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Residential Care Homes
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Local Authority |30
Private |60
Voluntary |59
Nursing Homes |37
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NHS Computers
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how the NHS computer system pilot scheme at Crosshouse and Ayrshire Central hospitals is being funded ; what assessment he has made of the impact on existing service provision at the hospitals ; what plans there are to change the existing staff structures in hospitals ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 1 February 1994] : The funding of the outpatients administration system pilot scheme at Crosshouse and Ayrshire central hospitals is being provided jointly by the site and from central funds in accordance with normal practice. The new computer system will automate a number of outpatient administration functions which are presently done manually and introduce other functions not currently available with a view to making more efficient uses of hospital services and resources.
I understand that there are no plans to change the existing staff structure of the outpatient services in these two hospitals.
Labour Statistics
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many new jobs have been created in the parliamentary constituency of Greenock and Port Glasgow in each year since 1975.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : The information requested is not available.
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Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list job losses in each year since 1975 in the parliamentary constituency of Greenock and Port Glasgow ; and what was the level of youth unemployment in the same year.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : Information in the form requested is not available. No data are available for parliamentary constituencies on redundancies.
With regard to youth unemployment, data by age are only available quarterly from October 1983. The information is available on the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library. Library staff are ready to assist in accessing the information.
Police Officers (Assaults)
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of (a) murders, (b) murders of police officers, (c) assaults upon police officers, giving degrees of seriousness of injury and (d) policemen and policewomen in post in each year since 1975 in (i) Inverclyde, (ii) Strathclyde and (iii) Scotland as a whole.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 2 February 1994] : The information in respect of Strathclyde and Scotland is set out in the tables. Statistics for Inverclyde, and information on the degrees of seriousness of injury resulting from assaults on police officers, are not held centrally.
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Strathclyde
Number of murder Number of murders Number of Number of assaults
officers in post
|victims |of police officers|Male |Female |on police
|officers<1>
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1975 |32 |0 |6,070 |386 |N/A
1976 |38 |1 |6,007 |424 |N/A
1977 |37 |0 |5,725 |422 |142
1978 |27 |0 |5,947 |405 |549
1979 |25 |0 |6,454 |405 |470
1980 |35 |0 |6,509 |373 |211
1981 |21 |0 |6,484 |361 |264
1982 |34 |0 |6,491 |342 |278
1983 |30 |1 |6,474 |342 |N/A
1984 |31 |0 |6,449 |343 |170
1985 |26 |0 |6,463 |353 |102
1986 |34 |0 |6,390 |379 |104
1987 |32 |0 |6,347 |426 |272
1988 |23 |0 |6,305 |463 |544
1989 |29 |0 |6,353 |534 |2,989
1990 |20 |0 |6,249 |555 |2,854
1991 |30 |0 |6,203 |587 |2,827
1992 |53 |0 |6,172 |625 |2,786
<1>Figures for 1977 to 1987 record number of officers assaulted.
N/A-Not Available.
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Scotland
Number of murder Number of murders Number of Number of assaults
officers in post
|victims |of police officers|Male |Female |on police
|officers<2>
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1975 |43 |0 |11,656 |676 |N/A
1976 |57 |1 |11,533 |740 |N/A
1977 |60 |0 |11,105 |767 |811
1978 |42 |0 |11,477 |748 |1,157
1979 |40 |0 |12,280 |736 |1,122
1980 |47 |0 |12,419 |771 |924
1981 |42 |0 |12,379 |749 |876
1982 |48 |0 |12,433 |719 |824
1983 |54 |1 |12,435 |713 |N/A
1984 |53 |0 |12,415 |722 |922
1985 |41 |0 |12,455 |761 |718
1986 |48 |0 |12,504 |838 |745
1987 |48 |0 |12,470 |933 |1,058
1988 |<1>35 |0 |12,434 |1,020 |1,397
1989 |41 |0 |12,593 |1,157 |4,131
1990 |36 |0 |12,520 |1,257 |4,306
1991 |53 |0 |12,493 |1,353 |3,989
1992 |79 |0 |12,576 |1,460 |4,422
<1>Excludes Lockerbie air disaster.
<2>Figures for 1977 to 1987 record number of officers assaulted.
N/A-Not Available.
