Chamber and committees

Accident data held by Transport Scotland only covers those accidents resulting in injury or death.

The following table shows the number of injury accidents that have occurred on each trunk road in 2007 including the number of fatal accidents and fatal casualties. Information for 2008 is not yet available.

Route	Injury Accidents	Fatal Accidents	Fatal Casualties
A1	38	4	4
A6091	4	0	0
A68	34	2	2
A7	16	0	0
A701	11	0	0
A702	39	3	3
A720	59	0	0
A725	42	0	0
A726	11	0	0
A737	37	2	2
A738	5	0	0
A75	68	3	4
A76	34	5	6
A77	67	4	5
A78	59	1	1
A8	54	1	1
A80	29	0	0
A82	143	8	8
A828	6	1	2
A83	34	5	5
A830	5	0	0
A835	15	0	0
A84	19	2	2
A85	56	1	5
A86	15	1	1
A87	35	0	0
A876	4	0	0
A887	1	0	0
A898	4	0	0
A9	147	9	11
A90	133	9	9
A92	40	0	0
A95	15	2	2
A96	69	3	3
A972	5	0	0
A985	5	0	0
A99	7	0	0
M73	8	0	0
M74	110	0	0
M77	19	0	0
M8	177	4	5
M80	17	1	1
M876	3	0	0
M898	3	0	0
M9	26	1	1
M90	30	0	0

 

The figures quoted are provisional as not all police forces have completed their returns for 2007 and may differ slightly from those published elsewhere because they were extracted on a different date and the database may have changed between the two dates, e.g. due to late returns or corrections to earlier returns.

Expenditure on trunk road upgrading in 2007-08 by route is shown in the following table.

Route	2007-08 (£ Million)
A1	0.89
A68	19.89
A7	2.63
A720	0.30
A725	0.31
A737	1.88
A74(M)	0.01
A75	10.41
A76	1.22
A77	7.98
A78	0.60
A8	0.02
A80	0.06
A82	0.45
A830	9.73
A85	0.11
A876	46.09
A898	0.30
A9	17.83
A90	1.25
A95	0.85
A96	0.13
A985	0.44
M8	0.44

 

The figures relate only to investment in new construction and minor improvement schemes that have been completed but do not include maintenance costs. They are inclusive of construction and land costs with VAT applied where appropriate. The figures exclude preparation and land costs on capital schemes that have not yet gone to construction because there is, as yet, no tangible asset to show for the expenditure. The figures do not include expenditure on the M74 and M77 PPP schemes.

At this stage, it is not clear whether the change announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 13 May will be for more than a single year. It will be necessary to see what the Chancellor does later this year and in future budgets in case the personal allowance thresholds are revised further by the time we implement a local income tax. In these circumstances, it would be premature to estimate with any certainty the impact of the increase in the personal allowance. The decrease in the higher rate will have no impact because our proposals for a local income tax envisage a rate of 3p in the pound for both basic and higher tax rates.

The Department for Work and Pensions publish figures on the take-up of council tax benefit, but do not break these figures down by area. Their website indicates that between 54 and 60% of eligible pensioners across the UK receive council tax benefit, compared to an overall rate of between 62 and 68%.

Table 1 sets out the number of patients discharged from Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary with an alcohol-related diagnosis between 2003-04 and 2006-07 (the latest year for which information is available), for people aged (a) under 15, (b) 15 to 18, (c) 19 to 21, and (d) over 21. The information is based on date of discharge rather than date of admission because the relevant dataset is a discharge summary record.

Table 1: The Number of Patients Discharged¹ from Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary with an Alcohol-Related Diagnosis², by Age Group³ 2003-04 to 2006-07^P

	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07P
Under 15 Years	10	6	12	10
15-18 Years	23	16	21	17
19-21 Years	32	22	23	14
Over 21 Years	524	583	644	529

^PProvisional.

Notes:

1. Excludes mental illness hospitals, psychiatric units and maternity hospitals and transfers.

2. Alcohol related conditions are defined by using the World Health Organization''s International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD10): Alcohol-related conditions: F10, R780, Y90, Y91, Z637, Z811, Z864, Z714, Z502, T506, Y573, T510, T519, X45, X65, Y15, O354, Q860, P043, Z721, Z133, G621, G721, K860, I426, K70, K292, G312 & E52.

3. Age on admission.

Additional Notes:

1. A patient is defined as having excess alcohol consumption if their diagnosis contained an alcohol-related condition.

2. Information on discharges from acute non-obstetric, non-psychiatric hospitals is available from the Scottish morbidity record, SMR01.

3. Table 1 excludes transfers. For the definition of transfers, please see the ISD Data Dictionary at:

http://www.datadictionaryadmin.scot.nhs.uk/isddd/ISD_DT_TOP_Content.jsp?pContentID=1817&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.

4. Information is based on date of discharge (rather than date of admission) because the SMR01 dataset is a discharge summary record. 

5. Caution is necessary when interpreting these figures. The recording of alcohol misuse may vary from hospital to hospital. Where alcohol misuse is suspected but unconfirmed it may not be recorded by the hospital.

6. Figures in the table only relate to those individuals who are treated as in-patients. They do not include individuals managed as out-patients.

Information on patients treated for drug misuse in Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary in 2007-08 is not currently available.

Table 1 shows the number of patients discharged from NHS Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary with a drug misuse diagnosis between 2003-04 and 2006-07 for people aged (a) under 15, (b) 15 to 18, (c) 19 to 21 and (d) over 21.

Table 1: The Number of Patients¹ Discharged from Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary with a Drug-Related Diagnosis^2,3, by Age Group⁴, 2003-04 to 2006-07^P

Age Groups	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07P
Under 15 years	-	1	-	-
15-18 years	4	1	3	3
19-21 years	12	10	6	10
Over 21 years	52	52	60	61

^PProvisional.

Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Notes:

1. Excludes mental illness hospitals, psychiatric units and maternity hospitals and transfers.

2. Diseases recorded using the World Health Organization''s International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD10). Drug-related conditions: F11, F12, F13, F14, F15, F16, F18, F19.

3. Excludes misuse of alcohol or tobacco.

4. Age on admission.

- denotes zero.

Responsibility for council tax benefit lies with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The explanatory paper Abolition of council tax and introduction of local income tax: revenue projections (Bib. number 45130) used the DWP''s official revenue projections for Scotland''s entitlement to council tax benefit.

The estimated change in the local income tax yield caused by adjusting individuals'' personal income tax allowances is shown in table 1.

Table 1 “ Estimated Change in Local Income Tax Yield

	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
£100 increase in PA	-£7.7 million	-£7.7 million	-£7.7 million
£200 increase in PA	-£15.3 million	-£15.3 million	-£15.3 million
£500 increase in PA	-£37.9 million	-£37.9 million	-£38 million

Note: Results have been rounded to the nearest £100,000.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12137 on 22 April 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.

In 2007, the reported number of dwellings that fell within the categories in Schedule 1 of the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Order 1997 as amended was 106,394. A breakdown of this figure into the categories listed in the specified schedule is not held centrally.