- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many heart-lung transplants there have been in Scotland in each year since 1999 and how many patients were referred outside Scotland for such transplants in each year.
Answer
As there is no heart-lung transplant programme in Scotland, almost all Scottish patients receive their transplant at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.
A total of eight patients with a Scottish postcode have received a heart-lung transplant since 1999. Because of the small number of patients involved, it is not possible to give the numbers in each year for reasons of patient confidentiality.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many unscheduled readmissions to hospital following discharge there have been in (a) 1999, (b) 2000, (c) 2001, (d) 2002, (e) 2003 and (f) 2004 to date, broken down by (i) NHS board and (ii) hospital.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
However, emergency admissions, within 28 days of discharge, can be identified and are presented in a table Emergency readmissions, within 28 days, to Scottish hospitals a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 33792).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive where information can be accessed by the public to determine whether a GP practice has closed its patient list; whether there is any guidance or regulations requiring a GP practice to give notice that its list is closing and, if so, what these requirements are.
Answer
Information is provided by practices themselves. Any patient who has moved to a new location and wishes to join the list of a practice, or who wishes simply to change doctor, is free to apply to any local practice. A practice is required by the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 to state the reasons for the refusal of any application. A patient whose application is made to a practice with a closed list will be informed accordingly. The procedure for the closure of a list is set out in the regulations and a practice is required to give notice to its health board prior to consideration of the proposal.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people carried donor cards in each year since 1999 (a) nationally and (b) in each NHS board area.
Answer
It is not possible to provide the information requested, as people are not required to register their decision to carry an organ donor card.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of each NHS board's spending was spent on administration in each of the last five years.
Answer
The percentage of each board’s spending spent on administration costs in each of the last five years was as follows:
| Board | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 7% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 6% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Borders | 7% | 8% | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 7% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Fife | 6% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 6% |
| Forth Valley | 6% | 6% | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Grampian | 6% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 7% |
| Greater Glasgow | 8% | 7% | 8% | 8% | 8% |
| Highland | 7% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Lanarkshire | 7% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 6% |
| Lothian | 8% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 7% |
| Orkney | 6% | 6% | 7% | 7% | 4%* |
| Shetland | 6% | 5% | 5% | 6% | 4%* |
| Tayside | 8% | 8% | 9% | 7% | 7% |
| Western Isles | 8% | 7% | 8% | 8% | 4%* |
Notes:
The boards’ spending is taken to be the gross total revenue expenditure figures from their published Annual Accounts for each respective financial year. The amount spent on administration is taken to be management and administration costs reported in their published Annual Accounts plus management and administration expenditure incurred by trusts in their area. Trust management and administration expenses are taken from Scottish Financial Return (SFR) 5.2, which is completed by each hospital, as disclosed in answering parliamentary question (S2W-8040).
*Due to a change in reporting requirements, the 2002-03 figures of the Island Health Boards (Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles) are not directly comparable with the preceding four years. Their 2002-03 figures shown thereforeonly include the hospital management and administration costs but not board management costs, which are not available for that year. This situation has been rectified in 2003-04.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 17 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9477 by Nicol Stephen on 2 August 2004, whether it has made specific representations to Her Majesty's Government regarding the prohibition of the adaptation of vehicle exhausts that are to be used on public highways.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-9477 on 2 August 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 17 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases were marked “no proceedings” in each procurator fiscal office in each of the last five years, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of cases dealt with by each office.
Answer
The figures given under “TotalReports Received” relate to all reports received by procurators fiscal and includecriminal reports, complaints against the police and reports of sudden deaths.
The figures show that the numberof cases marked “no proceedings” by all offices was stable at 15% in each of theyears prior to 2002/03 when 51,133 (17%) of cases were marked “no proceedings”.This increase was caused by a rise in the number of cases marked “no proceedings”because of a delay by the police or other reporting agency in submitting the caseto the procurator fiscal. The rise occurred mainly in procurator’s fiscal officesin the Strathclyde, Lothian and Borders, Fife and Central police areas.
