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Question reference: S2W-17400

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on post-16 care for people with learning disabilities and how much of this was spent on people with autistic spectrum disorder in each year since 1997.

Information on local authorityspend on services for people with autistic spectrum disorders is not detailed separatelyfrom spend on services for people with learning disabilities. Spend on communitycare services for adults aged 18 to 64 with learning disabilities is detailed bylocal authority in the table.

Adults Aged 18-64 withLearning Disabilities, Net Revenue Expenditure

(£000)	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03¹	2003-04
Scotland	115,607	115,568	137,955	143,662	164,686	230,357	241,366
Aberdeen City	5,648	5,739	7,535	8,093	10,232	12,728	13,853
Aberdeenshire	6,593	7,074	8,384	8,568	10,691	14,193	13,847
Angus	1,790	1,706	1,749	2,158	2,115	3,876	4,707
Argyll and Bute	4,050	2,693	3,408	3,560	3,943	5,864	4,596
Clackmannanshire	338	323	677	622	512	1,148	1,202
Dumfries and Galloway	3,869	2,558	3,012	3,128	3,226	5,814	5,708
Dundee City	3,469	3,888	4,098	4,547	4,814	6,344	6,276
East Ayrshire	1,843	2,448	2,475	2,393	2,893	5,149	5,189
East Dunbartonshire	1,109	1,117	1,242	4,466	5,099	4,957	3,845
East Lothian	2,363	2,502	2,544	2,831	3,135	4,850	3,566
East Renfrewshire	1,311	1,946	2,101	2,303	2,274	2,132	2,065
Edinburgh, City of	11,353	13,704	15,411	15,755	17,564	22,094	22,184
Eilean Siar	692	740	743	871	977	1,308	1,555
Falkirk	2,024	2,012	2,221	2,150	2,211	1,041	4,760
Fife	7,622	8,877	11,389	6,694	9,613	12,691	11,988
Glasgow City	17,745	12,726	18,864	19,315	23,531	38,126	33,842
Highland	3,909	3,814	4,291	3,686	4,737	8,943	10,518
Inverclyde	1,533	1,596	1,464	1,720	1,785	3,063	3,152
Midlothian	2,174	2,657	2,628	2,880	3,022	5,111	4,655
Moray	2,544	2,834	2,620	2,916	3,126	3,882	2,110
North Ayrshire	2,255	2,319	2,617	2,764	3,244	4,537	4,391
North Lanarkshire ²	6,673	8,000	9,675	11,589	13,023	7,577	23,630
Orkney Islands	279	334	381	408	467	1,009	932
Perth and Kinross	2,720	2,911	3,620	4,158	4,439	6,800	6,826
Renfrewshire	2,789	2,969	2,901	3,556	3,327	4,344	5,072
Scottish Borders	1,664	1,842	2,576	3,289	3,739	6,699	6,758
Shetland Islands	703	806	1,086	984	1,338	1,623	1,949
South Ayrshire	2,105	2,412	2,945	3,507	4,015	7,117	5,286
South Lanarkshire	6,445	5,705	7,414	6,897	7,366	12,776	13,142
Stirling	1,865	1,483	1,727	1,738	1,896	4,934	3,964
West Dunbartonshire	2,994	2,534	2,477	2,372	1,799	3,792	4,412
West Lothian	3,135	3,298	3,680	3,743	4,533	5,835	5,386

Source: LFR 3 returns.

Notes:

1. Figures prior to 2002-03exclude home care.

2. North Lanarkshire - highincrease in 2003-04 due to change in the councils' treatment of supportingpeople income and expenditure.

Question reference: S2W-17399

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 27 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital funding it has provided to (a) state and (b) independent special schools since 1997, broken down by sector and local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-17395

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 27 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines it has issued to local authorities regarding access to continuing education for young people with learning difficulties, in particular autistic spectrum disorder, once they leave compulsory education.

Ensuring that everyone has thechance to learn regardless of their background or current personal circumstancesis one of the five people-centred goals of our lifelong learning strategy. The Executiveprovides guidance to the Scottish Further Education Funding Council on the strategicpriorities for the further education (FE) sector. This guidance covers support forstudents with additional support needs, including those with autistic spectrum disorder(ASD).

Ourrecent publication, Partnership Matters,sets out the statutory responsibilities of further education colleges, local authoritiesand NHS boards on the provision of support to students with additional support needsgenerally. This publication can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/01/20504/49607.

Sections 12 and 13 of the Education(Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004, which will be commenced on14 November, places duties on education authorities to ensure early planning, informationsharing and preparation for the transition to post-school life for young peoplewith additional support needs, including those with ASD. Further information onpreparing for adulthood is contained in the draft code of practice which will accompanythe act. The draft code can be found at www.scotland.gov.uk.The final version will be published in lateAugust and will be distributed to all local authorities and those with responsibilitiesunder the act.

Question reference: S2W-17397

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people have been sectioned under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 in each year since 1997 after leaving special school provision.

Question reference: S2W-17396

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Euan Robson on 22 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish children have been referred to independent special schools outwith Scotland in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) home and (b) destination local authority.

Question reference: S2W-17059

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many internal lights inside Holyrood are on permanently.

Question reference: S2W-17061

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the total annual cost isof internal lighting for Holyrood.

Question reference: S2W-17060

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by John Scott on 10 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the estimated annual cost is of internal lights in Holyrood that are always switched on, including maintenance and bulb replacement, and what the estimated annual cost is of these lights for their use outside office hours of 9.00 am to 5.00 pm.

The total cost of maintaining, running and replacing bulbs in the lights that are permanently left on is estimated to be £15,000, approximately 9% of the total annual lighting costs. The annual estimated running costs for these lamps outside the hours of 9.00am to 5.00pm is approximately £5,000. Once the Parliament has been occupied for a full calendar year, a more accurate estimate will be possible.

Question reference: S2W-16675

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15533 by Mr Andy Kerr on 14 April 2005, what the average working life is of a PET scanner.

Question reference: S2W-16671

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 May 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) CT and (b) MRI scanners are in operation across Scotland; when they were commissioned and brought into use; when they will come to the end of their working lives, and when the Executive plans to replace each of them.

On the number of CT and MRI scanners in Scotland I refer the member to the answers to questions S2W-11192 on 2 November 2004, and S2W-16171 on 5 May 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/wa.search.

Information on the dates on which CT and MRI scanners were commissioned and brought into use is not held centrally.

The replacement of medical equipment, including CT and MRI scanners, is a matter for NHS boards. NHS boards are given an annual capital allocation and it is for them to determine, based on their local knowledge and taking into account other local and national priorities, how these resources should be deployed.