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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: S4W-00241

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were convicted of carrying a knife or other bladed weapon in the Lothians region in 2010-11.

Information for 2010-11 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2010-11 Statistical Bulletin. This is due to be published in December 2011.

The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.

Question reference: S4W-00240

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-40551 by Kenny MacAskill on 22 March 2011, how many drug finds there have been in prisons in the Lothians region in each month since December 2010, broken down by prison.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The Scottish Prison Service works in partnership with the police and other agencies to detect and interrupt the supply of drugs into our prisons. The number of drug finds which have been made in our prisons in the Lothian area are detailed in the following table.

2011	January	February	March	April	May
Addiewell	22	14	34	25	15
Edinburgh	31	17	29	13	6

Question reference: S4W-00243

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been admitted to a hospital as a result of overdosing on methadone in 2010-11, also broken down by NHS board.

Complete information on the number of patients who have been admitted to hospital as a result of overdosing on methadone for 2010-11 is not yet available as data is currently being gathered. This information is routinely collected as part of the ISD Scottish Morbidity Record.

The Information Services Division plan to publish information on hospital discharges for patients with a diagnosis of drug misuse for 2010-11 in December 2011. Information on patients discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of poisoning by methadone will be available on request from ISD in December 2011.

The latest available information is for 2009-10 and was included in the answer to question S3W-40355 on 17 March 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-00242

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what disposals were applied to people convicted of carrying a knife or other bladed weapon in the Lothians region in 2010-11.

Information for 2010-11 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2010-11 Statistical Bulletin. This is due to be published in December 2011.

The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.

Question reference: S4W-00244

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Lothian were directly connected with knife and bladed objects crime-related incidents in 2010-11, also broken down by age of patient.

The specific information requested is not available centrally as there are no exact ICD-10 diagnosis codes which identify injuries associated with “knife and bladed objects crime-related incidents”. However, it is possible to provide information on the number of bed days associated with “assault by sharp object”. This information is routinely collected as part of the ISD Scottish Morbidity Record.

Complete information for 2010-11 is not yet available as data is currently be gathered.

The Information Services Division plan to publish information on number of bed days associated with “assault by sharp object” in the Unintentional Injuries publication in December 2011. This information will be available on request from ISD in December 2011.

The latest available information is for 2009-10 and was included in the answer to question S3W-40354 on 17 March 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-00248

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 6 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in the Lothians region have been suspended for alcohol-related issues in each local authority area in 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-00247

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 6 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in the Lothians region have been suspended for drug-related issues in each local authority area in 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-00250

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hoax calls were made to NHS Lothian in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S3W-40551

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 22 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug finds there have been in prisons in the Lothians region in each month since January 2007, broken down by (a) prison and (b) type of drug.

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

The following tables illustrate the number of drug finds recorded in each month since January 2007 for each of the prisons located in the Lothian''s region broken down by establishment. SPS does not carry out analysis on substances found.

2010	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Addiewell	41	25	23	25	16	28	28	22	17	15	17	18
Edinburgh	21	7	22	22	24	25	22	31	15	23	15	28

2009	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Addiewell	0	15	46	11	13	17	26	21	23	32	14	29
Edinburgh	21	27	27	15	21	18	29	19	26	20	23	32

Note: HMP Addiewell''s prisoner population was integrated over a period of three months, with maximum prisoner population achieved March 2009.

2008	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Addiewell												0
Edinburgh	30	29	36	30	29	32	30	18	20	28	25	18

Note: HMP Addiewell opened 09 December 2008.

2007	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Edinburgh	9	15	9	12	16	23	16	15	19	21	27	27

Question reference: S3W-40552

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 22 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been killed in accidents on roads in the Lothians region in each month since May 2007, broken down by road.

The following table shows the number of people who have been killed in road accidents in Edinburgh and the Lothians by road in each month since May 2007.

Edinburgh and Lothians		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2007	A1					-	1	1	1	-	-	-	1
	A70					-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A71					-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
	A899					-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
	A900					1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A904					-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
	B7003					-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
	B702					-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
	B8084					-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
	M8					1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
	Unclassified					2	1	-	2	-	1	1	-
2008	A1	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A199	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	A7	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
	A70	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A701	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A71	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A90	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
	A901	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A904	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
	B7008	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	B701	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
	B8046	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	C^#	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	M8	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
	M9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
	Unclassified	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	2	-
2009	A198	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
	A199	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-
	A6094	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
	A702	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A71	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A89	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A901	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
	B6369	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
	B701	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-
	B9080	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	M8	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Unclassified	-	2	1	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	1	-
2010	A1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	A199	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
	A701	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	A702	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
	A899	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	B6355	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
	M8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
	Unclassified	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-

Notes:

*Figures for 2010 are provisional.

#The road number for this road is not known.