The number of cases marked “noproceedings” dropped to 43,702 (13%) in 2003-04.
Cases can be marked “no proceedings”by procurators fiscal for a number of reasons including a lack of sufficient admissibleevidence, mitigating circumstances, lack of jurisdiction over the offence, the factthat the suspected offence is not a crime or that a civil remedy is more appropriatethan criminal proceedings.
| FY 2003-04 | Total Reports Received | Total - No Proceedings | No Pro as % of Total |
| Aberdeen | 13,257 | 717 | 5% |
| Airdrie | 16,064 | 3,103 | 19% |
| Alloa | 2,941 | 439 | 15% |
| Arbroath | 4,007 | 594 | 15% |
| Ayr | 8,802 | 876 | 10% |
| Banff | 1,235 | 185 | 15% |
| Campbeltown | 697 | 44 | 6% |
| Cupar | 2,034 | 419 | 21% |
| Dingwall | 1,511 | 155 | 10% |
| Dornoch | 386 | 66 | 17% |
| Dumbarton | 9,355 | 1,194 | 13% |
| Dumfries | 6,559 | 697 | 11% |
| Dundee | 14,395 | 2,140 | 15% |
| Dunfermline | 7,488 | 973 | 13% |
| Dunoon | 1,459 | 250 | 17% |
| Duns | 1,058 | 81 | 8% |
| Edinburgh | 25,830 | 5,216 | 20% |
| Elgin | 3,005 | 456 | 15% |
| Falkirk | 9,682 | 2,198 | 23% |
| Forfar | 2,910 | 241 | 8% |
| Fort William | 1,251 | 185 | 15% |
| Glasgow | 77,603 | 9,512 | 12% |
| Greenock | 5,192 | 752 | 14% |
| Haddington | 2,563 | 415 | 16% |
| Hamilton | 22,140 | 2,765 | 12% |
| Inverness | 7,235 | 886 | 12% |
| Jedburgh | 1,694 | 178 | 11% |
| Kilmarnock | 14,373 | 1,922 | 13% |
| Kirkcaldy | 9,001 | 1,409 | 16% |
| Kirkcudbright | 1,058 | 109 | 10% |
| Kirkwall | 500 | 56 | 11% |
| Lanark | 3,550 | 240 | 7% |
| Lerwick | 713 | 63 | 9% |
| Linlithgow | 7,228 | 962 | 13% |
| Lochmaddy | 162 | 35 | 22% |
| Oban | 1,188 | 150 | 13% |
| Paisley | 11,275 | 914 | 8% |
| Peebles | 419 | 80 | 19% |
| Perth | 8,331 | 1,029 | 12% |
| Peterhead | 1,653 | 174 | 11% |
| Portree | 463 | 41 | 9% |
| Rothesay | 303 | 67 | 22% |
| Selkirk | 1,863 | 360 | 19% |
| Stirling | 6,123 | 609 | 10% |
| Stonehaven | 1,275 | 96 | 8% |
| Stornoway | 727 | 61 | 8% |
| Stranraer | 2,284 | 221 | 10% |
| Tain | 1,437 | 182 | 13% |
| Wick | 1,182 | 185 | 16% |
| PFS | 325,461 | 43,702 | 13% |
| FY 2002-03 | Total Reports Received | Total - No Proceedings | No Pro as % of Total |
| Aberdeen | 13,526 | 1,274 | 9% |
| Airdrie | 13,927 | 3,683 | 26% |
| Alloa | 2,850 | 511 | 18% |
| Arbroath | 3,672 | 249 | 7% |
| Ayr | 8,662 | 868 | 10% |
| Banff | 1,319 | 267 | 20% |
| Campbeltown | 667 | 44 | 7% |
| Cupar | 2,098 | 459 | 22% |
| Dingwall | 1,457 | 121 | 8% |
| Dornoch | 425 | 48 | 11% |
| Dumbarton | 8,098 | 1,194 | 15% |
| Dumfries | 5,351 | 464 | 9% |
| Dundee | 11,666 | 1,093 | 9% |
| Dunfermline | 6,602 | 1,050 | 16% |
| Dunoon | 1,238 | 185 | 15% |
