Mortality
S3W-27050 - Joe FitzPatrick (Dundee West) (SNP) (Date Lodged Tuesday, September 08, 2009): To ask the Scottish Executive what the alcohol-related death rate was in 2008-09, broken down by (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) NHS board and expressed as a percentage of the UK average.
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon (Tuesday, September 15, 2009): Table 1. Alcohol-related death rates by Scottish parliamentary constituency, as a percentage of the overall UK average rate 2008:
| Scottish Parliament Constituency | % of UK Average |
| Aberdeen Central | 161 |
| Aberdeen North | 71 |
| Aberdeen South | 126 |
| Airdrie and Shotts | 213 |
| Angus | 119 |
| Argyll and Bute | 180 |
| Ayr | 175 |
| Banff and Buchan | 163 |
| Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 223 |
| Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley | 190 |
| Central Fife | 145 |
| Clydebank and Milngavie | 206 |
| Clydesdale | 144 |
| Coatbridge and Chryston | 218 |
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | 204 |
| Cunninghame North | 191 |
| Cunninghame South | 231 |
| Dumbarton | 307 |
| Dumfries | 115 |
| Dundee East | 347 |
| Dundee West | 285 |
| Dunfermline East | 164 |
| Dunfermline West | 118 |
| East Kilbride | 160 |
| East Lothian | 125 |
| Eastwood | 99 |
| Edinburgh Central | 226 |
| Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | 198 |
| Edinburgh North and Leith | 216 |
| Edinburgh Pentlands | 85 |
| Edinburgh South | 75 |
| Edinburgh West | 77 |
| Falkirk East | 132 |
| Falkirk West | 119 |
| Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | 124 |
| Glasgow Anniesland | 105 |
| Glasgow Baillieston | 331 |
| Glasgow Cathcart | 292 |
| Glasgow Govan | 289 |
| Glasgow Kelvin | 221 |
| Glasgow Maryhill | 420 |
| Glasgow Pollock | 249 |
| Glasgow Rutherglen | 238 |
| Glasgow Shettleston | 574 |
| Glasgow Springburn | 333 |
| Gordon | 103 |
| Greenock and Inverclyde | 371 |
| Hamilton North and Bellshill | 285 |
| Hamilton South | 248 |
| Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | 198 |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 187 |
| Kirkcaldy | 205 |
| Linlithgow | 140 |
| Livingston | 156 |
| Midlothian | 148 |
| Moray | 195 |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | 216 |
| North East Fife | 77 |
| North Tayside | 144 |
| Ochil | 154 |
| Orkney Islands | 171 |
| Paisley North | 233 |
| Paisley South | 288 |
| Perth | 152 |
| Ross, Skye and Inverness West | 199 |
| Roxburgh and Berwickshire | 77 |
| Shetland Islands | 124 |
| Stirling | 200 |
| Strathkelvin and Bearsden | 165 |
| Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale | 30 |
| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 39 |
| West Renfrewshire | 197 |
| Western Isles | 208 |
Table 2. Alcohol-related death rates by NHS board, as percentage of the overall UK average rate 2008:
| NHS Board Area | % of UK Average |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 194 |
| Borders | 60 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 119 |
| Fife | 139 |
| Forth Valley | 157 |
| Grampian | 121 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 267 |
| Highland | 195 |
| Lanarkshire | 207 |
| Lothian | 142 |
| Orkney | 171 |
| Shetland | 124 |
| Tayside | 197 |
| Western Isles | 208 |
Source: General Registry Office Scotland. Alcohol death rates in tables 1 and 2 are expressed as a percentage of UK average rates. Less than 100 = under UK average, Greater that 100 = over UK average.
These figures are provisional.