	7	44%	69	39%	8	38%
1992	46	49%	11	39%	111	47%	7	28%
1993	35	40%	5	50%	140	55%	16	37%
1994	40	54%	7	30%	103	56%	18	55%
1995-96	38	44%	7	33%	128	47%	16	36%
1996-97	32	40%	8	40%	119	55%	12	38%
1997-98	22	33%	3	16%	104	47%	15	43%
1998-99	32	43%	5	38%	96	47%	8	29%
1999-2000	32	44%	6	23%	104	45%	19	50%
2000-01	35	49%	12	50%	110	47%	14	41%
2001-02	55	54%	5	24%	100	41%	12	28%
2002-03	42	48%	1	5%	55	25%	12	40%
2003-04	22	29%	6	22%	77	34%	8	25%
2004-05	18	22%	8	36%	54	22%	2	6%

Source: Annual Statistical Returnssubmitted to forces to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary.

Notes:

1991–94 - calendar years.

1995-96 onwards – financial years.

Question reference: S2W-26553

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have gained employment having completed (a) a custodial sentence and (b) community service in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-26552

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of offenders to criminal justice social workers has been in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

The available information isgiven in the following table. The ratios represent the number of individual convictedoffenders to the number of qualified criminal justice social workers.

The ratios are not an indicationof the workload of criminal justice social workers. Individual offenders may receiveany type of court disposal including custody, community sentences and monetary penalties,and may receive more than one conviction in a given year. Criminal justice socialworkers provide services in relation to the supervision of community sentences andwider services including Throughcare and Voluntary Assistance for released and supervisedprisoners, diversion from prosecution and the preparation of reports for court (e.g.Social Enquiry Reports).

Ratio of Convicted IndividualOffenders¹ to Qualified Criminal Justice Social Workers, by ApproximateLocal Authority Area², 2000-01 to 2004-05

Local Authority	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Aberdeen³	45.4	48.4	45.6	48.6	40.0
Angus	75.0	64.3	82.1	70.3	64.9
Argyll and Bute	105.2	108.3	130.4	142.2	77.5
Ayrshire⁴	110.1	110.0	97.6	84.3	71.3
Clackmannanshire	31.5	30.5	37.1	48.0	45.8
Dumfries and Galloway	89.3	70.4	70.4	87.4	79.1
Dundee City	84.7	69.7	67.2	62.3	58.0
East Lothian	42.1	96.3	60.6	72.7	56.3
Edinburgh⁵	54.8	56.3	55.7	59.3	55.3
Eilean Siar⁶	-	-	-	-	160.0
Falkirk	86.9	98.0	77.9	94.7	99.1
Fife	43.4	41.5	41.2	38.2	42.8
Glasgow⁷	56.6	68.2	71.2	69.0	97.7
Highland	99.6	112.2	120.8	135.7	138.1
Inverclyde	78.9	63.7	64.1	52.0	48.9
Moray	106.0	93.7	54.9	66.0	157.4
Lanarkshire⁸	74.2	78.4	76.2	72.0	65.1
Orkney Islands	40.5	35.5	46.5	43.5	32.7
Perth and Kinross⁹	67.2	n/a	n/a	49.9	50.7
Renfrewshire¹⁰	71.4	74.0	64.7	46.5	47.4
Scottish Borders	70.1	80.8	107.0	101.5	67.8
Shetland Islands	42.0	27.8	42.7	53.3	22.6
Stirling	84.3	90.6	64.2	80.3	71.4
West Lothian	107.5	95.5	101.5	73.4	79.9
Scotland¹¹	67.4	71.8	70.5	67.3	67.6

Note:

1. Individual offenders havebeen defined as individuals with a charge proved for a crime or relevant offence(common assault, breach of the peace, racially aggravated conduct or harassment,firearms offences or social security offences) in Scottish courts. These offendersmay have received more than one conviction within each financial year and, wherethey received a community sentence, may not always be supervised in the area inwhich they are convicted.

2. Whilst local authority andcourt areas are not co-terminous, the segregation in this answer represents thebest available approximation to local authority data.

3. Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire(Aberdeen, Banff, Stonehaven and Peterhead Sheriff Courts).

4. North, South and East Ayrshire(Kilmarnock and Ayr Sheriff Courts).

5. City of Edinburgh andMidlothian (Edinburgh Sheriff Court).

6. Eilean Siar reported no qualifiedmain grade criminal justice social workers in 2000 to 2003.

7. Glasgow City, East andWest Dunbartonshire (Glasgow and Dumbarton Sheriff Courts and StipendiaryMagistrates).

8. North and South Lanarkshire (Airdrie, Hamilton and Lanark Sheriff Courts).

9. Perth and Kinrossdid not provide information on criminal justice social work staff in 2001 and 2002.

10. Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire (Paisley Sheriff Court).

