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Question reference: S5W-12702

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many cyclists have been involved in road traffic accidents in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area, and what information it has regarding how many of the cyclists were wearing a helmet, also broken down by the cost to each NHS board of treating those who (i) wore and (ii) did not wear a helmet.

Reported Road Casualties Scotland provides information on injury road accidents reported to the police. The latest statistics available are up to 2016.

The following table Shows the number of pedal cyclists who were involved in injury road accidents by local authority area.

Pedal cyclists involved in injury road accidents

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Aberdeen City	43	43	38	31	31	23	42	29	27
Aberdeenshire	29	25	29	30	23	23	15	17	17
Angus	27	23	35	19	16	28	22	23	15
Argyll & Bute	15	21	21	15	10	8	10	8	10
Clackmannanshire	6	5	10	3	13	5	4	12	5
Dumfries & Galloway	18	22	27	24	33	13	26	9	22
Dundee City	36	23	24	27	28	21	21	28	18
East Ayrshire	15	13	9	10	9	20	17	6	7
East Dunbartonshire	25	12	12	9	11	8	8	10	3
East Lothian	14	17	3	18	19	17	9	13	16
East Renfrewshire	8	7	9	5	8	9	12	7	13
Edinburgh, City of	236	202	206	185	168	170	173	205	181
Eilean Siar	1	3	1	1	2	2	3	0	0
Falkirk	36	23	24	18	22	16	26	14	21
Fife	59	47	53	31	48	36	31	41	37
Glasgow City	131	107	111	106	112	116	109	115	110
Highland	54	44	52	46	36	38	33	41	44
Inverclyde	6	10	11	11	7	8	9	8	6
Midlothian	12	15	17	15	12	13	21	16	11
Moray	18	11	12	19	18	11	20	13	11
North Ayrshire	21	21	15	19	17	11	23	23	20
North Lanarkshire	38	36	40	30	25	29	19	16	22
Orkney Islands	6	2	1	5	0	3	2	3	1
Perth & Kinross	28	18	16	18	15	19	18	16	17
Renfrewshire	30	32	30	28	31	27	28	24	7
Scottish Borders	24	16	22	13	20	12	12	14	17
Shetland Islands	2	0	1	2	1	2	0	2	1
South Ayrshire	19	25	24	15	21	23	23	14	14
South Lanarkshire	42	26	32	30	31	33	29	24	29
Stirling	17	19	18	16	19	26	13	14	15
West Dunbartonshire	15	7	12	14	16	11	12	13	7
West Lothian	31	25	27	39	18	13	18	23	16
Total	1062	900	942	852	840	794	808	801	740

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Aberdeen City	54	63	40	38	45	52	55	41	27
Aberdeenshire	22	24	29	20	13	17	13	13	16
Angus	16	16	4	12	13	12	12	11	6
Argyll & Bute	12	7	13	8	9	10	10	9	10
Clackmannanshire	8	6	8	9	4	16	5	9	7
Dumfries & Galloway	13	16	17	10	18	12	12	21	14
Dundee City	23	25	21	26	21	26	24	13	16
East Ayrshire	8	4	5	9	11	14	12	8	9
East Dunbartonshire	8	7	9	14	10	6	12	15	11
East Lothian	10	18	25	22	19	19	18	13	24
East Renfrewshire	8	8	12	10	17	14	14	13	14
Edinburgh, City of	195	213	217	242	252	249	241	230	237
Eilean Siar	2	3	6	1	1	0	3	1	0
Falkirk	24	23	18	20	26	25	24	24	27
Fife	29	40	35	37	34	63	36	35	46
Glasgow City	109	106	118	128	155	136	162	146	138
Highland	37	21	28	36	44	26	37	21	25
Inverclyde	9	4	6	8	6	8	4	4	7
Midlothian	8	17	14	11	10	7	17	11	11
Moray	13	13	8	11	10	9	9	4	6
North Ayrshire	16	13	17	10	17	16	16	20	13
North Lanarkshire	22	28	26	35	24	30	23	23	26
Orkney Islands	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	0	3
Perth & Kinross	18	21	14	17	19	17	18	20	5
Renfrewshire	20	14	30	18	32	23	25	22	20
Scottish Borders	4	18	12	15	15	10	13	17	7
Shetland Islands	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
South Ayrshire	10	12	11	16	15	16	21	9	16
South Lanarkshire	23	28	21	24	26	28	31	32	28
Stirling	17	23	17	18	25	21	26	16	14
West Dunbartonshire	8	8	4	10	4	12	5	5	8
West Lothian	21	21	23	18	38	24	23	23	16
Total	768	821	810	855	934	920	924	829	808

Although the number of pedal cyclists involved in accidents has increased from a low of 740 in 2007 to 808 in 2016 (9%), there has been a 47% rise over the same period in the distance travelled, as shown in the following table.

	million vehicle kilometres
1999	238
2000	242
2001	236
2002	250
2003	249
2004	232
2005	243
2006	260
2007	240
2008	273
2009	287
2010	298
2011	305
2012	310
2013	329
2014	369
2015	342
2016	352

Source: Scottish Transport Statistics

Information on the wearing of cycle helmets is only available from 2013 onwards. The following table shows the number of casualties injured in road accidents by severity and whether they were wearing a helmet or not.

