- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 5 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it provides to well-man clinics in Glasgow, broken down by clinic.
Answer
Funding for well man clinicsacross Scotland was provided by the Executive during 2004-05 and 2005-06.NHS Greater Glasgow was included in this pilot programme.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will usethe experience gained from the well man pilots to build on and engage with men atrisk of ill-health in their area, with particular focus on Prevention 2010 areas.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many live, single, full-term babies with a birth weight of under 2.5 kg have been born in each (a) NHS board area and (b) parliamentary constituency, broken down by (i) social class and (ii) home address postcode in each year since 2000.
Answer
The latest information by (a)health board of residence and (b) parliamentary constituency broken down by theSocial Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 39706).
The Scottish Executiveis unable to provide a breakdown by home address postcode due to the risk of disclosure.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whetherconditions are placedon local authorities regarding how they spend the money that they receive to address homelessness and, if so, what these conditions are.
Answer
The “ringfenced” HomelessnessTask Force funding allocated to local authorities to tackle homelessness in theirareas must be spent on the implementation of homelessness strategies, in a way whichis consistent with the achievement of the recommendations of the Homelessness TaskForce. The funding is subject to a set of standard terms and conditions as set outin the offer of grant letters which local authorities receive.
Local authorities also receivefunding which was originally associated with the Rough Sleepers Initiative, anda general homelessness allocation. These, like the Homelessness Task Force funding,are provided for the implementation of homelessness strategies. However, while badgedfor this purpose, these two lines are now distributed via the Revenue Support Grantwhich local authorities receive automatically on a weekly basis. As such they areunhypothecated, and local authorities are not obliged to spend these monies on homelessnessactivity.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what antenatal care is available to mothers with a drug addiction, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This is a matter for individualNHS boards. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil service jobs there are in (a) Edinburgh, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Dundee and (e) Inverness, also expressed as a percentage of the workforce in each of these locations.
Answer
The number of permanent staffemployed in the core departments of the Scottish Executive, Executive agenciesand associated departments in each of the cities, also expressed as a percentageof the working age population, is shown in the following table:
| | City | SE Staff | % of Workforce* |
| (a) | Edinburgh | 7,748.2 | 2.51% |
| (b) | Glasgow | 2,399.5 | 0.63% |
| (c) | Aberdeen | 551.6 | 0.41% |
| (d) | Dundee | 185.7 | 0.21% |
| (e) | Inverness | 282.5 | N/A |
Note: *The workforce figuresare based on the working age populations provided by GRO(S). These are producedby local authority area. Comparable figures for working age population in Inverness arenot available.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were sentenced to custody as a result of convictions for carrying a knife in (a) Scotland, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Dundee, (d) Edinburgh, (e) Glasgow and (f) Stirling in each of the last five years.
Answer
The following table sets outthe number of custodial convictions for carrying a knife or offensive weapon ina public place, broken down as requested. New guidelines on the prosecution of knifecrime will come into effect on 1 July 2006, following the end of the knife amnesty which commencedon 24 May, which will mean that those carryingor using a knife will be held in custody and may be prosecuted before a sheriffand jury, enabling sheriffs to impose a more severe punishment.
Custodial Convictions in ScottishCourts for Handling an Offensive Weapon1, 2000-01 to 2004-05
| Scotland | Possession of an Offensive Weapon2 | Having in a Public Place an Article with a Blade or a poInt | Total |
| 2000-01 | 281 | 351 | 632 |
| 2001-02 | 264 | 363 | 627 |
| 2002-03 | 276 | 451 | 727 |
| 2003-04 | 264 | 400 | 664 |
| 2004-05 | 303 | 458 | 761 |
| Aberdeen | | | |
| 2000-01 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2001-02 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2002-03 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2003-04 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2004-05 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| Dundee | | | |
| 2000-01 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2001-02 | 8 | 15 | 23 |
| 2002-03 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| 2003-04 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 2004-05 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| Edinburgh | | | |
| 2000-01 | 22 | 28 | 50 |
| 2001-02 | 15 | 28 | 43 |
| 2002-03 | 15 | 42 | 57 |
| 2003-04 | 15 | 39 | 54 |
| 2004-05 | 17 | 41 | 58 |
| Glasgow | | | |
| 2000-01 | 135 | 142 | 277 |
| 2001-02 | 119 | 133 | 252 |
| 2002-03 | 137 | 197 | 334 |
| 2003-04 | 121 | 134 | 255 |
| 2004-05 | 132 | 165 | 297 |
| Stirling | | | |
| 2000-01 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001-02 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002-03 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2003-04 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2004-05 | - | 3 | 3 |
Notes:
1. Where main offence.
2. Knives cannot be identifiedseparately from other types of offensive weapon in the data held for this crimecategory.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met Dundee City Council to discuss proposals for investment in city schools.
Answer
There was a meeting of officialson 18 August 2005 to discuss the council’s school estate managementplan, and an official attends meetings of the council’s schools PPP projectboard.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 31 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses in Dundee are now centrally-heated as a result of its central heating installation programme.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:
In local authority and housingassociation sectors, 2,260 households in Dundee have received a central heating system through the programme.
In the private sector the programmeis administered by Eaga Partnership, which holds information by main postcode area.From September 2001 to end of April 2006, Eaga has installed 2,825 central heatingsystems in pensioner households in the DD postcode area.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 31 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available to Dundee City Council specifically to deal with homeless people in each year since 1999.
Answer
The following table shows figuresfor funding made available to Dundee City Council since 1999-2000, to deal withissues of homelessness, broken down into the different funding lines.
| 2006-07 |
| Rough Sleepers Initiative in Grant Aided Expenditure (unhypothecated) | 262,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 498,867 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 111,000 |
| 2005-06 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 260,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 486,700 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 93,000 |
| 2004-05 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 251,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 486,700 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 90,000 |
| 2003-04 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 240,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 200,000 |
| Housing Act | 270,000 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 110,000 |
| 2002-03 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 240,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 73,000 |
| Housing Act | 287,000 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 105,000 |
| 2001-02 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 203,366 |
| Housing Act | 88,900 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 99,000 |
| 2000-01 |
| RSI | 241,459 |
| Temporary accommodation grant | 40,000 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 97,000 |
| 1999-2000 |
| RSI | 602,625 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 100,000 |
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 31 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the number of reports of adverse drug reactions received via the Yellow Card Scheme in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The regulation and safety ofmedicines are reserved and are the responsibility of the Medicines and Healthcareproducts Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The MHRA and the Commission on Human Medicinesrun the UK’s spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting scheme, the Yellow Card Scheme.
The Scottish Executive does nothold information on the number of reports of suspected adverse drug reactions receivedvia the Yellow Card Scheme.
The MHRA publishes on its websiteanonymised aggregated reports of suspected adverse drug reactions broken down bydrug and by reporter type. Data which provide a greater level of detail and whichcould potentially lead to the identification of individual reporters or patientsrequire an application to the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee. Applicationforms can be found on their website .
