Parliamentary questions
Richard Lochhead
2,448 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
5 Sep 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of dentists who completed their vocational training in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland working as dentists afterwards.
Answer · Susan Deacon: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17961.
5 Sep 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of those graduating from dental courses in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland after graduation to undertake dental vocational training.
Answer · Susan Deacon: This information is not currently available in the form requested. The Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education is currently working with ISD Scotland to map the characteristics and supply dynamics for the dental workforce in Scotland. T…
4 Sep 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for assistance under the Scottish Land Fund have been received to date, broken down by (a) parliamentary region and (b) local authority area; how many have been successful; whether it will detail any successful applications, and what the total value is of successful …
Answer · Wendy Alexander: Details of applications to, and awards made, under the New Opportunities Fund's Scottish Land Fund are a reserved matter for the Department of Culture Media and Sport. Can I invite the member to write to Stephen Dunmore, Chief Executive of the New Opportuniti…
4 Sep 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths of persons travelling on powered two-wheelers have occurred in each police force area in each of the last three years and to date in 2001.
Answer · Sarah Boyack: Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form. The following table gives the numbers of users of motorcycles (including motor scooters and motor cycle combination…
4 Sep 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the students accepted on to dental degree courses at Glasgow and Dundee universities in each of the last three years were residing in Scotland when accepted for the course.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The information requested is shown in the following table, which should be read in conjunction with the notes below.<FONT FACE="Arial"><P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Percentage of Scottish Domiciled Entrants to Pre-Clinical Dentistry Courses<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CE…
4 Sep 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to recruit dentists from either outwith Scotland or outwith the rest of the UK or Ireland to fill vacant general dental practitioner posts.
Answer · Susan Deacon: We currently have no plans to recruit dentists from overseas. A sub-group of the Scottish Advisory Committee on the Dental Workforce (SACDW) has been established to look at recruitment and retention issues within dentistry in Scotland and will report its find…
4 Sep 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for general dental practitioners exist in each health board area, expressed both numerically and as a percentage of the total number of whole-time equivalent general dental practitioners in that area.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The information requested is not collected centrally. I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17949.
4 Sep 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of whole-time equivalent general dental practitioners to population is in (a) each health board area and (b) each local authority area.
Answer · Susan Deacon: Information on the whole-time equivalent status for general dental practitioners is not collected centrally. The following tables show the ratio of GDP's to population in terms of headcount.<P>Number of GDP's<SUP>1 </SUP>and population per GDP<SUP>2 </SUP>by …
29 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths there have been so far this year and in each of the last five years, broken down by health board area and expressed as a percentage of the population in each area.
Answer · Iain Gray: Published information is available for 1995-99 and this is given in the table. Data covering 2000 will be published by the General Register Office for Scotland before the end of September.<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2><P>Drug-related deaths, by health board area,…
29 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals are on the alcohol misuse database in each health board area expressed as a percentage of the population in each area and as an overall percentage of misusers, and what the nearest equivalent figures are for each of the last five years.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: There is no national alcohol misuse database. While some health boards do collect information about the level of alcohol misuse in their area, this information varies from board to board and is not collated nationally.
29 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give a breakdown of the recent #12 million schools repairs announcement by local authority, showing how much each local authority's allocation is per head of population and per school, and whether it will give any equivalent figures for each of the last three years.
Answer · Jack McConnell: The information requested is given in the table. The distribution of the School Buildings Improvement Fund was not made on the basis either of the population or number of schools in each authority's area. It was made on the basis of the education element of t…
29 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visitors Historic Scotland properties located in the north east of Scotland parliamentary region have received so far this year and how this figure compares with the equivalent period in each of the last three years.
Answer · Allan Wilson: I have asked Graeme Munro, Chief Executive of Historic Scotland to answer. His response is as follows.<P>Listed in the table are the visitor numbers for Historic Scotland staffed sites in the north east of Scotland parliamentary region for the period 1 Januar…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11828 by Susan Deacon on 8 January 2001, when it expects it to reach a final conclusion on the recommendations in connection with the closure of emergency control rooms submitted by the Scottish Ambulance Service in December 2000.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The Scottish Executive has now advised the Scottish Ambulance Service that it should prepare a full business case for the proposed changes to its emergency service control rooms following the recent review. The Executive expects to receive the full business c…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place to measure the performance of Drug Action Teams.
