- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 10 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hours of overtime it estimates are worked annually.
Answer
For the year April 2007 to March 2008 the total number of hours overtime worked across the Core Scottish Government, for which staff claimed overtime, was approximately 190,938.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances at nurse-led clinics in Tayside there have been in the latest year for which information is available.
Answer
The information is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Emerging Statistics for Nurse-Led Clinics at
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4453.html.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 9 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the national concessionary fares budget is in each financial year in the period 2008 to 2011 and what these annual amounts are expressed in real terms.
Answer
The budget allocation for concessionary fares for the next three years is £181.4 million in 2008-09, £187.4 million in 2009-10 and £189.4 million in 2010-11. Expressed in real terms these allocations equate to £181.4 million in 2008-09, £182.4 million in 2009-10 and £179.4 million in 2010-11.
This budget provides support for the development and delivery of concessionary travel schemes for older, disabled and young people. It covers reimbursement to bus, ferry and rail operators participating in the schemes and the marketing and survey costs of running the schemes. The vast majority of the expenditure goes to bus operators participating in the Scotland-wide free bus travel scheme for older and disabled people.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days were directly connected with alcohol-related conditions in each of the last three years for which information is available.
Answer
The information requested is provided in table 1, which shows the total length of stay of patients discharged from general acute hospitals in Scotland with alcohol-related diagnoses in 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07, the last three years for which information is available. The figures for 2006-07 are provisional and may be subject to slight revision.
The figures in the table relate to those individuals who are treated as in-patients, they do not include individuals managed as out-patients. The figures exclude mental illness hospitals, psychiatric units and maternity hospitals.
Table 1: The Total Length of Stay of Patients Discharged from General Acute Hospitals in Scotland with Alcohol-Related Diagnoses: 2004-05 to 2006-07
| Year | Total Length of Stay (Days) |
| 2004-05 | 253,812 |
| 2005-06 | 253,463 |
| 2006-07 | 261,539 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug search warrants were issued in Tayside in each of the last three years and in how many instances drugs were found.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drugs officers there were in Tayside in each of the last three years and of these, how many were seconded to the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.
Answer
It is an operational matter for the Chief Constable of Tayside to determine the deployment of officers within the force area and details of the number of drugs officers in Tayside is not held centrally.
The number of Tayside police officers seconded to the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) in each of the last three years is included in the following table. It should be noted that officers seconded to the agency will not necessarily be drugs officers, their duties may not be limited to drug enforcement, and some may be deployed elsewhere in the organisation.
| Year | Number of Tayside Officers Seconded to the SCDEA |
| 1 April 2006 | 17 |
| 1 April 2007 | 19 |
| 1 April 2008 | 17 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 4 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost is of building various types of council houses by the number of bedrooms.
Answer
This is a matter for local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it believes that the introduction of a nationally-determined level of local income tax will diminish the status of local government.
Answer
No. Under our proposals, all income raised under a local income tax will go to fund local authority expenditure and local authorities will continue to decide how funding for their area is spent. In the consultation paper we issued in March 2008, we recognised that there would need to be an adjustment to local authority funding to take account of differences between the amounts raised under the council tax and under a local income tax and we pledged to work with local government to provide a stable funding environment to ensure people get the vital front-line services they need.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many primary fires there have been in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.
Answer
The information requested is provided in the following table.
Number of Primary Fires in Tayside Fire and Rescue Service Area, 2004-06
| 2004 | 1,207 |
| 2005 | 1,156 |
| 2006 | 1,117 |
Note: This information is published in the National Statistics bulletin series Fire Statistics Scotland, with Bib. numbers 39206, 42704 and 45584 respectively.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the numbers were of those prosecuted for being found in possession of drugs and in possession of drugs with intent to supply in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside in each of the last three years.
Answer
The information for the last three years available is given in the following table.
Persons Prosecuted in Scottish Courts for Drugs Possession Offences1, for Dundee City and Tayside Police Force Area, 2003-04 -2005-06
| | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Dundee City | | | |
| Supply and possession with intent to supply drugs | 38 | 45 | 42 |
| Possession of drugs | 263 | 234 | 243 |
| Total | 301 | 279 | 285 |
| Tayside police force area | | | |
| Supply and possession with intent to supply drugs | 150 | 168 | 163 |
| Possession of drugs | 503 | 415 | 383 |
| Total | 653 | 583 | 546 |
Note: 1. Where main offence.
