- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what waiting time targets it has set for paediatric hearing assessments.
Answer
Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change sets out the Executive's commitment to ensuring that the patient's journey through the NHS is as swift and responsive as possible, and includes a number of waiting times targets in the priority areas of cancer and coronary heart disease. Although the Scottish Executive has no present plans to set national waiting times targets for paediatric hearing assessments, reducing waiting is a key priority for NHS Boards and they are currently developing local waiting time standards to reflect local clinical priorities.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the efficacy of the Direct Access System for hearing aid provision assessments.
Answer
There are currently no arrangements for the formal monitoring by the Executive of the Direct Access System. However, I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-20636. The answer outlines the scope of the wide ranging review of audiology services currently under way which will include review of the referral systems.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-14769 by Susan Deacon on 17 April 2001, what the membership of the working group on the review of audiology services is; what the scope of this review is, and when the working group will report and to whom.
Answer
The membership of the Audiology Services Working Group is as follows:
Mr Gordon McHardy Aberdeen Royal Infirmary | Dr Jackie Grigor Audiology Department Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh |
Mr Forbes Lauder Senior Chief PMT Audiology Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley | Dr John Irwin Consultant Audiological Physician Ninewells Hospital, Dundee |
Mrs Christine G De Placido Senior Chief PMT Audiology Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy | Mr John Crowther Consultant ENT Surgeon The Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow |
Professor Stuart Gatehouse MRC Institute of Hearing Research Royal Infirmary, Glasgow | Dr Sheila Beck Public Health Project Manager Public Health Institute of Scotland, Glasgow |
Ms Moira Milligan Scottish Healthcare Supplies, Edinburgh | Mr Stuart Smith, Director RNID Scotland |
Mr Bob Stock, Chairman Scottish Executive | Dr David Breen Consultant in Public Health Medicine Dumfries and Galloway NHS Board |
Dr Peter Craig Chief Scientist Office Scottish Executive | Miss Susan Scott Occupational Therapy Adviser Scottish Executive |
Mrs Anne McQueen Hearing aid user, Dundee | |
The adequacy of services will be judged in relation to a wide range of factors including staffing; structure of the service; population served; waiting times; clinic facilities; equipment; liaison with other agencies, and the knock-on demands of screening initiatives.The working group is due to report to the Scottish Executive in the autumn 2002.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its press release SE 1745/2000 of 14 June 2000, whether Scottish Borders Council will have sufficient staff to meet the requirements of providing a free nursery place for all three-year-olds whose parents want it by April 2002.
Answer
The council have been allocated the necessary resources to meet the requirement. Not all staff involved in the delivery of funded pre-school education are employed by local authorities. Local authorities have been given the lead role in developing pre-school education services in their area and may secure places either directly or by commissioning partners in the voluntary and private sectors.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its press release SE 1745/2000 of 14 June 2000, whether it is on target to provide a free nursery place for all three-year-olds whose parents want it by April 2002.
Answer
We are currently on target to achieve this commitment. Some local authorities have already reached the necessary level of provision. Our efforts will now be focused on discussions with those authorities that may have the greatest difficulty in reaching the target.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review will be published.
Answer
It is expected that the consultation paper on the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review will be published early in the New Year.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its Press Release SE1745/2000 of 14 June 2000, how many three-year-olds currently have a free nursery place, broken down by education authority and also expressed as a percentage of the total number of three-year-olds in each authority.
Answer
The number of children aged three who are in receipt of funded pre-school education in the 32 local authorities in the summer term of academic year 2000-01 is shown in the following table. The table also shows the numbers expressed as the participation rate of eligible population. The equivalent information relating to academic year 2001-02 will be available by July 2002.
Spring Term 2000-01 | Three-year-olds |
Children provided with places | Participation Percentage | Eligible Children |
Aberdeen City | 1,745 | 75% | 2,320 |
Aberdeenshire | 2,293 | 100% | 2,293 |
Angus | 917 | 75% | 1,215 |
Argyll and Bute | 912 | 96% | 947 |
Clackmannanshire | 539 | 94% | 571 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 1,342 | 81% | 1,666 |
Dundee | 1,558 | 93% | 1,679 |
East Ayrshire | 1,115 | 99% | 1,121 |
East Dunbartonshire | 1,200 | 100% | 1,200 |
East Lothian | 763 | 70% | 1,092 |
East Renfrewshire | 1,003 | 91% | 1,100 |
Edinburgh City | 3,631 | 74% | 4,915 |
Eilean Sair | 218 | 97% | 225 |
Falkirk | 997 | 58% | 1,715 |
Fife | 3,297 | 82% | 4,008 |
Glasgow | 5,513 | 76% | 7,222 |
Highland | 1,926 | 77% | 2,492 |
Inverclyde | 740 | 73% | 1,010 |
Midlothian | 722 | 78% | 924 |
Moray | 963 | 100% | 963 |
North Ayrshire | 1,302 | 81% | 1,616 |
North Lanarkshire | 3,280 | 80% | 4,109 |
Orkney Islands | 190 | 81% | 234 |
Perth and Kinross | 1,036 | 100% | 1,036 |
Renfrewshire | 1,622 | 77% | 2,107 |
Scottish Borders | 948 | 85% | 1,110 |
Shetland Islands | 218 | 74% | 296 |
South Ayrshire | 972 | 82% | 1,189 |
South Lanarkshire | 2,779 | 76% | 3,665 |
Stirling | 868 | 90% | 967 |
West Dunbartonshire | 810 | 100% | 810 |
West Lothian | 1,246 | 58% | 2,131 |
Scotland | 46,665 | 80% | 57,948 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11762 by Susan Deacon on 19 January 2001, what measures it is taking to reduce the costs associated with early retirement due to illness in the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-18887 on 12 December 2001.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-14979 by Iain Gray on 11 June 2001, what plans it has to introduce legislation to provide greater protection for hutters.
Answer
A consultation paper published by the Executive on 15 December last year invited views on whether in principle the Executive should seek to promote legislation to give greater protection to hutters, and on the detailed provisions required if such legislation were to be introduced. Over 300 responses were received to the consultation, some of which arrived after the closing date on 9 March.Ministers are considering the most suitable way forward in the light of the consultative response and a statement will be made in due course.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19105 by Iain Gray on 26 November 2001, what steps it is taking to monitor the incidence and frequency of "lock-ups" at HM Prison and Young Offenders Institution Cornton Vale and at all prisons and young offenders institutions.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The SPS intend to keep records only of lock-up due to a cellular confinement punishment.
