§ Dr. Godmanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how much money was spent in Scotland on research into cures for alcohol addiction in each of the past five years;
(2) how much money was spent in Scotland on research programmes on alcohol addiction in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe information is not available in the form requested. The figures for research projects on alcohol addiction funded by the Scottish Home and Health Department are as follows:
£ 1981–82 42,064 1982–83 48,099 1983–84 41,952 1984–85 69,648 1985–86 81,160
§ Dr. Godmanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many deaths were recorded as due to diseases normally associated with alcohol addiction in Scotland in each of the last five years;
(2) how many deaths were recorded in Scotland in each of the past five years from diseases normally associated with alcohol addiction.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe figures are as follows for deaths from selected causes, in Scotland, in the years 1981–1985.
Deaths From Selected Causes—Scotland, 1981–1985 International Classification of Diseases Codes* Year 291 303 305.0 425.5 571.0–3 Total 1981 2 130 23 8 167 330 1982 1 123 44 9 163 340 1983 6 112 35 9 177 339 1984 2 106 40 11 193 352 1985 2 124 44 14 193 377 * ICD 291 — Alcoholic psychosis. ICD 303 — Alcoholic dependence syndrome. ICD 305.0 — Non-dependent abuse of alcohol. ICD 425.5 — Alcoholic cardiomyopathy. ICD 571.0 — Alcoholic fatty liver. .1 — Acute alcoholic hepatitis. .2 — Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver. .3 — Alcoholic liver damage unspecified.
§ Dr. Godmanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much money was spent in Scotland in each of the past five years on curing people addicted to or misusing alcohol.
§ Mr. John MacKayThis information is not available.
§ Dr. Godmanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many hospital beds in Scotland were taken up in each of the past five years by patients suffering from physical and psychiatric ailments normally associated with alcohol addiction or alcohol misuse.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe average daily number of beds in NHS hospitals in Scotland in the last five years for746W which information is available, occupied by patients for whom the principal diagnosis is alcoholic psychosis, alcohol dependence syndrome, non-dependent abuse of alcohol, alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver ad other chronic liver disease without mention of alcohol was as follows:
Number 1980 693 1981 651 1982 624 1983 654 1984 640