- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost was to environmental health departments of administering burials in (a) 1999, (b) 2000, (c) 2001, (d) 2002, (e) 2003 and (f) 2004, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This Information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what charges were made by local authorities for (a) basic burial and (b) cremation in (i) 1999, (ii) 2000, (iii) 2001, (iv) 2002, (v) 2003 and (vi) 2004, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-13959 by Susan Deacon on 21 March 2001, what percentage of the NHS drugs budget was spent on (a) obesity and (b) diabetes in (i) 2000-01, (ii) 2001-02, (iii) 2002-03, (iv) 2003-04 and (v) 2004 to date.
Answer
The table gives the percentage of the total prescribing expenditure for drugs used in treatment of obesity (as defined in Section 4.5 of the British National Formulary) and drugs used in diabetes (as defined in Section 6.1 of the British National Formulary) for the financial years 2000-01 to 2003-04, and April to November 2004. The data refer to prescriptions dispensed by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors, but do not take into account medicines dispensed by hospitals or hospital based clinics. The cost of the drugs is before deduction of discount and patient charges and addition of dispensing fees.
The data reflect the costs of medicines used to treat obesity and diabetes directly and do not include drugs prescribed to treat other conditions associated with these disease states.
| | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | April to November 2004 |
| Percentage Total Expenditure | Percentage Total Expenditure | Percentage Total Expenditure | Percentage Total Expenditure | Percentage Total Expenditure |
| Drugs used in the Treatment of Obesity | 0.111% | 0.337% | 0.412% | 0.364% | 0.375% |
| Drugs Used In Diabetes | 3.498% | 3.730% | 3.921% | 4.182% | 4.510% |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2005
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Answered by Tom McCabe on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual cost to local authorities was of administering royal visits and royal holidays in (a) 1999, (b) 2000, (c) 2001, (d) 2002, (e) 2003 and (f) 2004, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The cost to local authorities of administering royal visits and royal holidays is not identified separately in the local authority expenditure returns made to the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Answered by Allan Wilson on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the viability of Heriot-Watt University maintaining its campus in Galashiels and on the consequences for Borders College should the shared campus proposals fall through.
Answer
The Scottish Further EducationFunding Council recently approved the business case made by Borders College to re-locateon a shared campus with Heriot-Watt. The business case contained alternative optionsfor the college should the co-location proposal not take place.
Ministers and the fundingcouncil continue to fully support the development of such collaborative ventures.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many burials were carried out by environmental health departments in (a) 1999, (b) 2000, (c) 2001, (d) 2002, (e) 2003 and (f) 2004, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a breakdown by category of the sources of freedom of information requests to each public authority within its responsibility and what percentage of the total number of requests to each authority each category represents.
Answer
Every request for informationwhich the Scottish Executive receives is handled in line with the Freedom of Information(Scotland) Act 2002. As all requests are handled in the same way regardless of thesource of the request we do not generally record aggregated data on the sourcesof requests for information. However, of the approximately 600 requests recordedcentrally, as set out in the answer to question S2W-14682 on 9 March 2005, approximatelytwo-thirds originated from the media.
All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for whichcan be found at http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many freedom of information requests have been received by each public authority within its responsibility.
Answer
Every request for informationwhich the Scottish Executive receives is handled in accordance with the Freedomof Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Most requests for information are handledroutinely and are not recorded or counted centrally. However, in line with centrallyproduced guidance, some requests for information are recorded centrally. Up to 18February approximately 600 such requests have been recorded by the bodies coveredby Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act2002 (excluding the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Parliamentary CorporateBody).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what average time has been taken to respond to freedom of information requests by each public authority within its responsibility.
Answer
The Scottish Executive and eachpublic authority within its responsibility must handle all requests for informationin line with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and respond to them within 20 days. Requestsfor information are not all centrally monitored so figures for the average timetaken to respond cannot be provided.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many compulsory acquisitions of abandoned properties it has authorised in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
There are various powers for compulsory purchase which can be used to deal with property which is in disrepair and may appear to be abandoned, allowing it to be repaired and re-occupied, or demolished and the site redeveloped. There is, however, no specific reference to abandonment in the legislation, so it is not possible to identify how many cases might fall into this category.
