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| 2007 |
| 19th December
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S3W
- 7564 To ask the Scottish Executive whether the review of alcohol
and drug action teams carried out by Peter Bates, former Chair of
NHS Tayside, and commissioned by the previous administration is to
be published and, if so, when. |
| 13th December
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S3W
- 7248 To ask the Scottish Executive whether Grampian will benefit
from the pilot of extending the drug treatment and testing order approach
to a wider range of offenders. |
| 7th December |
S3W
- 6930 To ask the Scottish Executive what increase there will be in
the budget for rolling out drugs courts in each of the three years
of the draft budget. |
| 3th December |
S3W
- 6771 To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown
of the 70 cannabis factories discovered by the police in the last
12 months by (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority
area. |
| 29th November |
S3W
- 6847 To ask the Scottish Executive how many general medical practitioners
are serving on alcohol and drugs action teams. |
| 29th November |
S3W
- 6688To ask the Scottish Executive what the total annual expenditure
on drug treatment and rehabilitation is across all departments for
each year of the current spending review and what the comparable figures
were for each of the last three years.. |
| 27th November |
S3W
- 6480To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on all drug
services, including treatment, rehabilitation and education, in 2007-08. |
| 28th November |
S3W
- 6351To ask the Scottish Executive whether the £94 million
allocated to drug misuse, as referred to in Scottish Budget: Spending
Review 2007, will exclude treatment for people with problems
related to alcohol addiction. |
| 22nd November |
S3W
- 6350 - To ask the Scottish Executive whether the new outcome agreements
with local government, as referred to in Scottish Budget: Spending
Review 2007, will include those relating to drug and alcohol treatments |
| 16th November |
S3W
- 6010 - To ask the Scottish Executive what income was obtained as
a result of assets being recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act
2002 from criminals who were convicted of offences related to drug
dealing in the Grampian area in the first six months of the 2007-08
financial year |
| 14th November |
S3W
- 6084 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS hospital admissions
had a primary diagnosis of a mental or behavioural disorder related
to the use of cannabis in each of the last five years |
| 13th November |
S3W
- 6009 - To ask the Scottish Executive what income was obtained as
a result of assets being recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act
2002 from criminals who were convicted of offences related to drug
dealing in the first six months of the 2007-08 financial year |
| 8th November |
S3W
- 5455 - To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question
S3W-2152 by Adam Ingram on 9 August 2007, whether it is confident
that communication procedures between police, NHS boards and local
authorities are now in place to enable them to share information on
children at risk through exposure to drug misuse |
| 6th November |
S3W
- 5487 - To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question
S3W-4416 by Adam Ingram on 1 October 2007, what funds are directly
targeted to provide services for the estimated 10,000 to 20,000 children
in Scotland living with parental drug abuse |
| 6th November |
S3W
- 5460 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths
have been recorded in Tayside in each of the last three years for
which information is available |
| 6th November |
S3W
- 5459 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths
have been recorded in Dundee in each of the last three years for which
information is available |
| 6th November |
S3W
- 5458 - To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is confident that
all drug abusers with children undergo multi-agency assessments to
enable decisions to be taken on their parental capacity |
| 6th November |
S3W
- 5454 - To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question
S3W-2152 by Adam Ingram on 9 August 2007, whether it is confident
that effective systems are now in place to identify children affected
by drug misuse |
| 6th November |
S3W
- 5452 - To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is confident that
it is meeting the needs of children who have been identified as living
with drug-abusing parents |
| 5th November |
S3W
- 5664 - To ask the Scottish Executive how effective the 218 Centre
has been in the rehabilitation of female prisoners and whether there
are plans for a detailed evaluation of the centre in addition to the
report of April 2006 |
| 31st October |
S3W
- 5466 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used combined
drug and alcohol services in Dundee in each of the last three years
for which information is available |
| 31st October |
S3W
- 5595 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies have been born
to drug-dependent mothers in each year since 1999, also broken down
by maternity unit |
| 31st October |
S3W
- 5465 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used combined
drug and alcohol services in Tayside in each of the last three years
for which information is available |
| 30th October |
S3W
- 5134 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of
offences linked to drug misuse have been sentenced to six months or
less in prison in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007 |
| 25th October |
S3W
- 5027- To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are estimated
to live with a parent with (a) alcohol and (b) drug addiction |
| 2nd October |
S3W
- 3739 - To ask the Scottish Executive what support is given to people
convicted of driving offences under the influence of alcohol or illegal
drugs to (a) improve their road safety skills and (b) tackle their
substance misuse. |
| 1st October |
S3W
-4416 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are living
with parental drug or alcohol misuse. |
| 27th September |
S30
-789 - To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to deal
with illegal drug use, in light of its decision not to establish a
Scottish drugs commission, promised in the SNP manifesto, at the moment. |
| 27th September |
S3W
-4419 - To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on children