11. Includes individuals offendersconvicted in the High Court and Remitted to the High Court.

Question reference: S2W-26551

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners under the age of 18 there were in each year since 1990, broken down by prison.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

The available information isgiven in the following table:

	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Barlinnie	552	484	493	313	200	238	302	295	78
Aberdeen	72	73	66	53	42	32	35	42	22
Cornton Vale	55	44	65	55	39	44	48	42	48
Dumfries	63	68	48	33	48	34	34	25	29
Edinburgh	253	241	230	189	151	153	148	139	106
Glenochil	208	214	176	173	94	30	61	11	0
Greenock	173	151	118	102	98	98	89	74	53
Inverness	45	43	45	34	53	48	48	49	50
Longriggend	506	532	525	331	29	0	0	0	0
Low Moss	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0
Penninghame	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Perth	129	132	112	104	68	66	116	102	80
Polmont	616	612	516	447	363	361	418	509	498
Peterhead Unit	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kilmarnock	0	0	0	114	75	83	49	59	45
Total number of individuals¹	1336	1240	1188	983	784	788	875	858	730

Note: 1. Asan individual can be held in more than one penal establishment in one year the sumof the number of individuals in each establishment is much greater than the totalnumber of individuals held in any one year.

Question reference: S2W-26555

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time was for an initial paediatric cardiology assessment in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board and hospital.

Question reference: S2W-26557

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many missed hospital appointments there were in each NHS board in each of the last 10 years.

Information is collected centrallyonly on numbers of patients who did not attend their first outpatient appointmentwith a consultant.

The number of patients who didnot attend their first out-patient appointment at a consultant-led clinic, followingreferral by a general medical or dental practitioner, by NHS board area of residence,in each of the last 10 years, is given in the following table.

NHSScotland: Number of Patientsthat did not Attend Their First Out-Patient Appointment at a Consultant-Led Clinic,by NHS Board of Residence. Years Ended 31 March 1997–2006^P

NHS Board	Year Ended 31 March 1997	Year Ended 31 March 1998	Year Ended 31 March 1999	Year Ended 31 March 2000	Year Ended 31 March 2001
Argyll and Clyde	13,002	13,895	13,830	14,025	13,935
Ayrshire and Arran	9,408	10,114	9,986	10,786	10,711
Borders	1,639	1,550	1,492	1,734	1,666
Dumfries and Galloway	2,079	2,178	2,191	2,222	2,343
Fife	8,959	9,522	9,679	9,817	9,970
Forth Valley	6,572	6,635	7,178	6,771	6,930
Grampian	8,826	8,129	8,510	9,264	9,900
Greater Glasgow	43,849	44,260	45,109	45,866	42,515
Highland	3,336	3,516	3,570	3,966	3,859
Lanarkshire	17,511	19,544	19,155	20,108	19,276
Lothian	20,084	20,773	21,975	22,948	23,001
Orkney Islands	77	88	110	129	148
Shetland Islands	238	214	275	210	243
Tayside	10,949	12,465	13,025	13,970	13,739
Western Isles	424	465	472	497	558
NHSScotland	146,953	153,348	156,557	162,313	158,794

NHS Board	Year Ended 31 March 2002	Year Ended 31 March 2003	Year Ended 31 March 2004	Year Ended 31 March 2005	Year Ended 31 March 2006^P
Argyll and Clyde	14,458	14,885	15,017	13,486	12,224
Ayrshire and Arran	11,853	12,297	12,018	11,885	10,689
Borders	1,705	1,895	2,046	1,989	1,693
Dumfries and Galloway	2,410	2,362	2,332	2,231	1,807
Fife	10,069	9,894	10,500	10,690	9,706
Forth Valley	7,301	6,811	7,287	7,004	3,973
Grampian	10,335	9,858	9,443	8,775	8,618
Greater Glasgow	47,839	49,275	45,862	39,731	38,795
Highland	3,756	3,877	4,177	3,898	4,154
Lanarkshire	19,770	21,777	19,816	17,673	15,254
Lothian	22,513	21,993	21,674	21,179	19,654
Orkney Islands	171	180	175	153	188
Shetland Islands	197	275	339	393	359
Tayside	13,974	13,215	12,816	13,295	8,791
Western Isles	573	674	564	717	695
NHSScotland	166,924	169,268	164,066	153,099	136,600

^PProvisional.

Source: ISD Scotland SMR00 –All specialities excluding accident and emergency and genito-urinary medicine.

Question reference: S2W-26556

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children waited for an initial paediatric cardiology assessment in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board and hospital.

Data on the number of patientswaiting for a first outpatient appointment has only been collected since 30 September 2004. Thisinformation is collected at specialty level only. Paediatric Cardiology may be recordedunder the specialities of Cardiology, Paediatrics or General Medicine. It is notpossible from the outpatient waiting list dataset to explicitly identify the numberof patients waiting for paediatric cardiology.

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