Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-27448

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been of drugs for the treatment of alcohol dependence dispensed by NHS Lothian in each of the last five years.

The answer is given in the following table. The Gross Ingredient Costs given relate to medicines dispensed in the community and do not include the cost of medicines dispensed in hospitals or in hospital-based clinics. (Gross Ingredient Cost (GIC) is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees).

NHS Lothian	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Acamprosate Calcium	£31,743	£35,334	£37,934	£38,349	£39,612
Disulfiram	£51,869	£60,604	£86,602	£95,013	£96,469
Total	£83,612	£95,938	£124,536	£133,362	£136,081

The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-27330

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many gun-related crimes there were in the Lothian and Borders police force area in 2008-09.

Statistics on Recorded Crimes and Offences involving Firearms for 2008-09 are due to be published on 27 October 2009.

For statistics for 2007-08, the latest year for which data is currently available, I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-23567 on 15 May 2009. 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: S3W-27268

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were (a) arrested, (b) charged, (c) prosecuted, (d) found guilty and (e) given a custodial sentence in cases involving (i) domestic violence, (ii) rape, (iii) violence against the person and (iv) burglary in the Lothian and Borders police force area in 2008-09.

Data on numbers of arrests and charges are not held centrally. The latest available data, to 2007-08, was given in the answer to question S3W-23564 on 15 May 2009. 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.

The statistical bulletin Recorded Crime in Scotland 2008-09 is due to be published on 29 September 2009 and will present statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the eight Scottish police forces in 2008-09. Data on prosecutions and convictions in 2008-09 are due to be published in February 2010.

Question reference: S3W-27269

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been diagnosed with dementia in the NHS Lothian area in each year since 1999.

The requested information is not held centrally.

Under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) element of the current General Medical Services contract GPs have since March 2006 maintained a register of patients who they know have a diagnosis of dementia. The register comprises patients who are newly diagnosed within the registering year and those who are diagnosed prior to the registering year.

The total number of persons included on QOF dementia registers in NHS Lothian practices are as follows:

Year ending March 2007	4,797
Year ending March 2008	5,033

A very small number of GP practices with NHS Lothian are not included in these figures. Also, these figures may include non-Lothian residents who are registered with a Lothian practice, and may exclude Lothian residents who are registered with a practice outwith NHS Lothian.

We recognised in 2007 that the number of people on the GP dementia register was less than we expected from survey data available. That is why we put in place a national target for NHS boards to deliver agreed improvements in the early diagnosis and management of patients with dementia, specifically linked to the number of people on the GP dementia register.

The Mental Health Collaborative is continuing to support NHS boards in their delivery of this target.

Question reference: S3O-07902

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it now has an expected date of publication for its independent assessment of the energy options open to Scotland, as recommended in the First Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Question reference: S3W-27232

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) crimes, (b) non-sexual crimes of violence, (c) serious assaults, (d) crimes of rape and attempted rape, (e) crimes of housebreaking, (f) crimes of vandalism, (g) crimes of handling an offensive weapon, (h) drug crimes and (i) murders have occurred in each year since 2006-07.

Information on the total number of crimes committed in Scotland is not available as not all crimes are reported to the police.

The following table gives information on the number of (c) serious assaults and (i) murders which have been recorded by the police in Scotland, in 2006-07 and 2007-08.

Crime	2006-07	2007-08
Serious assault	6,525	6,000
Murder	109	98

Figures for 2006-07 and 2007-08, for the other crime categories requested are given in Table 1 of the statistical bulletin Recorded Crime in Scotland 2007-08, a copy of which is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 46684).

The corresponding figures for 2008-09 will be available following the publication of the statistical bulletin, Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, on Tuesday 29 September 2009.

Question reference: S3W-27132

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) crimes and (b) offences have been recorded in the Lothian and Borders police force area in each year since 1995.

The total numbers of crimes and offences recorded by Lothian and Borders police force since 1995 are given in the following table:

Year	Crimes Recorded	Offences Recorded	Total
1995¹	18,365	20,822	39,187
1995-96	77,771	69,367	147,138
1996-97	73,782	66,998	140,780
1997-98	71,407	76,423	147,830
1998-99	73,335	81,056	154,391
1999-2000	84,106	76,937	161,043
2000-01	78,478	79,024	157,502
2001-02	79,860	86,767	166,627
2002-03	78,991	78,248	157,239
2003-04	80,833	107,318	188,151
2004-05²	84,116	126,624	210,740
2005-06	80,571	112,510	193,081
2006-07	78,234	108,224	186,458
2007-08	70,754	89,467	160,221

Notes:

1. This data set is for the first quarter of 1995. From April 1995, the data was recorded by financial year whereas previously it had been recorded by calendar year.

2. Trends in the recorded crime and offences figures since 2004-05 have been affected by the introduction of the Scottish Crime Recording Standard which, as anticipated, increased the numbers of minor crimes recorded by the police, such as minor crimes of vandalism and minor thefts.

Question reference: S3W-27091

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 23 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many direct measures were issued for (a) assault and (b) assault to injury in August 2009, broken down by sheriff court.

The following table shows the number of charges of (a) assault and (b) assault to injury where the initial decision taken by the Procurator Fiscal was to deal with the offending behaviour by means of a direct measure.

The 222 charges relate to a total of 211 persons issued with an offer of a direct measure, out of a total of 4,118 persons offered a direct measure during the same period.