| Duns | 1,053 | 78 | 7% |
| Edinburgh | 25,801 | 5,110 | 20% |
| Elgin | 3,145 | 476 | 15% |
| Falkirk | 8,979 | 1,671 | 19% |
| Forfar | 2,594 | 266 | 10% |
| Fort William | 1,099 | 148 | 13% |
| Glasgow | 75,277 | 16,750 | 22% |
| Greenock | 5,558 | 700 | 13% |
| Haddington | 2,567 | 221 | 9% |
| Hamilton | 21,973 | 2,895 | 13% |
| Inverness | 6,956 | 913 | 13% |
| Jedburgh | 1,721 | 172 | 10% |
| Kilmarnock | 12,047 | 2,075 | 17% |
| Kirkcaldy | 8,800 | 1,768 | 20% |
| Kirkcudbright | 958 | 108 | 11% |
| Kirkwall | 450 | 45 | 10% |
| Lanark | 3,324 | 309 | 9% |
| Lerwick | 546 | 48 | 9% |
| Linlithgow | 7,512 | 1,490 | 20% |
| Lochmaddy | 273 | 31 | 11% |
| Oban | 1,043 | 158 | 15% |
| Paisley | 11,043 | 1,607 | 15% |
| Peebles | 387 | 60 | 16% |
| Perth | 7,263 | 657 | 9% |
| Peterhead | 1,576 | 118 | 7% |
| Portree | 246 | 18 | 7% |
| Rothesay | 318 | 52 | 16% |
| Selkirk | 1,860 | 252 | 14% |
| Stirling | 5,745 | 698 | 12% |
| Stonehaven | 1,292 | 74 | 6% |
| Stornoway | 629 | 52 | 8% |
| Stranraer | 2,165 | 268 | 12% |
| Tain | 1,384 | 175 | 13% |
| Wick | 1,113 | 160 | 14% |
| PFS | 308,255 | 51,133 | 17% |
| FY 2001-02 | Total Reports Received | Total - No Proceedings | No Pro as % of Total |
| Aberdeen | 12,475 | 1,269 | 10% |
| Airdrie | 7,931 | 1,225 | 15% |
| Alloa | 2,562 | 473 | 18% |
| Arbroath | 2,949 | 184 | 6% |
| Ayr | 7,697 | 858 | 11% |
| Banff | 1,475 | 199 | 13% |
| Campbeltown | 484 | 36 | 7% |
| Cupar | 1,748 | 353 | 20% |
| Dingwall | 1,502 | 148 | 10% |
| Dornoch | 321 | 47 | 15% |
| Dumbarton | 8,826 | 1,563 | 18% |
| Dumfries | 5,556 | 862 | 16% |
| Dundee | 9,957 | 911 | 9% |
| Dunfermline | 5,604 | 1,081 | 19% |
| Dunoon | 1,128 | 212 | 19% |
| Duns | 1,077 | 88 | 8% |
| Edinburgh | 24,702 | 3,879 | 16% |
| Elgin | 3,206 | 309 | 10% |
| Falkirk | 8,544 | 1,329 | 16% |
| Forfar | 2,156 | 224 | 10% |
| Fort William | 1,176 | 109 | 9% |
| Glasgow | 64,738 | 13,967 | 22% |
| Greenock | 5,029 | 724 | 14% |
| Haddington | 2,696 | 359 | 13% |
| Hamilton | 19,297 | 2,198 | 11% |
| Inverness | 6,695 | 705 | 11% |
| Jedburgh | 1,728 | 172 | 10% |
| Kilmarnock | 10,723 | 1,614 | 15% |
| Kirkcaldy | 6,994 | 1,349 | 19% |
| Kirkcudbright | 820 | 119 | 15% |
| Kirkwall | 452 | 57 | 13% |
| Lanark | 3,411 | 201 | 6% |
| Lerwick | 544 | 76 | 14% |
| Linlithgow | 7,139 | 841 | 12% |
| Lochmaddy | 216 | 18 | 8% |
| Oban | 1,036 | 132 | 13% |
| Paisley | 9,875 | 1,660 | 17% |
| Peebles | 310 | 60 | 19% |
| Perth | 6,636 | 766 | 12% |
| Peterhead | 1,616 | 135 | 8% |
| Portree | 417 | 60 | 14% |
| Rothesay | 263 | 45 | 17% |
| Selkirk | 1,988 | 231 | 12% |
| Stirling | 5,711 | 922 | 16% |
| Stonehaven | 1,442 | 86 | 6% |
| Stornoway | 584 | 52 | 9% |
