Parliamentary questions
Christine Grahame
3,532 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
27 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9383 by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 July 2004, how many hospital beds there were in each NHS board area per 1,000 head of population in each year since 1997.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: </p><p>NHSScotland - Average Available Staffed Beds, Rate Per 1,000 Population<sup>1,2</sup>; by Health Board Area: Years Ending 31 March</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width=493> <tr> <td> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p align=right>1997</p> </t…
27 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of rape in each of the last 10 years had a previous conviction for the same offence in total and broken down into (a) police force area and (b) sheriff court district.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The available data indicates that between 1993 and 2002 one person, in Lothian and Borders in 2001, was convicted of rape having previously been convicted of rape. The data held centrally does not cover convictions for rape prior to 1989 or outwith Scotland.<…
26 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people accused had more than one failure to appear warrant issued for the same charge in each of the last five years (a) in total and (b) broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The information requested isnot held centrally.</p>
26 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many failure to appear warrants were issued in each of the last five years, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The information requested is shown in the following table and does not include fines enquiry and initiating warrants.</p><p>Failure to Appear Warrants Issued in Each Sheriff Court</p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <…
26 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of fire-raising as the main charge in each of the last five years (i) in total and (ii) broken down by police force area.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The available information is given in the following table.</p><p>Persons Proceeded Against in Scottish Courts for Fire-Raising<sup>1</sup>, 1998-2002</p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width=578> <thead> <tr> <td> <p>Poli…
20 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it provides to ENABLE to assist with the Thistle Travel Card Scheme.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The Scottish Executive has awarded ENABLE £21,557 for 2003-04 to assist them in producing further leaflets and promotional material for the Thistle Travel Card Scheme.</p><p>In December 2002, the Executive awarded ENABLE £50,000 to fund the start of the Schem…
20 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-994 by Nicol Stephen on 21 July 2003, how many (a) enquiries have been received about and (b) cards have been issued for the Thistle Travel Card Scheme in each year since its launch and what guidelines have been provided for transport staff and compa…
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The Scottish Executive does not retain figures relating to the ENABLE Thistle Travel Card Scheme.</p><p>However, we have been informed by ENABLE that they receive approximately 20 to 30 enquiries per month from a range of potential transport users, transport …
20 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive which sporting bodies received funding from (a) sportscotland and (b) other sources in each of the last five years and how much was allocated in each case
Answer · Frank McAveety: This information is published in <b>sport</b>scotland’s Annual Reports and Annual Lottery Sports Fund reports. Copies of these can be obtained from <b>sport</b>scotland and/or accessed online via the <b>sport</b>scotland website, <a href="http://www.sportscot…
20 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21756 by Ross Finnie on 14 January 2002, which areas are designated nitrate vulnerable 'ones (NVZs); what guidance and grant assistance has been issued to farmers on NVZs, and what the results of the monitoring of river water quality have been in eac…
Answer · Ross Finnie: Four areas were designated as nitrate vulnerable zones (NVZs) on the basis of nitrate concentrations in groundwater: Moray, Aberdeenshire, Banff and Buchan; Strathmore and Fife; Lothian and Borders, and Lower Nithsdale: they comprise 14% of the land area of S…
19 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of administration staff to the total number of whole-time equivalent doctors was in the NHS in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The following table shows the ratio of whole-time equivalent (WTE) administrative staff to WTE NHS Hospital and Community (HCHS) doctors at 30 September 1994-2003. </p><p>The ratio is based on a comparison over the period from September 1994 to September 2003…
19 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of administration staff to the total number of whole-time equivalent nurses was in the NHS in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The following table shows the ratio of whole-time equivalent (WTE) administrative staff to qualified WTE Nursing and Midwifery staff at 30 September 1994-2003 and at 31 March 2004.</p><p>The ratio is based on a comparison over the period from September 1994 t…
19 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of administration staff to the total number of beds was in the NHS in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The following table shows the number of whole-time equivalent (WTE) administrative and clerical staff, expressed as a ratio of the average number of NHS hospital staffed beds. The figures for each NHS board area include staff employed in community health sett…
16 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what data it has on the number of sea trout in rivers; where such data can be accessed; whether trout stocks are falling, and, if so, in which rivers and what action is being taken to reverse this trend.
