- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency ambulance call-outs in the NHS Lothians area were (a) alcohol-related and (b) drug-related in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of all emergency ambulance call-outs in the NHS Lothians area were (a) alcohol-related and (b) drug-related in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has cost NHS Lothian to treat patients admitted to hospital as a result of drug misuse in each of the last five years.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
Funding is allocated from the Scottish Government to health boards for drug treatment and rehabilitation services. The following table sets out the funding that has been made available to NHS Lothian in each of the last five years, from 2005-06 to 2009-10.
| Financial Year | NHS Lothian* Allocation (£000) |
| 2005-06 | 4,645 |
| 2006-07 | 4,645 |
| 2007-08 | 4,645 |
| 2008-09 | 4,821 |
| 2009-10 | 5,472 |
Note:
*NHS Lothian is comprised of the City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian and West Lothian alcohol and drug partnerships.
The allocations detailed in the table only represent the ring-fenced money provided by the Scottish Government to NHS Lothian for drug treatment and rehabilitation services; the health board and other local partners are able to supplement these funds to tackle problem drug use, in order to meet the needs of the local population.
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-25381 by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 July 2009, whether it can now advise what proportion of NHS Lothian patients experiencing strokes was admitted to a specialist unit within 24 hours in 2008.
Answer
The information requested is available from the
Scottish Stroke Care Audit 2009 National Report, published on 29 September 2009.
For the National Report:
http://www.strokeaudit.scot.nhs.uk/Downloads/files/2009%20Report/SSCA-report-2009-web.pdf.
For the inpatient tables showing the percentage of stroke patients admitted to a stroke unit within one day:
http://www.strokeaudit.scot.nhs.uk/Downloads/files/2009%20Report/SSCA_2009_Hospital_Tables_Inpatients.xls.
These inpatient tables indicate that in 2008, 54.8% of stroke patients in NHS Lothian were admitted to a stroke unit within one day.
The following table shows the numbers of stroke patients admitted to a stroke unit in NHS Lothian within one day, for 2007-08. Figures are also shown for the NHS Lothian hospitals contributing to the Scottish Stroke Care Audit.
Numbers and Percentages of Patients Admitted to a Stroke Unit Within One Day in NHS Lothian and NHS Lothian Hospitals
| Year | Stroke Patients | NHS Lothian | ERI | SJH | WGH |
| 2007 | Number admitted within one day* | 497 | 146 | 75 | 276 |
| Number of patients admitted | 953 | 356 | 194 | 403 |
| Percentage admitted within one day | 52.2 | 41 | 38.7 | 68.5 |
| 2008 | Number admitted within one day | 576 | 177 | 85 | 314 |
| Number of patients admitted | 1,051 | 397 | 218 | 436 |
| Percentage admitted within one day | 54.8 | 44.6 | 39 | 72 |
Source: Scottish Stroke Care Audit 2009.
Notes:
*Patients admitted to hospital who are recorded as having entered any kind of stroke unit on the same date or the day after they were admitted.
ERI - Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
SJH - St John''s Hospital.
WGH - Western General Hospital.
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) longest, (b) shortest and (c) average prison sentence was at HMP Edinburgh for someone incarcerated for carrying an offensive weapon.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
As of 5 October 2009, there was a total of nine convicted prisoners in HMP Edinburgh with an offence of Offensive Weapon, the longest sentence being 18 months, the shortest being 80 days and the average sentence being seven months.
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 8 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged (a) under 15, (b) 15 to 18, (c) 19 to 21 and (d) over 21 were admitted to hospitals in the Lothians to receive treatment for excess alcohol consumption in 2008-09.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22376 on 21 April 2009 which contains the most recent data available (2007-08) for the age groups requested. 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.
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 8 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been housed in temporary accommodation in the Lothians parliamentary region in each year since 2007, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The table shows, for each local authority area in the Lothians parliamentary region, the number of homeless households in temporary accommodation at the end of each quarter from 31 March 2007 to 31 March 2009, the latest date for which information is available. The table gives numbers of homeless households who have been placed in temporary accommodation as part of their application for homelessness assistance. This includes households awaiting a homelessness assessment, households waiting for suitable permanent accommodation to be found and households placed in temporary accommodation as the outcome of their application.
Number of Homeless Households in Temporary Accommodation
| | | East Lothian | Edinburgh | Midlothian | West Lothian |
| 2007 | 31 March | 192 | 595 | 310 | 326 |
| 30 June | 180 | 613 | 225 | 306 |
| 30 September | 188 | 673 | 167 | 345 |
| 31 December | 203 | 684 | 160 | 351 |
| 2008 | 31 March | 207 | 691 | 195 | 349 |
| 30 June | 204 | 715 | 290 | 275 |
| 30 September | 225 | 714 | 317 | 359 |
| 31 December | 237 | 687 | 296 | 366 |
| 2009 | 31 March | 261 | 685 | 308 | 370 |
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to help tourism.
Answer
The Scottish Government''s tourism strategy aims to increase tourism revenue to Scotland by 50% by 2015. The government sponsors VisitScotland to market Scotland according its strengths and by what the visitor is looking for. Many other public agencies play a role in supporting tourism, including enterprise agencies, Skills Development Scotland, Scottish Development International, Scottish Natural Heritage, Historic Scotland, the Forestry Commission, and of course local authorities.
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 6 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive who carried out the independent assessment of the energy options open to Scotland, as recommended by the Council of Economic Advisers.
Answer
The independent assessment of the energy options open to Scotland was carried out by Wood Mackenzie.
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 6 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what parameters were given to the organisation carrying out the independent assessment of the energy options open to Scotland, as recommended by the Council of Economic Advisers.
Answer
The organisation carrying out the independent assessment of energy options were asked to outline the scope, costs and emissions abatement potential of the various generation technologies available to Scotland, seeking to identify which sources are likely to benefit from a comparative advantage over others.
