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Question reference: S2W-25417

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were diagnosed as having a mental health problem after entering prison in each year since 2000.

Question reference: S2W-25568

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects that a framework will be in operation to enable agencies and professionals to share information about individual children and to assess their needs in a consistent way, as identified by the Children and Young People Delivery Group as one of its five priorities.

The Scottish Executive isdeveloping legislation on information sharing in relation to child protection.In addition, practice change is being supported through the Getting it Rightfor Every Child agenda and the development, through a pathfinder project in Highland, of the single assessment, record and plan which will support information sharing. Theaim is to start national roll out from April 2007.

Question reference: S2W-25422

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 5 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the per capita ratio of educational and child psychologists was to children in each local authority area in each year since 2000.

The number of educational psychologistswas not collected centrally between 2000 and 2002. The following table gives thedata for 1999 and 2003 to 2005, together with the rate per 10,000 pupils in localauthority schools.

	Educational Psychologists				Number Per 10,000 Pupils
	1999	2003	2004	2005	1999	2003	2004	2005
Aberdeen City	12	14	16	13	4	6	7	6
Aberdeenshire	17	17	17	19	5	5	5	5
Angus	7	7	8	8	4	4	5	5
Argyll and Bute	6	7	7	7	4	5	5	6
Clackmannanshire	5	7	6	7	7	10	8	10
Dumfries and Galloway	7	11	8	10	3	5	4	5
Dundee City	11	13	13	13	5	7	7	7
East Ayrshire	7	9	9	10	4	5	5	6
East Dunbartonshire	7	7	8	7	4	4	4	4
East Lothian	6	9	7	6	5	7	5	4
East Renfrewshire	7	12	11	11	4	7	7	7
Edinburgh, City of	27	35	35	38	5	7	7	8
Eilean Siar	3	3	3	3	7	7	7	7
Falkirk	8	10	12	11	4	5	6	5
Fife	31	25	25	23	6	5	5	5
Glasgow City	58	50	54	54	7	7	8	8
Highland	13	16	16	15	4	5	5	5
Inverclyde	6	7	8	10	4	6	7	8
Midlothian	6	8	8	7	5	6	6	6
Moray	7	8	8	9	5	6	6	7
North Ayrshire	11	12	11	12	5	6	5	6
North Lanarkshire	23	24	25	29	4	5	5	6
Orkney Islands	2	2	1	2	6	6	3	7
Perth and Kinross	9	9	9	10	5	5	5	5
Renfrewshire	11	13	13	14	4	5	5	6
Scottish Borders	6	7	7	8	4	4	4	5
Shetland Islands	2	1	1	1	5	3	3	3
South Ayrshire	8	7	9	5	5	4	6	3
South Lanarkshire	18	20	20	23	4	4	4	5
Stirling	6	7	8	8	5	5	6	6
West Dunbartonshire	7	9	9	10	4	6	6	7
West Lothian	11	14	12	15	4	5	5	6
Scotland	364	398	403	417	4.8	5.4	5.6	5.9

Source: 1999 data from the SC6form. 2003-2005 data from the Staff Census.

Question reference: S2W-25416

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have been given treatment for depression, other than being prescribed with anti-depressants, in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-25415

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have been prescribed with anti-depressants in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-25414

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many inmates of prisons have been diagnosed with depression in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-25419

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 5 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with a known drug-misuse problem also had a diagnosed mental health problem, expressed both in real terms and as a percentage of the total population, in each year since 2000.

The information available isshown in the following tables 1 to 3.

Table 1 shows the number of newclients attending treatment services each year from 2001-02 to 2004-05, who reportedthat at least one of the significant issues that led them to present to the service,was their mental health.

Financial Year³	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
New individual patients^1,2	11,673	11,718	13,086	14,332
Information available (=100%)⁴	6,023	6,039	7,220	7,584
Mental health⁵quoted as one presenting issue	3,142	3,025	3,756	3,808
% of all presenting issues	52	50	52	50

Source: Scottish Drug MisuseDatabase (SDMD) SMR24.

Notes:

1. All figures in this tableexclude penal establishment inmates and information received from needle exchanges.

2. New individual: any personwho is attending (a) for the first time ever or (b) if has been at least six monthssince the last attendance at the service.