Answer · Iain Gray: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17542.
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when new resources will be made available to HM Prison Aberdeen in order to improve drug treatment facilities for inmates and what form these new resources will take.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:<P>HM Prison, Aberdeen will benefit from expanded in-prison addictions casework provision from late autumn 2001. Short-term post-release su…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) residential, (b) operational and (c) other category prison officers based at each local and open prison have resigned from the Scottish Prison Service in each of the last 12 months and how many in each category have resigned from the Scottish Prison Service as a whole in each…
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:<P>Information in the form requested is not readily available and could not be produced except at disproportionate cost.<P>SPS staff turnove…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of prisoners who received drug treatment in the last three years re-offended following release within (a) one month, (b) three months and (c) any period.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:<P>This information is not available. However, SPS has recently estimated that 46% of those released from prison custody return to prison w…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) reception and (b) non-reception drug tests have been carried out on new inmates at each local prison in each of the last three years and this year to date, and in the Scottish Prison Service as a whole, giving the figures also as a percentage of new inmates in each case.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:<P>The readily available information is in the table:<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=618><TR><TD WIDTH="14%" VALIGN="TOP" R…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the daily average number of prisoners admitted to each local prison establishment has been for each month this year and for each of the last three years also expressed in per capita terms in relation to the population served by that prison.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:<P>The information is not available in the form requested. However, details of the average number of prisoners admitted to Scottish prisons is pub…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visits the Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service has made to each local prison establishment since his appointment.
Answer · Jim Wallace: The information is not readily available and could only be assembled at disproportionate cost.
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visits to each local prison establishment HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has made in each of the last three years and how much time he or his officials have spent at each prison over the same period.
Answer · Jim Wallace: There are nine local prisons in Scotland - Aberdeen, Barlinnie, Cornton Vale, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Greenock, Inverness, Kilmarnock and Perth.<P>Each of Scotland's 17 prisons currently receives a full, formal inspection on a cyclical basis, every 3<FONT FACE="…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average number of inmates occupying each local prison establishment has been for each of the last three years, and for each month so far this year, indicating in each case in both numerical and percentage terms the variance in relation to each prison's recommended capacity.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:<P>The information is not available in the form requested However, details of the average number of prisoners in each prison is published annually…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide for the last three years and the current year to date, for each local prison establishment, the number of staff in each category and number of inmates, giving the staff/inmates ratio in each case.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:<B><FONT SIZE=2><P>The information is not readily available and could not be produced except at disproportionate cost. Prisoner populations …
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current rate of staff turnover is in the Scottish Prison Service compared to the five-year period prior to the introduction of the Staff Structure Review instigated in March 1995.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:<P>This information is not held centrally.
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current staff turnover is at HMP Kilmarnock in relation to the Scottish Prison Service as a whole.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:<P>The SPS does not hold information on staff turnover at Kilmarnock. It is solely a matter for Premier Prison Services, the operators of th…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the most up to date figures available for staff turnover are, listed by staff category, for each local prison establishment and the Scottish Prison Service as a whole.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:<P>The readily available information is as follows:<P>Total SPS staff turnover for Period 1 April 2000 to 31 March 2001 by pay band was:<TABLE BOR…
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff, broken down by staff category, are currently absent through illness in each local and open prison establishment, giving details of stress-related illnesses or prisoner-related injuries, and what the total figures are for the Scottish Prison Service.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows.<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17717.
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost has been for each local and open prison establishment of the absence of prison officers through sickness in each of the last three years and this year to date.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17717.
23 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many days have been lost through sickness in each local and open prison establishment, broken down by staff category, giving the totals for each prison and the Scottish Prison Service as a whole, in each of the last three years and this year to date.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The information requested is not held in the format sought. The following data is taken from available material.<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The…
22 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what outstanding hours in lieu are owed to staff in each local and open prison establishment, listed by staff category and giving the totals for each establishment and the Scottish Prison Service as a whole.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:<P>The readily available information is as follows:<P>Net TOIL Balance by Establishment at 1 August 2001<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADD…