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Question reference: S2W-30814

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 08 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 25 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to upgrade the current road infrastructure at the Bridge of Dee in Aberdeen.

Question reference: S2W-31235

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the increase in aggregate external finance allocated to each local authority in 2007-08 will be provided through specific grants.

Subject to the approval of theLocal Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2007 by the Scottish Parliament, the informationrequested for 2007-08 is shown in the following table.

Council	Percentage Increase Between 2006-07 and 2007-08
Aberdeen City	29.3%
Aberdeenshire	20.5%
Angus	16.2%
Argyll and Bute	18.8%
Clackmannanshire	19.1%
Dumfries and Galloway	18.3%
Dundee City	21.7%
East Ayrshire	19.6%
East Dunbartonshire	20.0%
East Lothian	17.1%
East Renfrewshire	16.9%
Edinburgh, City of	21.4%
Eilean Siar	17.7%
Falkirk	18.8%
Fife	21.7%
Glasgow City	21.1%
Highland	19.9%
Inverclyde	19.0%
Midlothian	18.8%
Moray	20.9%
North Ayrshire	17.5%
North Lanarkshire	17.4%
Orkney	16.4%
Perth and Kinross	15.1%
Renfrewshire	17.6%
Scottish Borders	17.5%
Shetland	16.1%
South Ayrshire	16.5%
South Lanarkshire	17.0%
Stirling	19.9%
West Dunbartonshire	21.6%
West Lothian	18.9%
Scotland	19.5%

Question reference: S2W-31234

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of aggregate external finance allocated to each local authority is provided through specific grants.

Subject to the approval of theLocal Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2007 by the Scottish Parliament, the informationrequested for 2007-08 is shown in the following table.

Council	Specific Grants as a Percentage of 2007-08 Aggregate External Finance
Aberdeen City	11.7%
Aberdeenshire	8.9%
Angus	9.1%
Argyll and Bute	8.8%
Clackmannanshire	9.1%
Dumfries and Galloway	9.3%
Dundee City	10.6%
East Ayrshire	9.6%
East Dunbartonshire	9.0%
East Lothian	9.5%
East Renfrewshire	8.0%
Edinburgh, City of	11.7%
Eilean Siar	6.1%
Falkirk	9.3%
Fife	9.6%
Glasgow City	11.3%
Highland	9.3%
Inverclyde	10.0%
Midlothian	9.5%
Moray	9.2%
North Ayrshire	9.3%
North Lanarkshire	9.7%
Orkney	5.8%
Perth and Kinross	9.1%
Renfrewshire	10.1%
Scottish Borders	9.7%
Shetland	5.3%
South Ayrshire	9.8%
South Lanarkshire	9.3%
Stirling	9.5%
West Dunbartonshire	11.6%
West Lothian	9.6%
Scotland	9.9%

Question reference: S2W-31236

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding per capita each local authority will receive in aggregate external finance in 2007-08.

Subject to the approval of theLocal Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2007 by the Scottish Parliament, the informationrequested for 2007-08 is shown in the following table.

Council	Aggregate External Finance Per Capita (£)
Aberdeen City	1,500
Aberdeenshire	1,532
Angus	1,670
Argyll and Bute	2,008
Clackmannanshire	1,607
Dumfries and Galloway	1,770
Dundee City	1,854
East Ayrshire	1,692
East Dunbartonshire	1,501
East Lothian	1,547
East Renfrewshire	1,610
Edinburgh, City of	1,438
Eilean Siar	3,803
Falkirk	1,593
Fife	1,586
Glasgow City	2,046
Highland	1,917
Inverclyde	1,856
Midlothian	1,692
Moray	1,647
North Ayrshire	1,716
North Lanarkshire	1,667
Orkney	3,118
Perth and Kinross	1,570
Renfrewshire	1,681
Scottish Borders	1,745
Shetland	3,768
South Ayrshire	1,580
South Lanarkshire	1,595
Stirling	1,679
West Dunbartonshire	1,869
West Lothian	1,570
Scotland	1,711

Question reference: S2W-30786

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to increase spending to meet the needs of the motor neurone care team service, in light of the commitment by the Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association to meet 50% of the costs.

