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| 2008 |
| 16th December |
S3W-18738
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time was following sentencing before offenders commenced (a) community sentence, (b) probation, (c) supervised attendance and (d) drug treatment and testing orders in 2007-08, broken down by local authority area. |
| 16th December |
S3W-18737
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) average and (b) overall
cost was of breach applications made in respect of (i) community sentence,
(ii) probation, (iii) supervised attendance and (iv) drug treatment
and testing orders in 2007-08. |
| 16th December |
S3W-18736
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of people breaching
(a) community sentence, (b) probation, (c) supervised attendance and
(d) drug treatment and testing orders in 2007-08 served a prison sentence
as a result. |
| 12th December |
S3W-18381
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug action team (DAT), alcohol
and drug action team (ADAT) or drug and alcohol action team (DAAT)
areas have supervised dispensing schemes for (a) disulfiram, (b) suboxone
and (c) buprenorphine. |
| 12th December |
S3W-18379
To ask the Scottish Executive how many arrest-referral schemes are
in operation, broken down by drug action team (DAT), alcohol and drug
action team (ADAT) or drug and alcohol action team (DAAT). |
| 8th December |
S3W-18262
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place for ensuring
that medical information on prisoners is transferred to their GPs
on release, including (a) primary care information, (b) screening
information and test results, (c) information on programmes addressing
issues such as drugs and alcohol use or anger management and other
behavioural programmes and (d) information about the nature of their
offences where that may relate to future health issues, such as alcohol,
drugs, domestic violence, anger control or other forms of abuse. |
| 4th December |
S3W-18089
To ask the Scottish Executive whether substance misuse services and
mental health agencies will use an agreed assessment tool to identify
co-morbidity systematically and help to match care appropriate to
level and type of need. |
| 3rd December |
S3W-18179
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for drug
rehabilitation services is in (a) NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and
(b) NHS Lanarkshire. |
| 2nd December |
S3W-18090
To ask the Scottish Executive whether staff in substance misuse services
will be trained to develop knowledge, skills and capacity in psychological
treatments to meet the mental health needs of their client group. |
| 2nd December |
S3W-18088
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure
that all substance misuse services staff are trained in suicide risk
assessment and prevention. |
| 20th November |
S3W-17761
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16845
by Maureen Watt on 4 November 2008, whether it intends to take action
to address the number of pupils temporarily excluded from school for
substance misuse. |
| 12th November |
S3W-17314
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it estimates what proportion
of GDP is attributable to spending on unnecessary health care, accident
repairs, underage drinking and smoking, or the drug culture and, if
so, what its estimate is and how such economic activity is excluded
from its measures of sustainable economic growth. |
| 11th November |
S2W-17056
To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs of supervised dispensing
of methadone by community pharmacists were in the most recent year
for which figures are available, broken down by NHS board. |
| 6th November |
S3W-17295
To ask the Scottish Executive, given the success of ASSIST in Wales
in preventing early uptake of smoking, whether the Scottish Executive
will consider rolling out the Cannabis and Smoking Education (CASE)
programme without introducing a randomised controlled trial if the
University of Glasgow evaluation of the CASE pilot in Lanarkshire
is positive. |
| 31st October |
S3W-16971
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the private and
public treatment centres that combine treatment for mental health
problems and addiction to drugs or alcohol. |
| 2nd October |
S3W-16523
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the
UK Government and other key stakeholders regarding the European Commission’s
EU Drugs Action Plan for 2009-12. |
| 24th September |
S3W-16230
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance has been issued on the
medical management in standard police cells and legalised cells of
prisoners who (a) have an untreated drug dependency and (b) are enrolled
in a drug treatment programme. |
| 22nd September |
S3W-15855
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is taking, or proposes to
take, any additional step in the light of the Blakey report, Disrupting
the Supply of Illicit Drugs into Prisons, published by the Ministry
of Justice on 7 July 2008. |
| 12th September |
S3W-16016
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to tackle problems
associated with the misuse of prescription drugs. |
| 12th September |
