- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for paediatric orthodontic treatment was in each of the last three years, broken down by health board area.
Answer
Most paediatric orthodontic treatments carried out within hospital and community health service settings are undertaken on an outpatient basis and information on waiting times for such treatments is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of police officers worked more than 48 hours per week averaged over any 17 week period in each of the last three years, broken down by police force.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the core contractual hours for police officers were in each police force in each of the last three years; how many and what percentage of officers in each force exceeded these core hours in each of these years, and what the average number of hours worked per week per officer was in each force in each year.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is being given to the establishment of a drug court in the north east, what the reasons are for its position on this matter and, if such a court is to be established, where it will be sited and what the timetable is for its establishment.
Answer
I expect to receive the proposals from the steering group considering the model for a drug court within Glasgow Sheriff Court shortly. This will inform my decision on the piloting of other drug courts. Meantime work is underway to introduce Drug Treatment and Testing Orders to sheriff courts in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports voluntary and charitable organisations receiving assistance towards their water bills.
Answer
The Executive’s views on this issue were fully set out in the Members Debate on 4 April.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discarded hypodermic needles were collected in public places in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area, and what percentage of the number collected nationally each of these figures represents.
Answer
This information is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of crime has been estimated as drug-related in each of the last five years, broken down by police force.
Answer
The recorded crime statistics in Scotland distinguish crimes involving drugs, such as cultivation, importation, possession and supply. They do not identify all drug-related crimes, such as those committed to fund a drugs habit. This more general information is not collected nationally or at police force level, and is only available from criminal justice research, such as the reports listed:
Interviewing and Drug Testing of Arrestees in Scotland: A Pilot Study of the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Methodology.
Published by the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit in 2000
The Criminal Histories of 372 Suspected Drug Offenders.
Published by the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit in 2001
Recreational Drugs and Driving: Prevalence Survey.
Published by the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit in 2001Copies of these reports are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib numbers 7209, 12860 and 11659 respectively).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much and what percentage of the budget made available to (a) Grampian Health Board and (b) Tayside Health Board for drug detoxification treatment was spent outwith the Grampian and Tayside areas in each of the last three years.
Answer
Figures available for the year 1998-1999 show that, for residential rehabilitation only, the spend outwith the area was for (a) Grampian Health Board £110,000 or some 66%, and for (b) Tayside Health Board, 100%. Figures are not available for 1997-98.The Drug Action Teams within both Health Board areas are working to establish local residential drug rehabilitation services in addition to the range of other treatment and other care services available for drug misusers.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its legal advice is that it would be possible for the water authorities to be exempted from the Competition Act 1998.
Answer
The Executive's assessment of the scope for exempting the water authorities from the provisions of the Competition Act 1998 is set out in Annex B of its consultation paper on the Water Services Bill, which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib number 12181).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for National Lottery Charities Board funding there have been from each (a) parliamentary region and (b) parliamentary constituency, specifying the percentage of successful applications in each case.
Answer
These are matters for the lottery distributor concerned and I have asked them to respond to the member directly and a copy of the reply will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
