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| 2009 |
| 11th
December |
S3W-29478
To ask the Scottish Executive what legislation or directive prohibits general practitioners and other appropriately qualified medical staff from routinely prescribing heroin. |
| 11th
December |
S3W-29477
To ask the Scottish Executive since what year general practitioners
and other appropriately qualified medical staff have not been allowed
to routinely prescribe heroin. |
| 10th
December |
S3O-8831
To ask the Scottish Executive what schemes offer the best examples
of ways in which drug and alcohol offenders can build constructive
lives. |
| 10th
December |
S3O-8786
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is supporting the Fife Equally
Well project, which aims to tackle and prevent alcohol and drug-related
causes of antisocial behaviour. |
| 10th
December |
S3W-29501
To ask the Scottish Executive how many crimes were recorded by the
police as causing death by (a) dangerous driving and (b) careless
driving when under the influence of drink or drugs in each of the
last three years, broken down by month of incident. |
| 8th
December |
S3W-29476
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths have been attributed
to (a) drugs and (b) heroin misuse in each year since 1950. |
| 8th
December |
S3W-29476
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) known and (b) estimated
heroin users there have been in each year since 1950. |
| 3rd
December |
S3W-29149
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to ensure
that all forensic mental health service units have access to specialist
drug and alcohol services. |
| 2nd
December |
S3W-29322
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average fine was for possessing
(a) heroin, (b) cocaine, (c) ecstasy, (d) cannabis and (e) amphetamines
in the Lothians region in each of the last 10 years, broken down by
sheriff court. |
| 30th
November |
S3W-28589
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are on waiting lists
for treatment of (a) drug and (b) alcohol addiction in each NHS board
area. |
| 26th
November |
S3W-29139
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. |
| 19th
November |
S3W-28845
To ask the Scottish Executive what the maximum fine was for possessing
(a) heroin, (b) cocaine, (c) ecstasy, (d) cannabis and (e) amphetamines
in each of the last 10 years. |
| 19th
November |
S3W-28844
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average fine was for possessing (a) heroin, (b) cocaine, (c) ecstasy, (d) cannabis and (e) amphetamines in each of the last 10 years. |
| 19th
November |
S3W-28843
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of possessing
cannabis received (a) a custodial sentence, (b) a community sentence
order, (c) a probation order, (d) a drug treatment and testing order,
(e) a fine or (f) another disposal in each of the last 10 years, broken
down by police force area. |
| 19th
November |
S3W-28842
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of possessing
amphetamines received (a) a custodial sentence, (b) a community sentence
order, (c) a probation order, (d) a drug treatment and testing order,
(e) a fine or (f) another disposal in each of the last 10 years, broken
down by police force area. |
| 19th
November |
S3W-28841
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of possessing
ecstasy received (a) a custodial sentence, (b) a community sentence
order, (c) a probation order, (d) a drug treatment and testing order,
(e) a fine or (f) another disposal in each of the last 10 years, broken
down by police force area. |
| 19th
November |
S3W-28840
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of possessing
cocaine received (a) a custodial sentence, (b) a community sentence
order, (c) a probation order, (d) a drug treatment and testing order,
(e) a fine or (f) another disposal in each of the last 10 years, broken
down by police force area. |
| 19th
November |
S3W-28839
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted of possessing
heroin received (a) a custodial sentence, (b) a community sentence
order, (c) a probation order, (d) a drug treatment and testing order,
(e) a fine or (f) another disposal in each of the last 10 years, broken
down by police force area. |
| 12th
November |
S3W-28307
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in prison
in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those
were known problem drug users. |
| 12th
November |
S3W-28306
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in police
custody in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many
of those were known problem drug users. |
| 12th
November |
S3O-8371
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to submit evidence
to the Home Office to assist in its deliberations on the possible
reclassification of drugs. |
| 11th
November |
S3W-28588
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available on (a)
the effectiveness of treatment of and (b) recovery from (i) drug and
(ii) alcohol addiction. |
| 5th
November |
S3W-28451
To ask the Scottish Executive how many offenders at HMP Edinburgh
were (a) assessed as suitable for and (b) completed each of the prisoner
programmes and approved activities that address substance misuse in
each of the last three years. |
| 2nd
November |
S3W-28308
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in psychiatric
hospitals in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many
of those were known problem drug users. |
| 27th
October |
S3W-27896
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of Recorded
Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, how many crimes were recorded by the police
in (a) Aberdeen City and (b) Aberdeenshire local authority areas,
broken down by crime group |
| 27th
October |
S3W-27888
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of Recorded
Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, how many drug crimes were recorded, broken
down by (a) crime category as set out in Table A5 and (b) police force
area. |
| 27th
October |
S3W-27887
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of Recorded
Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, what assessment it has made of the 8%
increase in the drug, other offences and money laundering category
and what action it will take. |
| 27th
October |
S3W-27886
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of Recorded
Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, what assessment it has made of the 4%
increase in (a) possession of drugs with intent to supply and (b)
possession of drugs offences and what action it will take. |
| 27th
October |
S3W-27885
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of Recorded
Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, what assessment it has made of the number
of illegal importation of drugs offences compared with 2007-08 and
what action it will take. |
| 27th
October |
S3W-27884
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of Recorded
Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, how many of the offences of illegal cultivation
of drugs were recorded in each police force area. |
| 27th
October |
S3W-27883
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of Recorded
Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, whether the increase by 24% to 609 offences
