§ Mrs. EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what criteria is to be used by the Scottish Office in recruiting staff to serve on the European drugs monitoring squad; how many staff he expects to be recruited to serve in Scotland; and what central resourcing will be made available.
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§ Mr. Allan Stewart[holding answer 21 May 1992]: Detailed negotiations about the establishment of a European drug monitoring centre are still under way and the final text of the required regulation has yet to be agreed with our Community partners. Once the modalities and structure for the centre have been agreed we will be addressing the issues of resourcing and staffing.
Drug addicts notified to the Home office during 1991 by type of drug' to which addiction was reported and Health Board2 Scotland Type of drug Number of persons Health Board of notifier Heroin Methadone Dipipanone Cocaine Morphine Pethidine Dextromoramide Opium All addicts Scotland 752 714 96 27 99 9 32 1 1,480 Argyll and Clyde 46 7 8 1 1 — 4 — 55 Ayrshire and Arran 24 8 2 2 4 1 1 — 30 Borders 2 3 — 1 — — — — 5 Dumfries and Galloway 15 26 5 — 1 — — — 35 Fife 41 6 2 1 2 — 1 — 48 Forth Valley 112 84 11 3 4 1 2 — 191 Grampian 85 86 30 6 45 1 6 — 170 Greater Glasgow 306 31 15 4 31 1 9 — 352 Highland 3 2 2 — — 3 2 — 8 Lanarkshire 39 7 2 — 1 — 2 — 46 Lothian 55 292 11 7 8 1 4 1 353 Orkney — — — — — — — — — Shetland — — — — — — — — — Tayside 24 162 8 2 2 1 1 — 187 Western Isles — — — — — — — — — 1 As an addict can be reported as addicted to more than one notifiable drug the figures for individual drugs cannot be added together to produce totals. 2 Where an addict was notified more than once in 1991, this refers to the health board of the doctor who made the first notification.