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attention of the Commission and of the authorities in the member states concerned. Since 1990, allegations of infringements of directive 74/577 have been made in relation to slaughterhouses in several member states. Those which appeared to be supported by reasonable evidence were reported to the appropriate authorities and to the Commission.The Greek authorities have undertaken to investigate the recent RSPCA report and video on Greek slaughterhouse practices and Commissioner Fischler is considering sending Commission personnel to Greece to investigate the implementation of welfare at slaughter legislation there. Copies of the Commissioner's press statement leave been placed in the Library.
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Nurses' Pay
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will fully fund in Scotland the recommendations of the pay review body for nurses and midwives.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Individual increases arising from the recommendations of the pay review body are a matter for individual employing bodies. All Scottish NHS employers are expected to make efficiency savings in 1995 96. In addition, the NHS in Scotland will receive a cash terms increase of £143.2 million in 1995 96; an increase of 3.6 per cent.
Common Services Agency
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost of the feasibility study commissioned from KPMG Peat Marwick into the assessment system for earnings of the NHS supplies division of the Common Services Agency, and the ability of management to handle the system; and if he will place a copy of that report in the Library.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Following a competitive tendering exercise, the study was carried out at a cost of £12,500. The report to the CSA board was made on a commercial in confidence basis and will not be published.
Marriages
Mr. Robert Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the refusal of the Registrar General to grant temporary written authorisation to the Humanist Society in Scotland to solemnise a marriage under section 12 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977.
Mr. Lang: Sections 9 to 16 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 deal with religious marriages solemnised by approved celebrants, defined in section 8. Section 12 gives the Registrar General power to grant a temporary written authorisation to a person over the age of 21 to solemnise a specified marriage or marriages. The Humanist Society of Scotland wrote to the Registrar General in November 1994 seeking an authorisation under section 12 for a person to solemnise a particular marriage, but it made it clear in its application that this would not
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be a religious marriage. The Registrar General, having obtained legal advice, replied to the effect that, as the proposed marriage ceremony was not intended to be the religious solemnisation of a marriage, he had no power to grant authorisation. The Secretary of State has no function in granting such authorisations and it would therefore be inappropriate for him to comment upon the matter.Cochlear Implants
Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what is the average cost of the cochlear implant operations carried out for children at Crosshouse hospital in the current year; and what will be the marginal cost of further operations in the current year; (2) how many profoundly deaf children there are in Scotland in each age group; and what percentage of them is assessed as likely to benefit from cochlear implants;
(3) pursuant to his answer of 10 February, concerning cochlear implants, Official Report , columns 449 50 , what he has to add to his answer in relation to the case of Gillian Graham;
(4) what steps he has taken to inform all doctors and health centres in Scotland about the availability of cochlear implant operations at Crosshouse hospital, Kilmarnock.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The average cost of a paediatric cochlear implant operation is £28,725 in 1994 95. The cost of the additional operation purchased in the current financial year was £17, 960.
Information is not yet available on the numbers of profoundly deaf children in Scotland and those who might benefit from cochlear implants but this is being collected as part of the on-going needs assessment. Information on the range of all national services, including cochlear implantation, is issued by the national services division of the Common Services Agency.
As my noble and learned Friend the Minister of State explained in his letter to the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie of 26 January, Crosshouse hospital hopes to provide Gillian Graham's operation in the spring.
Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many children in Scotland are in the process of being assessed for cochlear implants;
(2) how many adults in Scotland are in the process of being assessed for cochlear implants;
(3) what plans he has to fund cochlear implants in Scotland on the same basis of contractual referral as in England and Wales; (4) if financial restraints have prevented any child in Scotland from receiving a cochlear implant at an age that the surgeon would consider optimal;
(5) what medical advice he has received in respect of the relationship between the age of the child and the benefit from cochlear implants for children between the ages of four and seven years;
(6) what assessment he has made of the importance of time as a factor affecting the efficacy of cochlear implants for adults; and what account he takes of this in allocating resources.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: There are currently nine paediatric patients and 14 adult patients undergoing assessment at Crosshouse hospital, Kilmarnock and five adult patients undergoing assessment at the Royal
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infirmary of Edinburgh. Assessment of individual patients is a matter for clinical judgment.Cochlear implantation is a national specialist service in Scotland and the allocation of resources is determined through negotiations between the purchaser--national services division of the Common Services Agency--and the provider units. Activity levels for paediatric cochlear implantation in 1994 95 were agreed with North Ayrshire and Arran NHS trust at the beginning of the financial year and funding was made available to the trust in accordance with this. Future funding arrangements for cochlear implantation will be reviewed in the light of a forthcoming national needs assessment. The initial findings of the Medical Research Council's evaluation of the national cochlear implant programme suggest that implantation by about the age of seven has produced positive initial outcomes.
