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However, it is estimated that each year more than 13,000 people in Scotland die from smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke.Specific morbidity data related to obesity in Scotland is not held centrally.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the median waiting time has been for a first out-patient appointment with a consultant dermatologist in (a) Scotland as a whole and (b) each NHS board in each year since 1997.
The roll-out of a single non-emergency telephone number across Scotland will allow people to send text messages to a force using a single number.Induction loops in public access areas of police stations for those with hearing aids.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to audit recorded crime figures supplied by police forces and ensure such figures are recorded correctly following the recommendation in HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland Annual Report 2001-02. Audit visits to police forces are made by members of the Scottish Executive crime statistics team to monitor police recording practice and confirm that the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) guidance set out in the Criminal Statistics Handbook is being followed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 October 2002
The following table shows estimates of the annual current price exports and imports figures between Scotland, other parts of the United Kingdom and locations outwith the United Kingdom (Rest of the World) for the years 1992 to 1999.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 September 2002
The numbers and percentages of local authority, new town and Scottish Homes/Scottish Special Housing Association dwellings sold each year under the statutory right to buy and rent to mortgage schemes in Scotland are shown in the following tables.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 April 2002
Incidence is slightly inflated in 1996 due to the introduction of a standard definition of incidence date across Scotland. There was a fall in incidence in 1997.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on designations under the Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Regulations 1994. The Scottish Executive has designated nine bathing waters as sensitive areas, under the terms of the Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Regulations 1994 (which are intended to implement the obligations of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) in Scotland).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 December 2001
SMR1 records record all non-obstetric and non-psychiatric discharges from NHS hospitals in Scotland. Probability matching methods have been used to link together individual hospital records for each patient, thereby creating "linked" patient histories.Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is defined as motor neurone disease: ICD-9: 335.2 & ICD-10: G12.2 a...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2001
Rules 40.1 et seq of the Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules) 1996 as amended require written notice of intention to raise a devolution issue in any criminal proceedings in Scotland to be given to the Lord Advocate.