Chamber and committees

Information on the most recent clear up rates for the numbers of crimes recorded by the police at local authority level is published in table 6 of the statistical bulletin Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2004-05, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37835).

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

Eaga Partnership Ltd administers the central heating programme for pensioners’ homes in the private sector.

The central heating programme is a demand-led scheme. The number of installations in any particular area is dependent on the number of eligible applicants applying to the programme. Therefore, targets are set at a national level not by local authority area.

The information requested is given in the following table which covers men and women separately. All deaths in Scotland are classified according to the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD). As with all classifications, the ICD tends to group minor categories and split up larger categories. Any choice of a “top ten” causes of death is therefore somewhat subjective. For example, in preparing the tables major cancer sites have been treated as distinct causes. If all cancer sites had been grouped together, cancer would have been the most common cause for both men and women.

Most Common Causes Of Death, Scotland, 2004

Rank	Cause (ICD10 codes)	No. of Deaths	% of All Deaths
Males
1	Ischaemic heart diseases (I20-I25)	5,814	21.7
2	Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)	2,294	8.6
3	Malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus and lung (C33, C34)	2,151	8.0
4	Chronic lower respiratory diseases (J40-J47)	1,403	5.2
5	Influenza and pneumonia (J10-J18)	929	3.5
6	Malignant neoplasm of colon, sigmoid, rectum and anus (C18-C21)	851	3.2
7	Cirrhosis and other diseases of liver (K70-K76)	823	3.1
8	Malignant neoplasm of prostate (C61)	802	3.0
9	Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (F01, F03, G30)	645	2.4
10	Suicide and injury/poisoning of undetermined intent (X60-X84, Y10-Y34)	602	2.2
	All causes of death	26,775	100.0
Females
1	Ischaemic heart diseases (I20-I25)	4,964	16.9
2	Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)	3,861	13.1
3	Malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus and lung (C33, C34)	1,772	6.0
4	Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (F01, F03, G30)	1,709	5.8
5	Chronic lower respiratory diseases (J40-J47)	1,504	5.1
6	Influenza and pneumonia (J10-J18)	1,473	5.0
7	Malignant neoplasm of breast (C50)	1,082	3.7
8	Malignant neoplasm of colon, sigmoid, rectum and anus (C18-C21)	717	2.4
9	Diseases of the urinary system (N00-N39)	587	2.0
10	Heart failure and complications and ill-defined heart disease (I50, I51)	512	1.7
	All causes of death	29,412	100.0

 

The budget for the Loch Katrine Project is an operational matter for Scottish Water. I have therefore asked the Chief Executive of Scottish Water to provide you with the details you require.

In the meantime, you may be interested to know that Scottish Water has a website for this project which contains more information and an update of progress: www.katrinewaterproject.com.

Spending on crime prevention by East Dunbartonshire Council and West Dunbartonshire Council is a matter for these councils. This information is not held centrally. Scottish Executive spending on crime prevention since 1997 is:

Year	Amount (£ Million)
1997-98	3.24
1998-99	3.01
1999-2000	3.00
2000-01	6.72
2001-02	8.35
2002-03	10.47
2003-04	5.70
2004-05	7.20

 

East Dunbartonshire lies within Greater Glasgow Drug Action Team (DAT) area. Responsibility for West Dunbartonshire local authority area is spilt between Greater Glasgow Drug Action Team and Argyll and Clyde Alcohol and Drug Action Team.

Greater Glasgow DAT, through Greater Glasgow NHS Board, receives £6,392,277 per annum for drug treatment services and £135,570 per annum DAT support funding. Argyll and Clyde DAT, through Argyll and Clyde NHS Board, receives £2,226,140 per annum for drug treatment services and £112,049 per annum DAT support funding.

Drug Action Teams are required to report annually to the Scottish Executive, through Corporate Action Plans, on the implementation of the national drugs strategy at a local level which includes key targets on:

reducing the number of young people reporting use of illegal drugs;

increasing the numbers of drug misusers in contact with treatment and care services, and

reducing the number of drug related deaths.

Corporate Action Plans are published on the Drug Misuse Information Scotland website at:

http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/.

Since 1999, the Scottish Executive has made it a priority to provide the necessary resources to the police service to increase the number of police officers available to Chief Constables. In Strathclyde, the number of officers over this period has increased by over 500. The number of recorded crimes in West Dunbartonshire has fallen from 10,812 in 1996-97 to 9,491 in 2004-05.

Since the publication of Better Behaviour–Better Learning in 2001 the Scottish Executive has provided £10 million a year to education authorities to help them implement the 36 recommendations concerning policy and practice on discipline in schools and education authorities.

In January 2005, a further £34 million was made available over four years, from 2005–09, to enable education authorities to deploy additional support staff and home-school link workers in schools to help tackle indiscipline and promote positive behaviour.

In addition, the Scottish Executive is working in partnership with education authorities in Scotland which are piloting new approaches to school development, staff development and pupils’ learning to help promote positive behaviour. These include:

Whole school approaches to promoting positive behaviour - Solution Oriented Schools in Moray; Motivated Schools in East Renfrewshire,        Glasgow, East Lothian and Orkney; Restorative Practices in Fife, Highland and North Lanarkshire.

Staff development – Developing Empathy in City of Edinburgh; Staged Intervention (Framework for Intervention) in 23 education authorities.

Pupils’ learning – Being Cool in School in Fife, and teacher resources to support inclusive practice for children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties developed by Barnardo’s.

All of these approaches are being disseminated nationally through training for trainers programmes and consultancy support by lead authorities.

For the academic year 2003-04 there were an estimated 1,010 pupils (7%) from West Dunbartonshire schools who were recorded as truanting at least once during the year.

For the academic year 2003-04 there were an estimated 740 pupils (4%) from East Dunbartonshire schools who were recorded as truanting at least once during the year.

Before 2003-04 attendance and absence statistics were not collected at pupil level, therefore it is not possible to provide these figures for earlier years.

Information for the areas requested is not held centrally.

National estimates drawn from sample data of general practitioner consultations for dementia, post natal depression, anxiety and depression are available from the NHS, National Services Scotland at http://www.isdscotland.org/general_practice_info.

Data on the proportion of GP registered patients with severe and enduring mental health problems who have agreed to regular follow-up through the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) process is available at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/qof.