of illegal cultivation of drugs represents an all-time high. |
| 27th
October |
S3W-27882
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of Recorded
Crime in Scotland, 2008-09, what assessment it has made of the 24%
increase in illegal cultivation of drugs offences and what action
it will take. |
| 26th
October |
S3W-27772
To ask the Scottish Executive how many government-funded needle exchange
programmes operate in pharmacies compared with September 2008. |
| 23rd
October |
S3W-28194
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of all emergency ambulance
call-outs in the NHS Lothians area were (a) alcohol-related and (b)
drug-related in each of the last five years. |
| 23rd
October |
S3W-28193
To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency ambulance call-outs
in the NHS Lothians area were (a) alcohol-related and (b) drug-related
in each of the last five years. |
| 22nd
October |
S3W-27875
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has cost NHS Lothian to
treat patients admitted to hospital as a result of drug misuse in
each of the last five years. |
| 22nd
October |
S3W-27771
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are being taken to reduce
the number of drug addicts. |
| 21st
October |
S3W-27775
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on needle-exchange
programmes in pharmacies in the east end of Glasgow since 2007. |
| 21st
October |
S3W-27774
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on needle-exchange
programmes in pharmacies since 2007. |
| 8th
October |
S3W-27773
To ask the Scottish Executive how many government-funded needle-exchange
programmes operate in pharmacies in the east end of Glasgow compared
with September 2008. |
| 1st
October |
S3W-27468
To ask the Scottish Executive how many residential places there are
for (a) alcohol and (b) drug rehabilitation, broken down by NHS board
area. |
| 30th
September |
S3W-27469
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-residential places there
are for community-based (a) alcohol and (b) drug rehabilitation, broken
down by NHS board area. |
| 28th
September |
S3W-27460
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to curb the
supply of illegal drugs in prisons. |
| 25th
September |
S3W-27471
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that residential
drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities have the potential to be
used further to help meet the current high demand for treatment services. |
| 25th
September |
S3W-27470
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to ensure that
residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities are used to
their full capacity. |
| 25th
September |
S3W-27467
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug and alcohol rehabilitation
facilities offer (a) residential places and (b) non-residential community-based
services, broken down by NHS board. |
| 24th
September |
S3W-27122
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been prosecuted
for possession of illegal drugs in each year since 1999, broken down
by (a) police force area and (b) type of drug. |
| 24th
September |
S3O-7947
To ask the Scottish Executive how many residential alcohol and drug
rehabilitation places are available and what action it is taking to
support their use to full capacity. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26687
To ask the Scottish Executive what the prevalence of drug addiction
is in each NHS board and local authority area. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26686
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people received social care
and rehabilitation services for those with a drug addiction problem
for each NHS board and local authority in each of the last five years. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26684
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on social care and
rehabilitation services for people with a drug addiction problem by
each local authority in each of the last five years. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26683
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on social care and
rehabilitation services for people with a drug addiction problem by
each NHS board in each of the last five years. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26682
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on specialist medical
drug treatment services for people with a drug addiction problem by
each NHS board in each of the last five years. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26681
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each NHS board and local authority
spent on treating (a) drug and (b) alcohol addiction in each of the
last five years. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26680
To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage was in each of the
last five years of people who had been treated previously receiving
further treatment for (a) drug and (b) alcohol addiction. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26685
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people received medical services
for the treatment of drug addiction for each NHS board in each of
the last five years. |
| 17th
September |
S3W-26679
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been treated for
(a) drug and (b) alcohol addiction in each NHS board in each of the
last five years. |
| 16th
September |
S3W-26997
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the outcome of a recent
application of the Rush system of analysis to the likely need for
drug and alcohol treatment facilities in Scotland, for what reason
many of the beds available for such treatment are unoccupied. |
| 15th
September |
S3W-26635
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to tackle
drug driving. |
| 2nd
September |
S3W-26388
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people accused in
rape cases in each Strathclyde Police force division area in each
year since 1999 was under the influence of (a) alcohol and (b) drugs
at the time of the offence. |
| 2nd
September |
S3W-26387
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people accused in
assault cases in each Strathclyde Police force sub-division in each
year since 1999 was under the influence of (a) alcohol and (b) drugs
at the time of the offence. |
| 2nd
September |
S3W-26386
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been charged by
Strathclyde Police for possession of illegal drugs in each year since
1999, broken down by (a) sub-division and (b) type of drug. |
| 2nd
September |
S3W-26385
To ask the Scottish Executive what quantity of drugs has been recovered
in the Strathclyde Police force area in each year since 1999, broken
down by (a) sub-division and (b) type of drug. |
| 24th
August |
S3W-26316
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of deaths in the Lothians
region were attributable to (a) alcohol and (b) other substance misuse
in the last 12 months, broken down by local authority area. |
| 20th
August |
S3W-26157
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24878
by Fergus Ewing on 8 July 2009, what disposals were applied to people
caught with (a) heroin in 2006-07, (b) heroin in 2007-08, (c) cocaine
in 2006-07 and (d) cocaine in 2007-08. |
| 19th
August |
S3W-26102
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of babies
