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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-29721

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what criteria it used to calculate the £250 million to be distributed to local authorities to ensure that they pay at least the living wage.

The Scottish Government will distribute the £250 million to health boards via their annual allocations, using the same allocation formula as was used for distribution of the Integrated Care Fund. This approach takes account of funding formulae used for the NHS and local government, using a 1:1 ratio of the National Resource Allocation Committee formula for the NHS and grant aided expenditure formula for local government.

Question reference: S4W-30041

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many Vale of Leven Hospital staff have carried out shifts at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016.

Question reference: S4W-30036

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when each NHS board was advised of its budget allocation for 2016-17.

Question reference: S4W-30053

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when it was made aware of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s plan to reduce the number of community maternity units in the west of Scotland, and whether it will take action to protect these services.

Question reference: S4W-30051

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when it was made aware of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s plan to transfer emergency care from the Vale of Leven Hospital to the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Question reference: S4W-30049

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when it was made aware of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s plan to close ward six at the Vale of Leven Hospital.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, who hold the responsibility for the planning and provision of local services, made the Scottish Government aware of its plans to re-provide the activity from ward six at the Vale of Leven Hospital in late November 2015, following the approval of these plans by the board's Acute Services Committee.

The redesign plans, made to ensure that services are as efficient as possible and due to be implemented in April 2016, will allow the majority of patients currently treated on ward six to be treated in the hospital’s surgical day bed unit, with extended operating hours. The remaining patients (those who require an inpatient stay) will be accommodated in the Lomond Ward at the Vale. As such, the plans will have no effect on the level of surgical service and after care received by local people at the hospital.

Question reference: S4W-30052

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when it was made aware of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s plan to close the children's ward at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Question reference: S4W-30050

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport agreed the plan by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to close ward six at the Vale of Leven Hospital.

Question reference: S4W-30056

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many babies born at the (a) Vale of Leven Community Midwifery Unit and (b) Royal Alexandra Hospital in each year since 2007 had parents who were resident in the Vale of Leven Hospital catchment area.

Question reference: S4W-29716

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what role integration joint boards have in decisions about the conditions proposed by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Economy in relation to the payment of the living wage in adult social care contracts, and the proposed changes to charges for services that they commission.