Substance Abuse
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the number of people who died in each of the past seven years as a result of the abuse or the misuse of (a) tobacco, (b) alcohol, (c) heroin, (d) cocaine and (e) cannabis ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : The available information is as follows. It is estimated that some 10,600 people in Scotland die each year from smoking-related illnesses, including lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke. In some 600 cases a year the cause of death, as recorded on the death certificate, is a disease identified as being alcohol-related ; however alcohol plays a part in the deaths of many more people through its contribution, for example, to hypertension, violence and road accidents. In the year from 1 November 1991 it is estimated that between 80 and 120 habitual misusers of controlled drugs died as a direct result of drug misuse ; many of these cases will have resulted from the misuse of several drugs and reliable estimates cannot be offered in relation to the role of particular drugs.
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what recent representations he has received concerning funding for drug and alcohol addiction treatment centres ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) what proposals he has concerning the funding of drug and alcohol addiction treatment centres ; whether
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money obtained by way of European Community structural funds can be used for such purposes ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : The drugs task force, led by my noble and learned Friend the Minister of State, has received reports from health boards, social work departments, drug liaison committees and other organisations about facilities for drug misusers. This subject will be considered by the task force at a future meeting.
No recent representations have been received about the funding of alcohol addiction treatment centres.
The principal aim of the European structural funds is to assist the economic development of areas experiencing particular structural and economic difficulties. Drug and alcohol addiction treatment centres would not therefore be eligible for support from this source.
Psychiatric Hospitals
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) long-stay and (b) short-stay psychiatric beds have been closed in each year of the health board areas in each of the past seven years.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : The information requested is not available in the form requested. The bed complement for psychiatric beds in total and the percentage of patients using psychiatric beds on 31 March each year from 1987 to 1993 is as follows.
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Change 1987-93
|1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991 |1992 |1993
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Bed complement, Number
Scotland |16,237 |15,910 |15,343 |14,689 |13,878 |13,199 |12,283
Argyll and Clyde |1,463 |1,462 |1,264 |1,264 |1,197 |1,196 |1,180
Ayrshire and Arran |878 |878 |861 |861 |756 |744 |740
Borders |288 |276 |270 |255 |255 |249 |248
Dumfries and Galloway |617 |617 |617 |617 |451 |457 |430
Fife |1,070 |1,050 |925 |925 |857 |754 |730
Forth Valley |857 |820 |850 |800 |750 |740 |714
Grampian |1,641 |1,573 |1,520 |1,499 |1,396 |1,345 |1,271
Greater Glasgow |3,536 |3,533 |3,495 |3,195 |2,914 |2,744 |2,488
Highland |655 |655 |579 |499 |489 |489 |444
Lanarkshire |1,468 |1,405 |1,405 |1,302 |1,346 |1,204 |954
Lothian |2,220 |2,184 |2,175 |2,131 |2,122 |1,993 |1,789
Orkney |- |- |- |- |- |- |17
Shetland |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Tayside |1,536 |1,449 |1,374 |1,333 |1,312 |1,259 |1,227
Western Isles |8 |8 |8 |8 |33 |25 |51
Length of stay of patients resident percentage
1 year or less |35.6 |35.6 |36.3 |37.4 |38.1 |39.3 |<1>38.4
Over 1 year |64.4 |64.4 |63.7 |62.6 |61.9 |60.7 |<1>61.6
<1> As at 31 December 1992.
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Inverclyde Royal Hospital
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the persons appointed to the posts of members of the Inverclyde Royal Hospital Trust, with the dates of appointments, length of such appointments and remuneration.
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Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : The information requested on the appointments made by my right hon. Friend to the board of the Inverclyde Royal and Rankin Memorial hospital NHS trust is set out in the table. Details of the executive members of the board, who are appointed by the non-executive directors, are not held centrally.
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|Date of appointment|Appointed until |Annual
|remuneration
|£
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Chairman
Mr. James Kinloch |6 December 1993 |30 November 1997 |17,145
Non-executive Directors
Mrs. Margaret Bruce |23 December 1993 |31 March 1996 |5,000
Mr. Norman Cunningham |23 December 1993 |31 March 1996 |5,000
Mr. Robert Henderson |23 December 1993 |30 November 1997 |5,000
Mr. Martin McGeehan |23 December 1993 |31 March 1996 |5,000
Mrs. Jane MacMillan |23 December 1993 |30 November 1997 |5,000
Cervical Smears
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the number of women who have had to undergo medical and/or surgery treatment as a result of the reported misreading of cervical smear test slides at the Inverclyde Royal hospital ; what forms of treatment have been taken ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : The re-reading of the cervical smear slides at Inverclyde Royal hospital led to around 440 women requiring further investigation and/or treatment. It is not possible to say how many of these patients required treatment as a result of the original misreporting of the smear results. The forms of treatment include colposcopy without biopsy, colposcopically-directed selective biopsy, cold coagulation and conization of the cervix.
