Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-23251

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 6 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many local government employees have been dismissed in the Lothians, broken down by local authority and showing those dismissed for (a) gross misconduct, (b) capability - general, (c) capability - ill health and (d) other reasons in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-23252

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 6 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many dismissed local government employees in the Lothians sought an employment tribunal, broken down by local authority and number of dismissals for (a) gross misconduct, (b) capability - general, (c) capability - ill health and (d) other reasons in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-23286

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 27 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many crimes were committed in each hospital in the Lothians region in each of the last five years.

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. As such it is not possible to identify how many crimes were committed in each hospital in the Lothians region in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-23288

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 27 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how much addictions have cost NHS Lothian in each of the last three years.

The Scottish Government has directly provided the following funding to NHS Lothian for addiction related services over 2005-08.

The figures in the table indicate, rounded up, how much the Scottish Government has allocated for addressing alcohol misuse, drugs misuse and the provision of smoking cessation services.

	Alcohol	Drugs	Smoking Cessation
2006-07	£1,107,000	£4,645,000	£1,048,000
2007-08	£1,132,000	£4,645,000	£1,311,000
2008-09	£3,401,000	£4,821,000	£1,311,000

NHS Lothian spend larger sums on the downstream costs of addiction problems such as liver disease and oral cancer. However, this is not information the Scottish Government holds centrally.

Question reference: S3W-23208

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) children and (b) adults were admitted to hospital as a result of malnutrition in each year since 2006, broken down by NHS board.

Centrally held information can provide details of patients where malnutrition is identified on their hospital records. However, these figures may underestimate the actual number of cases, because malnutrition as an underlying reason for admission to hospital may not always be recorded as such or coded by coding staff.

The definition of malnutrition used to produce these figures includes diagnoses of anorexia nervosa, nutritional deficiencies (e.g. vitamin A, thiamine and calcium deficiencies), nutritional anaemias and malnutrition related diabetes mellitus.

The following tables show the number of patients (adults and children) discharged from acute hospitals in Scotland with a diagnosis of malnutrition, broken down by NHS board of residence and age group.

Table 1: Numbers of Adults Discharged with a Diagnosis of Malnutrition, by NHS Board of Residence, Years Ending 31 March 2007 and 2008

Health Board	2007	2008
Ayrshire and Arran	114	123
Borders	55	59
Dumfries and Galloway	75	120
Fife	129	154
Forth Valley	46	29
Grampian	104	115
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	529	425
Highland	131	115
Lanarkshire	190	168
Lothian	437	430
Orkney Islands	6	7
Shetland Islands	7	8
Tayside	73	75
Western Isles	12	6
Scotland	1,908	1,834

Source Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Table 2: Numbers of Children Discharged with a Diagnosis of Malnutrition by NHS Board of Residence, Years Ending 31 March 2007 and 2008

Health Board	2007	2008
Ayrshire and Arran	*	*
Borders	*	*
Dumfries and Galloway	*	*
Fife	*	*
Forth Valley	*	*
Grampian	*	5
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	7	9
Highland	*	5
Lanarkshire	8	6
Lothian	6	14
Orkney Islands	*	*
Shetland Islands	*	*
Tayside	5	*
Western Isles	*	*
All Scotland	38	51

Source Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Note: *Numbers under five have not been shown, as these may be disclosive.

Question reference: S3W-23142

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17154 by Kenny MacAskill on 12 November 2008, what additional information it has on how much money recovered from convicted criminals under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 has been spent in the Lothians region, broken down by (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) project.

Further to the information given in answer to S3W-17154 on 12 November 2008, the Scottish Government can confirm that the remainder of West Lothian''s allocation under the fund administered by YouthLink has now been distributed (£36,902.37). This brings the total to nearly £71,000. The successful projects in West Lothian are as follows:

Round 1
Bridgend Senior Youth Club	£12,000.00
Round 2
Edinburgh and Lothians Racial Equality Council	£9,280.00
Children 1st	£27,441.37
YWCA Livingston	£2,408.00
Loganlea Miners Welfare Charitable Society	£9,798.00
Edinburgh Cyrenian Trust	£9,461.00

Information relating to YouthLink-administered CashBack funding in other areas in the Lothians regions is unchanged.

Scottish Rugby Union are continuing their programme of activities for young people and in 2008-09, 14,779 primary and secondary school pupils participated in rugby taster sessions in the Lothians region. Spending figures to date are recorded according to local authority area rather than parliamentary constituency and are broken down as follows:

East Lothian Council	£19,000.00
West Lothian Council	£8,000.00
City of Edinburgh Council	£38,000.00
Midlothian Council	£12,000.00
Total	£77,000.00

Similarly, the Scottish Football Association is continuing to deliver Midnight League, Street Football and Soccer One across all regions in the Lothians and Schools of Football in Dalkeith. A total of £72,162 was spent in the Lothians area with over 3175 young people participating. Spending figures for 2008-09 are broken down by local authority area as follows:

Edinburgh	£29,737.50 (977 participants)
Midlothian	£15,050.00 (1109 participants)
East Lothian	£15,050.00 (229 participants)
West Lothian	£12,325.00 (860 participants)

Scottish Sports Futures delivered Jump2It basketball sessions in Edinburgh and West Lothian to 311 participants in 2008. A total of £25,000 in Edinburgh and £11,000 in West Lothian was invested in these health and citizenship focussed activities. Scottish Sports Futures have also spent £6,000 to date on the delivery of Twilight Basketball diversionary activities in two locations in Edinburgh (Pilton and Portobello).

Basketballscotland have continued to promote basketball participation across Scotland through the deployment of four regional co-ordinators funded by CashBack, including one in East-Central Scotland.