in each deprivation quintile discharged in each year since 2001 had
an ICD10 code of (a) P04.4 (foetus and newborn affected by maternal
use of drugs of addiction) or (b) P96.1 (neonatal withdrawal symptoms
from maternal use of drug addiction), broken down by NHS board. |
| 17th
August |
S3W-25995
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people detained by
the police in the Lothians region had drugs in their system in the
latest year for which information is available, broken down by type
of drug. |
| 12th
August |
S3W-25785
To ask the Scottish Executive what the timescale is for the (a) work
and (b) existence of the Drugs Strategy Delivery Commission. |
| 12th
August |
S3W-25784
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any working groups or sub-groups
will be established under the Drugs Strategy Delivery Commission and,
if so, what these will be. |
| 12th
August |
S3W-25783
To ask the Scottish Executive when and how often the Drugs Strategy
Delivery Commission will report on its findings. |
| 12th
August |
S3W-25782
To ask the Scottish Executive whether members of the Drugs Strategy
Delivery Commission receive remuneration for their participation and,
if so, what the total costs of that remuneration are. |
| 12th
August |
S3W-25781
To ask the Scottish Executive who sits on the Drugs Strategy Delivery
Commission. |
| 12th
August |
S3W-25780
To ask the Scottish Executive how often the Drugs Strategy Delivery
Commission will meet. |
| 12th
August |
S3W-25779
To ask the Scottish Executive when meetings of the Drugs Strategy
Delivery Commission have taken place and whether minutes of these
meetings are available. |
| 12th
August |
S3W-25778
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Drugs Strategy Delivery Commission
was established. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25777
To ask the Scottish Executive whether national support coordinators
will be directed in their work by ministers or local partners. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25776
To ask the Scottish Executive to whom the drug service national support
coordinators will report. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25775
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the national support coordinators
will have authority over local partners in the deliver of drug treatment
services. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25774
To ask the Scottish Executive whether national support coordinators
will be in charge of the delivery of drug treatment services in local
authority areas. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25773
To ask the Scottish Executive how national support coordinators will
help deliver drug treatment services. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25772
To ask the Scottish Executive whether each local authority is required
to have at least one national support coordinator to help deliver
drug treatment services. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25771
To ask the Scottish Executive how many national support coordinators
have been appointed to help deliver drug treatment services, broken
down by local authority. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-26084
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in the Lothians region
have been suspended for drug-related issues in each local authority
area in each of the last three years. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25966
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were discharged from
treatment for drug misuse in the categories of (a) treatment completed
drug free, (b) treatment completed not drug free, (c) dropped out,
(d) referred to other treatment, (e) individual entered prison, (f)
individual died and (g) reason not known in each year from 2000 to
2008, broken down by local authority. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25800
To ask the Scottish Executive how often the use of the Scottish Drug
Misuse Database is reviewed. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25799
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the
efficacy of the use of the information and data held on the Scottish
Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25798
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the same amount and type of
(a) information is and (b) data are held on every individual on the
Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25797
To ask the Scottish Executive whether individuals are consulted on
the retention of their details on the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25796
To ask the Scottish Executive whether an individual is entitled to
refuse to have the details of his or her treatment held on the Scottish
Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25795
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Drug Misuse Database
is connected to the Scottish DNA database and, if so, how. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25794
To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers oversee the use of
the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25793
To ask the Scottish Executive who governs the use of the Scottish
Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25792
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement NHS Scotland has with
the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25791
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement the police has with
the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25790
To ask the Scottish Executive for how long (a) information is and
(b) data are held on the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25789
To ask the Scottish Executive whether medical records are held on
the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25788
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is enhancing the Scottish Drug
Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25787
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals have their information
and data held on the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 6th
August |
S3W-25786
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) information is or (b) data
are held on the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. |
| 4th
August |
S3W-25609
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24486
by Kenny MacAskill on 10 June 2009, what action it will take to improve
the collection of data on homicide cases, given that in 42% of cases
in 2007-08 it was not known whether the person accused was drunk or
under the influence of drugs. |
| 3rd
August |
S3W-26154
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of prisoners at HMP
Edinburgh was assessed as having a substance misuse problem in each
of the last three years. |
| 30th
July |
S3W-26074
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to increase
the resources needed for the provision of drug treatment to minimise
delays between referral, assessment and treatment stages and maintain
an applicant’s momentum and, in particular, what action is being taken
to increase access to community-based support. |
| 30th
July |
S3W-25719
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have had a charge proved
in court for supply of drugs offences in each police force area in
