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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.

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Question reference: S2W-15259

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 29 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been for the offence of driving while using a hand-held mobile phone.

Question reference: S2W-15643

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 March 2005
Current Status: Awaiting answer

To ask the Scottish Executive what the Did Not Attend rate was for (a) inpatient and (b) outpatient appointments in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15340

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 24 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 for procuring a child to beg in each year since 1997.

Question reference: S2W-14554

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 24 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have (a) had proceedings taken against them and (b) received (i) an adjudication or (ii) a criminal conviction for assault against (1) another prisoner and (2) a member of staff, in each prison since 1995.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:

Most of the information requested is not available.

The number of adjudications for “assault” as reported in the SPS Annual Reports are as follows:

Financial Year	Total Adjudications for Assault
1995-96	764
1996-97	793
1997-98	773
1998-99	633
1999-2000	626
2000-01	667
2001-02	691
2002-03	760
2003-04	750

Question reference: S2W-14684

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will reply to my letter of 11 January 2004 regarding flooding at Stirling Village, Peterhead.

Question reference: S2W-15079

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths have occurred on motorways in (a) total and (b) each local authority area in each year since 1997.

The information requested is given in the following table. This was produced from data, about injury road accidents, which were collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the Stats 19 statistical returns. Information for 2004 is not yet available. In accordance with the normal definitions of road accident statistics, motorways include A(M) roads.

Local Authority	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Dumfries and Galloway	1	0	1	0	0	5	3
East Renfrewshire	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Edinburgh, City of	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Falkirk	4	2	0	0	3	5	1
Fife	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Glasgow City	2	1	1	10	3	0	1
North Lanarkshire	2	1	0	0	2	1	4
Perth and Kinross	0	0	0	0	1	4	0
Renfrewshire	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
South Lanarkshire	4	0	5	5	0	6	1
Stirling	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
West Lothian	0	2	0	0	1	1	1
Scotland	15	7	9	17	11	24	12

Question reference: S2W-15149

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultant episodes were completed in 2004.

In-patient and day case activity¹ by specialty group for the year ending December 2004^P is shown in the following table.

Specialty Group	In-Patient Discharges²	Day Cases	Total Activity²
All Specialties	973,360	398,667	1,372,027
Acute Medical	377,403	144,299	521,702
Acute Surgical	373,788	189,243	563,031
Dental	5,634	14,758	20,392
Geriatric Medicine	56,050	75	56,125
GP other than Obstetrics	21,476	653	22,129
Learning Disabilities	2,230	0	2,230
Neo/Post-Natal Cot	6,765	0	6,765
Obstetrics	89,697	27,063	116,760
Psychiatry	28,342	0	28,342
Radiology Specialties	11,975	22,576	34,551

Source: ISD Scotland [Form ISD(S)1].

^PData are provisional and may contain estimates.

Notes:

1. Includes joint-user and contractual hospitals.

2. Excludes consultant-to-consultant transfers.

Please note that out-patient activity is excluded from the table.

Question reference: S2W-15148

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 21 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on official ministerial (a) business cards, (b) headed paper and (c) compliment slips in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Executive does not buy pre-printed headed paper. All letter heads have been set up as electronic templates, which are printed out locally by each business area using standard office paper. This policy has been in effect since devolution in 1999.

The Executive does not keep records centrally which clearly identify the breakdown of spend on ministerial business cards and compliment slips.

Question reference: S2W-15144

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 21 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of dentists in (a) Scotland and (b) each parliamentary constituency accept NHS patients.

Question reference: S2W-15153

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 21 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate students declared themselves bankrupt in 2004.