- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the funding of independent advocacy services for patients with mental health issues is due to end, broken by local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to thequestion S2W-29995 answered on 5 December 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website the search facility forwhich can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the funding of independent advocacy services for patients with mental health issues is due to end, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Advocacy services are not fundedcentrally. The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 places a duty on health boards and local authoritiesto work together to secure the provision of independent advocacy services andto help people to access them.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that independent advocacy services for patients with mental health issues are statutory services and should not, therefore, be supported through the voluntary sector and lottery funding.
Answer
There is a duty on health boardsand local authorities under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland)Act 2003 to secure the availability of independent advocacy services for peoplewho have a mental disorder. NHS boards may secure such services by funding themfrom their own allocation or by obtaining support from other sources.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the women’s unit at Craiginches prison, Aberdeen, will reopen.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS has no plans at presentto re-open it for female prisoners.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the women’s unit at Craiginches prison, Aberdeen, closed.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
3 October 2005.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 4 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will use end-year flexibility to address shortfalls in local authority social work budgets.
Answer
No. End-year flexibilityis a one-off sum of money and cannot be used to sustain any alleged shortfalls inlocal authority social work budgets.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2006
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Answered by Johann Lamont on 30 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to gather data on the number of clients undergoing treatment for drug misuse, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) NHS board.
Answer
The Scottish Drug Misuse Database(SDMD) currently collects information, by NHS board and local authority area, onthe number of ‘new’ clients accessing services. However, the database is being redevelopedto allow for the collection of additional information. The revised SDMD is beingphased in from April 2006, and once full compliance is achieved from all drug treatmentservices in Scotland, the database will be able to provide the informationrequested.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29166 by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 November 2006, why it excluded the Aberdeen stock transfer result and whether any other similar ballots were not included in the answer.
Answer
The councils listed in the replyto question S2W-29166 were those who have undertaken formal independent ballotsof tenants on whole stock transfer proposals since 1999. The 2002 exercise undertakenby Aberdeen City Council was simply a referendum on the principle of transfer versusretention to inform the council’s future policy direction. It was not a ballot ona specific proposal to transfer its housing to a Registered Social Landlord. I understandthat the Dundee Federation of Tenants Association undertook a similar exercise in2004. Tests of opinion on the principle of transfer versus retention, without thebenefit of a detailed transfer proposal to compare with the service offered by thecouncil, may have been carried out in other areas but this information is not heldby the Executive.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2006
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Answered by Johann Lamont on 23 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the age has been of each drug user who has come into contact with drug treatment services in each local authority area since 1997.
Answer
The number of new clients reportingto the Scottish Drug Misuse Database, broken down by age group and council areaof residence from 1997-2008 to 2004-05 has been placed in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 40882).
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will reconsider the use of a card-only till in the garden level restaurant.
Answer
The SPCB recentlyconsidered this issue and agreed to continue with the current arrangements inthe meantime. I would encourage all members to use the cashless system, as itensures that everyone gets through both tills as quickly as possible. To makethe system more convenient to use, we will be installing an additional cashloader at the servery entrance. We will of course continue to monitor thesystem.