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the procedures adopted by the Argyll and Clyde health board in response to the misreporting of the cervical smear tests at the Inverclyde Royal hospital, Greenock.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : Argyll and Clyde health board accepted the main thrust of the recommendations directed at them by the Inverclyde inquiry report and a task force was set up to advise the board on the action to be taken.
The proposals by the task force are to be implemented through a comprehensive purchasing plan based on service specification for all components of the board's cervical screening programme including targets and quality control procedures. The purchasing plan is to be presented to the board for approval at its meeting in February and it will be for provider units to deliver the service required through contracts.
The task force is also currently considering the implications of the rationalisation of the cervical cytopathology services. An extensive consultation exercise is currently underway involving relevant laboratory consultants, clinicians and outside experts. The task force is expected to complete this exercise and report with recommendations to the board by May.
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Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many women underwent cervical smear tests in each of the health board areas for the latest available year ; what these figures are as percentages of women of the appropriate age range ; what is the proportion of those who develop carcinomas before being recalled ; and what is the recall period for each region.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : Information is available only on the number of smears processed and not the number of women examined. Figures for 1992--the latest available--are as follows :
|Number of cervical |Percentage of
|smears examined |eligible population
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Scotland |485,368 |84.6
Argyll and Clyde |41,769 |80.5
Ayrshire and Arran |33,925 |85.8
Borders<1> |- |91.6
Dumfries and Galloway |12,921 |91.2
Fife |32,656 |88.0
Forth Valley |30,658 |85.6
Grampian |54,897 |90.2
Greater Glasgow |87,424 |80.1
Highland |24,290 |88.1
Lanarkshire |45,177 |79.7
Lothian |86,294 |85.4
Orkney<1> |- |91.8
Shetland<1> |- |91.6
Tayside |35,357 |87.3
Western Isles<1> |- |78.8
<1> Smears of women in Borders, Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles
health board areas are included in figures for Lothian, Grampian (Orkney
and Shetland) and Highland health boards respectively.
Information on the proportion of women who develop carcinomas before being recalled is not available.
All health boards in Scotland are now operating a three-year call/recall system.
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 20 January, Official Report , column 759 , whether the target time of 14 days for the processing and notifying the results of cervical smear tests includes the processing time for general practitioners, hospitals or clinics to report the results to their patients.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : Yes.
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Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many women living, or formerly living, in the catchment area of the Inverclyde Royal hospital have as yet not been traced in relation to the recall programme following the discovery of the misreporting of cervical smear test slides at the hospital's cytology laboratory ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 2 February 1994] : As of 31 January 1994 there were 16 women with non-negative results on rescreening still to be traced. Of these 15 are believed to be in the United States, and one woman in Europe. The health board is continuing to pursue links to trace the remaining women. Approaches have been made to the United States internal revenue service to ascertain whether they can help in tracing the women.
Scottish Enterprise
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost of the report by the Monitor Group into the future of the electronics sector in Scotland by the Monitor Group ; if the report will be made public ; and what action Scottish Enterprise has taken following the report.
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Mr. Stewart [holding answer 26 January 1994] : The report was prepared by the monitor group as part of a wider task to develop, with the Scottish electronics forum, a strategy for the electronics sector in Scotland. The total cost of that work was £480,000. The text of the report has not yet been published since Scottish Enterprise does not consider the report on its own to be fully representative of all the associated work undertaken to develop the wider strategic approach. But I understand that its plans to pull this wider range of material together with the report itself, with a view to publication.
It is for Scottish Enterprise to decide how the work it commissioned from the monitor group should be taken forward ; and I understand it is considering, with the Scottish Electronics forum, how that might best be done. Scottish Enterprise is willing to provide further details about the current position, or to meet the hon. Member to discuss the matter further, if that would be helpful. I have therefore written to the chairman of Scottish Enterprise asking him to write direct to the hon. Member about this matter.
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