Police Laboratories
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has to modify the structure, management and functions of the Tayside police force laboratory and the Strathclyde police force laboratory; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The Government have no plans to modify the structure or functions of these laboratories.
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many persons are employed in (a) the Tayside police force laboratory and (b) the Strathclyde police force laboratory; and what are their functional responsibilities in each.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: There are 22 staff currently employed in the police forensic science laboratory, Dundee. This laboratory serves, and is jointly funded by, the police authorities for Tayside, for Fife and for Central Scotland police forces. The Strathclyde police laboratory currently employs 47 staff.
Each laboratory employs a range of scientists for a variety of functions. These functions are mainly in the areas of forensic chemistry, forensic biology and physical examinations, but the laboratories also undertake document examinations, ballistic and fire investigations, and blood alcohol analyses.
Secure Accommodation
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many requests for secure accommodation for young children have been made in each of the past four years.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Information on the number of requests for secure accommodation for young children made in each of the past four years is not available centrally. However, the numbers of actual admissions of children into secure accommodation in the past four financial years are given below:
Year |Number ---------------------- 1990-91 |250 1991-92 |243 1992-93 |197 1993-94 |<1>291 <1> provisional.
Hospital Social Workers
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland in what circumstances hospital social workers may be expected to perform the role of key worker for an individual.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Decisions about who should be an individual's key worker should be made after consultation between professionals who are aware of the individual's needs. For hospital patients and people recently discharged from hospital who need social care, it will often be appropriate for hospital social workers to perform the role of key worker.
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has to monitor and record the level of referrals to hospital social workers.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Local authorities have varying practices for the deployment of social workers responsible for hospital patients and people recently discharged from hospital. Statistics on these would be of limited value at national level and there are currently no plans to collect them.
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many social workers were based in hospitals in (a) Renfrewshire, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole in each of the past five years.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The table below shows the whole-time equivalent number of local authority social workers based in hospitals for the most recent five years for which information is available centrally.
|1989|1990|1991|1992|1993
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Strathclyde |211 |215 |238 |216 |250
Scotland |478 |496 |500 |486 |511
Information at district level is not available centrally.
Secure Facilities
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the secure facilities currently available for young people which are provided by (a) regional and island authorities, (b) the voluntary sector and (c) the private sector.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The secure facilities currently available for young people in Scotland are given below:
Secure Facility |Status
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Rossie School, Montrose |Voluntary
St. Mary's Kenmure, Bishopbriggs |Voluntary
Rimbleton House Young Persons Centre,
Glenrothes |Fife Region
Kerelaw School, Stevenston |Strathclyde Region
St. Katherine's Centre (Guthrie Unit),
Howdenhall, Edinburgh |Lothian Region
Howdenhall Children's Unit (Braid), Edinburgh |Lothian Region
Hightrees Assessment Centre, Closeburn |Dumfries and Galloway
| Region
Private Children's Homes
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many private children's homes were listed in each local authority for each of the last five years.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The definition of a private children's home is a home administered by a private commercial establishment. Numbers of such homes for each local authority for each of the last five years are given below:
Year
Region |1990 |1991 |1992 |1993 |1994
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Borders |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Central |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Dumfries and Galloway |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Fife |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Grampian |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Highland |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Lothian |0 |1 |1 |1 |1
Strathclyde |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Tayside |4 |3 |3 |3 |3
Total |6 |6 |6 |6 |6
Community Care
Mr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what statistics are obtained from local authorities on their use of independent sector residential accommodation and day and domiciliary services.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Statistics on independent sector residential accommodation and day centres are provided in the "Community Care Bulletin 1992", available in the Library of the House.