each year since 2003, broken down by type of drug. |
| 30th
July |
S3W-25608
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) 2006-07,
(ii) 2007-08 and (iii) 2008-09. |
| 16th
July |
S3W-25262
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to use additional residential
care beds to meet the demand for drug and alcohol treatment and recovery
within prescribed timescales. |
| 8th
July |
S3W-24878
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people had a charge proved
in court for supply of drugs offences in the Lothian and Borders police
force area in each year since 2003, broken down by type of drug. |
| 22nd
June |
S3W-24810
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has provided to support
action on drug issues in each of the last three years, broken down
by recipient group. |
| 22nd
June |
S3W-24651
To ask the Scottish Executive what the monetary value has been of
the assets recovered from drug dealers in the Lothians and Borders
police force area in each year since 1999. |
| 18th
June |
S3W-24704
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to ensure that residential
rehabilitation services for drugs and alcohol are expanded and available
throughout Scotland. |
| 18th
June |
S3W-24812
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on methadone use. |
| 18th
June |
S3W-24811
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it remains committed to the
objective of harm reduction as a key priority of its drug strategy. |
| 18th
June |
S3W-24663
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of its intention to replace
the Scottish Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse (SACDM) with a drugs
strategy delivery commission as stated in The Road to Recovery, One
Year On, whether the Scottish Government will proceed with the proposed
research sub-group of SACDM and, if so, where the sub-group will be
positioned in the proposed new structure. |
| 18th
June |
S3W-24662
To ask the Scottish Executive when it informed members of the Scottish
Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse that the committee was being disbanded;
whether the Scottish Government consulted on this, and, if so, when. |
| 16th
June |
S3W-24650
To ask the Scottish Executive what quantities of drugs have been recovered
in the Lothians and Borders police force area in each year since 1999,
broken down by type of drug. |
| 11th
June |
S3W-24336
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people with (a) drug
and (b) alcohol problems is likely to develop a mental health problem
as a result of such addiction. |
| 10th
June |
S3W-24486
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of persons accused in
homicide cases in (a) the Lothian and Borders police force area and
(b) Scotland was under the influence of (i) alcohol or (ii) drugs
at the time of the alleged offence in each year since 2000. |
| 10th
June |
S3W-24367
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people referred to drug treatment
programmes in the Lothians region in each of the last five years entered
such a programme. |
| 10th
June |
S3W-24366
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has allocated to drug treatment
programmes in the Lothians region in each year since 1999. |
| 10th
June |
S3W-23312
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to calls by the
director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University
of Glasgow for the introduction of mandatory drug testing for everybody
who is arrested, to help tackle drug addiction. |
| 9th
June |
S3W-24485
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of crimes in the Lothian
and Borders police force area has been committed by people under the
influence of (a) alcohol or (b) drugs in each of the last five years. |
| 5th
June |
S3W-24368
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug addicts have re-entered
drug treatment programmes in the Lothians region in each year since
1999. |
| 3rd
June |
S3W-24285
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that
drug services are aware of the reclassification of BZP (also known
as herbal ecstasy) and industrial solvent GBL and how to treat people
who are using these substances. |
| 3rd
June |
S3W-24274
To ask the Scottish Executive for how many deaths (a) heroin, (b)
ecstasy and (c) amphetamines have been recorded as causes in each
year since 1997, broken down by (i) NHS board, (ii) local authority
and (iii) parliamentary constituency. |
| 2nd
June |
S3W-24167
To ask the Scottish Executive what the conviction rate has been of
people accused of (a) drug dealing, (b) possession of drugs, (c) drug
trafficking, (d) employing others to deal in drugs and (e) living
off immoral earnings in the Lothians region in each of the last five
years. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24034
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all police, probation and adult
drug and alcohol services have clear referral processes that prioritise
the protection and wellbeing of children affected by substance-abusing
parents. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24033
To ask the Scottish Executive how it assesses and meets the needs
of children living with substance-abusing parents. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24032
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it gathers best-practice information
on referral and assessment systems for children affected by parental
drug or alcohol abuse. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24030
To ask the Scottish Executive whether adult addiction services gather
and share information with child protection services to safeguard
and support children living with drug or alcohol addicted parents. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24029
To ask the Scottish Executive whether children’s plans kept by local
authorities include an assessment of the number of children in each
area with substance-abusing parents. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24028
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is information sharing
across government, support services and criminal justice agencies
regarding the identification of children living with substance-abusing
parents. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24027
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider establishing
a cross-governmental working group on the issue of children living
with substance-abusing parents. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24025
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children on the child protection
register are living with drug or alcohol addicted parents. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24024
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children there are on the child
protection register. |
| 29th
May |
S3W-24022
To ask the Scottish Executive how it identifies children who are living
with a drug or alcohol addicted parent. |
| 28th
May |
S3W-24305
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken as a result
of the findings of the Minister for Community Safety’s autumn tour
of Scotland during which he met key stakeholders from the drugs field. |
| 28th
May |
S3W-24061
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) longest and (b) shortest
sentence has been for anyone convicted of (i) drug dealing, (ii) possession
