Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-32280

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 17 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of applications for the (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10 funding rounds of the Gypsy/Traveller Site Grant including which local authorities (a) submitted applications and (b) were awarded grants and how much was awarded in each case.

Applications for 2008-09 and 2009-10 funding were invited at the same time and include the following:

Local Authorities that Submitted Applications	Successful/Unsuccessful	Award
Aberdeen City Council Bid 1	Unsuccessful
Aberdeen City Council Bid 2	Unsuccessful
Aberdeen City Council Bid 3	Successful	£163,737
Argyll and Bute Council	Successful	£240,000
Clackmannanshire Council	Successful	£84,182
City of Edinburgh Council	Unsuccessful
Dundee City Council	Successful	£172,500
East Lothian Council & Midlothian Council (joint bid)	Successful	£490,000
Falkirk Council	Successful	£138,825
Fife Council Bid 1	Unsuccessful
Fife Council Bid 2	Unsuccessful
Fife Council Bid 3	Unsuccessful
Highland Council Bid 1	Successful	£330,000
Highland Council Bid 2	Unsuccessful
Perth and Kinross Council Bid 1	Successful	£114,000
Perth and Kinross Council Bid 2	Unsuccessful
South Ayrshire Council Bid 1	Successful	£81,375*
South Ayrshire Council Bid 2	Unsuccessful
South Lanarkshire Council Bid 1	Unsuccessful
South Lanarkshire Council Bid 2	Successful	£87,837
Stirling Council	Successful	£93,000
West Lothian Council	Successful	£51,043.50
Total		£2,046,499.50**

Notes:

*The funding for this transit site bid has been provided by the Equality Unit.

**Previous commitment to Fife Council of £34,875 from 2007-08 will also be funded from the £2 million available budget.

Question reference: S3W-32171

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 17 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3O-9413 by Alex Neil on 4 February 2010 (Official Report c. 23526), what progress has been made in the discussions with the relevant support organisations to provide a domestic abuse helpline for men.

The Scottish Government recognises that men who experience domestic abuse from their female partners, and men who are abused by same sex partners, also require a service specific to their needs.

For this reason a decision was taken recently to provide funding for a specific helpline for male victims of domestic abuse in Scotland. This will be rolled out in conjunction with a helpline for perpetrators of domestic abuse.

Both the Men''s Advice Line and the Respect Line will be officially launched in Scotland on Wednesday 17 March.

Question reference: S3W-32340

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many women were in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in the last year for which information is available.

Annual estimates of full-time and part-time employment levels are available from the Annual Population Survey (APS) carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Updated APS data is published on a quarterly basis.

The following table shows the number of full-time and part-time employed women for Scotland from the latest available survey (July 2008 to June 2009), as well as data for the same period in the preceding year (July 2007 to June 2008).

Full-time and Part-time Employed Workers, Women, Scotland (thousands), not Seasonally Adjusted

	Full-time Workers	Part-time Workers
Jul 2007 to Jun 2008	707	493
Jul 2008 to Jun 2009	704	491

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Question reference: S3W-32341

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many men were in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in the last year for which information is available.

Annual estimates of full-time and part-time employment levels are available from the Annual Population Survey (APS) carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Updated APS data is published on a quarterly basis.

The following table shows the number of full-time and part-time employed men for Scotland from the latest available survey (July 2008 to June 2009), as well as data for the same period in the preceding year (July 2007 to June 2008).

Full-time and part-time Employed Workers, Men, Scotland (thousands), not Seasonally Adjusted

	Full-time Workers	Part-time Workers
Jul 2007 to Jun 2008	1,204	136
Jul 2008 to Jun 2009	1,168	141

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Question reference: S3W-32188

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 15 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals were made to the children’s hearing system in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus under section 52(2) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The information requested is a matter for the Scottish Children''s Reporter Administration (SCRA) and is not held centrally.

The information is, however, available in the Main Tables 3(a) and 3(b) of the Online Statistics published by SCRA, for the years 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 respectively.

The SCRA online Statistical Service can be accessed at: http://www.scra.gov.uk/publications/online_statistical_service.cfm. (2008-09) and

http://www.scra.gov.uk/publications/archive/online_statistical_service.cfm (2006-07 and 2007-08).