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many social day care places were available for (a) the elderly, (b) those with learning disabilities, (c) those with physical disabilities and (d) mentally ill people in (i) local authorities, (ii) the voluntary sector and (iii) the private sector in each year since 1979.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Information from 1980 to 1992 is available in the "Community Care Bulletin 1992", available in the library of the House. Figures for 1993 are shown in the table. Figures for private and voluntary centres are not routinely separated.
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Number of places at 31 March 1993
|Local |Voluntary
Day centres for: |authority |and private |Total
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Older people |4,392 |3,888 |8,280
People with learning
disabilities |7,756 |775 |8,531
Physically disabled people |1,103 |577 |1,680
People with mental health
problems |75 |225 |300
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many supported hostel places were available for people with mental health problems in (a) Inverclyde, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole in each of the past five years.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The only available information is contained in the "Community Care Bulletin 1992", available in the Library of the House.
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Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his Department's definition of (a) community care and (b) care provided under the care in the community provisions, and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Community care, as used in the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, refers to the provision of services and support which people who are affected by problems of aging, illness or disability need to be able to live as independently as possible in their own homes, or in residential care. Care in the community is a term used specifically to refer to policies for mentally ill people and people with learning disabilities which enable them to live as full, independent and normal lives in or as near to the community as possible.
Social Work Contracts
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many contracts have been awarded by (a) health authorities and (b) local authority social work departments to the private sector in each of the past 10 years.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information requested in (a) is not centrally available and in relation to (b) the information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Ambulance Response Times
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the average time taken for the ambulance service to respond to an emergency 999 call in (a) Inverclyde, (b) Strathclye and (c) elsewhere in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The average response times for the period April to December 1994--the latest information available--were (a) eight minutes, (b) eight minutes, 12 seconds and (c) seven minutes, 15 seconds respectively.
These average response times are within the national targets of 95 per cent. of calls responded to within 14 minutes. These have been achieved against a 4 per cent. increase in the number of emergency calls last year.
Prison Service
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what plans he has to convert Cornton Vale woman's prison into a mixed, local prison; and if he will make a statement;
(2) what plans he has to establish female prisoner units into prisons throughout Scotland; and if he will make a statement; (3) what plans he has to incarcerate young male offenders in Cornton Vale prison; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The subjects of the questions relate to matters undertaken by the Scottish Prison Service. I have asked its chief executive, Mr. E. Frizzell, to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from E.W. Frizzell to Dr. Norman A. Godman, dated 20 February 1995:
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has asked me to reply to your questions about whether there are plans to convert Cornton Vale
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women's prison into a mixed local prison, to establish female units in prisons throughout Scotland and to incarcerate young male offenders in Cornton Vale Prison.The Scottish Prison Service is presently considering the best use of its estate against the background of overcrowding in some prisons and under- utilisation in others. We are studying also the location of convicted women prisoners, their opportunities for progression and the possibilities of open prison conditions comparable to that available to male prisoners. There are already small remand wings for women in Aberdeen, Dumfries and Inverness Prisons but all convicted women prisoners have to go at present to Cornton Vale. We are conscious of the disparity between male and female prisoners where convicted males can serve short sentences in prisons close to their home area.
Feasibility studies of all the various options are not yet complete and no decisions have been made.
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of Scotland what has been the cost to public funds of managing the Prison Service in each year since 1979.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The subject of the question relates to matters undertaken by the Scottish Prison Service. I have asked its chief executive, Mr. E. W. Frizzell, to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from E. W. Frizzell to Dr. Norman A. Godman, dated 20 February 1995:
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has asked me to reply to your Question about the cost to public funds of managing the Prison Service in each year since 1979.
The attached Annex sets out yearly expenditure from financial year 1979/80 onwards.