The second culture strand of CashBack was announced in March 2009. The Creative Identities project is an 18-month programme of creative learning activities for young people targeting young carers in particular, but will be open to all young people. Edinburgh and the Lothians are included in the East and Central Programme Plan, which will be led by Edinburgh-based partners Pilton Video and Dance Base. They have been allocated a total of £216,200 to deliver projects across the region.

Question reference: S3W-23143

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-22377 by Kenny MacAskill on 21 April 2009, whether it is now in a position to provide the data for 2007-08.

This information has been taken from the Scottish Government''s Court Proceedings database and does not include young people who have been referred to the reporter.

In 2007-08, there were 7,888 instances of people under 18 who were convicted of crimes/offences in Scottish courts. As some people were convicted on more than one occasion in 2007-08, this equated to 4,904 individual people.

Three thousand and ninety-six of these individuals had not been convicted of any previous crime/offence in the period back to 1 April 1997, leaving 1,808 people who had committed at least one other crime/offence prior to their most recent one. Among the repeat offenders, the numbers convicted of two, three, four, five to ten and over ten crimes/offences in the period back to 1 April 1997 were, respectively, 914, 410, 224, 259 and one.

Question reference: S3W-22658

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were declared bankrupt in the last quarter of 2007, also broken down by sheriffdom.

There were 1,469 awards of bankruptcy made during the last quarter of 2006 (from 1 October 2006 to 31 December 2006). A breakdown of the figures by sheriffdom is shown in the following table. Awards made by the Court of Session and remitted to a sheriff court have been recorded against that sheriff court.

Further information regarding bankruptcy figures, including the agency''s annual reports, are available on the Accountant in Bankruptcy website, www.aib.gov.uk.

October to December 2006 by Sheriffdom

Tayside, Central and Fife
Alloa	14
Arbroath	8
Cupar	18
Dundee	111
Dunfermline	46
Falkirk	54
Forfar	10
Kirkcaldy	63
Perth	39
Stirling	18
Total awards for Sheriffdom	381
South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway
Airdrie	71
Ayr	42
Dumfries	16
Hamilton	105
Kirkcudbright	9
Lanark	23
Stranraer	10
Total awards for Sheriffdom	276
North Strathclyde
Campbeltown	4
Dumbarton	45
Dunoon	8
Greenock	10
Kilmarnock	89
Oban	2
Paisley	27
Rothesay	0
Total awards for Sheriffdom	185
Grampian, Highland and Islands
Aberdeen	76
Banff	3
Dingwall	5
Dornoch	2
Elgin	28
Fort William	6
Inverness	26
Kirkwall	5
Lerwick	2
Lochmaddy	1
Peterhead	15
Portree	1
Stonehaven	10
Stornoway	4
Tain	6
Wick	2
Total awards for Sheriffdom	192
Lothian and Borders
Duns	2
Edinburgh	114
Haddington	27
Jedburgh	4
Linlithgow	54
Peebles	5
Selkirk	4
Total awards for Sheriffdom	210
Glasgow and Strathkelvin
Glasgow	225
Total awards for Sheriffdom	225
Total Awards	1,469

Question reference: S3W-22659

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were declared bankrupt in the last quarter of 2006, also broken down by sheriffdom.

There were 1,519 awards of bankruptcy made during the last quarter of 2007 (from 1 October 2007 to 31 December 2007). A breakdown of the figures by sheriffdom is shown in the following table. Awards made by the Court of Session and remitted to a sheriff court have been recorded against that sheriff court.

Further information regarding bankruptcy figures, including the Agency''s annual reports, are available on the Accountant in Bankruptcy website, www.aib.gov.uk.

October to December 2007 by Sheriffdom

Tayside, Central and Fife
Alloa	16
Arbroath	8
Cupar	24
Dundee	140
Dunfermline	53
Falkirk	47
Forfar	7
Kirkcaldy	54
Perth	43
Stirling	16
Total awards for Sheriffdom	408
South Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway
Airdrie	60
Ayr	40
Dumfries	24
Hamilton	116
Kirkcudbright	5
Lanark	16
Stranraer	10
Total awards for Sheriffdom	271
North Strathclyde
Campbeltown	3
Dumbarton	45
Dunoon	6
Greenock	29
Kilmarnock	56
Oban	7
Paisley	62
Rothesay	3
Total awards for Sheriffdom	211
Grampian, Highland & Islands
Aberdeen	59
Banff	4
Dingwall	6
Dornoch	0
Elgin	21
Fort William	3
Inverness	20
Kirkwall	5
Lerwick	2
Lochmaddy	0
Peterhead	14
Portree	5
Stonehaven	8
Stornoway	2
Tain	3
Wick	3
Total awards for Sheriffdom	155
Lothian & Borders
Duns	3
Edinburgh	122
Haddington	53
Jedburgh	4
Linlithgow	54
Peebles	2
Selkirk	13
Total awards for Sheriffdom	251
Glasgow & Strathkelvin
Glasgow	223
Total awards for Sheriffdom	223
Total Awards	1,519

Question reference: S3W-22730

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what quantity of drugs was seized in the Lothians region in each year since 1999, broken down by class of drug.

Data on drug seizures is available by police force region, and not by parliamentary region.

Figures for the years 1999 to 2006-07 are given in the following publications list, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. The following table provide details of quantities of drug seizures by class.

Year of Seizures	Publication	Tables	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, 2004-2005 and 2005-2006	15,16,17, 18,19,20	42386
2005-06 and 2006-07	Drug Seizures by Scottish Police Forces, 2005-2006 and 2006-2007	15,16,17, 18,19,20	45847

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

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