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The available information is given in the following table.

Persons in the Lothians region with a charge proved for carrying knives or offensive weapons^{1 2}, by local authority area³, 2003-04 to 2007-08.

Local Authority/Offence/Disposal	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
East Lothian	16	16	12	24	26
Having in a public place an article with a blade or point	9	10	6	15	15
Custody	4	4	2	3	4
Community sentence	3	1	2	6	4
Monetary	2	5	1	4	7
Other	-	-	1	2	-
Possession of an offensive weapon	7	5	6	9	11
Custody	1	2	2	1	3
Community sentence	6	3	3	4	1
Monetary	-	-	1	3	4
Other	-	-	-	1	3
Restriction of offensive weapons	-	1	-	-	-
Monetary	-	1	-	-	-
Edinburgh, City of	210	240	232	277	241
Having in a public place an article with a blade or point	131	140	133	177	143
Custody	41	41	45	63	39
Community sentence	23	27	34	50	34
Monetary	56	61	43	50	57
Other	11	11	11	14	13
Possession of an offensive weapon	79	100	99	100	98
Custody	15	16	22	17	15
Community sentence	17	33	27	29	18
Monetary	35	36	40	48	49
Other	12	15	10	6	16
West Lothian	35	40	29	69	52
Having in a public place an article with a blade or point	12	22	13	36	30
Custody	2	8	2	4	15
Community sentence	1	4	5	12	6
Monetary	7	7	6	16	6
Other	2	3	-	4	3
Possession of an offensive weapon	23	18	16	33	22
Custody	2	3	-	4	3
Community sentence	8	3	6	15	6
Monetary	9	8	9	13	11
Other	4	4	1	1	2
Lothians	261	296	273	370	319
Having in a public place an article with a blade or point	152	172	152	228	188
Custody	47	53	49	70	58
Community sentence	27	32	41	68	44
Monetary	65	73	50	70	70
Other	13	14	12	20	16
Possession of an offensive weapon	109	123	121	142	131
Custody	18	21	24	22	21
Community sentence	31	39	36	48	25
Monetary	44	44	50	64	64
Other	16	19	11	8	21
Restriction of offensive weapons	-	1	-	-	-
Monetary	-	1	-	-	-

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Handling an offensive weapon covers the crime categories possession of an offensive weapon, restriction of an offensive weapon and having in a public place an article with a blade or point.

3. Based upon an approximate mapping of sheriff courts into local authority areas. Some sheriff courts will deal with cases from more than one local authority area. Midlothian does not contain a sheriff court.

Data on drug seizures for the years 1999 to 2006-07 are given in the following publications list, copies of which are available from the Scottish Parliament''s Information Centre (SPICe). The following table provides details of quantities of drug seizures by type of drug.

Year of Seizures	Publication	Tables	SPICe Bib. Number
1999	Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2001	104	20860
2000	Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2002	E2.2	27706
2001	Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2003	E2.2	32141
2002	Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2004	E2.2	36121
2003	Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2005	D2.2	38474
2004-05 and 2005-06	Drug Seizures by Scottish Police Forces, 2004-05 and 2005-06	15,16,17,18,19,20	42386
2005-06 and 2006-07	Drug Seizures by Scottish Police Forces, 2005-06 and 2006-07	15,16,17,18,19,20	45847

Note:

Figures for 2007-08 and 2008-09 are due to be published in October 2009.

The following tables show 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 figures show that 7.6 per cent of all assault charges (where no injury was sustained) and 4.1 per cent of all assault to injury charges (where the injury was not categorised as serious) have been given a direct measure in the last four months.

The 904 charges relate to a total of 842 persons issued with an offer of a direct measure, out of a total of 10,688 persons offered a direct measure during the same period.

As recommended by the Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland, in its recent Thematic Report on Fiscal Fines, all of the direct measures referred to in the following tables have been monitored by senior prosecutors to ensure they accord with prosecution guidance.

