- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died as a direct result of ecstasy consumption in each of the past three years.
Answer
The following table presents the information available. For most of these cases other drugs including alcohol were also involved. It is therefore not possible to say how many of the deaths were as a direct result of ecstasy consumption.Drug-related deaths involving ecstasy, Scotland, 1998-2000
| Year | Number |
| 1998 | 3 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 11 |
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful claims were made against the insurers of each health board in each of the past three years.
Answer
Health boards and NHS trusts do not carry commercial insurance for clinical negligence and most areas of public and employer liability. Cover for these is provided through the departmentally administered Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme (CNORIS).Where individual health bodies choose to carry insurance for other risks not covered by CNORIS, neither details of these policies nor any history of claims lodged are held centrally.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been prescribed methadone in each health board area in each of the past three years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many audiologists trained in (a) the diagnosis of a patient's suitability for digital hearing aids and (b) the fitting of such aids there were in each health board area at 31 March and 30 September in each of the past three years.
Answer
Information on the total number of qualified audiologists working in NHSScotland is not held centrally, but will be held by local NHS management. Contact details for NHS management personnel are available on:
www.show.scot.nhs.uk.
The supplier generally undertakes training on the fitting of digital hearing aids.
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23079 on 13 March 2002, which provides information on the number of medical staff in the specialty of audiological medicine in the last three years for which information is available.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of mothers currently continue to breastfeed at six weeks in each NHS board area.
Answer
Centrally held figures are not available for all NHS board areas. The following table, which is compiled by ISD and is drawn from the child surveillance pre-school system, shows the percentage of mothers breastfeeding at the six- to-eight week review point for those boards participating:
| NHS Board | Breastfeeding % |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 31.7 |
| Borders | 45 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 31.5 |
| Fife | 34.4 |
| Greater Glasgow | 33.4 |
| Lanarkshire | 24.5 |
| Lothian | 46.9 |
| Tayside | 39.1 |
| Forth Valley | 32.2 |
Notes:1. Missing and unknown data have been excluded.2. Figures are for exclusively breastfed and both breast and formula milk fed.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school nurses were employed in each local authority area at 31 March and 30 September in each of the past three years.
Answer
Local authorities do not employ school nurses. School nurses are employed by NHS boards and the figures are detailed in the following table. The figures reflect the number of school nurses at 30 September each year. There are as yet no figures available for the year 2001.School Nurses directly employed by NHSScotland by NHS BoardHeadcount and Whole Time Equivalent at 30 September
| | Headcount | Whole Time Equivalent |
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Scotland | 395 | 388 | 384 | 284.4 | 277.5 | 275.6 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 34 | 35 | 34 | 22.8 | 23.2 | 23.8 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 26 | 27 | 27 | 18.9 | 19.7 | 18.9 |
| Borders | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 12 | 12 | 11 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.1 |
| Fife | 37 | 38 | 38 | 27.4 | 29.6 | 29.7 |
| Forth Valley | 17 | 17 | 17 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 13.4 |
| Grampian | 40 | 49 | 54 | 25.3 | 31.6 | 34.3 |
| Greater Glasgow | 69 | 66 | 69 | 54.7 | 52.2 | 54.7 |
| Highland | 19 | 19 | 22 | 13.9 | 13.9 | 16.7 |
| Lanarkshire | 45 | 42 | 51 | 37.4 | 34.3 | 42.2 |
| Lothian | 40 | 34 | 14 | 28.4 | 24.7 | 8.6 |
| Orkney | 1 | - | - | 0.6 | - | - |
| Shetland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| Tayside | 44 | 40 | 40 | 27.1 | 21.8 | 21.7 |
| Western Isles | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
Source: National Manpower Statistics from Payroll ISD Scotland.Note:Comprises qualified nurses and excludes nurse teachers and nurses in training.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities currently have strategies in place to offer help and advice to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. It is entirely up to local authorities if they wish to develop strategies to provide help and support to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. However, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) would be better placed to offer information regarding individual authorities.Jon Harris, Director of Policy and Legislation at COSLA has offered himself as a point of contact. His address is: COSLA, Rosebery House, 9 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5XZ.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of its waste paper was sent for recycling in each year since 1998-99.
Answer
In 1999-2000 the Scottish Executive recycled 25% of general waste, of which 25% was paper, and in 2000-01 we recycled 40% of general waste, of which 37% was paper. We expect to achieve our recycling target of 50% recycled waste for 2001-02. Last year the Executive purchased, on average, 80% recycled paper for general official use.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of its waste plastic was sent for recycling in each year since 1998-99.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has introduced a system for collecting and recycling plastic cups at Victoria Quay. There are plans to extend the system of recycling plastic, including plastic cups, to other major occupancy buildings. In 2000-01 the Scottish Executive recycled 40% of general waste. We expect to achieve our recycling target of 50% recycled waste for 2001-02. We do not hold specific recycling information for waste plastic.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 13 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual salary was of each local authority chief executive in each of the past three financial years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. However, I understand it is available from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
