Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-09384

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-8940 by Cathy Jamieson on 23 June 2004, whether it will provide a breakdown of drug offences that were (a) solved by the police, (b) prosecuted and (c) convicted in (i) 1999-00, (ii) 2000-01, (iii) 2001-02, (iv) 2002-03 and (v) 2003-04.

The available information on drug offences which were recorded by the police and on persons proceeded against for drug offences is given in the following tables. Statistics dealing with recorded crime and court proceedings are not directly comparable as a person may be proceeded against for more than one crime involving more than one victim, and a crime may be recorded in one year and proceedings taken in a subsequent year. Charges recorded by the police may also be altered as a result of the judicial process.

Drugs Offences Cleared up by the Police, 1999-2000 to 2003-04^P

Type of Offence	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04^P
Illegal importation of drugs	7	1	4	3	2
Production, manufacture or cultivation of drugs	106	131	139	196	251
Supply, possession with intent to supply etc. of drugs	7,977	8,999	10,080	9,772	9,178
Possession of drugs	21,693	22,525	26,125	30,319	32,259
Drugs, money laundering related offences	1	0	0	0	0
Drugs, other offences	450	457	282	272	274
Total	30,234	32,113	36,630	40,562	41,964

Note:

Data for 2003-2004 are provisional.

Persons Proceeded Against for Drug Offences¹, 1999-2000 to 2002-03

Type of Offence	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02²	2002-03^2,3
Total proceeded against:	��
Illegal importation of drugs	0	5	6	5
Production, manufacture or cultivation of drugs	93	59	55	59
Supply, possession with intent to supply etc. of drugs	2,003	1,730	1,768	1,559
Possession of drugs	5,259	4,549	5,091	4,548
Drugs, money laundering related offences	0	0	0	0
Drugs, other offences	11	6	7	16
Total	7,366	6,349	6,927	6,187
Charge proved:	��
Illegal importation of drugs	0	5	6	5
Production, manufacture or cultivation of drugs	77	49	45	52
Supply, possession with intent to supply etc. of drugs	1,433	1,268	1,292	1,334
Possession of drugs	4,636	3,946	4,540	4,308
Drugs, money laundering related offences	0	0	0	0
Drugs, other offences	8	5	5	15
Total	6,154	5,273	5,888	5,714

Notes:

1. Where main offence

2. Recording delays mean that cases where the charge was not proved may be under-stated in the totals for persons proceeded against.

3. Provisional data.

Question reference: S2W-09490

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16142 by Mr Jim Wallace on 15 June 2001, what percentage of cases in each of the last five years resulted in a custodial sentence, broken down by sheriff court.

Question reference: S2W-09493

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers were (a) charged, (b) proceeded against and (c) had a charge proved for driving while disqualified in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

Information on persons charged by the police is not held centrally. The information available on offences proceeded against in court is given in the tables. There is no simple relationship between sheriff court and local authority areas as some sheriff courts deal with offenders from more than one local authority area.

Offences of Driving while Disqualified Proceeded Against in Scottish Courts, by Court, 1998-2002