Annex: Scottish Prison Service Expenditure
£000
|Total net
SPS annual report |expenditure
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1979-80 |33,319
1980-81 |44,037
1981-82 |51,030
1982-83 |56,615
1983-84 |62,837
1984-85 |72,443
1985-86 |80,649
1986-87 |85,112
|Total net
SPS annual report |expenditure
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1987-88 |96,304
1988-89 |111,073
1989-90 |121,499
1990-91 |125,908
1991-92 |136,763
1992-93 |152,214
1993-94 |154,343
Note:
The figures listed in this Annex include the cost of
Central Administration and expenditure met from the
Votes of other Departments on behalf of the Scottish
Prison Service.
Surgical Beds
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide the figures of (a) the number of surgical beds, (b) the number of intensive care beds and (c) the number and location of surgical beds without common-site access to an intensive care unit for(i) Renfrewshire and (ii) Strathclyde as a whole.
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information requested is shown in the tables below.
National Health Service hospitals in Scotland Table 1:
Average
available staffed surgical and intensive care beds.
Renfrewshire
and Strathclyde; year ending 30 September 1994
|Surgical<3> |<4>Intensive
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Renfrewshire<1> |233 |22
Strathclyde<2> |3,856 |337
<1> Comprises Royal Alexandra hospital, the only
hospital in Renfrewshire with surgical beds, also has
an intensive care unit.
<2> Comprises Argyll and Clyde, Ayrshire and Arran,
Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow health board areas.
<3> Comprises general surgery, orthopaedics, ENT,
ophthalmology, urology, orthodontics and paediatric
dentistry, oral surgery and oral medicine, restorative
dentistry, surgical paediatrics, gynaecology,
neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, plastic surgery
and spinal paralysis specialties.
<4> Comprises special care baby unit and intensive
therapy unit specialties.
Table 2: Hospitals in Strathclyde with surgical beds and no
intensive care beds; year ending 30 September 1994
|Number of
|surgical beds
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All hospitals |330
Rothesay Victoria hospital |8
Dunnon and District General hospital |9
West Highland hospital, Oban |33
Canniesburn hospital, Glasgow |68
Stonehouse hospital, East Kilbride |87
Ballochmyle Hospital, Mauchline |125
Rights of the Child
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has in respect of his obligations under Article 44 of the United Nations convention following the Committee's report on the Rights of the Child in the United Kingdom; if these proposals will be embodied in the Children (Scotland) Bill; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The Government fulfilled their obligations under article 44 of the UN convention on the rights of the child by publishing the UK national report in February 1994. The general principles of the convention have been taken into account in drafting the provisions contained within the Children (Scotland) Bill.
University Hospital
Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he had concerning the 1985 out-of-court settlement by W. S. Atkins and Partners to the Welsh Office with respect to design faults at the University hospital of Wales, Cardiff, prior to his decision to sell the Common Services Agency of the Scottish National Health Service to W. S. Atkins and Partners.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: None
M77
Mr. Dunnachie: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if an environmental impact assessment which conforms to European Union standards was carried out
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before he authorised work to begin on constructing the M77 in Glasgow; and if he will make a statement.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The statutory procedures for the Ayr road route were initiated prior to the implementation date of European Community directive number 85/337. Consequently, there was no requirement to carry out an environmental assessment for this scheme. Notwithstanding this, an environmental impact assessment was undertaken for this scheme and details were presented at a pubic local inquiry prior to the Secretary of State approving the works. The Government believe that this assessment would have satisfied the directive.
Mr. Dunnachie: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the absence of security personnel and construction workers on 15 February.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: I assume that the hon. Member is referring to work on the M77. The responsibility for organising the resources necessary to discharge the contract lies with the contractor.
Public Appointments
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 17 January, Official Report, column 465 , how many appointments to public positions have been made by his Department in the last year.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 15 February 1995]: The Cabinet Office publication "Public Bodies 1994" shows 3,971 appointments in Scotland held at 1 September 1994. Of these, 3,656 are the responsibility of my Department. This figure reflects the total appointments held, including new appointments and re-appointments made in the year ended 31 August 1994. The information held centrally in my Department does not show the number of appointments made in any given year.