Pedal cyclists injured in road accidents by severity and whether wearing a helmet

Killed	Wearing	Not wearing	Not known	Total
2013	7	4	1	12
2014	6	2	0	8
2015	2	2	1	5
2016	6	2	0	8
Serious
2013	73	42	34	149
2014	90	38	31	159
2015	82	42	40	164
2016	76	39	32	147
Slight
2013	301	187	235	723
2014	378	160	189	727
2015	338	135	155	628
2016	306	137	184	627

All severities

2013	381	233	270	884
2014	474	200	220	894
2015	422	179	196	797
2016	388	178	216	782

Information on the cost of treating cyclists injured in road accidents is not held centrally.

Question reference: S5W-12697

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 24 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 in each NHS board area, broken down by the (i) charge and (ii) type of emergency worker involved, and how many custodial sentences were imposed, broken down by the average length of sentence.

Data on NHS board areas and type of emergency worker involved are not held in the Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings database.

Prosecutions and convictions under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 were published in January 2017 as part of an additional dataset to the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland 2015-16 statistical publication. 'Criminal Proceedings for offences against emergency workers' is available to view on the SG website http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/DatasetsCrimProc/EWA1.

Under the Act section 1(1) covers; police, fire service, ambulance service and registered medical practitioners, nurses and midwives. The other sections cover other emergency workers, such as coastguards, social workers, persons assisting emergency workers, and health workers in hospital premises.

People receiving a custodial sentence for convictions under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005, where main charge 2006-07 to 2015-16

Charge	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
Total custody	66	93	93	70	96	107	98	87	74	58
Section 1(1)	13	13	23	32	45	49	36	34	35	32
Section 2(1)	28	32	17	5	13	8	9	6	7	4
Section 3(1)	1	-	3	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
Section 5(1)	24	48	50	33	37	50	53	47	32	22

Average sentence¹ in days, for offences under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005, 2006-07 to 2015-16

Charge

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

Mean

Total custody	66	112	92	129	93	151	70	151	96	133	107	151	97	161	87	160	74	187	58	153
Section 1(1)	13	85	12	122	23	121	32	140	45	129	49	151	36	164	34	163	35	171	32	144
Section 2(1)	28	115	32	130	17	177	5	140	13	130	8	149	9	176	6	159	7	235	4	219
Section 3(1)	1	122	-	-	3	152	-	-	1	122	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Section 5(1)	24	123	48	129	50	156	33	164	37	140	50	152	52	156	47	158	32	195	22	154

1. Average sentence lengths excludes life sentences and indeterminate detention, detention of a child aged under 16 and recall sentences.

Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings database

Question reference: S5W-12592

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 23 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the information that is given by GPs to people with mental health concerns.

Question reference: S5W-12584

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many parenting classes in each local authority area it has offered support to in each year since 1999.

We do not hold information relating to the work of previous administrations.

However, between 2012-2016 the Scottish Government contributed an initial
£52.5 million to the Early Years Change Fund. Part of the Scottish Government’s contribution included £9 million of direct funding, via local government settlements for Family Support.

Local Government had discretion on how to allocate their funding contributions, whilst the Scottish Government and NHS funding was allocated towards a number of specific programmes, home support and outreach; family and parenting programmes and support

In addition to this, the Scottish Government awarded £14 million in 2016-17 to 116 organisations who support children, families and communities across Scotland, through the Children, Young People and Families Early Intervention Fund and Adult Learning and Empowering Communities Fund.

Of these, 21 are for organisations in the area of parenting and family support totalling funding of £4.282 million.

Question reference: S5W-12576

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how it will allocate the £20 million funding for alcohol and drug partnership funding, which was announced in the Programme for Government.

Question reference: S5W-12580

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many environmental health officers each local authority has employed in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-12590

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many “did not attend” appointments were recorded by each NHS board in 2016-17.

The information requested is provided in the following table.

NHSScotland: Total number of new referrals, did not attends and the percentage of did not attends in Financial year 2016-17 by each NHS Board.

NHS Board	Total Number of New Referrals	Did Not Attend (DNA)	DNA Rate (%)
Golden Jubilee National Hospital	14,346	690	4.8%
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	114,679	10,859	9.5%
NHS Borders	35,341	1,673	4.7%
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	42,365	2,181	5.1%
NHS Fife	114,061	11,142	9.8%
NHS Forth Valley	80,507	6,503	8.1%
NHS Grampian	126,501	7,949	6.3%
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	436,080	51,490	11.8%
NHS Highland	78,499	4,858	6.2%
NHS Lanarkshire	141,106	13,509	9.6%
NHS Lothian	264,692	27,059	10.2%
NHS Orkney	4,348	259	6.0%
NHS Shetland	5,183	355	6.8%
NHS Tayside	151,854	13,439	8.8%
NHS Western Isles	8,512	713	8.4%
Non- NHS Provider	5,324	187	3.5%
NHS Scotland	1,623,398	152,866	9.4%

Source:ISD Scotland SMR00

Question reference: S5W-12591

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many care residents have died following (a) admission and (b) readmission to hospital in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-12571

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the plans to (a) upgrade the Sherriffhall junction and (b) (i) expand capacity and (ii) reduce congestion on the Edinburgh city bypass.

The Scottish Government remains committed to undertaking improvements at Sheriffhall and we are currently progressing the development and assessment of the preferred option which is due to culminate in 2019 with the publication of draft Orders. Delivery of the scheme itself can only commence when the scheme is approved under the statutory procedures and thereafter a timetable for construction can be set.

Further consideration to the rationale to reduce congestion on the Edinburgh City Bypass will be considered as part of the review of the Strategic Transport Projects Review, in line with commitments made in the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.

Question reference: S5W-12741

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-01334 by Shona Robison on 4 October 2017, whether it will provide the statistics for 2016-17.