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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S2W-10478

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the number of cigarettes consumed per person, per year was in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.

Question reference: S2W-10424

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how much (a) wine and (b) beer was consumed in pure alcohol in litres per capita in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization's European health for all database

Question reference: S2W-10425

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the consumption of pure alcohol was in litres per capita for people aged 15 or over in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization's European health for all database.

Question reference: S2W-10477

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 16 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of regular daily smokers in the population aged 15 or over was in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.

Question reference: S2W-10605

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the number of dentists (FTE) was per 100,000 head of population in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.

Question reference: S2W-10606

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the number of dentists (FTE) was in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.

Question reference: S2W-11762

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people being cared for by voluntary carers have had a needs assessment, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-11763

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people being cared for, and who have been assessed, have been offered direct payments and, of these, how many have taken up the offer, broken down by local authority area.

The following table gives the number of recipients of direct payments, by local authority area. We do not hold data on the numbers assessed for or offered payments.

Direct Payments Recipients, Year to 31 March 2004

Local Authority	Number of Recipients
Aberdeen City	40
Aberdeenshire	19
Angus	32
Argyll and Bute	29
Clackmannanshire	23
Dumfries and Galloway	39
Dundee City	9
East Ayrshire	25
East Dunbartonshire	1
East Lothian	13
East Renfrewshire	2
Edinburgh	120
Eilean Siar	4
Falkirk	19
Fife	190
Glasgow	26
Highland	55
Inverclyde	0
Midlothian	4
Moray	17
North Ayrshire	19
North Lanarkshire	18
Orkney	16
Perth and Kinross	20
Renfrewshire	7
Scottish Borders	87
Shetland Islands	4
South Ayrshire	32
South Lanarkshire	4
Stirling	8
West Dunbartonshire	13
West Lothian	17
Scotland	912

Source: SEHD annual survey of direct payments.

Question reference: S2W-11761

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are being cared for by voluntary carers in each local authority area.

This precise information is not available. Several of the key components, however are and work is in hand to improve our understanding of the situation.

Audit Scotland currently collect annual information on the number of community care assessments and the number of people receiving a community care service. This is published on the Audit Scotland website at:

http://www.accounts-commission.gov.uk/performance/documents/2003Report/servicespdf/SW.pdf.

Information on the number of carers is given in the answers to S2W-11759 answered on 9 November 2004 and S2W-4826 answered on 8 January 2004. 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.

From January 2005 local authorities are being required for the first time to record the numbers of carers’ assessments being carried out annually.

Under our eCare programme we are working with local authorities and NHS boards to improve their IT based processes and the sharing of data collected by these agencies in relation to community care service users and their carers. One of the benefits of improved information sharing will be to bring information on users and carers closer together. This should enable us, over time, to establish a clearer picture of how many service users are being looked after by a voluntary carer, or indeed multiple carers, and the number of assessments being carried out for those carers.

Question reference: S2W-11759

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many carers there are in each local authority area aged 18 or over.

The 2001 Census asked questions on carers for the first time. The following table sets out the numbers of carers aged 18 and over, for each individual local authority, as identified in the Census.

Numbers of Carers Aged Over 18 by Local Authority Area

Local Authority	Number of Carers Over 18
Aberdeen City	16,204
Aberdeenshire	16,365
Angus	9,182
Argyll and Bute	8,080
Scottish Borders	8,866
Clackmannanshire	4,603
West Dunbartonshire	9,459
Dumfries and Galloway	13,531
Dundee City	13,407
East Ayrshire	11,942
East Dunbartonshire	11,203
East Lothian	8,567
East Renfrewshire	8,915
Edinburgh, City of	37,492
Falkirk	14,371
Fife	32,525
Glasgow City	54,091
Highland	17,722
Inverclyde	7,909
Midlothian	7,895
Moray	6,490
North Ayrshire	12,942
North Lanarkshire	31,980
Orkney Islands	1,634
Perth and Kinross	11,680
Renfrewshire	17,397
Shetland Islands	1,875
South Ayrshire	11,025
South Lanarkshire	30,773
Stirling	7,804
West Lothian	14,597
Eilean Siar	2,707
Scotland Total	463,233