Generic Prescribing
Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 7 February, Official Report, columns 229 30 , if he will list the aggregate figures for brand name and generic prescribing costs for each health board area, classified by total GP fundholders and total non- fundholders.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 16 February 1995]: The table gives the gross ingredient cost of prescribing of generic and brand name items by fundholding and non-fundholding general practitioners for each health board area for financial years 1992 93 and 1993 94.
|1992-93 |1992-93 |1993-94 |1993-94
|fundholders |1992-93 costs |Non-fundholders|1992-93 costs |fundholders |1993-94 costs |Non-fundholders|1993-94 costs
|Prescribed |Prescribed by |Prescribed |Prescribed by |Prescribed |Prescribed by |Prescribed |Prescribed by
Health board |generically |brand name |generically |brand name |generically |brand name |generically |brand name
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Argyll and Clyde |0.271 |1.168 |4.880 |25.603 |0.508 |1.864 |5.916 |26.606
Ayrshire and Arran |0.039 |0.218 |3.456 |24.786 |0.311 |1.448 |4.199 |24.916
Borders |- |- |1.536 |5.404 |0.143 |0.329 |1.831 |5.166
Dumfries and Galloway |- |- |1.475 |9.077 |- |- |1.910 |9.775
Fife |0.064 |0.249 |3.824 |17.747 |0.212 |0.751 |4.441 |18.857
Forth Valley |0.102 |0.530 |3.559 |15.330 |0.186 |0.846 |4.302 |16.063
Grampian |0.619 |2.678 |4.607 |21.207 |3.045 |10.625 |3.880 |14.438
Greater Glasgow |0.214 |0.858 |10.862 |51.933 |0.434 |1.524 |12.949 |54.422
Highland |0.035 |0.168 |1.975 |9.861 |0.163 |0.697 |2.316 |10.385
Lanarkshire |0.152 |0.768 |5.043 |36.430 |1.386 |5.046 |6.184 |32.726
Lothian |0.152 |0.546 |9.632 |34.963 |0.998 |3.093 |10.935 |34.376
Orkney |- |- |0.217 |0.853 |- |- |0.251 |0.900
Shetland |- |- |0.139 |0.944 |- |- |0.166 |1.080
Tayside |0.465 |1.235 |6.057 |21.081 |1.590 |3.500 |6.819 |19.940
Western Isles |- |- |0.328 |1.287 |- |- |0.400 |1.476
Total |2.113 |8.418 |57.590 |276.506 |8.976 |29.723 |66.499 |271.126
General Practitioners
Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 7 February, Official Report , column 229-30 , if he will give the aggregate numbers of general practices in the fundholding and non- fundholding categories and the total number of
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general practitioners in each category on a full-time equivalent basis and the number of list patients covered at each of the dates specified.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 17 February 1995]: The information requested is set out in the table.
Practices GPs (whole-time Patients
equivalent)
|Column 1 |Column 2 |Column 3 |Column 4 |Column 5 |Column 6
|Non-fundholders|fundholders |Non-fundholders|Fundholders |Non-fundholders|Fundholders
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1992-93
Argyll and Clyde |100 |5 |275.8 |26.5 |409,874 |36,944
Ayrshire and Arran |60 |4 |232.8 |14.8 |365,971 |25,475
Borders |22 |1 |70.3 |4.8 |100,153 |7,064
Dumfries and Galloway |36 |- |111.8 |- |153,280 |-
Fife |59 |2 |196.3 |11.8 |328,138 |23,177
Forth Valley |53 |2 |179.8 |7 |277,793 |12,369
Grampian |65 |25 |177.9 |146.8 |281,721 |251,365