of drugs, (iii) drug trafficking, (iv) employing others to deal in
drugs and (v) living off immoral earnings in the Lothians region in
each of the last five years. |
| 28th
May |
S3W-24031
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scotland has a national drug
treatment monitoring system similar to that in place in England. |
| 28th
May |
S3W-24026
To ask the Scottish Executive how many adults undergoing drug or alcohol
treatment are parents. |
| 28th
May |
S3W-24023
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it routinely records the parental
status of people identified as requiring treatment for drug or alcohol
abuse. |
| 28th
May |
S3W-23937
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the variation in prescribing
burprenorphine or suboxine across NHS boards reflects patient choice
or NHS board choice. |
| 27th
May |
S3W-23938
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-21973
by Adam Ingram on 27 March 2009, how the national data standards being
developed under the eCare Framework will relate to forms SMR 25a and
SMR 25b and the waiting times data system for substance misusers. |
| 27th
May |
S3W-23986
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to address
the increasing use of (a) cocaine, (b) anabolic steroids and (c) GHB
and GBL. |
| 26th
May |
S3W-23927
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of sheriff court convictions
of men were in respect of an offence related to misuse of (a) alcohol
and (b) drugs in the Lothians region in each of the last three years,
broken down by sheriff court. |
| 26th
May |
S3W-23926
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of sheriff court convictions
of women were in respect of an offence related to misuse of (a) alcohol
and (b) drugs in the Lothians region in each of the last three years,
broken down by sheriff court. |
| 26th
May |
S3W-23936
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has issued on the use
of burprenorphine or suboxine in the treatment of heroin addiction
as part of choice in management and recovery for addicts. |
| 26th
May |
S3W-23868
To ask the Scottish Executive how many arrests for drug-related offences
have been made in the Lothian and Borders police force area in each
of the last 10 years. |
| 20th
May |
S3W-23565
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 the Lothians region in each year since 2005, broken down
by local authority area. |
| 15th
May |
S3W-23469
To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people have been introduced
to illegal drugs as a result of a residential stay in an NHS psychiatric
unit. |
| 15th
May |
S3W-23468
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been
of people (a) dealing and (b) using illegal drugs in psychiatric units
in each of the last 10 years. |
| 15th
May |
S3W-23467
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of people (a) dealing
and (b) using illegal drugs have been reported in each psychiatric
unit in each of the last 10 years. |
| 15th
May |
S3W-23941
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue new guidance on
needle exchange following the publication of the National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance in February 2009. |
| 15th
May |
S3W-23675
To ask the Scottish Executive when the HIV action plan will be published. |
| 15th
May |
S3W-23318
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that mandatory
drug testing for everybody arrested by the police has the potential
to allow for more localised targeting of drug misuse campaigns and
support. |
| 14th
May |
S3W-23502
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to prevent
the use of drugs while individuals are in police custody. |
| 14th
May |
S3W-23402
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) permanent and (b) temporary
exclusions from schools there were in the Lothians region in each
year since 1999 and, of these, how many were as a result of (i) drug
taking, (ii) selling drugs, (iii) violence towards other pupils, (iv)
violence towards teachers, (v) vandalism of school property, (vi)
theft of school property, (vii) possession of a weapon and (viii)
other reasons, broken down by local authority. |
| 14th
May |
S3W-23496
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in police
custody in each year since 1999 and, of that number, how many deaths
have been as a consequence of drug-taking. |
| 14th
May |
S3W-23317
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the comment
of the director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University
of Glasgow, as reported in The Scotsman on 27 April 2009, that mandatory
drug testing for everybody arrested by the police is "one of the best
ways of finding out what kind of drugs people are taking in the wider
population". |
| 13th
May |
S3W-23319
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will report to the Parliament
on the major review of research that it is conducting in the drugs
area. |
| 12th
May |
S3W-23837
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to continue the mandatory
drug testing of arrestees pilots beyond the expiry date of 12 June
2009. |
| 8th
May |
S3W-23315
To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of research conducted
by the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow
in 2000 that found that 70% of people detained by the police had drugs
in their system; whether it considers that this proportion has changed
significantly in the last nine years, and, if so, what action it intends
to take. |
| 7th
May |
S3W-23316
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it shares the concerns of police
officers, as reported in The Scotsman on 27 April 2009, who have become
increasingly concerned about the number of people found to be mixing
cocaine with alcohol, making them extremely difficult to deal with
and, if so, what action it intends to take. |
| 7th
May |
S3W-23314
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of people arrested by
the police has an illegal drug in their system, broken down by type
of drug. |
| 7th
May |
S3W-23397
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions have been undertaken
in relation to drug dealing offences in North Ayrshire and how many
have resulted in conviction since 2004. |
| 7th
May |
S3W-23313
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people arrested by
the police it estimates to have illegal drugs in their systems at
the time of arrest. |
| 6th
May |
S3W-23288
To ask the Scottish Executive how much addictions have cost NHS Lothian
in each of the last three years. |
| 6th
May |
S3W-23209
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. |
| 1st
May |
S3W-22730
To ask the Scottish Executive what quantity of drugs was seized in
the Lothians region in each year since 1999, broken down by class
of drug. |
| 28th
April |
S3W-23032
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners in HMP Edinburgh
were tested for drugs in each of the last three years, broken down
by number of positive tests and substances identified. |
| 27th
April |
S3W-22548
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths in the Scottish Borders
were (a) alcohol and (b) drug related and of these how many were of
people aged (i) under 18, (ii) 18 to 29, (iii) 30 to 55 and (iv) over
55, from 1999 to 2008. |
| 27th
April |
S3W-22542
