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Question reference: S2W-28766

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what liaison procedures are in place to co-ordinate work between prison officers, addiction nurses and drug workers in prisons.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

An Integrated Case Managementsystem, multidisciplinary meetings, case conferences and community integration plansallow the liaison and co-ordination between all staff groups involved in the rehabilitationand management of offenders with substance misuse problems. These activities aremanaged by addiction co‑ordinators in each establishment.

Question reference: S2W-28913

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 18 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the per capita grant aided expenditure allocation was to each local authority in each of the last seven years.

The information requested isgiven in the following table.

(£)	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Aberdeen City	989	1,050	1,133	1,288	1,406	1,511	1,607
Aberdeenshire	1,053	1,085	1,187	1,327	1,422	1,509	1,577
Angus	1,109	1,150	1,241	1,410	1,533	1,617	1,701
Argyll and Bute	1,196	1,223	1,315	1,479	1,596	1,731	1,834
Clackmannanshire	1,091	1,123	1,226	1,354	1,468	1,539	1,620
Dumfries and Galloway	1,155	1,191	1,291	1,446	1,567	1,681	1,773
Dundee City	1,194	1,241	1,356	1,514	1,637	1,752	1,841
East Ayrshire	1,131	1,160	1,253	1,400	1,507	1,612	1,709
East Dunbartonshire	1,046	1,077	1,179	1,318	1,427	1,551	1,651
East Lothian	1,023	1,054	1,140	1,280	1,390	1,498	1,596
East Renfrewshire	1,039	1,079	1,179	1,320	1,424	1,558	1,659
Edinburgh, City of	1,006	1,037	1,118	1,268	1,370	1,442	1,510
Eilean Siar	1,676	1,730	1,785	1,963	2,107	2,218	2,323
Falkirk	1,034	1,063	1,161	1,291	1,395	1,496	1,577
Fife	1,083	1,123	1,219	1,344	1,448	1,557	1,639
Glasgow City	1,336	1,367	1,472	1,631	1,740	1,830	1,918
Highland	1,216	1,260	1,370	1,545	1,649	1,760	1,845
Inverclyde	1,184	1,229	1,328	1,480	1,606	1,722	1,817
Midlothian	1,058	1,104	1,206	1,351	1,467	1,601	1,713
Moray	1,087	1,108	1,189	1,338	1,441	1,561	1,641
North Ayrshire	1,139	1,180	1,277	1,422	1,531	1,627	1,734
North Lanarkshire	1,105	1,144	1,251	1,378	1,484	1,580	1,678
Orkney	1,663	1,708	1,819	1,975	2,095	2,234	2,344
Perth and Kinross	1,066	1,104	1,185	1,345	1,460	1,552	1,635
Renfrewshire	1,104	1,165	1,246	1,394	1,523	1,626	1,732
Scottish Borders	1,138	1,172	1,274	1,436	1,543	1,641	1,736
Shetland	1,794	1,887	2,001	2,187	2,364	2,527	2,639
South Ayrshire	1,101	1,138	1,228	1,387	1,497	1,581	1,696
South Lanarkshire	1,080	1,124	1,224	1,363	1,462	1,564	1,656
Stirling	1,100	1,128	1,234	1,386	1,501	1,621	1,713
West Dunbartonshire	1,229	1,273	1,411	1,549	1,675	1,791	1,911
West Lothian	1,059	1,082	1,176	1,294	1,389	1,507	1,595
Scotland	1,127	1,165	1,262	1,409	1,518	1,620	1,709

Source: Grant Aided Expenditure(Green Books) divided by mid year population estimates (GROS).

Question reference: S2W-28911

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will direct the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee to conduct an impact analysis of the Arbuthnott funding formula.

Question reference: S2W-28910

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive why the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee has not conducted an impact analysis of the Arbuthnott funding formula.

Question reference: S2W-28912

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will direct the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee to conduct an impact analysis of its proposals for changes to the Arbuthnott funding formula.

Question reference: S2W-28909

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive why the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee has undertaken no public consultation on the current review of budget allocation.

The NHSScotland ResourceAllocation Committee (NRAC) completed on 29 September 2006 a 12 week consultation on refining the resource allocation formula forNHSScotland. The consultation was based on the research undertaken over thepast year for the Committee. This research was published in early July on theCommittee’s website (www.nrac.scot.nhs.uk) alongside an overview document whichsummarised the key issues, presented options and raised questions in support of the consultation.

The Committee also ran threeRegional Workshops in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Clydebank for interested parties. The Workshops werepublicised on the Committee’s public website and anyone was welcome to attendand indeed some MSPs did.

In view of the complexity of the subject matter, engagement and feedback was primarily sought fromNHSScotland, but other interested parties including, for example, the Royal Colleges,BMA and CoSLA were also invited to participate.

Question reference: S2W-28419

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 10 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding it has given Sportscotland to support the provision of a 50-metre swimming pool for Aberdeen.

Question reference: S2W-28608

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related (a) crimes and (b) antisocial behaviour incidents there were in each of the last 10 financial years, broken down by police force area.

Question reference: S2W-28610

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 5 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals were estimated to have had (a) gambling, (b) alcohol or (c) drug addictions in each year since 1999, broken down by (i) local authority area, (ii) parliamentary constituency and (iii) NHS board area.

Estimates by local authority,parliamentary constituency and NHS board are not available on gambling or alcoholaddiction.

Scottish Executive social researchsuggests that an estimated 0.6% to 0.8% of the adult population in Britain are problemgamblers. The rate is similar for Scotland.

The Scottish Health Survey 2003found that 5% of men and 2% of women reported occasions when they felt unable tostop drinking.

National prevalence studies estimatingthe number of problematic drug users in Scotland have been undertaken in 2000 and 2003. This information,broken down by NHS board and local authority area, has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 40553). This information is not availableby parliamentary constituency.

Question reference: S2W-28609

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 5 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered drug addicts there are in each (a) local authority area, (b) parliamentary constituency and (c) NHS board area, also showing the percentage of the total number of such addicts these numbers represent in each category.