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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-20513

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will promote policies and guidance for all types of assets in the NHS and update its current policies and guidance to reflect changes in the NHS and the development of new health policies.

Question reference: S3W-20515

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that NHS bodies hold all information on their assets electronically.

Question reference: S3W-20523

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive when NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Highland, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isleswill have a strategy in place for addressing backlog maintenance.

Question reference: S3W-20579

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with suppliers of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) to ensure that people who rely on it for heating are not disproportionately disadvantaged by rising costs.

The Scottish Government is aware of the significant additional burden that high fuel prices have on those living and working in many rural parts of Scotland, especially as Scotland has a large proportion of people who are off the gas grid and rely on other sources of fuel for heating.

Following the recent Petition PE1181 to the Parliament from the Western Isles Council, the Scottish Government is disappointed by the refusal by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to investigate options to reduce the fuel price differential between remote rural and island communities and urban areas in Scotland, and in particular, the possible application for an EU derogation to set a lower rate of fuel duty in designated remote areas. However, the Scottish Government will continue to make representations to the UK Government on this issue.

As fuel duty is a reserved issue, responsibility for market regulation rests with the UK Government. Scottish Government officials are however, due to shortly meet with trade bodies and suppliers to discuss the issue of recent price rises in LPG and Heating Oil.

Question reference: S3W-20527

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that NHS bodies comply with Scottish Government Health Directorate design policy.

Scottish Government Health Directorates have conducted a review of the implementation of the Design Quality Policy in November 2008. Issues arising from that review are currently being followed up with NHS boards.

As part of the performance management arrangements established under the terms of a revised Asset Management Policy from end of May 2009, NHS boards require to demonstrate compliance with the Design Quality Policy.

Question reference: S3W-20522

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that all NHS bodies have a specific strategy for addressing maintenance backlog.

Question reference: S3W-20521

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to improve those parts of the NHS estate described as in serious risk of imminent breakdown in the Audit Scotland report, Asset Management in the NHS in Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-20518

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to improve the NHS estate, given the finding in the Audit Scotland report, Asset Management in the NHS in Scotland, that the NHS estate is not sufficiently accessible for disabled people.

Question reference: S3W-20577

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 24 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many households rely on liquid petroleum gas (LPG) for heating, broken down by local authority area.

There are about 19,000 households in Scotland that rely on liquid petroleum gas (LPG) as their main source of heating fuel “ about 0.8% of occupied dwellings. Table 1 shows the number of households relying on LPG by local authority area.

Table 1: Estimate or count of households who use LPG as the main heating system by Local Authority and associated 95% confidence intervals:

Local Authority	SHCS Estimate or HEED count of LPG households	Source	95% Confidence Interval SHCS minimum	95% Confidence Interval SHCS maximum
Aberdeen	100	2	na	na
Aberdeenshire	4,620	1	2,130	7,100
Angus	560	1	130	1,170
Argyll and Bute	1,160	1	450	2,110
Clackmannanshire	80	1	50	250
Dumfries and Galloway	1,430	1	230	2,640
Dundee	20	2	na	na
East Ayrshire	30	2	na	na
East Dunbartonshire	20	2	na	na
East Lothian	250	1	140	690
East Renfrewshire	10	2	na	na
Edinburgh	350	1	40	1,050
Eilean Siar	160	1	60	340
Falkirk	70	2	na	na
Fife	360	1	130	1,120
Glasgow	20	2	na	na
Highland	2,500	1	750	4,250
Inverclyde	10	2	na	na
Midlothian	150	1	110	400
Morayshire	520	1	60	1,050
North Ayrshire	210	1	40	700
North Lanarkshire	470	1	40	1,140
Orkney	30	2	na	na
Perth and Kinross	2,550	1	1,040	4,070
Renfrewshire	30	2	na	na
Scottish Borders	620	1	250	1,330
Shetland	50	1	10	120
South Ayrshire	440	1	50	1,020
South Lanarkshire	1,130	1	120	2,720
Stirling	760	1	190	1,330
West Dunbartonshire	230	1	10	580
West Lothian	490	1	30	1,230
Scotland	19,090	1	14,900	23,270

Source: 1 = SHCS; 2 = HEED.

na = not applicable.

The figures are estimates from a sample of about 9,000 households included in the Scottish House Condition Survey between October 2003 and September 2006. Because they are survey estimates, the figures have associated confidence intervals “ also shown.

A very small proportion of households rely on LPG and so, in some areas, the survey sample did not include any such households. In those areas, figures from the Energy Savings Trust''s Home Energy Efficiency Database (HEED) have been used. They show the minimum number of LPG-reliant households in an area.

We usually quote the SHCS survey figures to the nearest 1,000 households but then HEED data and some SHCS minima would show up as 0 even though some LPG systems are present in those local authorities. Therefore figures are only rounded to the nearest 10 LPG systems.

Question reference: S3W-20530

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that NHS bodies review their performance management arrangements and develop performance measures and targets in relation to their assets.