The figures include only those direct measures that were affected by the provisions in the Criminal Proceedings etc (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007.

Charges: Assault and Assault to Injury

Office	Direct Measure Issued		Charges: Reported
Office	Assault	Assault to Injury	Assault: Charges Reported	Assault to injury: Charges Reported
Aberdeen	10	2	178	58
Airdrie	9	0	112	10
Alloa	0	0	37	13
Arbroath	10	7	29	18
Ayr	0	1	79	58
Banff	0	0	10	17
Campbeltown	1	1	15	10
Cupar	5	0	29	10
Dingwall	1	0	31	0
Dornoch	0	0	5	0
Dumbarton	4	0	61	22
Dumfries	3	2	20	27
Dundee	7	1	100	27
Dunfermline	5	1	50	46
Dunoon	3	0	12	1
Duns	1	0	2	6
Edinburgh	4	4	202	192
Elgin	2	3	29	19
Falkirk	12	3	108	19
Forfar	3	0	21	0
Fort William	4	0	20	3
Glasgow	17	12	525	124
Greenock	1	1	19	23
Haddington	0	1	15	21
Hamilton	8	0	151	20
Inverness	12	0	107	9
Jedburgh	0	0	6	10
Kilmarnock	7	0	96	69
Kirkcaldy	10	3	71	51
Kirkcudbright	0	0	9	7
Kirkwall	0	0	13	0
Lanark	0	0	12	3
Lerwick	0	0	9	0
Livingston	11	1	61	48
Lochmaddy	0	0	2	0
Oban	0	2	12	1
Paisley	5	0	88	38
Peebles	0	0	1	1
Perth	6	0	56	8
Peterhead	2	0	19	13
Rothesay	0	0	6	2
Selkirk	1	0	6	2
Stirling	1	0	61	9
Stonehaven	1	0	15	3
Stornoway	3	0	13	0
Stranraer	3	0	22	12
Tain	1	0	23	0
Wick	4	0	21	9
Grand Total	177	45	2,589	1,039

Notes:

1. The information in this table has been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service''s case management database. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processing of reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies. If a Procurator Fiscal amends a charge submitted by a reporting agency, the database will record details only of the amended charge.

2. The database is charge-based. The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the number of individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.

3. Procurator Fiscal jurisdictions match sheriff court jurisdictions.

Question reference: S3W-27090

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 23 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many direct measures were issued for (a) assault and (b) assault to injury in July 2009, broken down by sheriff court.

The following table shows the number of charges of (a) assault and (b) assault to injury where the initial decision taken by the Procurator Fiscal was to deal with the offending behaviour by means of a direct measure.

The 310 charges relate to a total of 282 persons issued with an offer of a direct measure, out of a total of 3,583 persons offered a direct measure during the same period.

The figures include only those direct measures that were affected by the provisions in the Criminal Proceedings etc (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007.

Charges: Assault and Assault to Injury

Office	Direct Measure Issued		Charges: Reported
Office	Assault	Assault to Injury	Assault: Charges Reported	Assault to Injury: Charges Reported
Aberdeen	7	2	192	77
Airdrie	1	1	112	35
Alloa	1	0	24	18
Arbroath	9	8	35	26
Ayr	1	2	40	50
Banff	2	1	12	10
Campbeltown	0	0	8	2
Cupar	3	1	31	9
Dingwall	3	0	34	0
Dornoch	0	0	9	0
Dumbarton	1	0	74	33
Dumfries	4	3	22	33
Dundee	11	1	91	26
Dunfermline	9	3	49	22
Dunoon	2	0	25	2
Duns	0	0	7	2
Edinburgh	10	1	187	191
Elgin	4	3	26	23
Falkirk	17	0	132	13
Forfar	3	0	20	0
Fort William	0	1	10	4
Glasgow	46	13	491	124
Greenock	1	0	19	12
Haddington	0	0	26	40
Hamilton	14	1	161	41
Inverness	17	1	78	5
Jedburgh	1	0	5	8
Kilmarnock	3	0	100	82
Kirkcaldy	18	7	104	36
Kirkcudbright	0	1	2	6
Kirkwall	1	0	12	0
Lanark	2	0	20	2
Lerwick	0	0	10	0
Livingston	13	4	73	63
Lochmaddy	2	0	4	0
Oban	0	2	11	5
Paisley	12	2	102	37
Peebles	0	0	1	1
Perth	7	1	68	11
Peterhead	11	1	27	11
Rothesay	0	0	3	0
Selkirk	0	0	13	13
Stirling	6	0	58	18
Stonehaven	1	0	11	3
Stornoway	0	0	10	0
Stranraer	1	1	9	14
Tain	0	0	36	1
Wick	3	2	20	4
Grand Total	247	63	2,614	1,113

Notes:

1. The information in this table has been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service''s case management database. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processing of reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies. If a Procurator Fiscal amends a charge submitted by a reporting agency, the database will record details only of the amended charge.

2. The database is charge-based. The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the number of individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.

3. Procurator Fiscal jurisdictions match sheriff court jurisdictions.

Question reference: S3W-27161

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 23 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether marine energy projects in Scotland that have received grants from the UK or Scottish Government will be eligible for all five renewables obligation certificates (ROC) for wave energy or for three ROCs for tidal energy, as provided for by the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2009.

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