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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S2W-14600

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 3 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will match on a per capita basis the investment in developing CFS/ME services in England.

Question reference: S2W-14598

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 3 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to replicate the new services being rolled out in England for sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME).

Question reference: S2W-14601

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 3 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to set up local multi-disciplinary teams for CFS/ME services.

Question reference: S2W-14178

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources Scottish police forces will receive for the additional costs of liaising with the new Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Question reference: S2W-14177

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be to the Scottish Block Grant of the setting up of the proposed Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Question reference: S2W-14363

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many violent crimes have been committed in schools in each of the last five years, broken down by education authority.

Information is available on the number of incidents reported to the police of violence or antisocial behaviour against local authority staff. It is for head teachers to judge when an incident in their school should be reported to the police. However, any member of school staff has the same right as any other member of the public to report a crime to the police.

There is no information on how many of the incidents reported in the following table resulted in criminal charges. Incidents reported could have included theft or damage and any other form of crime. No further breakdown of categories is available. The perpetrators may have been pupils, parents or another member of the public. The crimes concern staff in many different education authority roles and not all incidents were committed inside school premises.

Reports Made to the Police of Incidents of Violence and Anti-Social Behaviour Against Local Authority School Staff

	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
Scotland	145	200	307	237	301
Aberdeen City	15	55	49	33	26
Aberdeenshire	2	1	16	1	2
Angus	7	7	13	15	13
Argyll and Bute	2	8	5	6	9
Clackmannanshire	0	1	3	1	6
Dumfries and Galloway	0	2	6	0	0
Dundee City	12	8	4	17	25
East Ayrshire	4	3	1	5	3
East Dunbartonshire	1	0	6	0	8
East Lothian	1	0	3	0	0
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh, City Of	13	32	26	27	29
Eilean Siar	0	2	2	0	0
Falkirk	2	5	7	18	14
Fife	12	0	24	21	18
Glasgow City	10	27	38	19	64
Highland	3	0	0	0	3
Inverclyde	0	1	0	0	3
Midlothian	0	2	7	2	9
Moray	14	5	3	3	1
North Ayrshire	0	9	23	18	16
North Lanarkshire	6	11	11	11	22
Orkney Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	4	6	23	14	2
Renfrewshire	22	9	4	5	0
Scottish Borders	0	0	2	4	0
Shetland Islands	0	0	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	3	0	1	0	0
South Lanarkshire	3	2	19	7	11
Stirling	0	2	2	0	2
West Dunbartonshire	2	2	1	3	0
West Lothian	7	0	8	7	15

Question reference: S2W-14366

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many organic farms and small holdings are registered, broken down by local authority area.

The data required are given inthe table:

Unitary Authority	Organic Farms
Aberdeen City	5
Aberdeenshire	58
Angus	23
Argyll and Bute	34
Clackmannanshire	*
Dumfries and Galloway	107
East Ayrshire	9
East Dunbartonshire	*
East Lothian	12
East Renfrewshire	*
Edinburgh, City of	*
Falkirk	*
Fife	6
Highland	66
Inverclyde	*
Midlothian	6
Moray	23
North Ayrshire	8
North Lanarkshire	*
Orkney Islands	12
Perth and Kinross	79
Renfrewshire	*
Scottish Borders,The	70
Shetland Islands	18
South Ayrshire	6
South Lanarkshire	41
Stirling	20
West Dunbartonshire	*
West Lothian	5
Eileanan an Iar	*
Scotland Total	626

Information on thesize distribution of agricultural holdings is available in various annual publicationsavailable at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/about/ERAD/ESI/00015631/page407506847.aspx.

Question reference: S2W-14619

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the latest funding settlement for NHS Grampian was allocated for deprivation levels.

NHS Grampian has received a general allocation of £547.91 million for 2005-06, an increase of 7% over the equivalent allocation for 2004-05. No specific percentage is allocated for deprivation levels. The Arbuthnott formula, which is used to determine the level of funding allocated to each board, takes account of four main indicators. These are each board’s population size, age/sex structure, deprivation levels and remoteness. The formula is used to determine the total level of funds allocated to boards for their unified budgets. It is for each board to decide how best to meet the health care needs of their residentpopulation from the totality of funds it receives, taking account of national andlocal priorities.

Question reference: S2W-14163

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many trained members of staff of local health councils have been offered employment in (a) complaints departments of NHS boards and (b) the new Scottish Health Council.

Question reference: S2W-14158

Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what interim guidance has been sent to NHS boards regarding the provision of advice and support to patients seeking to complain to their NHS board once local health councils are disbanded.