��	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002³
Sheriff courts:	��	��	��	��	��
Aberdeen	231	259	273	283	278
Airdrie	84	97	88	93	105
Alloa	17	17	27	25	34
Arbroath	77	34	23	37	50
Ayr	84	68	94	87	102
Banff	4	19	15	13	21
Campbeltown	6	3	3	2	1
Cupar	21	22	24	28	22
Dingwall	13	19	12	2	18
Dornoch	4	6	4	7	2
Dumbarton	74	76	70	95	54
Dumfries	72	66	101	100	86
Dundee	186	174	176	200	262
Dunfermline	95	90	106	122	147
Dunoon	14	6	5	6	7
Duns	3	8	4	1	5
Edinburgh	436	427	461	428	566
Elgin	44	62	75	62	71
Falkirk	97	83	86	101	131
Forfar	21	23	20	30	36
Fort William	5	10	4	11	11
Glasgow	771	712	699	648	613
Greenock	62	49	31	39	39
Haddington	26	28	37	41	46
Hamilton	216	208	282	214	275
Inverness	30	29	50	56	64
Jedburgh	16	21	23	18	21
Kilmarnock	150	143	142	145	156
Kirkcaldy	116	94	137	152	154
Kirkcudbright	10	11	6	6	6
Kirkwall	3	13	3	2	2
Lanark	29	31	34	45	43
Lerwick	4	5	7	3	0
Linlithgow	85	93	90	149	144
Lochmaddy	2	2	3	4	1
Oban	8	13	11	5	7
Paisley	198	191	146	138	176
Peebles	5	6	4	8	5
Perth	58	67	63	87	101
Peterhead	27	32	49	36	39
Portree	1	0	1	4	2
Rothesay	0	1	0	3	3
Selkirk	14	18	15	12	11
Stirling	48	59	48	59	84
Stonehaven	15	30	19	24	31
Stornoway	8	9	4	7	5
Stranraer	31	21	22	29	30
Tain	17	4	9	14	26
Wick	5	2	6	5	6
Sub-total	3,543	3,461	3,619²	3,686	4,099
District and stipendiary magistrates courts:	��
Dundee City	0	0	1	0	0
Fife	0	1	0	0	0
Glasgow City	6	0	1	1	33
South Lanarkshire	0	0	0	0	1
West Lothian	1	1	0	0	0
Sub-total	7	2	2	1	34
All courts¹	3,554	3,464	3,624	3,691	4,136

Notes:

1. Includes offences proceeded against in the High Court and where court type not known.

2. Includes seven offences where court location not known.

3. Recording delays mean that offences which were not proved may be under-stated in the totals for offences proceeded against.

Offences of Driving while Disqualified with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts, by Court, 1998-2002

��	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Sheriff courts:	��
Aberdeen	218	232	247	264	259
Airdrie	76	89	74	79	91
Alloa	17	17	26	25	33
Arbroath	62	32	21	35	42
Ayr	80	65	89	78	98
Banff	3	18	15	12	21
Campbeltown	6	3	3	2	1
Cupar	20	19	21	28	20
Dingwall	13	17	10	2	17
Dornoch	3	6	4	6	2
Dumbarton	67	69	66	84	48
Dumfries	67	61	93	90	79
Dundee	166	149	149	180	227
Dunfermline	89	85	103	115	131
Dunoon	14	6	5	6	7
Duns	3	8	4	1	4
Edinburgh	416	412	450	408	499
Elgin	42	49	45	53	66
Falkirk	84	79	79	95	118
Forfar	21	23	19	30	34
Fort William	5	10	4	11	11
Glasgow	719	659	629	595	581
Greenock	59	47	29	34	38
Haddington	25	28	34	41	46
Hamilton	197	189	257	197	263
Inverness	27	26	40	51	53
Jedburgh	16	20	23	18	20
Kilmarnock	142	139	137	138	139
Kirkcaldy	103	89	120	141	144
Kirkcudbright	9	10	5	6	6
Kirkwall	3	11	2	2	2
Lanark	26	29	32	40	41
Lerwick	4	4	6	3	0
Linlithgow	84	93	87	139	136
Lochmaddy	2	2	3	4	1
Oban	7	11	11	5	7
Paisley	186	167	129	128	170
Peebles	5	5	4	8	5
Perth	47	60	55	76	85
Peterhead	23	30	42	33	33
Portree	1	0	1	4	2
Rothesay	0	1	0	3	3
Selkirk	14	18	15	12	11
Stirling	43	57	46	56	80
Stonehaven	15	26	18	23	29
Stornoway	7	9	4	6	4
Stranraer	30	18	21	29	28
Tain	17	4	8	13	25
Wick	4	2	6	5	5
Sub-total	3,287	3,203	3,298²	3,414	3,765
District and stipendiary magistrates courts:	��
Dundee City	0	0	1	0	0
Fife	0	1	0	0	0
Glasgow City	6	0	1	1	33
South Lanarkshire	0	0	0	0	1
West Lothian	1	1	0	0	0
Sub-total	7	2	2	1	34
All courts¹	3,297	3,205	3,303	3,419	3,802

