The Scottish Parliament

Question reference: S1W-13249

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Health and Community Care will reply to letters from Tayside Health Council dated 4 July 2000, 20 July 2000, 24 August 2000, 1 September 2000, 4 October 2000, 31 October 2000 and 23 January 2001.

Question reference: S1W-13185

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital beds in each health board area are currently designated for mentally disordered offenders referred under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 or the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 and what the equivalent figures were for each of the last five years.

The information is not available centrally in the form requested. However, information on the number of general psychiatry beds by Health Board area of treatment for each of the last five years is set out in the following table. A small proportion of these beds will be used for forensic psychiatric patients. The increasing provision of community-based care has lead to a corresponding reduction in the number of hospital beds.Table 1NHSiS - General Psychiatry¹ average available staffed beds^{2, 3}; by Health Board area of treatment⁴; years ending 31 March 1996-2000

	Year Ending
	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
All Health Board Areas	4,678	4,367	4,301	4,143	3,888
Argyll & Clyde	561	560	570	521	496
Ayrshire & Arran	273	273	264	248	238
Borders	84	85	82	75	67
Dumfries & Galloway	181	158	158	154	122
Fife	284	282	270	269 276	276
Forth Valley	262	260	261	261	207
Grampian	407	344	324	310	307
Greater Glasgow	787	672	698	715	677
Highland	172	150	140	140	140
Lanarkshire	415	390	402	392	358
Lothian	730	679	659	637	599
Orkney	-	1	-	-	-
Shetland	-	-	-	-	-
Tayside	511	502	465	412	394
Western Isles	11	11	10	10	6

Source: ISD Scotland (Form ISD(S)1)Reference: ISD/HCIU/20010170 Date: 13/02/01Notes:1. Includes forensic psychiatry.2. Comprises NHS beds in NHS hospitals and NHS beds in non-NHS locations.3. Excludes children's hospitals (Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, RHSC, Yorkhill and Edinburgh).4. Health board totals are the totals for the hospitals within each health board area, and do not take account of any cross-border flow of patients.

Question reference: S1W-13168

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 19 March 2001

Question reference: S1W-13772

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the facilities in Scotland which provide supported accommodation for people with learning difficulties who need full-time permanent care, broken down by local authority area.

Scottish Homes produced a supported accommodation database, SCOTSPEN, in March 1999 reflecting the provision of supported accommodation as at 31 March 1998. The database is the result of a national census of supported accommodation providers. It provides information about the type and nature of housing and support provision for a broad range of adults with community care needs.The document is available from Scottish Homes Research and Information, Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh.

Question reference: S1W-13744

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many contraventions of Article 9 of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992 have resulted in criminal proceedings in each year from 1995 to present, in total and broken down by Sheriffdom.

Question reference: S1W-13034

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list, for each local authority area, how much money was collected by each District Court in each year since 1995-96 and how much of this was (a) remitted to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and (b) retained by each local authority.

The available information, from the annual statistical returns made by the district courts, is shown in the table. Only incomplete data are available in respect of 1995-96 and 1996-97. No money collected by the district courts is remitted to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer. Monies collected by the court that are not retained by the local authority are remitted to the Exchequer.

Financial penalties collected by district courts in Scotland^{1, 2, 3}(£000)

Commission Area	1997-98		1998-99		1999-2000
Commission Area	Value received	Value sent to Exchequer	Value received	Value sent to Exchequer	Value received	Value sent to Exchequer
Aberdeen City	790	598	730	550	789	597
Aberdeenshire	589	452	725	570	728	423
Angus	169	188	346	261	481	385
Argyll & Bute	177	116	166	188	181	102
Clackmannanshire	116	73	106	67	97	63
Dumfries & Galloway	679	541	764	597	694	523
Dundee City	558	359	504	331	476	289
East Ayrshire	202	153	214	155	220	151
East Dunbartonshire	150	104	147	96	132	86
East Lothian	222	171	224	174	202	157
East Renfrewshire	33	54	119	84	151	104
Edinburgh, City of	2165	1372	1,363	1,098	1,072	896
Eilean Siar	50	24	56	13	39	17
Falkirk	405	300	384	286	409	313
Fife	452	421	539	422	632	588
Glasgow City	2676	1552	2,474	1,469	4,351	792
Highland	402	220	599	338	594	390
Inverclyde	212	180	325	207	248		209⁴
Midlothian	98	178	213	110	185	97
Moray	181	114	214	155	109	90
North Ayrshire	256	193	265	159	231	133
North Lanarkshire	442	N/A	110	N/A	171	N/A
Perth & Kinross	391	303	723	392	386	287
Renfrewshire	224	140	208	136	261	172
Scottish Borders	364	297	419	387	452	405
South Ayrshire	185	120	239	150	233	158
South Lanarkshire	608	417	749	545	489	419
Stirling	266	204	334	N/A	263	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	167	55	202	92	152	102
West Lothian	346	245	387	470	359	416
Scotland	13,577	9,144	13,849	9,502	14,786	8,363