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths in the NHS Dumfries
and Galloway area were (a) alcohol and (b) drug-related and of these
how many were of people aged (i) under 18, (ii) 18 to 29, (iii) 30
to 55 and (iv) over 55, from 1999 to 2008. |
| 24th
April |
S3W-22525
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16523
by Fergus Ewing on 2 October 2008, what discussions it has had with
key stakeholders regarding the EU Drugs Action Plan for 2009-12. |
| 21st
April |
S3W-22206
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-21643
by Adam Ingram on 16 March 2009, what the source and dates are of
the estimates provided. |
| 21st
April |
S3W-22209
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-21643
by Adam Ingram on 16 March 2009, what groups of children form the
proportion of the 40-60,000 who may be affected by parental drug misuse
who are not among the 10-20,000 children who may be living with at
least one parent with a drug misuse problem. |
| 21st
April |
S3W-22208
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-21643
by Adam Ingram on 16 March 2009, how it calculated the figure of 10-20,000
children who may be living with at least one parent with a drug misuse
problem. |
| 21st
April |
S3W-22207
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-21643
by Adam Ingram on 16 March 2009, how it calculated the figure of 40-60,000
children who may be affected by parental drug misuse. |
| 21st
April |
S3W-22303
To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of the findings
in The nature and extent of illegal drug and alcohol-related litter
in a Scottish social housing community: A photographic investigation
by Alasdair J M Forsyth and Neil Davidson and what action it intends
to take. |
| 15th
April |
S3W-22452
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is taken against prisoners
who test positive for drug use. |
| 7th
April |
S3W-22251
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the finding in Alcohol
and Violence among Young Male Offenders in Scotland (1979-2009), published
in January 2009, that suggested that a prohibitive price increase
to alcohol products would foster an illegal market, perhaps with alcohol
drinkers turning to illegal drug use and illegal drug dealers turning
to alcohol sales, what its assessment is of this finding and what
action it intends to take. |
| 2nd
April |
S3W-20966
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has recently undertaken
into drug misuse among students. |
| 30th
March |
S3W-22153
To ask the Scottish Executive on average how many offenders who have
participated in drug rehabilitation in prison subsequently reoffend. |
| 30th
March |
S3W-22152
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were randomly tested
for drugs tested in the last 12 months, broken down by prison, number
of positive tests and substances identified. |
| 30th
March |
S3W-22149
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have been referred
to drug rehabilitation services in the community post-release in the
last 12 months, broken down by prison. |
| 30th
March |
S3W-22148
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisons have links to drug
rehabilitation services for prisoners post-release. |
| 30th
March |
S3W-22113
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths in the NHS Lothian area
were (a) alcohol and (b) drug related and, of these, how many were
of people aged (i) under 18, (ii) 18 to 29, (iii) 30 to 55 and (iv)
over 55, from 1999 to 2008. |
| 30th
March |
S3W-21970
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action it is taking to promote a greater understanding and recognition
by children and adolescent mental health services that mental health
issues for children are often linked to parental substance misuse. |
| 30th
March |
S3W-21954
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action has been taken to help health care workers to identify
alcohol problems and domestic abuse during pregnancy. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21978
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a ministerial working
group to consider the best interests of children at risk in relation
to alcohol or drug misuse, as was the case under the previous administration. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21977
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the meetings between
ministers to discuss policy in relation to the protection of children
at risk in relation to alcohol or drug misuse. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21976
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the meetings between
the (a) Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, (b)
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, (c) Cabinet Secretary
for Justice, (d) Minister for Children and Early Years, (e) Minister
for Community Safety and (f) Minister for Public Health and Sport
and alcohol and drug action teams to discuss the protection of vulnerable
children. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21975
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action it has taken to expand the Scottish Drug Misuse Database
to ensure that information on dependent children of drug-using parents
is collected when clients present for treatment. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21973
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
whether it will implement an integrated assessment, planning and recording
framework across all areas and agencies. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21972
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
whether it plans to introduce legislation to place a duty on agencies
to identify the needs of children for whom they have a responsibility,
including those of drug-using parents, and for agencies to cooperate
with each other to take action to protect the children and meet their
needs. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21969
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action it has taken to work with NHS boards to require healthcare
professionals to collect information about dependent children of substance
abusers. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21968
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what plans it has to invest in workforce development across the network
of children’s services to enhance capacity for recognising, understanding
and addressing mental health issues in children and young people. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21967
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
how it will continue to encourage agencies, including those whose
primary focus is on adults, to make sure that their staff have access
to appropriate training, including multi-agency training where appropriate. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21966
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action it has taken actively to promote partnerships between
local statutory agencies and voluntary organisations. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21964
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
how it will ensure that there is consistency of support and information
sharing in the key transitional years between primary and secondary
school. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21963