Answer · Allan Wilson: Catch statistics for salmon and sea trout are collected by the Scottish Executive’s Fisheries Research Services Freshwater Laboratory (FRSFL) in Montrose. Statistical bulletins are published annually in September. Copies of the bulletins are placed in the Sco…
16 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25143 by Mr Jim Wallace on 1 May 2002, how many (a) individuals and (b) companies have been convicted of offences relating to the pollution of rivers and other waterways in (i) 2001, (ii) 2002, (iii) 2003 and (iv) 2004, listing the rivers and waterwa…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The available information on numbers convicted and fines imposed in respect of offences under Part II of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 is given in the table. Under the 1974 act, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency regulates discharges to Controlled…
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when the consultation on the review of local government funding finance will commence.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The work programme of the Independent Review of Local Government Finance (including consultation) will be for the members of the review team to consider. The review team can then set out how best people and organisations can engage with the review.</p>
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many out-patients were waiting for (a) less than 9 weeks, (b) less than 13 weeks, (c) less than 26 weeks, (d) more than 26 weeks and (e) more than 52 weeks for an NHS appointment, broken down by individual speciality and NHS board, in the most recent quarter for which figures are ava…
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The information requested has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number: 33399).</p>
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were convicted of theft from a motor vehicle in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.
Answer · Hugh Henry: Convictions for theft from a motor vehicle cannot generally be identified separately in the data held centrally from other convictions for theft by opening a lockfast place.</p>
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were convicted of theft by housebreaking in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.
Answer · Hugh Henry: The available information is given in the table.</p><p>Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Housebreaking<sup>1</sup>, 1998-2002</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td> <p>Police Force Area</p> </td> <td> …
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were convicted of shoplifting in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.
Answer · Hugh Henry: The available information is given in the table.</p><p>Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Shoplifting<sup>1</sup>, 1998–2002 </p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width=538> <thead> <tr> <td> <p>Police Force Area</p> </td> …
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS consultant posts are currently vacant, broken down by speciality and NHS board area.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-9293, answered on 15 July 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/web…
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases under sections 51, 52 and 52A of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 have (a) been received, (b) had court proceedings taken and (c) had a charge proved in each of the last five years.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The available information is given in the tables. Statistics dealing with cases reported to the Procurator Fiscal and court proceedings are not directly comparable as a person may be proceeded against for more than charge involving more than one report, while…
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were appointed to public bodies in each of the last five years and, of these, how many had been involved in political activity in the five years preceding their appointment.
Answer · Andy Kerr: I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-20118 (answered on 26 March 2002), S1W-24411 (answered on 17 April 2002) and S1W-25468 (answered on 30 April 2002) which explain why annual data for part of the period in question is not available.</p><…
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many criminal trials called (a) were adjourned to another day, (b) had a guilty plea tendered at any stage and (c) went ahead in each of the last five years.
Answer · Hugh Henry: The information requested is shown in the following tables. Adjournment of trials can be for a variety of reasons, and usually on the motion of the Crown or Defence.</p><p>Cases where evidence has been led and a guilty plea is tendered during the course of a …
15 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many police operations in each of the last five years firearms were issued to officers, broken down by police force area.
Answer · Hugh Henry: The deployment of firearms is an operational matter for chief constables. Firearms may be issued to officers for a range of reasons including for operations against persons known or suspected to be armed, for protection duties and for putting down animals. Th…
14 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11226 by Susan Deacon on 30 March 2001, what the numbers of average available staffed beds for neuroscience specialties were for 2001, 2002 and 2003 and are for 2004, broken down by NHS board of treatment.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The average number of available staffed beds for Neurosciences specialties, by NHS board of treatment, for the years 2001 to 2004, are given in the table.</p><p>NHSScotland: Average Available Staffed Beds<sup>1</sup> For Neurology And Neurosurgery Specialties…
14 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1932 by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 September 2003, what the most recent average waiting times are for first out-patient appointment with a neurology consultant following referral by a GP, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The number of first out-patient neurology appointments and the median waiting time for a first outpatient appointment with a consultant in the specialty of neurology, following referral by a general medical practitioner, by NHS board area of residence, in the…
13 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and by what percentage, each NHS board budget has increased (a) in total and (b) per capita and what the average increase was in each year since 1999.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: Details are as follows:</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td> <p>NHS Board</p> </td> <td> <p align=center>1999-2000</p> <p align=center>Total Budget Increase</p> <p align=center>(£000)</p> </td> <td> <p align=c…
13 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been treated for depression in each year since 2000, broken down by age.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The information that has been requested is not held centrally. </p><p>The only information collated centrally is the estimated episodes of face-to-face consultations for people presenting with depressive symptoms with a general practitioner.</p>
13 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many infection control nurses there are, expressed also per head of population, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The following table shows the number and rate per 100,000 population (headcount and whole time equivalent (WTE) of NHS employed infection control nurses at 21 May 2004. Rates per 100,000 population should be treated with caution as the variability between boa…
13 Jul 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GP practices have closed their patient lists in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: </p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <tr> <td> <p>NHS Fife</p> </td> <td> <p>5</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>NHS Greater Glasgow </p> </td> <td> <p>1</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Total</p> </td> <td> <p>6</p> </td> </tr></table>…