N/A denotes data not availableNotes:1. The data on the value of money received relates to court-imposed fines (including back-duty), registered fines, compensation orders, police and procurator fiscal conditional offers of fixed penalties and police fixed penalty notices.2. The amount retained by the courts will not be exactly the difference between the amount received and the amount remitted to Exchequer, as this may not all have been collected in the year in which it was remitted. In addition, missing data must be considered, as indicated in footnote 3.3. Value received excludes some types of fine for the following district courts for the following years:1997-98 - Angus, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Midlothian, North Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire, West Dunbartonshire.1998-99 - Fife, Glasgow, Midlothian, North Lanarkshire.1999-2000 - Fife, Glasgow, Midlothian, North Lanarkshire.4. 1999-2000 - Inverclyde - value received includes an amount received from Glasgow in respect of allocation of undistributed balances over 12-month period for fixed penalty notices for non-endorsable traffic offences.

Question reference: S1W-12422

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2001
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many two and a half hour sessions of nursery provision are made available to three-year-olds in each local authority area, specifying in each case what flexibility exists in the number of sessions per week which may be taken up compared to the number of sessions available and whether place-sharing is allowed.

Our aim is to have a place available, offering five sessions of around 2 1/2 hours of pre-school education per week, for all eligible children, whose parents wish it, by the end of school year 2002. Local authorities are responsible for developing places and for admissions. The Executive's policy is to offer flexibility. Whilst provision is expanding to meet demand, some local authorities may offer fewer than five sessions a week to three-year-old children. In most areas offering places with five sessions a week, parents are free to take up fewer sessions, if that better meets their needs and those of the child.

Information on local authority admissions policies is not collected centrally. The number of grant funded places for three-year-old children provided in each local authority by number of sessions per week is shown in the table.Number of Three-Year-Old Children in Grant Funded Pre-school Education - September 2000

Local Authority	Number of 3 Year Old Children Receiving a Grant Funded Place	Number Receiving 5 Sessions per week	Number Receiving 4 Sessions per week	Number Receiving 3 Sessions per week	Number Receiving 2 Sessions per week	Number Receiving 1 Session per week
Aberdeen City	990	844	45	101	0	0
Aberdeenshire	1,202	496	185	462	59	0
Angus	502	360	28	72	39	3
Argyll and Bute	446	4	369	42	29	2
Clackmannanshire	288	237	12	25	14	0
Dumfries & Galloway	746	0	0	675	68	3
Dundee City	845	796	30	13	5	1
East Ayrshire	578	452	21	63	41	1
East Dunbartonshire	624	312	36	131	128	17
East Lothian	437	383	25	19	7	3
East Renfrewshire	595	476	53	56	9	1
City of Edinburgh	2,218	1,995	92	87	41	3
Falkirk	720	604	46	35	27	8
Fife	1,654	1,383	38	152	70	11
City of Glasgow	3,160	2,953	53	70	29	55
Highland	997	469	99	344	84	1
Inverclyde	436	413	9	11	3	0
Midlothian	403	379	13	11	0	0
Moray	540	463	58	15	4	0
North Ayrshire	688	533	25	114	15	1
North Lanarkshire	1,762	991	46	473	250	2
Orkney Islands	113	23	0	90	0	0
Perth and Kinross	526	524	0	1	1	0
Renfrewshire	977	936	16	19	6	0
Scottish Borders	578	240	34	186	117	1
Shetland Islands	118	61	11	39	5	2
South Ayrshire	497	346	32	86	33	0
South Lanarkshire	1,343	1,155	52	107	28	1
Stirling	467	352	13	49	48	5
West Dunbartonshire	716	701	0	1	14	0
West Lothian	771	751	6	10	4	0
Western Isles	111	77	22	4	7	1
Total	26,048	19,709	1,469	3,563	1,185	122