Question reference: S3W-32186

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 15 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals were made to the children’s hearing system in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus under section 52(2)(c) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The information requested is a matter for the Scottish Children''s Reporter Administration (SCRA) and is not held centrally.

The information is, however, available in the main tables 3(a) and 3(b) of the online statistics published by SCRA, for the years of interest to the member. The SCRA online statistical service can be accessed at http://www.scra.gov.uk/publications/online_statistical_service.cfm.

Question reference: S3W-32190

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent by (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus Council on community care for adults with addictions or a substance misuse problem in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Local authorities hold data on the expenditure/costs associated with community care services for all people aged 18 to 64 where the primary reason for care relates to a drug, alcohol, or other substance addiction or misuse. Table 1 provides the net revenue expenditure on adults with addictions and substance misuse for Angus and Dundee City for the last three years for which data are available. 2008-09 figures will be published on 25 March 2010.

Table 1: Local Authorities'' Net Revenue Expenditure on Adults with Addictions and Substance Misuse Problems

Local Authority	2005-06 (£ 000)	2006-07 (£ 000)	2007-08 (£ 000)
Angus	248	250	313
Dundee City	285	280	276

Local Authority

2005-06

(£ 000)

2006-07

(£ 000)

2007-08

(£ 000)

Angus

248

250

313

Dundee City

285

280

276

Source: Local Financial Return LFR 3 (Social Work).

Question reference: S3W-32187

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 15 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals were made to the children’s hearing system in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus under section 52(2)(j) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The information requested is a matter for the Scottish Children''s Reporter Administration (SCRA) and is not held centrally.

The information is, however, available in the main tables 3(a) and 3(b) of the online statistics published by SCRA, for the years of interest to the member. The SCRA online statistical service can be accessed at http://www.scra.gov.uk/publications/online_statistical_service.cfm.

Question reference: S3W-32189

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 11 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the net revenue expenditure on children and family services was by (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus Council in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The following table provides net revenue expenditure by Dundee City and Angus councils on children and family services from 2005-06 to 2007-08. This information is reported by councils to the Scottish Government in the annual local financial return for social work.

Council

2005-06

(£000)

2006-07

(£000)

2007-08

(£000)

Dundee City

19,131

21,381

22,301

Angus

9,848

10,893

12,728

Source: LFR 3 returns.

Question reference: S3W-31735

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related accident and emergency admissions there were in NHS Tayside in the last year for which information is available.

Information on how many alcohol-related accident and emergency (A&E) admissions there were in the last year in NHS Tayside is not available centrally.

Information on the number of A&E attendances which resulted in an alcohol-related inpatient or day case episode in hospitals in Tayside is shown in table 1.

Table1: Acute¹ inpatient² and day case discharges with an alcohol-related diagnosis^3,4,5recorded in any position, where the patient was referred from an A&E department to hospitals in Tayside Health Board of treatment, financial year 2008-09^P:

Tayside

84

^PProvisional.

Notes:

1. Excludes mental illness hospitals, psychiatric units and maternity hospitals.

2. Figures in this table relate only to those individuals who are treated as inpatients or day cases in an acute hospital. They do not include individuals managed as outpatients.

3. Discharges where alcohol-related diagnosis is recorded as primary or secondary reasons for admission to hospital.

4. Diseases recorded using the World Health Organization''s International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD10). Alcohol-related: F10, K70, X45, X65, Y15, Y90, Y91, E24.4, E51.2, G31.2, G62.1, G72.1, I42.6, K29.2, K86.0, O35.4, P04.3, Q86.0, T51.0, T51.1, T51.9, Y57.3, R78.0, Z50.2, Z71.4, Z72.1. These codes were defined in a recent in-depth review of ISD''s core alcohol-related code set. Further information about the review and resulting consultation process is available at http://www.alcoholinformation.isdscotland.org/alcohol_misuse/3986.html.

5. Caution is necessary when interpreting these figures. The recording of alcohol-related problems may vary from hospital to hospital.

Information in table 1 is likely to be a significant underestimate of the number of alcohol-related A&E attendances as not all patients attending A&E for alcohol-related problems will subsequently be admitted to hospital. Also this table will not include alcohol-related A&E referrals where the alcohol-related problem has not been recorded on the patients SMR01 diagnosis summary.

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