S3W-15744
To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies have been born addicted
to drugs in each year since 1997, also broken down by (a) NHS board
and (b) local authority area. |
| 9th September |
S3W-15888
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths there were
in (a) Edinburgh and (b) Scotland in each of the last five years. |
| 4th September |
S3O-3992
To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to reduce reoffending
rates. |
| 1st August |
S3W-15046
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Category A calls to the Scottish
Ambulance Service in Glasgow, or the smallest area including the city
for which calls are recorded, were made in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007 in
respect of drug overdoses due to heroin or other opiates (i) alone
or (ii) in combination with other substances and what the outcome
was in each case. |
| 16th July |
S3W-14580
To ask the Scottish Executive for each year since 2001 how many drug
treatment and testing orders were (a) issued and (b) breached and
what the re-offending rate was, also broken down by local authority
area. |
| 10th July |
S3W-14469
To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to educate young people
in the north east on the subject of drugs misuse. |
| 17th June |
S3W-13791
To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be spent under the Justice
budget on tackling drug misuse in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c)
2010-11 in (i) real and (ii) cash terms. |
| 17th June |
S3W-13790
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent under the Justice
budget on tackling drug misuse in 2007-08. |
| 16th June |
S3W-13858
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers in East Dunbartonshire
have been charged with driving while under the influence of drink
or drugs over the last three years for which figures are available. |
| 16th June |
S3W-13793
To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be spent by NHS boards
on tackling drug misuse in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11
in (i) real and (ii) cash terms. |
| 16th June |
S3W-13792
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent by NHS boards on
tackling drug misuse in 2007-08. |
| 12th June |
S3W-13887
To ask the Scottish Executive how many class A drugs were seized in
the Lothians parliamentary region in each of the last five years,
broken down by (a) drug type and (b) value. |
| 11th June |
S3W-13809
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people (a) coming
into and (b) leaving prison since May 2007 were drug dependent, broken
down by prison. |
| 5th June |
S3W-13355
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drugs officers there were in
Tayside in each of the last three years and of these, how many were
seconded to the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. |
| 5th June |
S3W-13356
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug search warrants were issued
in Tayside in each of the last three years and in how many instances
drugs were found. |
| 3rd June |
S3W-13353
To ask the Scottish Executive what the numbers were of those prosecuted
for being found in possession of drugs and in possession of drugs
with intent to supply in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside in each of the
last three years. |
| 29th May |
S3W-13028
To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals to the children’s
hearing system in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus were on the grounds of
misused drugs or alcohol in the last three years for which information
is available. |
| 27th May |
S3W-13030
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent by (a) Dundee City
and (b) Angus councils on community care for adults with addictions
or who were engaged in substance misuse in the last three years for
which information is available. |
| 20th May |
S3W-12746
To ask the Scottish Executive what quantities of drugs were found
in each prison in each of the last five years, broken down by type
of drug. |
| 20th May |
S3W-12745
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug finds there were in each
prison in each of the last five years, broken down by type of drug. |
| 16th May |
S3W-12871
To ask the Scottish Executive what questions relating to drug use
are asked of new prisoners when they arrive at prison and whether
this information is retained. |
| 13th May |
S3W-12673
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged (a) under 15, (b)
15 to 18, (c) 19 to 21 and (d) over 21 were admitted to Dumfries and
Galloway Royal Infirmary to be treated for drug misuse in (i) 2003-04,
(ii) 2004-05, (iii) 2005-06, (iv) 2006-07 and (v) 2007-08. |
| 12th May |
S3W-12535
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11748
by Kenny MacAskill on 28 April 2008, why the information on drink
driving and drug driving offences cannot be separated. |
| 12th May |
S3W-12580
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any legal powers exist to ban
or otherwise restrict the consumption of methadone in public places. |
| 9th May |
S3W-12407
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were discharged from
