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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will respond to Point of Concern 2.6 in the Association of Visiting Committees for Scottish Penal Establishments Annual Report for the year ending 31 March 2001 regarding suicide prevention; whether it shares the concerns of visiting committees that the practices of isolation...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2001
The draft standards for infection control have been circulated widely for consultation and open meetings held in Perth and Glasgow. Pilot review visits are taking place later this month.
It may, however, be possible to meet the Tillydrone local community during a visit to Aberdeen that I have agreed with Lewis MacDonald, MSP or Aberdeen Central.
Tobacco revenue is forecast to decrease during the next few years. That would mean that the £26 million would be hypothecated down to £18 million by the end of this year.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13372 by Tavish Scott on 26 January 2005, what the suicide rate was in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken down by local authority area.
I would also like the committee to write to the care commission to ask it why—given its fee structure, in which it records the various establishments that it is required to inspect and visit—it does not have details of who has which services?
As well as attending the conference—which will be interesting in itself—and hearing from the delegates there, we will meet various representatives from different legislatures and academics with whom we wanted to make contact when we made our previous submission to the Conveners Group. Although the visit will be cramped and not as good as what we had planned...