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

Charge: Assault - February to May 2009

Procurator Fiscal Office	February 2009	March 2009	April 2009	May 2009	Grand Total	Assault: Charges Reported
Aberdeen	9	17	1	2	29	566
Airdrie	9	6	9	6	30	330
Alloa	0	2	0	1	3	113
Arbroath	5	2	7	1	15	103
Ayr	3	3	3	2	11	247
Banff	0	2	0	0	2	46
Campbeltown	2	1	0	2	5	47
Cupar	3	1	1	4	9	93
Dingwall	2	0	0	2	4	83
Dornoch	2	0	0	0	2	17
Dumbarton	3	12	3	3	21	232
Dumfries	0	1	6	3	10	138
Dundee	9	3	12	14	38	325
Dunfermline	9	4	12	2	27	205
Dunoon	1	2	0	3	6	31
Duns	0	0	0	0	0	6
Edinburgh	6	4	8	6	24	640
Elgin	5	5	5	1	16	158
Falkirk	3	3	9	10	25	427
Forfar	18	4	6	2	30	59
Fort William	2	1	0	1	4	29
Glasgow	40	44	20	39	143	1,977
Greenock	0	2	1	0	3	84
Haddington	0	0	0	1	1	37
Hamilton	5	1	7	5	18	629
Inverness	6	5	1	5	17	401
Jedburgh	0	2	0	0	2	46
Kilmarnock	2	5	2	3	12	397
Kirkcaldy	16	10	14	13	53	449
Kirkcudbright	0	0	0	0	0	13
Kirkwall	1	3	1	0	5	33
Lanark	1	1	1	0	3	68
Lerwick	9	0	7	0	16	57
Linlithgow	4	8	8	10	30	205
Lochmaddy	0	1	0	3	4	11
Oban	6	3	0	0	9	42
Paisley	6	2	4	8	20	368
Peebles	0	0	0	0	0	8
Perth	0	8	6	2	16	278
Peterhead	1	5	0	1	7	112
Rothesay	0	0	0	0	0	7
Selkirk	0	1	0	0	1	16
Stirling	6	1	4	2	13	173
Stonehaven	1	2	1	1	5	29
Stornoway	6	2	1	2	11	48
Stranraer	3	2	1	1	7	51
Tain	0	1	2	0	3	89
Wick	0	7	4	5	16	70
Grand Total	204	189	167	166	726	9,593

 

Charge: Assault to Injury - February to May 2009

Procurator Fiscal Office	February 2009	March 2009	April 2009	May 2009	Grand Total	Assault to Injury: Charges Reported
Aberdeen	3	2	0	2	7	316
Airdrie	2	1	1	0	4	77
Alloa	0	0	0	0	0	45
Arbroath	0	1	0	0	1	73
Ayr	0	4	1	4	9	161
Banff	1	0	0	0	1	11
Campbeltown	0	0	0	0	0	1
Cupar	1	1	1	0	3	19
Dingwall	0	0	0	0	0	1
Dornoch	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dumbarton	1	2	0	0	3	131
Dumfries	1	1	0	2	4	107
Dundee	0	0	1	0	1	74
Dunfermline	1	0	1	0	2	94
Dunoon	2	0	0	0	2	4
Duns	0	0	0	2	2	17
Edinburgh	2	7	3	11	23	711
Elgin	7	3	6	1	17	86
Falkirk	0	2	0	1	3	57
Forfar	0	0	0	0	0	34
Fort William	1	0	1	0	2	7
Glasgow	4	11	5	5	25	647
Greenock	0	1	1	0	2	71
Haddington	1	3	5	0	9	103
Hamilton	3	0	4	3	10	214
Inverness	1	1	1	1	4	63
Jedburgh	1	0	0	1	2	44
Kilmarnock	1	1	1	0	3	245
Kirkcaldy	4	5	2	0	11	132
Kirkcudbright	0	0	0	0	0	12
Kirkwall	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lanark	0	0	0	0	0	27
Lerwick	0	0	0	0	0	0
Linlithgow	6	4	4	1	15	259
Lochmaddy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oban	0	0	0	0	0	14
Paisley	1	1	2	0	4	181
Peebles	0	0	0	0	0	14
Perth	0	0	0	0	0	21
Peterhead	2	0	0	0	2	56
Rothesay	0	0	0	0	0	2
Selkirk	2	0	0	0	2	35
Stirling	0	0	0	2	2	91
Stonehaven	0	0	1	0	1	20
Stornoway	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stranraer	1	0	0	0	1	52
Tain	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wick	0	1	0	0	1	33
Grand Total	49	52	41	36	178	4,362

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.

The National Implementation Group for the Delivery Framework for Adult Rehabilitation is overseeing a national implementation plan which includes high impact changes, key actions and deliverables in the way rehabilitation services are delivered throughout NHS board areas. The role of the rehabilitation co-ordinators will be measured against the implementation of the high impact changes.