hospitals with a mental illness and a drug-related diagnosis in each
of the last five years. |
| 8th May |
S3W-12415
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged (a) under 15, (b)
15 to 18, (c) 19 to 21 and (d) over 21 were (i) treated in and (ii)
admitted to hospitals in each NHS board for drug misuse in each of
the last five years. |
| 7th May |
S3W-12235
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sniffer dogs are used in the
Scottish Prison Service to detect drugs. |
| 1st May |
S3W-12329
To ask the Scottish Executive how many forensic accountants are employed
by the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and how they have
been funded. |
| 28th April |
S3W-12056
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners
participated in drug rehabilitation while in prison in each year since
2002 and what proportion of the total prison population they represented
in these year. |
| 28th April |
S3W-12055
To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many and (b) what proportion
of (i) male and (ii) female prisoners in each year since 2002 used
Category A drugs in the year before entering prison. |
| 28th April |
S3W-11748
To ask the Scottish Executive how many offences of drug driving were
recorded in the Lothians region in each year since 1997, broken down
by parliamentary constituency, also showing the rates per head of
population. |
| 25th April |
S3W-11822
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it (a) has spent in each year
since 2005-06 and (b) will spend in each of the next three years in
tackling (i) alcohol misuse, (ii) smoking and (iii) illicit drug use. |
| 25th April |
S3W-11821
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the annual
cost to (a) the Scottish economy and (b) NHS Scotland of (i) alcohol
misuse, (ii) smoking and (iii) illicit drug use and what the results
were of any such assessments. |
| 25th April |
S3W-11745
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged (a) under 15, (b)
15 to 18, (c) 19 to 21 and (d) over 21 were admitted to hospitals
in the Lothians to receive treatment for drug misuse in (i) 2003-04,
(ii) 2004-05, (iii) 2005-06, (d) 2006-07 and (v) 2007-08. |
| 24th April |
S3W-11934
To ask the Scottish Executive what categories of offenders can be
subject to structured deferred sentences. |
| 24th April |
S3W-11716
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Crime and Drug
Enforcement Agency made a request for funding a forensic accountant
through normal procedures. |
| 24th April |
S3W-11715
To ask the Scottish Executive why the post of forensic accountant
for the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency was not funded
on a manner similar to other posts in the agency. |
| 23rd April |
S3W-11827
To ask the Scottish Executive how many random drug tests were carried
out by police officers in Grampian and Tayside from 2002 to 2007 as
a result of existing policy and, of those, how many showed a positive
result. |
| 23rd April |
S3W-11668
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-32523
by Cathy Jamieson on 26 March 2007, how many individuals were charged
with possession of (a) heroin, (b) cocaine, (c) crack cocaine, (d)
ecstasy and (e) cannabis in the Lothian and Borders police board area
in 2006-07, showing the percentage change from 2005-06 figures. |
| 18th April |
S3W-11573
To ask the Scottish Executive what IT support services are provided
for people suffering from depression and drug or alcohol addictions. |
| 18th April |
S3W-11556
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to tackle drug use
among children. |
| 14th April |
S3W-11305
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-10715
by Shona Robison on 17 March 2008, when it will have completed the
task that it has set itself to "consider whether to establish
a working group to develop guidelines" on the provision of needle
exchanges. |
| 10th April |
S3W
- 11084 To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been prosecuted
in each of the last three years for driving under the influence of
drugs, broken down by local authority area. |
| 8th April |
S3W
- 11026 To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents involving
police there were where cannabis was confiscated during a routine
search in each year from 2002 to 2007, broken down by police force
area. |
| 27th March |
S3W
- 2826 To ask the Scottish Executive when it is planning to publish
its drugs strategy. |
| 17th March |
S3W
- 10716 To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had discussions
with Scottish Training on Drugs and Alcohol about providing training
for those working in needle exchanges, following the publication of
the Substance Misuse Research report and survey, Needle Exchange Provision
in Scotland. |
| 17th March |
S3W
- 10717 To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to issue
new guidance on standards for the provision of drug users’ paraphernalia,
following the publication of the Substance Misuse Research report
and survey, Needle Exchange Provision in Scotland. |
| 17th March |
S3W
- 10715 To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to issue
new guidance on the provision of needle exchanges, following the publication