Notes:

1. Includes offences proceeded against in the High Court and where court type not known.

2. Includes seven offences where court location not known.

Question reference: S2W-09492

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers were (a) charged, (b) proceeded against and (c) had a charge proved for driving without insurance in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

Information on persons charged by the police is not held centrally. The information available on offences proceeded against in court is given in the tables. There is no simple relationship between sheriff court and local authority areas as some sheriff courts deal with offenders from more than one local authority area.

Offences of Driving Without Insurance Proceeded Against in Scottish Courts, by Court, 1998-2002

Court	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002³
Sheriff courts:
Aberdeen	1,088	1,102	887	1,129	1,486
Airdrie	407	539	496	535	551
Alloa	102	111	118	157	212
Arbroath	271	171	217	229	299
Ayr	478	411	517	466	588
Banff	96	162	96	148	175
Campbeltown	22	25	22	28	29
Cupar	167	156	169	163	186
Dingwall	86	83	50	69	93
Dornoch	27	24	12	17	29
Dumbarton	415	399	447	383	362
Dumfries	398	492	481	442	525
Dundee	775	732	753	792	1,116
Dunfermline	436	390	466	594	729
Dunoon	73	59	53	53	62
Duns	33	27	33	38	44
Edinburgh	2,066	1,801	1,962	1,861	2,291
Elgin	283	279	201	318	316
Falkirk	400	438	466	608	736
Forfar	139	133	137	154	200
Fort William	47	49	20	53	65
Glasgow	2,099	1,592	1,287	1,269	1,272
Greenock	271	265	269	220	250
Haddington	178	164	157	179	248
Hamilton	1,202	1,206	1,329	1,450	1,541
Inverness	220	243	135	300	342
Jedburgh	61	77	94	95	105
Kilmarnock	586	575	545	657	610
Kirkcaldy	596	530	611	755	879
Kirkcudbright	72	83	68	39	76
Kirkwall	29	45	11	29	49
Lanark	144	191	194	250	261
Lerwick	27	36	28	37	43
Linlithgow	478	492	632	729	981
Lochmaddy	16	12	7	16	10
Oban	44	64	47	35	50
Paisley	642	615	608	535	598
Peebles	28	15	10	35	33
Perth	412	361	395	515	668
Peterhead	205	127	142	162	198
Portree	17	14	4	26	24
Rothesay	3	6	22	11	14
Selkirk	78	75	41	69	88
Stirling	236	272	260	327	417
Stonehaven	158	167	101	160	163
Stornoway	43	53	25	37	46
Stranraer	157	148	125	182	176
Tain	94	67	19	81	120
Wick	48	44	38	36	54
Sub-total	15,953	15,122	15,610²	16,473	19,410
District and stipendiary magistrate courts:
Aberdeen City	2	1	0	0	0
Aberdeenshire	0	0	0	1	0
Angus	0	5	0	1	1
Argyll and Bute	2	0	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	2	0	1	0
Dundee City	0	0	2	1	2
East Ayrshire	0	2	0	0	0
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	1
East Lothian	0	3	0	0	0
Edinburgh, City of	7	7	4	1	1
Falkirk	2	2	2	1	0
Fife	1	6	2	0	1
Glasgow City	1,050	1,051	885	1,504	1,590
Highland	1	1	1	0	1
Inverclyde	1	1	0	0	0
Moray	0	0	1	0	0
North Ayrshire	0	1	0	0	0
North Lanarkshire	5	0	1	2	1
Perth and Kinross	0	0	0	0	1
Renfrewshire	0	1	0	0	0
Scottish Borders	0	0	1	4	0
South Ayrshire	2	0	0	1	0
South Lanarkshire	1	0	0	1	3
Stirling	2	2	1	2	0
West Dunbartonshire	2	0	0	1	0
West Lothian	0	0	2	0	0
Sub-total	1,078	1,085	902	1,521	1,602
All courts¹	17,096	16,251	16,570	18,026	21,030