Question reference: S1W-13448

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 1 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many legal staff below senior civil service grade in (a) the Crown Office and (b) the Procurator Fiscal Service have (i) less than one year, (ii) between one and two years, (iii) between two and three years, (iv) between three and four years, (v) between four and five years, (vi) between six and eight years, (vii) between eight and 10 years and (viii) over 10 years of Fiscal experience and what the mode and mean salary is for legal staff below senior civil service grade in the Principal Procurator Fiscal depute and Procurator Fiscal depute grades.

Question reference: S1W-13446

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 1 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many ad hoc legal staff and casual contract administrative staff, below senior civil service grade, have been employed in the Crown Office and the Procurator Fiscal Service, by region, in each year since 1997 and including the first two months of 2001, to cover (a) in the case of ad hoc legal staff, both court work and precognition work and (b) in the case of casual contract administrative staff, administration and precognition work.

The numbers of casual administrative staff employed by region in each year since 1997 are given in the table. The numbers of ad-hoc legal staff are not readily available.

Region	Year	No of	Range of contracts
Grampian, Highlands and Islands	1997	3	1 month to 9 months
	1998	3	7 months to 9 months
	1999	5	5 months to 8 months
	2000	9	2 months to 12 months
	2001	6.7	2 months
Tayside, Central and Fife	1997	7	1 month to 8 months
	1998	9	2 months to 11 months
	1999	9.5	2 months to 7 months
	2000	8.6	1 month to 8 months
	2001	10.6	3 weeks to 2 months
Lothian and Borders	1997	6	6 months to 10 months
	1998	8	1 month to 6 months
	1999	8	3 months to 9 months
	2000	8	1 month to 12 months
	2001	7.9	2 months
Glasgow	1997	15	2 weeks to 12 months
	1998	18	1 month to 12 months
	1999	15	2 months to 12 months
	2000	15	1 month to 12 months
	2001	6	1 month to 2 months
North Strathclyde	1997	2	5 months
	1998	0	0
	1999	3	1 month to 8 months
	2000	9	2 months to 5 months
	2001	6	1 month to 2 months
South Strathclyde	1997	5.5	1 month to 12 months
	1998	7	2 months to 12 months
	1999	7	9 months to 11 months
	2000	6.5	2 weeks to 10 months
	2001	4	2 months
Crown Office	1997	4	2 months to 8 months
	1998	3.5	1 month to 10 months
	1999	3.5	1 month to 10 months
	2000	5	2 months to 12 months
	2001	3	2 months

Question reference: S1W-13447

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2001
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 1 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Crown Office will publish the Extract of the Staff Survey 2000.

A staff survey has been held for a number of years within this department, under the direction and analysis of independent consultants. The last such internal exercise, agreed in partnership with the TUS, was held last summer. It served a number of purposes in support of staff pay and conditions, working environment, checking on pressures of work and stress issues, training and development systems including staff appraisal etc. The survey is used, in consultation with the TUS, to understand and improve various aspects of working conditions. It has been instrumental in the department's re-accreditation in December 2000 for Investor in People status. An independent summary of the findings and an action plan was circulated to all staff and the TUS in December 2000. There are no plans to publish these documents outwith the department.

Salary type	Depute	Principal Depute
Average	£28,936	£41,494
Mode	£22,750	£34,700

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Length of service	Crown Office	PF Service	Total
Less than one year	Nil	38	38
1-2 years	Nil	36	36
2-3 years	2	18	20
3-4 years	Nil	5	5
4-5 years	8	18	26
6-8 years	6	22	28
8-10 years	6	19	25
Over 10 years	21	126	147