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I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26332 on 31 August 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.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26332 on 31 August 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.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26332 on 31 August 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 following table shows the number of patients admitted as an emergency to acute hospitals in NHS Lothian as a result of injury due to accidental contact with a knife, sword or dagger or contact with a sharp object of other intent (assault, intentional self-harm or undetermined intent).

In order to protect patient confidentiality, cells with small numbers (one-four cases) have been suppressed. To prevent suppressed cells being disclosed through differencing, some additional cells with greater than four cases have also been suppressed.

Table: Number of patients admitted as an emergency to an NHS Lothian hospital due to accidental contact with sword, knife or dagger or other contact (due to assault, intentional self-harm or undetermined intent) with sharp object broken down by year of discharge, council area of residence and age group:

Year of Discharge	Council Area of Residence	Age Group
		0-14	15-18	19-21	22-24	25-28
2005-06	City of Edinburgh	5	19	30	31	37
	East Ayrshire	-	-	*	-	-
	East Lothian	-	5	*	*	*
	Fife	-	*	-	-	*
	Midlothian	*	*	-	*	*
	North Lanarkshire	-	-	-	*	-
	Scottish Borders	*	-	*	-	-
	West Lothian	5	6	14	6	10
	Total	13	35	53	42	54
2006-07	Aberdeen City	*	-	-	-	-
	City of Edinburgh	8	23	37	31	30
	East Lothian	-	*	*	*	*
	Fife	-	*	-	-	-
	Highland	-	-	-	-	*
	Midlothian	-	12	5	*	11
	Scottish Borders	-	-	*	*	*
	South Lanarkshire	*	-	-	-	-
	West Lothian	*	6	5	8	5
	Total	11	50	49	49	50
2007-08	City of Edinburgh	*	39	37	35	32
	Clackmannanshire	-	-	-	-	*
	East Dunbartonshire	-	-	*	-	-
	East Lothian	*	5	7	*	5
	Falkirk	-	-	*	-	-
	Fife	-	*	*	-	*
	Midlothian	-	8	9	*	*
	North Lanarkshire	-	*	-	-	*
	Renfrewshire	-	-	*	-	-
	Scottish Borders	-	*	-	-	*
	West Lothian	*	14	18	11	19
	Total	7	69	77	58	68

Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Notes:

*Suppressed.

-Zero value.

1. Up to six diagnoses (one principal, five secondary) are recorded on the SMR01 return. External causes are coded in the secondary position and all five secondary diagnosis positions have been used to select for the data presented above.

2. The following codes from the International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD-10) were used to identify injuries caused by assault by sharp object: W26 (contact with knife, sword or dagger), X78 (intentional self-harm by sharp object), X99 (assault by sharp object) and Y28 (contact with sharp object, undetermined intent).

3. There are no ICD10 codes for self-harm, assault or undetermined intent that specify the type of sharp object. As such, these figures may overestimate contact with a bladed object.

Statistics for alcohol-related deaths for each local authority area are published each year by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). The figures and their definition can be found on the GROS website:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/deaths/alcohol-related-deaths/index.html.

There is no standard definition of other substance misuse deaths. Statistics for drug-related deaths for each local authority area are published each year by GROS:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/drug-related-deaths/index.html.

The total number of deaths in each local authority area is published in Table 2 of Appendix 1 of Scotland''s Population: the Registrar General''s Annual Review of Demographic Trends:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/annual-report-publications/index.html.

Because the figures required to calculate the requested percentages are taken from three separate publicly-available sources, the answer brings them together in the following table.

Lothian Deaths Registered in Scotland in 2008

	Lothian	Edinburgh	East Lothian	Midlothian	West Lothian
Total deaths	7,547	4,291	1,014	793	1,449
Alcohol-related deaths	171	102	18	14	37
Percentage of all deaths	2.30%	2.40%	1.80%	1.80%	2.60%
Drug-related deaths	94	66	7	6	15
Percentage of all deaths	1.20%	1.50%	0.70%	0.80%	1.00%

Source: General Registry Office Scotland.

The available information is given in the following table. The information in the table is provided on the same basis as S3W-24878, answered on 8 July 2009, which related specifically to persons with a charge proven of either possession and supply of drugs or possession and intent to supply of drugs:

Disposals Applied to Persons a with a Charge Proved for Supply/Possession with Intent to Supply Drugs Offences¹, in Lothian and Borders Police Force Area in 2006-07 and 2007-08

Drug/Disposal	2006-07	2007-08
Heroin
Total supply/possession of heroin with intent to supply	41	63
Custody	25	32
Community sentence	9	16
Drug treatment and testing order	1	7
Monetary	5	5
Other	1	3
Cocaine
Total supply/possession of cocaine with intent to supply	10	22
Custody	8	17
Community sentence	2	3
Drug treatment and testing order	-	-
Monetary	-	2
Other	-	-

Source: Scottish Government Court Proceedings database.

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes only offences where type of drug was recorded against the offence.

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.

This information is not held centrally.

The Scottish Government does not hold individualised data on any crimes or offences recorded by the eight police forces in Scotland, and as such does not hold information on the victims of crimes or the location at which the crime took place. It is not therefore possible to identify the number of offences on public transport recorded by Lothian and Borders Police, in each of the last three years.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26185 on 19 August 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.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26185 on 19 August 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 Scottish Government is currently working to produce energy performance certificates (EPCs), from which a building''s asset rating is taken, to be displayed in 16 large buildings on the estate during 2009. Operational ratings have been on display in these 16 buildings since 5 January 2009 which means that the government has gone beyond the minimum statutory requirements, underlying its commitment to leading by example. There are currently no plans to publish details of the energy ratings of all buildings on the core estate of the Scottish Government.

The buildings on the core Scottish Government estate are not required to display energy performance certificates as laid out by The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2008.