Parliamentary questions
Stewart Stevenson
2,358 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
1 Feb 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its employees are involved in delivering treatment for the abuse of drugs.
Answer · Hugh Henry: Scottish Executive employees are not directly involved in treatment delivery. Alcohol and drug action teams (ADATs) are responsible for the planning and delivery of the full range of local substance misuse services in line with both identified need and local …
1 Feb 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many places providing treatment for abusers of drugs were available in each of the last five years.
Answer · Hugh Henry: Information provided by drug action teams through corporate action plans shows the services providing treatment for drug misusers in each of the years for which figures are available. Services are often offered to people with problems with drugs or alcohol or…
1 Feb 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug users have participated in drug treatment programes in each of the last five years.
Answer · Hugh Henry: The Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) collects information on problem drug users at the point of their coming into contact with drug treatment services. The information from the SDMD is provided in the following table.</p> <p>New Individual Patients/Client…
1 Feb 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have successfully completed a drug treatment programme in each of the last five years.
Answer · Hugh Henry: The information requested is not held centrally.</p> <p>The expanded Scottish Drug Misuse Database will, in time, provide information on the total number of people receiving treatment, the type of treatment they are receiving and the number of people successf…
1 Feb 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many crack cocaine users currently receive community-based treatment.
Answer · Hugh Henry: The Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) collects information on problem drug users at the point of their coming into contact with drug treatment services. In thefinancial year 2004-05, the number of clients who accessed services (including community based tr…
30 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions associated with heroin use there were in each year since 1999, broken down by age and NHS board, and provided in table form.
Answer · Hugh Henry: Information showing hospital discharges with a diagnosis of disorders due to misuse of opioids, broken down by age and NHS board has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib number 38883).</p> <p>It is not possible to provide data linked…
30 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs were of its central administration in each year since 1999.
Answer · Tom McCabe: The information requested is given in the following Scottish Executive Accounts:</p> <p>Page 19 of the Scottish Executive Core Departments’ Resource Accounts for year ended 31 March 2000 published by The Stationery Office Limited in 2001, a copy of which is a…
30 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of growth of manufacturing productivity has been in each year since 1999.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: Manufacturing productivity ismeasured by calculating the output generated per worker in the industry. The rate of growth of manufacturing productivity is givenin the following table. This is derived from data from the Office for National Statistics(ONS) Annua…
25 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many multi-national companies have established (a) offices and (b) headquarters in Scotland in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: It is not possible to answer this question from the data held centrally. The Office for National Statistics’ firm-level database (Inter-Departmental Business Register) contains data on employment and turnover for all enterprises located in Scotland, but does …
20 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) police officers and (b) firefighters are due to retire in each of the next three years.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The estimated numbers of officers expected by the eight Scottish police forces to retire over the next three years (excluding any retirements on the grounds of ill-health) are as follows:</p> <p>2006-07: 489</p><p>2007-08: 451</p><p>2008-09: 637.</p><p>Inform…
20 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many extra hours have been worked by (a) police officers and (b) firefighters in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: This information is not held centrally.</p> <p>The operational requirement for overtime is a matter in the first instance for the Chief Constable or the Chief Fire Officer.</p>
20 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) police officers and (b) firefighters have worked extra hours in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: This information is not held centrally.</p> <p>The operational requirement for overtime is a matter in the first instance for the Chief Constable or the Chief Fire Officer</p>
19 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average percentage employment rates of the working age population were in each parliamentary constituency in the (a) 12 months to June 1997, or closest equivalent period, and (b) last 12-month period for which figures are available.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the official source of employment rates. Data from the LFS are not available for the 12 months to June 1997. However, employment rates are available for the periods March 1996 to February 1997 and March 1997 to February 1998. …
18 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive which private finance initiative schemes (a) have reached financial close and are completed and operational, (b) have reached financial close and work has started on site, (c) are in negotiation but have not yet reached financial close and (d) have not yet placed advertisements in the Off…
Answer · Tom McCabe: The information requested is already within the public domain and can be accessed from the Scottish Executive’s website. PPP projects in Scotland that are either operational or signed can be found on <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Finan…
18 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many diagnoses of high cholesterol there have been in each year since 1999 and how many of these diagnoses were made of people under the age of 18, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This information is not held centrally.</p>
18 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been registered with a GP in each year since 1999.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The table shows the number of patients registered with a GP<sup>1</sup> for all Scotland; 1999-2005.</p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <tr> <td> <p>Year</p></td> <td> <p>Patients Registered with a GP</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td> …
18 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many childcare places have closed in each year since 1999.
Answer · Robert Brown: The Scottish Executive does not collect information on the number of childcare places that have closed each year.</p> <p>Statistics are collected each year on pre-school education and childcare, which are available on the Scottish Executive website at <a href…
18 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new-build affordable housing units have been built in each parliamentary constituency in each year since 1999.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:</p> <p>Information is only available in respect of the number of new-build affordable housing units funded by the Communities Scotland Affordable H…
18 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in each parliamentary constituency earn (a) £3.60, (b) £3.61 to £3.80, (c) £3.81 to £4 and (d) £4.01 to £4.50 per hour, expressed also as a percentage of total employees in each constituency.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.</p> <p>The latest ASHE estimates available by Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) are for 2003. Ho…
12 Jan 2006 · Written Question
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 · Peter Peacock: 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.</p> <p>Attendance and Absence in Scottish Schools 2004-05</p><p><a href="http://www.scotland…
12 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive in what ways police forces differ in their approach to recording crime.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: All police forces have appliedthe national Scottish Crime Recording Standard since April 2004.</p>
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
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 · Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive has no estimates of numbers of non-licensed money lenders.</p> <p>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…
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many licensed money lenders there are.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive has no functions in relation to licensing of money lenders. Licensing of money lending is a reserved matter dealt with by the Office of Fair Trading.</p>
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many licensed debt collectors operate in Scotland and how many complaints have been made against them in each of the last five years.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive has no functions in relation to licensing of debt collectors. Licensing of debt collectors is a reserved matter dealt with by the Office of Fair Trading.</p>
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) police and (b) fire stations have closed in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The information requested is not held in the format requested or for all of the time periods stipulated. I refer the member to the answers to questions, S2W-9973 on 9 September 2004, S2W-10733, on 29 September 2004, and S2W-17970 on 16 August 2005.</p> <p>All…
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
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 · Cathy Jamieson: This information is not held centrally.</p>
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
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 · Peter Peacock: £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.</p> <p>Grant funding of £462,450 was also made available over 2002-03 and 2003-04 to Scotland Against Drugs for drug…
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
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 · Peter Peacock: 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.</p>
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to change the way in which police accidents are recorded.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The Executive has no plans tochange the way in which police accidents are recorded.</p>
11 Jan 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to ensure that each police force uses a standard system to record crime.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: All forces have applied the ScottishCrime Recording Standard since April 2004.</p>