Greater Glasgow |219 |4 |588.6 |22 |970,192 |39,328
Highland |74 |1 |166 |8 |200,111 |12,311
Lanarkshire |83 |9 |271.3 |48.3 |489,873 |93,750
Lothian |124 |12 |444.8 |48 |724,778 |78,247
Orkney |15 |- |24.0 |- |20,047 |-
Shetland |11 |- |19.0 |- |22,770 |-
Tayside |67 |10 |207.3 |43.3 |337,168 |73,125
Western Isles |15 |- |30.0 |- |29,977 |-
Scotland |1,003 |75 |2,995.7 |381.3 |4,711,846 |653,155
1993-94
Argyll and Clyde |100 |5 |273.0 |26.5 |406,156 |36,476
Ayrshire and Arran |58 |5 |230.0 |21.0 |357,126 |34,588
Borders |20 |3 |63.8 |10.8 |91,605 |16,028
Dumfries and Galloway |35 |1 |107.8 |4.5 |145,942 |7,097
Fife |59 |4 |191.0 |21.5 |312,824 |39,813
Forth Valley |51 |4 |171.5 |18.0 |259,114 |31,421
Grampian |50 |39 |133.0 |197.3 |205,865 |331,612
Greater Glasgow |212 |11 |554.6 |55.3 |910,275 |90,409
Highland |68 |7 |154.5 |21.0 |184,026 |29,225
Lanarkshire |79 |14 |228.0 |92.0 |409,664 |174,173
Lothian |118 |18 |402.5 |98.5 |645,354 |159,376
Orkney |15 |- |24.0 |- |20,079 |-
Shetland |11 |- |19.0 |- |22,944 |-
Tayside |68 |11 |201.8 |50.8 |326,492 |83,849
Western Isles |15 |- |31.0 |- |29,828 |-
Scotland |959 |122 |2,785.3 |617.2 |4,327,296 |1,034,067
As requested in column 2 for each year the figures represent the number of individual general practices involved in Fundholding
rather than the number of Fundholders since more than one practice may group together to manage a single fund.
Dental Services
Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much was collected within each health board area in patient charges by dentists in each financial year since 1989 90; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 16 February 1995]: The information requested is shown in the table. The figures have been taken from the annual accounts of the 15 Scottish health boards. No information can be provided for 1989 90 as, prior to 1990 91, expenditure figures were collected on a net basis only--that is, total expenditure less patient charges collected by dentists.
General dental services patients charges
£000
Health board |1990-91 |1991-92 |1992-93 |1993-94
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Argyll and Clyde |2,995 |3,476 |3,135 |3,000
Ayr and Arran |2,632 |3,051 |2,596 |2,480
Borders |778 |948 |962 |971
Dumfries and Galloway |1,051 |1,229 |1,101 |1,014
Fife |2,361 |3,582 |2,620 |2,710
Forth Valley |1,939 |2,255 |2,246 |2,285
Grampian |3,372 |3,928 |4,633 |4,634
Greater Glasgow |6,316 |7,181 |6,691 |6,698
Highland |1,431 |2,366 |1,750 |1,589
Lanarkshire |3,320 |3,817 |3,493 |3,551
Lothian |6,269 |7,180 |6,654 |7,201
Orkney |81 |101 |112 |115
Shetland |61 |102 |153 |177
Tayside |3,314 |3,718 |3,637 |3,905
Western Isles |94 |140 |134 |118
Total |36,014 |43,074 |39,917 |40,448
Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the gross expenditure on general dental services in each health board area in Scotland in the financial year 1989 90; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 16 February 1995]: Gross expenditure figures for the year 1989 90 are not held centrally. However, net expenditure figures are available. These were provided to the hon. Member in my answer to him of 26 January 1995, Official Report , column 347 48 .
