Chamber and committees

The proportion of funding currently available to the Scottish Investment Bank in percentage terms from the (a) Scottish Co-investment Fund, (b) Scottish Venture Fund and (c) Scottish Seed Fund is approximately (a) 60%, (b) 37% and (c) 3%.

We are currently working to identify what further resources may be available to the Scottish Investment Bank. Until that work is finalised it is not possible to provide a figure for what proportion of funding will come from sources other than the three existing funds.

As no changes were proposed to the three funds initially comprising the Scottish Investment Bank (the Scottish Seed Fund, Scottish Co-investment Fund and Scottish Venture Fund), there was no consultation with the business community prior to the announcement.

As the First Minister announced on 21 April, the Scottish Investment Bank will initially comprise approximately £150 million in available public sector resource. We are also considering what further resources might be available to enhance the scale of those funds.

Since the announcement on 21 April we have met with representatives from the Scottish Trade Union Council, LINC Scotland, the Federation of Small Businesses, CBI Scotland, Scottish Council for Development and Industry and Scottish Financial Enterprise. The purpose of these discussions has been to inform the development of the Scottish Investment Bank.

There will always be homicide cases where the drink and drug status of the accused is unknown. A person accused of murder is not always arrested at the time of the offence, so in many cases their condition at that time cannot be assessed by a police surgeon or other police officer.

Forces provide data on drink or drug status of the accused by extracting available information from the standard police report submitted to the procurator fiscal or by contacting the investigating officer for the case. If during the inquiry witnesses make comments about the accused that lead to inferences being made about their drink or drug status then this will be recorded as such.

The proportion of NHS Lothian''s budget that was spent on (a) mental health services, (b) prescription drugs and (c) antidepressants in each of the last five years is shown in the table below.

Year	Mental Health Services	Prescription Drugs	Anti-depressants
2007-08	11%	17%	1%
2006-07	12%	17%	1%
2005-06	12%	17%	1%
2004-05	10%	17%	1%
2003-04	10%	17%	1%

 

This information is currently not available centrally, however information relating to audiology waiting times in NHS boards has been collected since April 2007 and Information Services Division is actively working with the boards to improve the consistency, completeness and timeliness of these data. A revised dataset was introduced in December 2008 and a pre-announcement of this data will take place in August 2009 in line with statistical publication standards. Publication of the relevant data will be in November 2009. Audiology waiting times are included within the 18-week referral to treatment standard by 2011.

This information is not held centrally. Ultimately, it is for individual local authorities and schools to determine what to provide by way of out of school hours learning based on local needs and circumstances.

Centrally held information provides details for patients where malnutrition is identified on their hospital records. The definition of malnutrition employed in this analysis includes diagnoses of anorexia nervosa, nutritional deficiencies (e.g. vitamin A, thiamine and calcium deficiencies), nutritional anaemias and malnutrition related diabetes mellitus.

Tables 1, 2 and 3 below show the number of patients discharged from acute hospitals in Scotland with a diagnosis of malnutrition, broken down by NHS board of residence, financial year and age group.

Table 1: Number of Patients Where a Diagnosis of Malnutrition Was Recorded on a Hospital Admission, by NHS Board of Residence, Financial Years 2006-07 to 2008-09.

Health Board	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Ayrshire and Arran	117	127	121
Borders	55	59	62
Dumfries and Galloway	76	122	90
Fife	130	157	118
Forth valley	47	30	49
Grampian	107	120	113
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	536	434	370
Highland	134	120	130
Lanarkshire	198	174	165
Lothian	443	444	453
Orkney Islands	6	8	15
Shetland Islands	7	8	7
Tayside	78	76	83
Western Isles	12	6	5
All Scotland	1,946	1,885	1,781

Table 2: Number of Patients Aged 16 Years and Over Where a Diagnosis of Malnutrition Was Recorded on a Hospital Admission, by NHS Board of Residence, Financial Years 2006-07 to 2008-09.

Health Board	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Ayrshire and Arran	114	123	118
Borders	55	59	62
Dumfries and Galloway	75	120	89
Fife	129	154	116
Forth valley	46	29	49
Grampian	104	115	109
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	529	425	356
Highland	131	115	123
Lanarkshire	190	168	158
Lothian	437	430	445
Orkney Islands	6	7	15
Shetland Islands	7	8	7
Tayside	73	75	81
Western Isles	12	6	5
All Scotland	1,908	1,834	1,733

Table 3: Number of Patients Aged Up to 15 Years Where a Diagnosis of Malnutrition Was Recorded on a Hospital Admission, by NHS Board of Residence, Financial Years 2006-07 to 2008-09.

Health Board	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Ayrshire and Arran	3	4	3
Borders	-	-	-
Dumfries and Galloway	1	2	1
Fife	1	3	2
Forth valley	1	1	-
Grampian	3	5	4
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	7	9	14
Highland	3	5	7
Lanarkshire	8	6	7
Lothian	6	14	8
Orkney Islands	-	1	-
Shetland Islands	-	-	-
Tayside	5	1	2
Western Isles	-	-	-
All Scotland	38	51	48

Source: Information Services Division Scotland.

Notes:

Figures for financial year 2008-09 are provisional.

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