- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tribunal cases have been brought against the (a) Scottish Prison Service, (b) police and (c) fire service in each year since 1999 and for what reason; how many cases found in favour of the services, and how much these proceedings cost in total.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions for underage tobacco sales there have been in each year since 1997 and, of these, how many convictions resulted, broken down by police force area.
Answer
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 Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, Section 18(1), which relates to the sale of tobacco or cigarette papers to a person under 16.
Court Proceedings Commenced: Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, Section 18(1)1
| Police Force Area | Convicted or Not | Charges Reported2 |
| | | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Grampian Police | Convicted | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Not Convicted | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | Convicted | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Northern Constabulary | Case not yet concluded | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Strathclyde Police | Convicted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Not Convicted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tayside Police | Not Convicted | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive in what ways police forces differ in their approach to recording crime.
Answer
All police forces have appliedthe national Scottish Crime Recording Standard since April 2004.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-licensed money lenders it estimates operate in Scotland and how many prosecutions there have been against them since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no estimates of numbers of non-licensed money lenders.
There were no proceedings in 1999 to 2001 in Scottish Courts for offences under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 s39(1), unlicensed trading, and one each in 2002 and 2003. It is not possible to break these figures down by local authority area.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths have been caused by clostridium difficile in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following table.
Deaths Caused by Clostridium Difficile, by NHS Board Area
| | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| Scotland | 10 | 17 | 19 | 39 | 57 | 70 | 73 | 98 |
| Argyll and Clyde | - | 1 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 12 |
| Borders | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | - |
| Dumfries and Galloway | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Fife | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| Forth Valley | - | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Grampian | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 |
| Greater Glasgow | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 20 |
| Highland | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lanarkshire | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 6 |
| Lothian | - | 6 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 20 | 22 |
| Orkney | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shetland | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tayside | - | - | - | - | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Western Isles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
This data should be treated with caution. At present, detailed information on healthcare associated infections (HAIs) as a cause of death is very difficult to interpret accurately. At present, laboratory testing protocols for Clostridium difficile vary across the country. Recording of HAIs as a cause of death is often based on the clinical judgement of individual doctors, so analysis is subjective and recording is prone to variation.
As part of a new programme of work (led by the Ministerial HAI Task Force), we are enhancing monitoring and surveillance measures, and it will be mandatory for NHS laboratories to report all cases of Clostridium difficile from April 2006.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio is of secondary school teachers who have specific training in drug awareness and prevention to those who have no such training.
Answer
Information is not held centrally on the number of secondary school teachers who have been given specific training in drug awareness and prevention beyond that which is given to all student teachers during initial teacher education and/or induction.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was allocated to drug awareness and prevention in both primary and secondary education in each of the last five years.
Answer
£1 million was made available annually over 2001-02 to 2003-04 to local authorities for work on drugs education and drug awareness in schools.
Grant funding of £462,450 was also made available over 2002-03 and 2003-04 to Scotland Against Drugs for drugs education training for teachers in Primary and Secondary schools and £31,840 was made available to the Scottish Training Agency for Drugs and Alcohol for teachers to attend multi-agency training.
In September 2005 a full range of Know the Score materials was made available, free of charge, to all schools and other educational establishments in Scotland. These materials provide information and advice on drugs misuse.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) police officers and (b) firefighters have reported sick with a stress-related illness in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentists were admitting new NHS patients on 1 December 2005, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 23 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-22011 by Peter Peacock on 11 January 2006, what categories of information on sickness absence from school it uses and what the data were for each of the last three years in respect of such information categories.
Answer
Full definitions of the categories, together with data for the last two years, are published on the Scottish Executive website, available through the following links.
Attendance and Absence in Scottish Schools 2004-05
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/12/0681732.
Attendance and Absence in Scottish Schools 2003-04
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00382-00.asp.
Prior to 2003-04 data on attendance and absence was restricted to the broad categories of attendance, authorised absence and unauthorised absence. Sickness absences were a component of authorised absence.