Notes:

1. Includes offences proceededagainst in the High Court and where court type not known.

2. Includes 803 offences wherecourt location not known.

3. Recording delays mean thatoffences which were not proved may be under-stated in the totals for offences proceededagainst.

Offences of Driving WithoutInsurance with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts, by Court, 1998-2002

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Sheriff Courts:
Aberdeen	994	970	778	1,021	1,343
Airdrie	346	472	422	468	491
Alloa	89	91	110	137	194
Arbroath	229	158	195	201	262
Ayr	448	373	472	424	531
Banff	90	157	89	141	173
Campbeltown	21	24	22	25	25
Cupar	155	144	152	144	161
Dingwall	74	68	42	65	83
Dornoch	19	23	10	13	24
Dumbarton	356	332	383	326	316
Dumfries	330	410	387	349	443
Dundee	687	640	666	701	950
Dunfermline	384	359	416	535	622
Dunoon	68	56	49	45	56
Duns	31	25	31	35	39
Edinburgh	1,917	1,647	1,779	1,744	2,038
Elgin	263	239	172	278	276
Falkirk	373	409	430	560	660
Forfar	135	121	128	131	174
Fort William	43	47	13	50	61
Glasgow	1,911	1,440	1,153	1,166	1,199
Greenock	248	242	254	209	238
Haddington	161	147	142	168	223
Hamilton	1,069	1,063	1,188	1,297	1,379
Inverness	195	209	116	269	292
Jedburgh	58	70	90	85	96
Kilmarnock	555	538	508	604	550
Kirkcaldy	555	495	559	677	798
Kirkcudbright	57	70	51	33	59
Kirkwall	27	42	9	29	48
Lanark	118	168	171	201	191
Lerwick	25	29	26	35	36
Linlithgow	439	464	520	668	842
Lochmaddy	13	10	6	15	10
Oban	39	58	43	32	50
Paisley	605	544	545	490	551
Peebles	26	14	10	35	31
Perth	357	309	327	441	538
Peterhead	186	117	126	145	171
Portree	15	12	3	24	23
Rothesay	2	5	22	10	13
Selkirk	72	71	41	65	79
Stirling	210	245	237	279	385
Stonehaven	155	159	93	155	146
Stornoway	40	44	19	33	40
Stranraer	130	107	103	146	146
Tain	84	60	18	72	101
Wick	46	38	33	32	47
Sub-total	14,450	13,535	13,853²	14,808	17,204
District and stipendiary magistrate courts:
Aberdeen City	2	1	0	0	0
Aberdeenshire	0	0	0	1	0
Angus	0	2	0	1	1
Argyll and Bute	2	0	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	1	0	0	0
Dundee City	0	0	1	1	2
East Ayrshire	0	2	0	0	0
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	1
East Lothian	0	3	0	0	0
Edinburgh, City of	7	6	3	1	1
Falkirk	2	0	0	1	0
Fife	1	4	2	0	1
Glasgow City	933	903	769	1,368	1,477
Highland	1	0	1	0	1
Inverclyde	1	1	0	0	0
Moray	0	0	1	0	0
North Ayrshire	0	1	0	0	0
North Lanarkshire	5	0	1	2	1
Renfrewshire	0	1	0	0	0
Scottish Borders	0	0	1	3	0
South Ayrshire	2	0	0	1	0
South Lanarkshire	0	0	0	1	3
Stirling	1	1	1	1	0
West Dunbartonshire	2	0	0	1	0
West Lothian	0	0	1	0	0
Sub-total	959	926	781	1,382	1,488
All courts¹	15,412	14,461	14,645	16,198	18,701

