- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any estimates have been made of the cost to the NHS of treating autism and Asperger's syndrome over a patient's lifetime.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any estimates have been made of the costs to social services of caring for people with autism and Asperger's syndrome over their lifetimes.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 2 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it awarded to the Family Fund Trust in each year since 1998-99.
Answer
The Family Fund Trust has been awarded:
| 1998-99 | £2,02 million |
| 1999-2000 | £2,16 million |
| 2000-01 | £2,25 million |
| 2001-02 | £2,21 million |
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any specific funding has been allocated for respite care for carers and parents of children and adults with autism or Asperger's syndrome and, if so, to which organisations it was allocated and how much was allocated in each year since 1998-99.
Answer
Local authorities and NHS boards provide respite services in response to local need. The Executive has been providing substantially increased levels of resources for social care year on year since 1998-99. Under our Carer's Strategy we are making available £10 million a year to local authorities, specifically for services to support carers, including respite. Authorities are also being given substantial new resources to provide an extra 22,000 weeks of short break services each year across Scotland by 2003-04. Authorities decide how best to use all these resources in consultation with carers, service users and their representatives.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 25 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what training is given to members of the Children's Panels in order for them to detect and understand the needs of children (a) with Asperger's syndrome, (b) on the autistic spectrum and (c) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Answer
During pre-service and in-service training, panel members receive general information on child development and special needs. Relevant training materials are prepared in consultation with child psychiatrists and psychologists, who are experts in children's communication. Specific reference is made to the disorders mentioned. If, at a hearing, a panel member has a concern which is not addressed in the reports before it, further advice may be sought from professionals.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4666 by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 February 2002, whether it plans to award funding for research into the causes of autism on the same basis that funding have been awarded by Her Majesty's Government.
Answer
The Executive has no such plans. The £2.5 million additional funding for research into the causes of autism, announced recently by the Minister of State at the Department of Health, was awarded to the Medical Research Council to conduct research into autism throughout the UK. The research findings, when available, will inform the policies and clinical practices of NHSScotland.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many officers from Strathclyde Police additional to those normally deployed have been deployed to police the perimeter of the Faslane Naval Base in each of the past 12 months; who requested their deployment, and for what reasons.
Answer
Strathclyde Police officers do not routinely police the perimeter of Faslane Naval Base. This normally falls to the Ministry of Defence Police. Officers from Strathclyde Police are only engaged in such duties when there are large anti-nuclear demonstrations at the base.The number of Strathclyde Police officers deployed at the four major anti-nuclear demonstrations at Faslane Naval Base since the start of 2001 has not exceeded 880 officers for any one event.Deployment by the local Divisional Commander has been for the purpose of minimising disruption to naval base staff, the local community and ensuring the maintenance of public order. The level of deployment of police officers at each demonstration has been commensurate with the number of demonstrators.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many officers from Strathclyde Police additional to those normally deployed were required at the Faslane Naval Base on (a) 11 February, (b) 12 February and (c) 13 February 2002; who requested their deployment, and who will be responsible for covering the costs for this extra deployment.
Answer
Strathclyde Police officers do not routinely police the perimeter of Faslane Naval Base. This normally falls to the Ministry of Defence Police. Officers from Strathclyde Police are only engaged in such duties when there are large anti-nuclear demonstrations at the base.The police operation in respect of the demonstrations at Faslane during the week commencing 11 February involved the deployment of a total of 880 Strathclyde Police officers. These officers were deployed by the local Divisional Commander for the purpose of minimising disruption to Naval Base Staff, the local community and ensuring the maintenance of public order. While the deployment inevitably diverted the officers involved from other duties as well as incurring additional costs in extra duty and other payments, Strathclyde Police dealt with these pressures without making demands on other forces.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid to Strathclyde Police by the Ministry of Defence to cover the costs of policing events associated with the Faslane Naval Base in each of the past 12 months.
Answer
Nil. Strathclyde Police have dealt with the pressures involved in policing these events from within their own resources.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has cost Strathclyde Police to police the Faslane Naval Base in each of the past 12 months.
Answer
The extra costs to Strathclyde Police associated with policing the last four major demonstrations at Faslane Naval Base (in February, August and October 2001 and in February 2002) were £114,000, £188,000, £139,000 and £169,000 respectively. Strathclyde Police dealt with these pressures from within their own resources, without making demands on other forces.