living with parental drug or alcohol misuse. |
| 27th September |
S3W
-4418 - To ask the Scottish Executive which of its ministers is responsible
for policy relating to children living with parental drug or alcohol
misuse. |
| 27th September |
S3W
-4417 - To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms are in place
to assess the number of children living with parental drug or alcohol
misuse. |
| 27th September |
S3W
-4415 - To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will create a statutory
obligation on public agencies that deal with young people living with
parental drug and alcohol misuse to share information. |
| 24th September |
S3W
- 4312 - To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken
to ensure that all substance use services and mental health agencies
have assessment processes which identify co-morbidity in order to
match care to level of need. |
| 24th September |
S3W
- 4310 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many psychiatric hospital
readmissions there have been as a result of substance misuse in each
year since 1999. |
| 20th September |
S3W
- 4246 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug deaths there
have been since 1997 and, of these, what proportion led to a custodial
sentence (a) nationally and (b) broken down by local authority area. |
| 20th September |
S3W
- 4185 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many illegal drug-related
deaths there have been in (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) East Dunbartonshire
in each year since 1996. |
| 19th September |
S3W
- 4247 - To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown
of all its funded public relations and marketing campaigns in each
year since 1999, also showing how much of each campaign’s annual spend
was paid to external public relations and marketing agencies. |
| 14th September |
S3W
- 3953 - To ask the Scottish Executive what funds it has committed
to promote a greater understanding of the dangers while driving of
(a) not wearing a seatbelt, (b) fatigue, (c) speeding, (d) running
a red light at an intersection, (e) being under the influence of alcohol
and (f) being under the influence of drugs. |
| 14th September |
S3W
- 3952 - To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on
the proportion of road deaths that can be attributed to (a) not wearing
seatbelts, (b) fatigue, (c) speeding, (d) running a red light at an
intersection, (e) being under the influence of alcohol and (f) being
under the influence of drugs. |
| 13th September |
S3W
- 3676 - To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been conducted
on the profile of those drivers between the ages of 17 and 25 most
at risk of being involved in a road traffic accident. |
| 13th September |
S3W
- 4048 - To ask the Scottish Executive whether mental health issues
are taken into account in the assessment, referral and treatment of
people with drug and alcohol addiction. |
| 12th September |
S3W
- 3937 - To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of projects
funded through the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives is due
to be completed and when projects seeking continued funding will be
advised of the outcome of the review. |
| 11th September |
S3W
- 3926 - To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) number and (b) percentage
of individuals found guilty of possession of illegal substances have
served custodial sentences for the offences that they committed in
each of the last five years. |
| 11th September |
S3W
- 3738 - To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of
causing death by careless driving in each of the last 10 years were
driving under the influence of (a) alcohol and (b) illegal drugs |
| 5th September |
S3W-3454-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 16 to 19 and not
in education, employment or training were (a) known and (b) estimated
to have a drugs problem in each year since 1999. |
| 4th September |
S3W-3481
- To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence is of heroin addiction,
broken down by age group, and what comparative information it has
for (a) the United Kingdom as a whole, (b) each EU member state and
(c) each OECD nation |
| 4th September |
S3W-3402
- To ask the Scottish Executive what its current estimates are of
drug use in Scotland, broken down by category of drug and identifying
numbers of problem drug users. |
| 4th September |
S3W-3401
- To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to develop more drug
treatment services on a holistic social care rather than medical model. |
| 31th August |
S3W-3086-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drugs-related deaths there
have been in each year since 1970, broken down by class and type of
substance. |
| 28th August |
S3W-3089-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many heroin addicts there are (a)
known and (b) estimated to have been in each year since 1970 |
| 23th August |
S3W-3085-
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it estimates was spent on the
purchase of illegal drugs in each year since 1970, broken down by
class and type of substance. |
| 20th August |
S3W-2692-
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to implement an SNP
Manifesto commitment to increase drug rehabilitation services by 20%
and, if so, whether it will guarantee this in the 2007 spending review. |
| 3rd August |
S3W-2213-
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is for
a methadone prescription in each NHS board area. |
| 30th July |
S3W-2044-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many detoxification beds for drug
misusers have been available in each NHS board area in each year since
1999. |
| 19thJuly |
S3W-1464-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are waiting for drug
and alcohol (a) in-patient and (b) residential rehabilitation services,
broken down by NHS board. |
| 17thJuly |
S3W-1500-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cannabis factories have been
discovered by the police in each year since 1999, broken down by police
force. |
| 12thJuly |
S3W-1223-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were arrested for drug
driving offences in the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary area in
each of the last five years for which information is available. |
| 21stJune |
S3W-1045-
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will bring forward proposals
to implement a 20% increase in drug rehabilitation services. |
| 21stJune |