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action it has taken to improve the contact and communication
between vulnerable families and school authorities so that issues
around vulnerable children can be discussed in trust. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21962
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
how it plans to promote services that provide accessible and timely
support for vulnerable children and young people, including facilities
that allow them to access direct help for themselves, such as interactive
websites. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21961
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action has been taken to ensure that local authorities make appropriate
arrangements to identify children who may have additional support
needs, as required under the Education (Additional Support for Learning)
(Scotland) Act 2004. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21960
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
how it will ensure that, where children’s needs are best met by removing
them from their birth families, local agencies make the relevant decisions
appropriately and that permanent placements are found quickly. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21959
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
how it intends to ensure that protocols are developed and implemented
that will alert health visitors and social workers to the needs of
mothers and children as well as those of wider family members who
may be supporting them. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21958
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action has been taken to work with local agencies to ensure that
the needs of vulnerable infants are identified and responded to as
early as possible so that they can make the best possible start at
school. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21956
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what plans it has to improve training for midwives and health visitors
so that they can better support substance-misusing pregnant women
and be confident about signposting them to specialist services. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21965
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action it has taken to ensure that alcohol and drug action teams
and child protection committees have in place local protocols and
policies for joint working across agencies in relation to children
and families affected by substance misuse. |
| 27th
March |
S3W-21953
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what action has been taken to ensure that alcohol and drug action
teams and child protection committees have in place local protocols
for sharing information and working with families affected by substance
misuse, including information to identify pregnant substance misusers. |
| 25th
March |
S3W-22151
To ask the Scottish Executive how many random drug tests have been
carried out on prisoners in the last 12 months, broken down by prison. |
| 25th
March |
S3W-22150
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-free wings there are in
each prison. |
| 24th
March |
S3W-21971
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the recommendations
in Hidden Harm - Next Steps: Supporting Children Working with Parents,
what progress has been made in developing a model of integrated assessment
that ensures that the needs of children of substance-misusing parents
are identified at the earliest opportunity and responded to effectively. |
| 24th
March |
S3W-21803
To ask the Scottish Executive what the age profile was of those against
whom (a) charges were brought and (b) prosecutions were made under
the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in the Lothian and Borders police force
area in each of the last three years. |
| 24th
March |
S3W-21727
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions brought under
the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 were dealt with by a direct measure in
2007-08, broken down by (a) police force area and (b) type of offence. |
| 23rd
March |
S3W-21862
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to questions
S3W-20964, S3W-20965 and S3W-20967 by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009,
whether it (a) considers that it would be useful to hold the information
sought on drug misuse by students and (b) intends to collate this
information in future. |
| 23rd
March |
S3W-21861
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20961
by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009, whether it will provide further
details of the (a) campaigns that have recently been run by the Scottish
Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency aimed at reducing demand for cocaine
and (b) groups targeted by each campaign. |
| 20th
March |
S3W-21802
To ask the Scottish Executive what disposals were applied to people
prosecuted under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in the Lothians and
Borders police force area in each of the last three years. |
| 16th
March |
S3W-21643
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are living with (a)
alcohol or (b) drug-dependent parents, broken down by local authority
area. |
| 13th
March |
S3W-21172
To ask the Scottish Executive how many residential drug treatment
places there are and how many there were in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20971
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it estimates cocaine misuse
to cost the NHS on an annual basis. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20970
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of a report in the Evening
News on 12 February 2009 that some £2.1 million in Class A drugs were
seized in Edinburgh by Lothian and Borders Police between April and
December 2009, what the corresponding figure was for other police
forces in the same period. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20969
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of a report in the Evening
News on 12 February 2009 of increased quantities of cocaine being
seized by the police, what action it intends to take to curb the supply
of cocaine. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20968
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any group in
society that on average is more likely to abuse (a) cocaine and (b)
other illegal drugs and, if so, what action it is taking. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20967
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that university
students are more likely to abuse (a) cocaine and (b) other illegal
drugs than other groups in society. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20965
To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates to be the proportion
of the student population that experiments with cocaine at some point
during their time at university. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20964
To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates to be the proportion
of the student population that abuses cocaine on a regular basis. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20963
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has provided student associations
with funding to assist with the dissemination of information to students