Notes:

1. Includes offences proceeded against in the High Court and where court type not known.

2. Includes 694 offences where court location not known.

Question reference: S2W-09484

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the number of people was with a charge proved in a sheriff court where there was a bail aggravation in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-09497

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were (a) charged, (b) proceeded against and (c) had a charge proved for carrying knives in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

Information on persons chargedby the police is not held centrally. The information available on persons proceededagainst in court is given in the tables. There is no simple relationship betweensheriff court and local authority areas as some sheriff courts deal with offendersfrom more than one local authority area.

Persons Proceeded Against inScottish Courts for Having in a Public Place an Article with a Blade or Point¹,by Court, 1998-2002

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002³
Sheriff courts:
Aberdeen	26	23	23	28	31
Airdrie	15	23	30	36	33
Alloa	3	1	2	5	2
Arbroath	9	4	7	5	10
Ayr	22	23	34	26	25
Banff	0	0	1	1	3
Campbeltown	0	0	0	4	1
Cupar	0	1	1	2	1
Dingwall	1	0	2	1	0
Dornoch	0	1	0	0	0
Dumbarton	49	50	43	64	35
Dumfries	7	12	11	10	13
Dundee	47	45	38	47	49
Dunfermline	8	9	11	7	8
Dunoon	3	4	5	5	1
Duns	0	1	1	1	5
Edinburgh	125	109	94	99	119
Elgin	5	6	5	7	10
Falkirk	15	17	18	21	21
Forfar	0	3	6	5	5
Fort William	3	1	1	3	4
Glasgow	430	513	546	686	511
Greenock	42	48	60	48	76
Haddington	9	7	2	9	15
Hamilton	77	113	147	135	126
Inverness	13	7	1	6	12
Jedburgh	2	3	2	6	6
Kilmarnock	73	72	78	75	61
Kirkcaldy	6	9	8	25	28
Kirkcudbright	0	0	7	3	5
Kirkwall	0	4	0	2	0
Lanark	8	12	13	17	10
Lerwick	1	1	1	1	2
Linlithgow	16	10	16	17	27
Lochmaddy	0	0	0	1	0
Oban	2	4	3	3	2
Paisley	112	93	100	103	76
Peebles	2	0	0	0	2
Perth	12	5	12	18	15
Peterhead	11	4	2	4	8
Rothesay	2	0	1	7	3
Selkirk	8	5	4	5	6
Stirling	7	8	4	11	6
Stonehaven	1	0	0	1	0
Stornoway	3	1	1	0	2
Stranraer	7	11	0	3	3
Tain	0	4	3	1	1
Wick	1	1	2	3	2
Sub-total	1,183	1,268	1,346	1,567	1,381
District and stipendiary magistrates courts:
Aberdeen City	3	0	0	2	1
Aberdeenshire	1	2	1	9	4
Argyll and Bute	1	1	0	2	0
Clackmannanshire	0	1	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	0	1	0
Dundee City	1	3	0	0	0
East Lothian	0	0	0	2	0
Edinburgh, City of	0	0	0	2	1
Fife	4	2	1	0	0
Glasgow City	3	7	6	3	8
Highland	1	1	1	0	1
North Lanarkshire	1	3	2	0	0
Perth and Kinross	1	0	0	0	0
Scottish Borders	0	1	2	1	0
West Dunbartonshire	1	0	3	0	0
Sub-total	17	21	16	22	15
All courts²	1,201	1,291	1,364	1,593	1,396

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes persons proceededagainst in the High Court and where court type not known.

3. Recording delays mean thatcases where the charges were not proved may be under-stated in the totals for personsproceeded against.