In addition to their remit of re-designing rehabilitation services, rehabilitation co-ordinators will carry out a specific impact evaluation project in their NHS board area. Not all evaluation projects have yet been determined. However, agreed evaluations include the NHS 24 physiotherapy advice and referral management project in Lothian, the falls management programme in NHS Ayrshire and Arran and the musculoskeletal pathway in NHS Lanarkshire. All of these evaluations will be carried out within a two year time frame.

The results of any evaluation will be published on the rehabilitation website and, if appropriate, in relevant peer reviewed journals www.rehabilitationframework.scot.nhs.uk.

The information requested is not held centrally.

At present, there is no waiting time data collected nationally for the allied health professions including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy. Waiting times are variable across Scotland and it is for individual NHS boards to provide the level of service required based on priority and local need. However, the Scottish Government is currently working with Information Services Division to review the current data collected on allied health professions services.

In addition, the Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that patients have swift and safe access to the full range of services they need from NHS Scotland and allied health professionals are already included in delivering patient care and treatment which has cut waiting times for patients across Scotland. Treatment can include triage, assessment and therapeutic interventions by physiotherapists and other allied health professionals in both hospital and community settings sometimes avoiding the need for consultant referral. Allied health professionals have an important role to play in delivering better, faster care in a variety of roles and settings.

The following table details the number of occupational therapy staff employed by NHS Lothian and NHSScotland expressed as head count and whole-time equivalents, as at 30 September 2008.

Occupational Therapy NHS Scotland	Head Count	Whole-Time Equivalents
NHS Lothian	401	322.0
NHSScotland	2,579	2,136.4

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Note: Data as at 30 September 2008.

The requested information is not available.

Information on the total number of people in Scotland aged under 18 diagnosed with an eating disorder (for example, anorexia, bulimia, or other psychological eating disorders) has been presented in S3W-24165, answered on 3 June 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.

Several sources of information can be used to identify patients who have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. Practice team information (PTI) is obtained from a sample of Scottish GP practices. However, the number of participating practices is too small to allow estimates to be made for individual NHS board areas.

The numbers of patients aged under 18 years resident in NHS Lothian, whose eating disorder resulted in admission to acute (non-obstetric, non-psychiatric) or psychiatric hospitals, are shown in the following tables. Note: Patients who are exclusively treated in an outpatient setting are not included in these figures.

Table 1. Number of NHS Lothian patients aged less than 18 years treated in acute hospitals for an eating disorder diagnosis: Financial years ending 31 March 2004 to 2008:

Year	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Number	4	8	9	7	6

Note: Inpatient discharges from acute (non-obstetric, non-psychiatric) hospitals can be identified from SMR01 returns (Scottish Morbidity Record 01).

Table 2. Number of NHS Lothian patients aged less than 18 years treated in psychiatric hospitals for an eating disorder diagnosis: Financial years ending 31 March 2004 to 2008:

Year	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Number	5	6	8	7	9

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Note: Inpatient discharges from psychiatric specialties can be identified from SMR04 returns (Scottish Morbidity Record 04).

Taken from nationally published data , the following table provides the number of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy staff employed by each NHS board, expressed in head count and whole-time equivalents, as at 30 September 2008.            

Allied Health Professionals	Physiotherapy		Occupational Therapy		Speech and Language Therapy
	Head  Count	Whole-Time  Equivalents	Head Count	Whole-Time  Equivalents	Head Count	Whole-Time Equivalents
NHS Borders	78	54.9	58	40.3	30	22.4
NHS Fife	230	179.5	183	149.4	76	64.4
NHS Lothian	529	411.7	401	322.0	201	135.4
NHS Highland	215	174.0	147	120.0	70	56.1
NHS Grampian	327	240.7	259	199.0	134	102.8
NHS Orkney	16	10.2	14	11.3	5	2.9
NHS Tayside	238	186.9	245	201.4	89	74.0
NHS Western Isles	18	15.8	20	17.3	12	10.0
NHS Shetland	12	10.0	7	5.2	4	3.5
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	257	202.3	184	155.1	72	61.8
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	870	720.8	612	534.4	279	232.8
NHS Lanarkshire	258	217.0	212	179.1	135	111.9
NHS Forth Valley	149	122.1	123	100.3	77	64.0
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	88	67.3	65	55.2	37	30.5
National Bodies and Special Health Boards	21	18.8	49	46.3	nil	nil
NHS Scotland Total	3,306	2631.7	2579	2136.4	1221	972.6

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Note: Data as at 30 September 2008.