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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for ��˿�� to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S1W-24354

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12540 by Mr Jim Wallace on 21 February 2001, what methodology it used to calculate the net present value for HM Prison Kilmarnock and what assumptions were made in regard to the rate of inflation, interest rates and any other relevant factor.

Question reference: S1W-24352

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it pays any additional fees when the number of prisoners at HM Prison Kilmarnock is greater than the number of places available for prisoners.

Question reference: S1W-24129

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many offences were committed under paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in each calendar month from January 1999 to date.

Question reference: S1W-24127

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people had a certificate to perform custodial duties revoked in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in each calendar month from January 1999 to date.

Question reference: S1W-24126

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people had a certificate to perform custodial duties suspended in accordance with paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in each calendar month from January 1999 to date.

Question reference: S1W-24121

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been approved to perform custodial duties in accordance with section 114 and Schedule 6 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in each calendar month from January 1999 to date.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The information requested is given in the following table:

March 1999	168
April 1999	25
June 1999	26
July 1999	1
August 1999	12
December 1999	22
January 2000	1
March 2000	15
May 2000	1
July 2000	1
August 2000	16
October 2000	1
November 2000	11
December 2000	4
January 2001	7
April 2001	9
May 2001	11
July 2001	13
September 2001	9
February 2002	3
March 2002	5"

Question reference: S1W-24123

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people held a valid and current certificate to perform custodial duties in accordance with section 114 and Schedule 6 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in each calendar month from January 1999 to date.

Question reference: S1W-24122

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people currently have a valid and current certificate to perform custodial duties in accordance with section 114 and Schedule 6 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

Question reference: S1W-24229

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will present proposals for the provision of portable liquid oxygen that may be prescribed by GPs.

Question reference: S1W-24295

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Richard Simpson on 4 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of funding for drug treatment and rehabilitation services was in (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99, (d) 1999-2000, (e) 2000-01 and (f) 2001-02, broken down by NHS board area.

The following table details the resources allocated to NHS boards for drug treatment services since 1998-99, broken down by NHS board area. Funding for drug services prior to 1998-99 was arranged by contract between the Common Services Agency and individual Boards and the information is not available centrally.

NHS Board	1998-99(£000)	1999-2000(£000)	2000-01(£000)	2001-02(£000)
Argyll and Clyde	709	901	984	1,111
Ayrshire and Arran	403	535	609	737
Borders	68	96	118	160
Dumfries and Galloway	61	96	124	298
Fife	328	445	514	698
Forth Valley	103	172	226	462
Grampian	750	972	1,085	1,283
Greater Glasgow	2,871	3,502	3,670	4,387*
Highland	86	137	181	300
Lanarkshire	333	497	607	862
Lothian	2,263	2,776	2,922	3,214
Orkney	11	16	20	24
Shetland	28	37	42	46
Tayside	933	1,151	1,225	1,348
Western Isles	13	20	25	43
Total	8,960	11,352	12,352	14,973

Note:*Funding does not include additional resources of £250,000 allocated to Greater Glasgow NHS Board in 2001/02 to meet the treatment costs of the Glasgow Drug Court pilot.Local authorities fund rehabilitation services from their Grant Aided Expenditure settlements. Details of the level of funding on drug rehabilitation by NHS board or local authority area are not therefore available centrally. However, additional resources for rehabilitation were earmarked within local authorities' Grant Aided Expenditure for 2001-02. These are outlined in the following table:

Local Authority	Annual Additional Funding for 2001-02 (£000)
Aberdeen City	282
Aberdeenshire	302
Angus	146
Argyll and Bute	119
Clackmannanshire	65
Dumfries and Galloway	195
Dundee City	192
East Ayrshire	161
East Dunbartonshire	147
East Lothian	120
East Renfrewshire	119
Edinburgh, City of	600
Eilean Siar	37
Falkirk	192
Fife	464
Glasgow City	812
Highland	277
Inverclyde	113
Midlothian	108
Moray	113
North Ayrshire	185
North Lanarkshire	436
Orkney	26
Perth and Kinross	178
Renfrewshire	235
Scottish Borders	141
Shetland	30
South Ayrshire	152
South Lanarkshire	408
Stirling	113
West Dunbartonshire	126
West Lothian	205
Scotland	6,800

December 1999	2
June 2000	1
August 2000	1
October 2001	1
January 2002	2

April 1999	1
September 1999	3
February 2000	1
June 2000	1
January 2002	2