of the Substance Misuse Research report and survey, Needle Exchange
Provision in Scotland. |
| 6th March |
S3W
- 10514 To ask the Scottish Executive how many people arrested since
June 2007 have been subject to saliva-based tests to determine whether
the crime is linked to drug abuse. |
| 6th March |
S3W
- 10515 To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers suspected to
be under the influence of drugs have been subject to saliva-based
tests since June 2007. |
| 6th March |
S3W
- 10513 To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce
roadside drug testing kits to all police forces across Scotland. |
| 6th March |
S3W
- 10512 To ask the Scottish Executive which police forces in Scotland
are using roadside drug testing kits. |
| 6th March |
S3W
- 10511 To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has undertaken
to target suspected drug drivers. |
| 29th February |
S3W
- 10010 To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to support
children who have been affected by substance misuse. |
| 29th February |
S3W
- 9762 To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what proportion
of female prisoners have tested positive for drugs on admission to
prison in each of the last five years. |
| 29th February |
S3W
- 10012 To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths in (a) NHS Grampian
and (b) NHS Tayside hospitals from 1999 to 2007 were drug-related
and, of these, how many were individuals aged (i) under 18, (ii) 18
to 29, (iii) 30 to 55 and (iv) over 55. |
| 28th February |
S3W
- 10054 To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made
of the effect of NHS board budgets on the provision of drug rehabilitation
programmes. |
| 28th February |
S3W
- 10015 To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of domestic
abuse recorded by the police in Grampian from 2001-02 to 2006-07 were
drug-related. |
| 28th February |
S3W
- 10013 To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to create
a mechanism for Grampian that would systematically review drug-related
deaths. |
| 28th February |
S3W
- 10008 To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to raise awareness
of drug support services in the north east of Scotland. |
| 28th February |
S3W
- 9769 To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will spend on drug
rehabilitation in each year from 2008 to 2011, also showing in percentage
real terms how these figures compare with 2007 spend. |
| 27th February |
S3W
- 10004 To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to raise awareness
of drug treatment services in the north east of Scotland. |
| 27th February |
S3W
- 10003 To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be provided
to deliver drugs support and treatment services in (a) Aberdeen City,
(b) Aberdeenshire and (c) Angus during the spending review period. |
| 27th February |
S3W
- 10001 To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided
to deliver drugs support and treatment services in (a) Aberdeen City,
(b) Aberdeenshire and (c) Angus from 2003 to 2007. |
| 27th February |
S3W
- 9998 To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to ensure that
adequate funding is spent on delivering effective drug treatment services
in Grampian. |
| 26th February |
S3W
- 9767 To ask the Scottish Executive what the average reoffending
rate after two years is of women who were convicted of crimes and
subsequently underwent mental health rehabilitation |
| 26th February |
S3W
- 9766 To ask the Scottish Executive what the average reoffending
rate after two years is of women who were convicted of crimes and
subsequently underwent drug rehabilitation. |
| 22nd February |
S3W
- 9272 To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) crimes, (b) non-sexual
crimes of violence, (c) serious assaults, (d) crimes of rape and attempted
rape, (e) crimes of housebreaking, (f) crimes of vandalism, (g) crimes
of handling an offensive weapon, (h) drug crimes and (i) murders have
occurred in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority
area. |
| 20th February |
S3W
- 9097 To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents there have
been of illegal drugs recovered by prison authorities from individuals
who have attempted to smuggle drugs into prison in each year since
1999, broken down by category of drug and prison. |
| 20th February |
S3W
- 9096 To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents there have
been involving the recovery of illegal drugs by prison officers carrying
out searches of prisoner accommodation and prisoners in each year
since 1999, broken down by category of drug recovered and prison. |
| 19th February |
S3W
- 9079 To ask the Scottish Executive when it will confirm the future
of the drug courts in Fife and Glasgow beyond their current funding
terms. |
| 19th February |
S3W
- 9078 To ask the Scottish Executive when it will outline its proposals
for drug courts beyond Fife and Glasgow. |
| 6th February |
S3W
- 8916 To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents were recorded
at (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each local authority where
pupils were caught taking a class A, B or C drug during (i) 2002-03,