Persons with a Charge Provedin Scottish Courts for having in a Public Place an Article with a Blade or Point¹,by Court, 1998-2002

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Sheriff courts:
Aberdeen	25	20	19	23	29
Airdrie	13	14	22	25	27
Alloa	3	0	1	5	2
Arbroath	9	2	5	5	8
Ayr	16	18	27	21	23
Banff	0	0	1	1	2
Campbeltown	0	0	0	3	1
Cupar	0	1	1	2	1
Dingwall	1	0	1	1	0
Dornoch	0	1	0	0	0
Dumbarton	39	37	32	38	30
Dumfries	5	10	10	9	12
Dundee	32	36	33	38	42
Dunfermline	6	9	8	6	7
Dunoon	2	2	3	5	1
Duns	0	1	1	1	4
Edinburgh	120	96	86	88	106
Elgin	5	5	5	7	8
Falkirk	13	16	18	17	19
Forfar	0	2	5	5	5
Fort William	2	1	1	3	3
Glasgow	323	396	433	529	469
Greenock	39	37	52	43	73
Haddington	9	6	1	8	14
Hamilton	63	88	119	108	108
Inverness	10	4	1	5	12
Jedburgh	2	3	2	6	6
Kilmarnock	63	58	65	63	60
Kirkcaldy	5	7	8	22	21
Kirkcudbright	0	0	5	2	5
Kirkwall	0	4	0	2	0
Lanark	7	11	9	15	8
Lerwick	1	1	1	1	2
Linlithgow	16	9	14	14	25
Lochmaddy	0	0	0	1	0
Oban	2	4	3	1	2
Paisley	92	67	71	78	65
Peebles	1	0	0	0	2
Perth	6	2	8	12	12
Peterhead	10	1	1	4	6
Rothesay	1	0	1	7	3
Selkirk	8	5	4	5	6
Stirling	4	5	4	11	4
Stonehaven	0	0	0	1	0
Stornoway	3	1	1	0	2
Stranraer	5	7	0	2	3
Tain	0	4	3	1	1
Wick	1	1	2	3	2
Sub-total	962	992	1,087	1,247	1,241
District and stipendiary magistrates courts:
Aberdeen City	3	0	0	2	1
Aberdeenshire	1	2	1	9	4
Argyll and Bute	1	1	0	2	0
Clackmannanshire	0	1	0	0	0
Dundee City	1	0	0	0	0
East Lothian	0	0	0	2	0
Edinburgh, City of	0	0	0	2	1
Fife	3	2	1	0	0
Glasgow City	1	6	4	3	8
Highland	1	0	1	0	1
North Lanarkshire	1	2	2	0	0
Scottish Borders	0	1	2	1	0
West Dunbartonshire	1	0	3	0	0
Sub-total	13	15	14	21	15
All courts²	976	1,008	1,101	1,270	1,256

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes persons proceededagainst in the High Court and where court type not known.

Question reference: S2W-09299

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many criminal cases were called for trial in each of the last three years and how many cases were adjourned, broken down by sheriff court district.

The available information isgiven in the following tables:

Sheriff Court - Solemn Criminal Cases

Called for Trial	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Grampian Highland and Islands	204	210	263
Tayside, Central and Fife	400	470	467
Lothian and Borders	389	367	306
Glasgow and Strathkelvin	570	545	868
North Strathclyde	340	408	367
South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway	377	456	479
Totals	2,280	2,456	2,750

Adjourned	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Grampian Highland and Islands	67	53	100
Tayside, Central and Fife	80	115	123
Lothian and Borders	93	77	52
Glasgow and Strathkelvin	84	84	157
North Strathclyde	80	119	118
South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway	94	73	75
Totals	498	521	625

Sheriff Court - Summary Criminal Cases

Called for Trial	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Grampian Highland and Islands	4,539	5,073	5,332
Tayside, Central and Fife	9,036	10,234	9,838
Lothian and Borders	7,616	8,174	6,685
Glasgow and Strathkelvin	11,366	12,319	10,325
North Strathclyde	6,746	6,988	7,745
South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway	7,768	9,352	9,086
Totals	47,071	52,140	49,011