S3W-653-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were placed in residential
accommodation for (a) drug and (b) alcohol addiction in (i) 2004,
(ii) 2005 and (iii) 2006. |
| 14thJune |
S3O-199-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were arrested for drug
and drink driving offences in the Highlands last summer. |
| 13thJune |
S3W-457-
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering any reform
of the remit and responsibilities of local alcohol and drug action
teams. |
| 11thJune |
S3W-463-
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to extend the role of
pharmacists in more pro-active health care as well as the dispensing
of methadone in the treatment of people with a drug addiction. |
| 31st May |
S3W-206-
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce a Scottish
directory of detoxification and rehabilitation facilities for people
addicted to drugs and alcohol. |
| 28th March |
S2W-32524-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many seizures of (a) heroin, (b)
cocaine, (c) crack cocaine, (d) ecstasy and (e) cannabis took place
in each police board area in each year since 1999, showing year-on-year
percentage changes. |
| 27th March |
S2W-32616
-To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in ensuring
that women with problematic drug use have access to specialist family
planning services that are able to advise on and administer long-acting
reversible contraception, as recommended by the Advisory Council on
the Misuse of Drugs. |
| 26th March |
S2W-32481-
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug users entered treatment
in Stirling in each of the last five years. |
| 23rd March |
S2W-32279
- To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug treatment and testing
orders were (a) issued to and (b) breached by offenders aged 18 and
under in each year since 2001, broken down by local authority area. |
| 16th March |
S2W-32175
- To ask the Scottish Executive how much it cost to produce Know the
Score: Anti-Heroin 2006-7 Campaign Evaluation. |
| 15th March |
S2W-32162
- To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 951 drug-related deaths
involving methadone recorded since 1990 were the subject of a fatal
accident inquiry. |
| 2nd March |
S2W-31809
- To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated number is of drug
injectors. |
| 2nd March |
S2W-31810
- To ask the Scottish Executive how often, on average, heroin users
inject each day. |
| 2nd March |
S2W-31806
- To ask the Scottish Executive how many needle exchange facilities
there are, also broken down by local authority area. |
| 2nd March |
S2W-30994
- To ask the Scottish Executive how much specific funding has been
allocated for drug and alcohol treatment services in the Stirling
local authority area in each year since 2003-04. |
| 22th February
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S2W-31807
-To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been provided
for needle exchange facilities in each of the last three financial
years and the current financial year. |
| 5th February |
S2W-31258
- To ask the Scottish Executive how much specific funding has been
allocated for drug and alcohol treatment services in (a) Angus and
(b) Aberdeenshire in each year since 2003-04. |
| 24th January |
S2W-30994
- to ask the Scottish Executive how many methadone-related deaths
there were in each year from 1999 to 2006, broken down by local authority
area |
| 24th January |
S2W-30993
- to ask the Scottish Executive what measures it takes to record and
publish the number of methadone-related deaths |
| 22nd January |
S2W-30999
- To ask the Scottish Executive what studies have been undertaken
to ascertain the level of compliance with the drug misuse and dependence
guidelines in relation to the prescribing of methadone |
| 22nd January |
S2W-30998
- To ask the Scottish Executive what acion it can take if the drug
misuse and dependence guidelines are not followed in relation to the
prescribing of methadone |
| 22nd January |
S2W-30997
- To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to ensure
that GPs follow the drug misuse and dependence guidelines when prescribing
methadone |
| 22nd January |
S2W-30996
- To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has produced specific advice
for GPs, based on the drug misuse and dependence guidelines, in relation
to the prescribing of methadone |
| 19th January |
S2W-30807
- To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were prosecuted
for offences committed in prison involving (a) violence, (b) drugs
and (c) threatening or abusive behaviour and how many offences were
committed involving two or more of these categories in each year since
1997-98 |
| 19th January |
S2W-30805
- To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners
were convicted for drug offences in each of the last 10 years |
| 19th January |
S2W-30637
- To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of offences against
the person have been linked to (a) alcohol abuse and (b) use of illegal
drugs in each year since 1997 |
| 19th January |
S2W-30568
- To ask the Scottish Executive which drug and alcohol action teams
have caps on the level of methadone treatment offered |
| 19th January |
S2W-30995
- To ask the Scottish Executive what form of recording replaced the
National Confidential Enquiry into Methadone Related Deaths reports
and where such information can be accessed |
| 19th January |
S2W-30886
- To ask the Scottish Executive what initiatives it has undertaken,
or plans to undertake, to tackle drug misuse in each (a) local authority
and (b) NHS board area and how much money has been allocated to each
area for this purpose in each year since 1999 |
| 19th January |
S2W-30884
- To ask the Scottish executive how many recorded convictions there
have been for drug trafficking in each of the last five years, broken
down by sheriff court |
| 18th January |
S2F-2662
- To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Executive considers
it an appropriate time to rethink drugs policy |
| 16th January |
S2W-30553
- To ask the Scottish Executive what operations undertaken my the
Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency since 2000 have focused
on the operations of the Chirnsyde Community Initiative and its management |
| 16th January |
S2W-30552
- To ask the Scottish Executive what operations have been undertaken
by the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency in the Milton area
of Glasow since 2000 |
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