(ii) 2003-04, (iii) 2004-05, (iv) 2005-06 and (v) 2006-07. |
| 5th February |
S3W
- 8971 To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to improve the
availability of services to people with a dual diagnosis of mental
health problems and substance and alcohol misuse. |
| 5th February |
S3W
- 8970 To ask the Scottish Executive what services are available to
people with a dual diagnosis of mental health problems and substance
and alcohol misuse in each NHS board area. |
| 5th February |
S3W
- 8910 To ask the Scottish Executive how many criminals involved in
drug dealing were caught, convicted and sentenced during (a) 2002,
(b) 2003, (c) 2004, (d) 2005, (e) 2006 and (f) 2007, broken down by
police authority. |
| 5th February |
S3W
- 8909 To ask the Scottish Executive how much (a) heroin, (b) cocaine
and (c) cannabis has been seized in each year since 2002, expressed
in pounds (i) weight and (ii) sterling, also broken down by community
justice authority area. |
| 5th February |
S3W
- 8838 To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been registered
on a methadone programme in (a) Scotland and (b) the Kilmarnock and
Loudoun parliamentary constituency in each year since 2002. |
| 4th February |
S3W
- 8976 To ask the Scottish Executive whether the extension of bail
supervision schemes is restricted to certain categories of accused
persons. |
| 31st January |
S3W
- 8810 To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question
S3W-7844 by Fergus Ewing on 18 January 2008, whether it will now give
a positive timeline for the establishment of its proposed national
drugs commission or whether the answer indicates that it is uncertain
about the usefulness of such a commission |
| 24th January |
S3W
- 8522 To ask the Scottish Executive which residential establishments
treat (a) bipolar disorder and (b) depression as part of drug and
alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation. |
| 24th January |
S3W
- 8521 To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to
identify and address the risk of suicide in the treatment programmes
for people with drug and alcohol addiction |
| 21st January |
S3W
- 7849 To ask the Scottish Executive what demand there is for rehabilitation
services (a) across Scotland and (b) in each local authority area. |
| 21st January |
S3W
- 7848 To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are adequate residential
and day-based drug rehabilitation services available across Scotland |
| 18th January |
S3W
- 8307 To ask the Scottish Executive what its targets are for the
new drug treatment and testing orders model pilot in the Lothian and
Borders Community Justice Authority area and, if the pilot shows signs
of early success, whether it will roll out the scheme across Scotland
earlier than the proposed timescale. |
| 18th January |
S3W
- 7847 To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit will be of the
commission, referred to in the SNP manifesto, to establish a national
drugs commission to develop and agree a long-term national strategy
backed up by a more robust evidence base. |
| 18th January |
S3W
- 7846 To ask the Scottish Executive whether the remit of a national
drugs commission to develop and agree a long-term national strategy
backed up by a more robust evidence base, as promised in the SNP manifesto,
will include consideration of Scotland’s record in dealing with the
social impact of drugs and substance abuse |
| 18th January |
S3W
- 7845 To ask the Scottish Executive whether the remit of a national
drugs commission to develop and agree a long-term national strategy
backed up by a more robust evidence base, as promised in the SNP manifesto,
will include consideration of alcohol as well as drugs |
| 18th January |
S3W
- 7844 To ask the Scottish Executive what the timeline will be for
the establishment of a national drugs commission to develop and agree
a long-term national strategy backed up by a more robust evidence
base, as promised in the SNP manifesto. |
| 17th January |
S3W
- 7998 To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question
S3W-5488 by Shona Robison on 12 November 2007, what proportion of
the £10 million fund for drug and alcohol teams is made available
specifically to support young people. |
| 17th January |
S3W
- 7912 To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question
S3W-6928 by Fergus Ewing on 7 December 2007, when monies will transfer
from the Safer Communities budget to NHS boards.. |
| 17th January |
S3W
- 7911 To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question
S3W-6928 by Fergus Ewing on 7 December 2007, exactly how much of the
Safer Communities budget which relates to drugs misuse will transfer
to NHS boards in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11. |
| 15th January |
S3W
- 8234 To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made with
the Home Office in obtaining the appropriate technology to detect
people driving under the influence of drugs. |
| 10th January |
S3W
- 7785 To ask the Scottish Executive how many positive drug tests
have been obtained in HM Prison Barlinnie in each of the last three
months. |
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