Adjourned	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Grampian Highland and Islands	744	809	883
Tayside, Central and Fife	1,794	1,993	1,874
Lothian and Borders	1,288	1,224	1,035
Glasgow and Strathkelvin	2,339	2,714	2,127
North Strathclyde	1,077	1,210	1,276
South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway	1,398	1,603	1,561
Totals	8,640	9,553	8,756

Question reference: S2W-09242

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12626 by Susan Deacon on 2 February 2001, which NHS boards have followed the family friendly policy guidance launched on 26 January 2001 and how often that guidance is reviewed in response to changes in national trends.

The Family Friendly PartnershipInformation Network guideline includes around 24 individual policies which NHSboards are expected to meet or exceed over time. While all NHS boards are followingthe guidance, they have different perceived needs and are at different stages inpolicy development. The family friendly guidance is currently being reviewed totake account of good practice and legislation developed since the document was publishedand is expected to be consulted on next spring.

Question reference: S2W-09309

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing vacancies there have been in each of the last five years and, of these, how many were vacant for more than three months, broken down by NHS board and expressed as a percentage of the nursing staff complement of each board.

Information on vacancies in NHSScotlandis published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics,at .Information on vacancies for nursing staff is published in table 10 in Section ENursing and Midwifery Staff for each year since 2001. Figures are presentedas vacancy rates and whole time equivalent (WTE) number of vacancies. Whole timeequivalent adjusts headcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff. Latestavailable figures are at 31 March 2003. Figures at 31 March 2004are due to be published on 12 August 2004.

Information on vacancies for1999 and 2000 is unavailable by health board due to the data being incomplete. Howeveran estimated trend for Scotland can be found for these years within table 7 in SectionE (Nursing and Midwifery Staff) on the Workforce Statistics website.

Question reference: S2W-09293

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultant posts are currently vacant and, of these, how many have been vacant for more than six months, broken down by NHS board and expressed as a percentage of the complement of each hospital.

Information on the number of consultant vacancies is collected via an annual medical and dental census. This is currently accurate to 30 September 2003.

Number of Consultant Vacancies (Total and those Over Six Months) by NHS Board (at 30 September 2003)

	Whole-Time Equivalent		Whole-Time Equivalent Vacancies as a Percentage of Establishment
Health Board	Total Vacancies	Over 6 Month Vacancies	Total Vacancy Rate	Over 6 Month Vacancy Rate
Scotland	235.4	122.0	6.7%	3.5%
Argyll and Clyde	14.9	9.3	à��6.5%	4.0%
Ayrshire and Arran	11.0	6.0	6.1%	3.3%
Borders	6.0	5.0	9.9%	8.3%
Dumfries and Galloway	9.5	8.5	10.9%	9.7%
Fife	20.4	10.5	12.6%	6.5%
Forth Valley	7.0	2.0	5.1%	1.4%
Grampian	8.5	2.5	2.4%	0.7%
Greater Glasgow	57.3	9.0	6.4%	1.0%
Highland	15.0	7.0	10.4%	4.8%
Lanarkshire	39.8	35.8	13.7%	12.3%
Lothian	26.0	16.0	4.5%	2.7%
Orkney	1.0	1.0	20.0%	20.0%
Shetland	1.9	0.9	21.0%	10.0%
Tayside	8.9	5.0	2.9%	1.6%
Western Isles	?4.0	?3.0	?25.0%	?18.8%
Common Service Agency	?2.5	?0.5	?7.7%	?1.5%
Golden Jubilee	?1.0	-	?25.0%	-
State Hospital	?0.7	-	?8.6%	-

Source: ISD Scotland

Note: Establishment is calculatedby adding the number of staff in post to the number of vacant posts

Further information on vacancyrates within specific organisations is available via the ISD website at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

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