Question reference: S2W-30785

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each NHS board has spent on care for people with motor neurone disease since 1999 and, in particular, on the motor neurone care team service which operates with support from the Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Question reference: S2W-30784

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of motor neurone disease there have been in each NHS board area since 1999.

The number of patientstreated in Scottish hospitals with a main diagnosis of motor neurone disease ineach financial year since 1999-2000 is shown in the following table:

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

192

220

204

196

205

190

199

Source: Scottish MorbidityRecord SMR01 – in-patient/day case discharge summaries. Due to the smallnumbers of patients involved, a break down by NHS board of residence would riskcompromising patient confidentiality.

Question reference: S2W-30349

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are plans to collect figures on Crohn’s disease by NHS board and, if so, when such plans will be implemented and, if not, whether it will consider introducing such plans in order that accurate figures can be collected about Crohn’s disease sufferers.

The Information Services Division(ISD) of NHS National Services Scotland collects figures on Crohn’s disease by NHSboard, broken down by age and gender. The data relate to people who have been diagnosedwith Crohn’s disease. I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30091 on4 December 2006 which gives such information from 1999 onwards.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Question reference: S2W-30350

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on the treatment of Crohn’s disease and colitis in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-30268

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been evicted from their homes in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Local authority data on evictionswere not collected before April 2001, and housing association data are not availableat local authority level prior to 2003-04. Data on evictions in the private sectorare not collected centrally.

The following table shows thenumber of evictions by local authorities (LA) and housing associations (HA) for2001-02 to 2005-06.

Evictions by Local Authorities(LA) and Housing Associations (HA): 2001-02 to 2005-06

	2001-02		2002-03		2003-04		2004-05		2005-06
	LA	HA	LA	LA	LA	HA	LA	HA	LA	HA
Scotland	1,257	435	1,133	464	947	597	961	656	986	547
Aberdeen City	13		12		31	38	7	18	13	6
Aberdeenshire	45		49		65	13	42	10	18	6
Angus	8		18		11	13	14	1	10	9
Argyll and Bute	38		37		20	2	22	7	29	1
Clackmannanshire	1		2		7	4	4	10	5	21
Dumfries and Galloway	23		39		na	52	na	44	na	32
Dundee City	82		81		78	46	77	10	51	23
East Ayrshire	65		67		82	9	89	8	110	5
East Dunbartonshire	11		13		12	3	11	0	17	10
East Lothian	12		15		9	2	13	6	7	5
East Renfrewshire	11		5		13	3	10	5	4	0
Edinburgh, City of	30		17		22	55	27	54	30	35
Eilean Siar	0		0		0	1	1	0	3	2
Falkirk	105		84		69	11	82	12	98	21
Fife	40		77		94	36	76	27	62	21
Glasgow City	54		114		na	162	na	272	na	215
Highland	53		30		42	8	26	20	32	11
Inverclyde	35		14		17	4	9	7	0	4
Midlothian	4		18		8	7	6	4	17	7
Moray	7		6		6	3	4	3	5	2
North Ayrshire	68		57		45	11	43	8	34	8
North Lanarkshire	194		121		96	31	119	15	138	13
Orkney	0		0		0	3	0	1	0	0
Perth and Kinross	33		20		30	8	13	2	10	3
Renfrewshire	127		91		72	11	97	25	132	16
Scottish Borders	17		13		na	13	na	40	na	43
Shetland	0		0		1	0	1	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	48		65		29	9	48	2	16	1
South Lanarkshire	83		37		58	6	47	12	64	10
Stirling	19		15		22	2	14	5	18	3
West Dunbartonshire	0		0		1	18	0	15	0	8
West Lothian	31		16		7	13	59	13	63	6

Source: Evictions returns submittedby local authorities to the Scottish Executive Development Department, AnalyticalServices Division, Housing Statistics, housing association data provided by CommunitiesScotland.

Note: Local authority data havebeen collected from April 2001 onward. Housing association data are not availableat local authority level prior to 2003-04.