Sheriff Courts
Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the reported average waiting periods between pleading and trial dates for each sheriff court in Scotland for each of the past 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 16 February 1995]: The information requested is as shown in the following table:
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Average waiting periods in weeks Court |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991 |1992 |1993 |1994 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aberdeen |11 |9 |14 |17 |19 |16 |13 |12 |14 |14 Airdrie |23 |20 |16 |14 |12 |15 |12 |15 |15 |15 Alloa |17 |16 |20 |12 |13 |10 |11 |8 |10 |9 Arbroath |11 |17 |14 |14 |11 |13 |12 |12 |12 |12 Ayr |14 |16 |16 |18 |15 |12 |12 |14 |12 |11 Banff |12 |11 |10 |10 |9 |10 |11 |13 |13 |8 Campbeltown |8 |11 |12 |12 |13 |9 |6 |8 |8 |10 Cupar |14 |12 |12 |14 |11 |9 |12 |11 |12 |12 Dingwall |10 |11 |9 |9 |12 |11 |12 |12 |13 |10 Dornoch |7 |9 |9 |10 |11 |12 |10 |9 |10 |10 Dumbarton |17 |18 |23 |27 |19 |19 |16 |11 |10 |11 Dumfries |20 |24 |21 |18 |13 |9 |13 |11 |12 |12 Dundee |4 |5 |7 |8 |7 |5 |7 |9 |14 |17 Dumfermline |15 |14 |16 |12 |8 |10 |9 |7 |14 |12 Dunoon |22 |19 |12 |12 |12 |14 |12 |13 |10 |12 Duns |6 |5 |6 |5 |7 |9 |9 |9 |10 |10 Edinburgh |8 |10 |16 |18 |20 |19 |17 |12 |10 |11 Elgin |13 |13 |9 |8 |9 |8 |8 |10 |8 |9 Falkirk |22 |16 |13 |9 |11 |12 |8 |15 |17 |12 Forfar |14 |16 |13 |9 |10 |8 |8 |7 |9 |10 Fort William |9 |10 |11 |16 |11 |10 |10 |12 |15 |12 Glasgow |15 |12 |14 |16 |12 |13 |13 |17 |22 |26 Greenock |26 |19 |13 |16 |17 |13 |13 |10 |10 |13 Haddington |18 |13 |10 |35 |8 |11 |12 |16 |15 |13 Hamilton |24 |26 |26 |16 |14 |22 |23 |17 |15 |15 Inverness |12 |12 |13 |9 |13 |11 |10 |12 |11 |12 Jedburgh |8 |4 |9 |6 |8 |10 |10 |9 |11 |11 Kilmarnock |12 |15 |17 |18 |14 |13 |13 |12 |10 |12 Kirkcaldy |10 |13 |10 |9 |12 |12 |9 |12 |12 |12 Kirkcudbright |13 |14 |12 |14 |10 |11 |11 |12 |11 |10 Kirkwall |8 |7 |8 |9 |8 |9 |10 |9 |8 |8 Lanark |17 |16 |10 |8 |10 |10 |11 |12 |12 |11 Lerwick |7 |10 |5 |9 |13 |11 |12 |8 |7 |8 Linlithgow |9 |12 |11 |11 |9 |15 |18 |16 |16 |21 Lochmaddy |10 |15 |10 |10 |9 |10 |9 |12 |13 |8 Oban |9 |9 |11 |10 |13 |13 |10 |12 |11 |12 Paisley |22 |29 |26 |21 |19 |15 |12 |13 |14 |16 Peebles |9 |9 |8 |10 |9 |10 |8 |12 |11 |11 Perth |14 |12 |13 |11 |7 |8 |11 |13 |10 |11 Peterhead |12 |11 |10 |13 |15 |11 |13 |12 |17 |14 Portree |12 |15 |12 |10 |11 |5 |9 |9 |9 |8 Rothesay |10 |9 |8 |7 |10 |13 |11 |11 |9 |10 Selkirk |7 |6 |7 |10 |7 |8 |10 |10 |9 |11 Stirling |19 |19 |12 |12 |13 |9 |12 |12 |12 |12 Stonehaven |12 |11 |9 |10 |11 |11 |8 |12 |12 |11 Stornoway |9 |10 |11 |14 |12 |11 |13 |14 |13 |11 Stranraer |17 |19 |15 |10 |13 |10 |10 |11 |10 |11 Tain |10 |12 |9 |7 |7 |8 |7 |13 |11 |10 Wick |8 |12 |10 |8 |8 |8 |11 |12 |11 |12
SOCIAL SECURITY
Benefits
6. Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what are his objectives for the delivery of social security benefits.
Mr. Lilley: My principal objectives are:
to focus benefits on the most needy
to improve incentives to work and to save
to encourage personal responsibility
to bear down on fraud and abuse
and to ensure that the system does not outstrip the nation's ability to pay.
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