3. There is no SDMD data on presentinginformation before 2001.

4. Information available: thenumber of people who provided a valid response to the “presenting issue” questionon the SMR24 form.

5. All those who said that theirmental health was at least on of the significant issues that led them to presentto the service.

Table 2 shows the number of discharges from psychiatric hospitals^1,2(in 2000-01 and 2001-02) that had a drugs misuse diagnosis^3,4 and a mental/behaviouraldisorder⁵ (excluding alcohol-related diagnoses). Drug-misuse diagnoseswith concurrent alcohol-related mental/behavioural diagnoses are shown separately,in the table.

Financial Year (of Discharge)⁶	2000-01	2001-02
Drugs misuse and any other mental/behavioural disorder, excluding alcohol-related diagonoses⁷	725	748
% of total population	0.014	0.015
Drugs misuse and severe mental health problems due to alcohol misuse⁸	11	14
% of total population	0.000	0.000

Source: ISD Scotland (SMR04).

Notes:

1. Includes transfersfrom other psychiatric in-patient care.

2. Excludes patientsresident outwith Scotland; includes patients with “no fixed abode”or whose residence is unknown.

3. Diagnostic conditionsare defined by using the World Health Organisation’s International Classificationof Diseases 10th Revision (ICD10). Drug related conditions include codes: F11, F12,F13, F14, F15, F16, F18, F19.

4. Excludes misuseof tobacco (F17) as a supplementary diagnosis.

5. Those dischargeswhere both a drugs misuse AND a mental/behavioural disorder diagnosis weremade.

6. 2001-02 is themost recent year for which complete SMR04 data is available.

7. ICD10 codes F00-F99,excluding drug-related codes (see above) and alcohol-related codes, F10 (see below).

8. Alcohol-relateddiagnoses (ICD10): F10.3 - F10.9: serious mental and behavioural disorders resultingfrom excessive alcohol misuse.

Table 3 shows the number of acute and general hospital discharges^1,2(from 2000-01 to 2004-05) that had a drugs misuse diagnosis^3,4 and amental/behavioural disorder⁵(excluding alcohol-related diagnoses). Drug-misusediagnoses with concurrent alcohol-related mental/behavioural diagnoses are alsoshown in the table.

Financial Year (of Discharge)	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Drugs misuse and any other mental/behavioural disorder, excluding alcohol-related diagnoses ⁷	172	181	309	328	404
% of total population	0.003	0.004	0.006	0.006	0.008
Drugs misuse and severe mental health problems due to alcohol misuse ⁸	31	25	30	49	75
% of total population	0.001	0.000	0.001	0.001	0.001

Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Notes:

1. Includes transfersfrom other hospitals.

2. Excludes patientsresident outwith Scotland; includes patients with “no fixed abode”or whose residence is unknown.

3. Diagnostic conditionsare defined by using the World Health Organisation’s International Classificationof Diseases 10th Revision (ICD10). Drug-related conditions include codes: F11, F12,F13, F14, F15, F16, F18, F19.

4. Excludes misuseof tobacco (F17) as a supplementary diagnosis.

5. Those dischargeswhere both a drugs misuse AND a mental/behavioural diagnosis were made.

6. Most recent publisheddata.

7. ICD10 codes F00-F99,excluding drug-related codes (see above) and alcohol-related codes, F10 (see below).

8. Alcohol relateddiagnoses (ICD10): F10.3 - F10.9: serious mental and behavioural disorders resultingfrom excessive alcohol misuse.

Question reference: S2W-25278

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 4 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees living in Scotland are receiving treatment for mental health problems, broken down by NHS board area, and what the equivalent figures were for each year since 2000.

The data requested is notheld centrally.

Refugees and asylum seekershave unhindered access to mental health services and support in their locality.An Asylum Seekers/Refugees Health Network has been set up by the the National ResourceCentre for Ethnic Minority Health to provide advice to all care agencies supportingAsylum Seekers and Refugees with mental health problems.

In Glasgow, wherethe largest numbers of asylum seekers and refugees are resident, “The Compass Team” for mental healthservices acts as an operational support, and is also involved in mental healthtraining.

Question reference: S2W-25277

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 4 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what childcare support provision exists for asylum seeker and refugee families who require access to treatment for mental health problems.

Question reference: S2W-25420

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the recruitment of educational and child psychologists.