- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has provided to address alcohol misuse in each year since 1999 and what percentage of such funding was spent on advertising.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in the following table. Budgets for 2004-05 have still to be agreed.
Specific central Executivebudgets to address alcohol problems from 1999 to 2004, showing proportionatespend on national advertising.
| Year | Budget | Of which spend on national advertising | % advertising spend |
| 1999-00 | £1,361,000 | £25,000 | 1.8% |
| 2000-01 | £1,675,299 | £496,970 | 29.7% |
| 2001-02 | £1,605,840 | £315,086 | 19.6% |
| 2002-03 | £2,918,622 | £1,073,516 | 36.8% |
| 2003-04 | £2,785,458 | £785,000 | 28.2% |
Funding for services addressing alcohol problems is provided within resources allocated to NHS boards and local authorities, but is not specifically identified by the Executive.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to collect information centrally on the level of funding allocated by NHS boards to address (a) alcohol and (b) drug misuse.
Answer
Some information on thelevel of spend by NHS boards on addressing drug misuse is currently collectedthrough drug action team corporate action plans, available at
http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm,and alcohol action team local action plans, available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/health/alcoholproblems/plans.asp.Information on direct spendon both drugs and alcohol will be collected within combined drug and alcohol actionteam plans for 2004-05. However, many services, particularly for alcohol, areprovided within a generic setting and funded from general allocations, andtherefore expenditure cannot be separately identified by the Executive. Someinformation which will be collected will also cover combined addictionsservices, where drugs and alcohol spend cannot be separately identified.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will take at a national level, other than advertising, to address (a) alcohol and (b) drug misuse.
Answer
The Plan for Action onalcohol problems (
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/health/alcoholproblems/docs/paap-00.asp)sets out a range of actions under the headings of culture change, preventionand education, provision of services, protection and controls and delivery.The drugs strategy (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/documents-w7/tdis-00.htm)and subsequent reports identify a range of actions under the four pillars of young people, communities, treatment andavailability.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to section 12AA of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 as amended by the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002, what monitoring is in place in respect of the notification by local authorities to carers regarding their possible entitlement to an assessment for accessing services.
Answer
From 2004-05 we will becollecting data from local authorities on the numbers of carers’ assessmentsbeing carried out. We propose to build on this by collecting additional data onthe numbers of carers requesting assessments. These indicators should provide apicture over time of local authority performance in ensuring that carers aremade aware of their right to an assessment. Other performance indicators andoutcome measures for carers will be developed in due course and we are alreadyworking closely on this with key stakeholders.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the report by the Mental Welfare Commission on the Miss X case will be published.
Answer
The MentalWelfare Commission does not propose to publish a report on the Miss X case. Avery brief anonymised summary of the case, with the Commission’s findings andits recommendations, will be available on its website next month.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5962 by Malcolm Chisholm of 25 February 2004, what the cost was of providing free personal care for the 780 people under 65 with dementia.
Answer
Only those aged 65 and overare eligible to apply for free personal care. I refer the member to the answergiven to S2W-5963 in respect of those under age 65.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what central information it has on the status of medical equipment in NHS boards and whether it will take steps to introduce a specific national medical equipment management standard, as referred to in recommendation 5 of Audit Scotland's report, Better Equipped to Care? - Follow-up report on managing medical equipment.
Answer
The Scottish Executive only holds central information on the monetary value of medicalequipment as an integral part of the summarised annual accounts for the NHS.NHS bodies themselves are required to maintain asset registers which detail themedical equipment owned by that body. The Scottish Executive will be considering fully therecommendations of Audit Scotland’s report Better Equipped to Care? – Follow upreport on managing medical equipment including recommendation 5 and willrespond in due course.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any information on a national or NHS board area basis on any incidents in which a patient's health or recovery has been put at risk due to outdated equipment and, if so, whether it will provide such information for each year from 1999-2000 to date.
Answer
The information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the Department of Trade and Industry's White Paper Fair, Clear and Competitive - The Consumer Credit Market in the 21st Century, what representations or responses it has made in relation to the White Paper, in particular with regard to the section on licensing arrangements.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has been thoroughly consulted by the Department of Trade and Industryon all areas, both during to the preparation and since the publication of the whitepaper. This demonstrates the Executive meeting the Partnership for a Better Scotland commitment to work with the DTI totackle harassment by loan sharks, introduce fairer credit schemes and newprotection from exorbitant interest rates.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been fined under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000, stating in each case the value of the fine.
Answer
The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:
Number of persons fined for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002
| Year | Number fined | Average fine imposed (£) |
| 1999 | 28 | 386 |
| 2000 | 23 | 357 |
| 2001(1) | 20 | 859 |
| 2002 | 21 | 371 |
Note:
1.The relatively high figure for average fine imposedin 2001 reflects the disproportionate effect of a small number of cases withvery high fines imposed.
