Chamber and committees

The Scottish Government has spent a total of £5.2 billion on the Affordable Housing Supply Programme in the financial years from 1999-00 to 2011-12. In real terms this is £5.8 billion at 2011-12 prices.

The following table shows Scottish Government spend on affordable housing in each year in both cash and real terms. As spending review periods overlapped, it is more meaningful to look at these figures on an annual basis:

Figures for local authority spend on affordable housing capital projects are not available.

Information relating to (a) can be found in the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts. These published accounts date back to March 2002 and are available from the Scottish Government website by way of the following links:

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2002

The 2000-01 and 1999-00 accounts are available from the stationery office.

Information relating to (b) can be found in the Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics. These published statistics are available from the Scottish Government website by way of the following link:

www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Local-Government-Finance/PubScottishLGFStats.

Information relating to real terms for both (a) and (b) can be measured by way of the latest Gross Domestic Product deflators which can be viewed as a measure of general inflation in the domestic economy. These can be found at the UK Government’s website by way of the following link.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-15799 on 10 July 2013. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Information relating to (a) can be found in the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts. These published accounts date back to March 2002 and are available from the Scottish Government website by way of the following links:

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2002

The 2000-2001 and 1999-2000 accounts are available from the stationery office.

Information relating to (b) can be found in the Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics. These published statistics are available from the Scottish Government website by way of the following link:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Local-Government-Finance/PubScottishLGFStats.

Information relating to real terms for both (a) and (b) can be measured by way of the latest Gross Domestic Product deflators which can be viewed as a measure of general inflation in the domestic economy. These can be found at the UK Government’s website by way of the following link.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp

As spending periods overlapped, it is more meaningful to look at these figures on an annual basis.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-15801 on 10 July 2013. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-15800 on 10 July 2013. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Three people were prosecuted in 2011-12 where the main offence was under the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010.

(a) One was for offences under section 4(1) ‘sale of tobacco products to persons under 18’, and two were under section 6(1) ‘purchase of tobacco products on behalf of persons under 18’. One person was convicted under each section and both received a fine.

(b) Under the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010, The Sale of Tobacco (Register of Tobacco Retailers) Regulations 2010 came into force on 1 April 2011. There were no prosecutions under Section 20 of the Act recorded in the available data to 2011-12.

Information for 2012-13 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2012-13 Statistical Bulletin. This is due to be published in November 2013.

The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.

Source: Scottish Government Court Proceedings data.

NHS Lothian advises that no appointments at Chalmers Dental Centre have been cancelled due to a lack of equipment in the last six months.

(a) NHS Lothian advises that the Edinburgh Dental Institute sends all equipment to the hospital sterilisation and decontamination unit (HSDU) at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) to be sterilised.

Instruments from St John’s Hospital dental unit clinics are also decontaminated and sterilised at the HSDU at the RIE. These include: Specialist services for older, frail patients; Out of Hours services; Orthodontics; Special Needs/ Sedation; Medical Photography - including items used to access the area/s to be photographed such, as mirrors, and their subsequent need to be decontaminated and sterilised.

Instruments from the Paediatric department in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and St John’s Hospital maxillo-facial OPD 4 are all decontaminated and sterilised at the HSDU at the RIE.

Theatre sessions in which patients receive general anaesthetic for more invasive procedures are not classified as dental clinics. This includes Paediatrics and Oral Surgery. These instruments are decontaminated and sterilised at HSDU at RIE.

(b) As reported in S4W-15465, some of the equipment from the Chalmers Dental Centre is sterilised at the HSDU at the RIE.

NHS Lothian advises that dental equipment is not sterilised at the Chalmers Dental Centre. Handpieces are processed at a compliant Specialist Primary Care and Community Dental Service decontamination unit in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian. All other items are processed at the hospital sterilisation and decontamination unit at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.