| Stranraer | 1,949 | 276 | 14% |
| Tain | 1,461 | 209 | 14% |
| Wick | 957 | 123 | 13% |
| PFS | 275,803 | 42,516 | 15% |
| FY 2000-01 | Total Reports Received | Total - No Proceedings | No Pro as % of Total |
| Aberdeen | 12,704 | 1,188 | 9% |
| Airdrie | 9,219 | 1,523 | 17% |
| Alloa | 2,300 | 397 | 17% |
| Arbroath | 2,748 | 324 | 12% |
| Ayr | 8,025 | 923 | 12% |
| Banff | 1,626 | 102 | 6% |
| Campbeltown | 611 | 69 | 11% |
| Cupar | 1,936 | 391 | 20% |
| Dingwall | 1,372 | 169 | 12% |
| Dornoch | 299 | 43 | 14% |
| Dumbarton | 8,611 | 1,538 | 18% |
| Dumfries | 6,080 | 787 | 13% |
| Dundee | 10,137 | 1,115 | 11% |
| Dunfermline | 5,568 | 883 | 16% |
| Dunoon | 1,367 | 176 | 13% |
| Duns | 1,022 | 74 | 7% |
| Edinburgh | 24,839 | 2,804 | 11% |
| Elgin | 2,713 | 277 | 10% |
| Falkirk | 7,754 | 1,099 | 14% |
| Forfar | 1,984 | 259 | 13% |
| Fort William | 1,162 | 135 | 12% |
| Glasgow | 71,419 | 16,081 | 23% |
| Greenock | 5,608 | 792 | 14% |
| Haddington | 2,664 | 380 | 14% |
| Hamilton | 20,064 | 2,355 | 12% |
| Inverness | 5,532 | 776 | 14% |
| Jedburgh | 1,728 | 150 | 9% |
| Kilmarnock | 10,785 | 1,216 | 11% |
| Kirkcaldy | 7,417 | 1,710 | 23% |
| Kirkcudbright | 1,164 | 170 | 15% |
| Kirkwall | 492 | 71 | 14% |
| Lanark | 2,997 | 344 | 11% |
| Lerwick | 549 | 60 | 11% |
| Linlithgow | 7,098 | 769 | 11% |
| Lochmaddy | 192 | 21 | 11% |
| Oban | 1,085 | 142 | 13% |
| Paisley | 10,789 | 1,586 | 15% |
| Peebles | 540 | 65 | 12% |
| Perth | 5,894 | 695 | 12% |
| Peterhead | 1,936 | 174 | 9% |
| Portree | 385 | 51 | 13% |
| Rothesay | 254 | 22 | 9% |
| Selkirk | 1,961 | 303 | 15% |
| Stirling | 5,322 | 943 | 18% |
| Stonehaven | 1,509 | 129 | 9% |
| Stornoway | 603 | 46 | 8% |
| Stranraer | 2,212 | 320 | 14% |
| Tain | 1,336 | 181 | 14% |
| Wick | 1,021 | 152 | 15% |
| PFS | 284,633 | 43,980 | 15% |
| FY 1999-2000 | Total Reports Received | Total - No Proceedings | No Pro as % of Total |
| Aberdeen | 13,547 | 2,198 | 16% |
| Airdrie | 8,466 | 1,319 | 16% |
| Alloa | 2,173 | 362 | 17% |
| Arbroath | 2,932 | 389 | 13% |
| Ayr | 8,975 | 1,009 | 11% |
| Banff | 1,777 | 456 | 26% |
| Campbeltown | 590 | 76 | 13% |
| Cupar | 1,783 | 388 | 22% |
| Dingwall | 1,497 | 143 | 10% |
| Dornoch | 332 | 39 | 12% |
| Dumbarton | 8,064 | 1,275 | 16% |
| Dumfries | 6,646 | 806 | 12% |
| Dundee | 10,016 | 1,251 | 12% |
| Dunfermline | 5,539 | 1,153 | 21% |
| Dunoon | 1,152 | 148 | 13% |
| Duns | 853 | 56 | 7% |
| Edinburgh | 24,121 | 3,386 | 14% |
| Elgin | 2,830 | 486 | 17% |
| Falkirk | 7,572 | 864 | 11% |
| Forfar | 2,483 | 276 | 11% |
| Fort William | 1,175 | 109 | 9% |
| Glasgow | 71,443 | 13,726 | 19% |
| Greenock | 5,902 | 817 | 14% |