on drug misuse and, if so, how much, broken down by institution. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20962
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is offering student
associations with the dissemination to students of information on
drug misuse. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20961
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the current campaign by
the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SDEA) highlighting
the ethical impact of cocaine abuse that targets university students
to change attitudes and reduce demand for cocaine, whether similar
campaigns are planned for other groups in society. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20960
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the current campaign by the
Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency highlighting the ethical
impact of cocaine abuse that targets university students to change
attitudes and reduce demand for cocaine will also be rolled out to
all further education institutions. |
| 11th
March |
S3W-20959
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the current campaign by the
Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency highlighting the ethical
impact of cocaine abuse that targets university students to change
attitudes and reduce demand for cocaine will be rolled out to all
higher education institutions. |
| 6th
March |
S3W-20673
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths per 1,000 of population
were attributable to (a) alcohol and (b) other substance misuse in
the last 12 months, broken down by NHS board. |
| 4th
March |
S3W-21284
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is provided for drug and
alcohol services in Lanarkshire and how this funding is allocated. |
| 4th
March |
S3W-21283
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on (a) direct and
(b) indirect drug and alcohol services in Lanarkshire in 2007-08. |
| 4th
March |
S3W-20672
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people under 16 can be classified
as regular drug-users, broken down by (a) age and (b) local authority. |
| 3rd
March |
S2W-20457
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of all prosecutions
under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 was dealt with by a direct measure
in the Grampian Police area in 2007-08. |
| 3rd
March |
S2W-20456
To ask the Scottish Executive what the age profile was of those against
whom (a) charges were brought and (b) prosecution was made under the
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in the Grampian Police area in 2007-08. |
| 3rd
March |
S2W-20455
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions were brought under
the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 that were dealt with by a direct measure
in the Grampian Police area in 2007-08, broken down by type of offence. |
| 2nd
March |
S2W-20678
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people suffered an injury as
a result of (a) alcohol and (b) other substance abuse in NHS (i) Grampian
and (ii) Tayside hospitals in the 12 months. |
| 2nd
March |
S2W-20675
To ask the Scottish Executive, of the deaths caused by substance misuse
in NHS (a) Grampian and (b) Tayside hospitals in 2007, what substances
were identified as the cause of death. |
| 2nd
March |
S2W-20674
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of deaths was attributable
to (a) alcohol and (b) other substance misuse in the last 12 months,
broken down by NHS board. |
| 2nd
March |
S3W-20676
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-10012
by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008, how many deaths in NHS (a) Grampian
and (b) Tayside hospitals in 2007 were drug-related and, of these,
how many were of people aged (i) under 18, (ii) 18 to 29, (iii) 30
to 55 and (iv) over 55. |
| 2nd
March |
S3W-20453
To ask the Scottish Executive what disposals were applied to people
prosecuted under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in the Grampian Police
area in 2007-08. |
| 25th
February |
S3W-20483
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people caught with
drugs by police represents (a) repeat and (b) first-time offenders
in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area. |
| 23rd
February |
S3W-19683
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost per day is of
administering a drug treatment and testing order. |
| 4th
February |
S3W-20090
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-19457
by Frank Mulholland on 20 January 2008, how many direct measures have
been issued by procurators fiscal in relation to alleged offences
under section 5(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 since April 2008,
broken down by (a) type of drug, (b) class of drug and (c) sheriff
court district. |
| 2nd
February |
S3W-20087
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of prisoners it estimates
to (a) have or (b) have had a substance misuse problem. |
| 2nd
February |
S3W-20086
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of prisoners represents
those assessed as having a substance misuse problem at point of admission
in 2007-08, broken down by prison. |
| 28th
January |
S3W-19814
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were arrested for drug-driving
offences in the south of Scotland and how many of these were (a) first-time
and (b) repeat offenders in each of the last five years for which
information is available, broken down by police force. |
| 26th
January |
S3W-19598
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it proposes to reduce the
number of people drink and drug-driving in 2009. |
| 26th
January |
S3W-19601
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it intends to tackle repeat
drink and drug-drivers. |
| 23rd
January |
S3W-19683
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost per day is of
administering a drug treatment and testing order. |
| 22nd
January |
S3W-19665
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of motorists caught
drug driving represents (a) repeat and (b) first-time offenders in
each local authority area in the Lothians in the most recent year
for which information is available. |
| 19th
January |
S3W-19600
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of drink and drug-drivers
caught by police represents repeat offenders. |
| 15th
January |
S3W-19336
To ask the Scottish Executive what the waiting times are for drug
and alcohol treatment via the NHS in West Lothian. |
| 9th
January |
S3W-19141
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is for
drug rehabilitation services in NHS Lothian, broken down by hospital. |
| 9th
January |
S3W-18731
To ask the Scottish Executive, given that 37% of drug treatment and
testing order terminations in 2007-08 were completed successfully,
what action it is taking to increase this proportion. |
| 9th
January |
S3W-18730
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to increase
the number of drug treatment and testing orders. |
| 9th
January |
S3W-18729
To ask the Scottish Executive what factors it believes have contributed
to a 14% decrease in the number of drug treatment and testing orders
applied in 2007-08. |
| 6th
January |
S3W-19128
To ask the Scottish Executive whether drug treatment and testing orders
include testing for hepatitis C. |