| Haddington | 2,574 | 347 | 13% |
| Hamilton | 19,502 | 2,440 | 13% |
| Inverness | 5,877 | 720 | 12% |
| Jedburgh | 1,778 | 175 | 10% |
| Kilmarnock | 11,270 | 1,451 | 13% |
| Kirkcaldy | 6,676 | 1,308 | 20% |
| Kirkcudbright | 1,228 | 171 | 14% |
| Kirkwall | 567 | 72 | 13% |
| Lanark | 3,163 | 346 | 11% |
| Lerwick | 636 | 94 | 15% |
| Linlithgow | 6,446 | 841 | 13% |
| Lochmaddy | 198 | 24 | 12% |
| Oban | 1,116 | 184 | 16% |
| Paisley | 11,335 | 2,036 | 18% |
| Peebles | 459 | 81 | 18% |
| Perth | 6,283 | 893 | 14% |
| Peterhead | 2,601 | 204 | 8% |
| Portree | 298 | 32 | 11% |
| Rothesay | 235 | 30 | 13% |
| Selkirk | 1,545 | 273 | 18% |
| Stirling | 4,423 | 660 | 15% |
| Stonehaven | 1,911 | 118 | 6% |
| Stornoway | 725 | 34 | 5% |
| Stranraer | 2,612 | 446 | 17% |
| Tain | 1,350 | 134 | 10% |
| Wick | 1,042 | 112 | 11% |
| PFS | 285,718 | 43,958 | 15% |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of water was lost due to leakages before it reached the consumer in each of the last five years.
Answer
Figures for leakage from the public network by the three previous water authorities are available in Parliament’s Information Centre in the publications, Public Water Supplies in Scotland, Water Resources Survey, available in Parliament’s Reference Centre. The Bib. number for the 1999-2000 report is 133372, for the 2000-2001 report is 33865 and for the 2001-2002 report is 33866. Scottish Water are due to publish the figures for 2002-03 and 2003-04 in forthcoming Water Resource reports.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which New Futures projects have been recommended to secure mainstream funding by the New Futures Advisory Management Group and which such projects (a) have and (b) have not secured mainstream funding.
Answer
The enterprise networks are working with individual projects to raise awareness of new funding sources. To date, 20 projects advise they have secured some level of funding beyond 2005. Many others are currently involved in discussions with potential funders. This activity is led by the projects themselves - it is not the role of the Advisory Management Group to recommend individual projects for continued funding. More detailed information on funding at project level is an operational matter for the enterprise networks.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9753 by Ross Finnie on 17 August 2004, which rivers or waters in the Borders area were monitored; where the monitoring sites are located, and when there were last reports from these sites.
Answer
This is an operational matter for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. The information is not held centrally.
