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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-02867

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the next meeting of the National Planning Forum will discuss the provision of transcatheter aortic valve implantation treatment.

Question reference: S4W-02477

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-01248 by Michael Mathieson on 18 July 2011, why it has no plans to establish a living wage unit.

Question reference: S4O-00253

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it last wrote to NHS boards about their budget allocations for 2012-13.

Question reference: S4W-02678

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde carried out an assessment of clinical risk prior to deciding to withdraw its major event medicine service from 31 October 2011.

Question reference: S4W-02681

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the costs incurred by the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's major event medicine service is recouped from event organisers.

Question reference: S4W-02497

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many improvement notices have been issued by Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland or the Care Commission in each year since 2007.

The Care Inspectorate now has responsibility, as of 1 April 2011, for inspecting, regulating and supporting improvement of care and social work and child protection services across Scotland. The Care Inspectorate has powers under section 62 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 to serve an improvement notice on a care service, specifying the improvements required to bring a care service up to the standards required and the timescale for meeting these standards.

The Care Commission, as the Care Inspectorate’s predecessor, had similar powers to issue improvement notices under section 10 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001.

The total number of improvement notices issued by the Care Commission and/or the Care Inspectorate between 1 April 2007 to 31 July 2011 is 365, broken down on an annual basis as shown in the following table:

Improvement Notices Issued

Year
2007-08	95
2008-09	60
2009-10	90
2010-11	101
2011-12 up to 31 July 11	19
Total	365

Question reference: S4W-02435

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether BAM Construct UK's inability to secure funding from Ahli United Bank for the East Ayrshire Community Hospital is of significance for other capital projects.

Question reference: S4W-02418

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will commence section 2 of the Alcohol (Scotland) Act 2010, and the requirement not to sell alcoholic drinks in multiples, where the unit cost is less expensive than purchasing the drinks individually.

Question reference: S4W-02390

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the possible removal of paediatric congenital heart services from the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, given that some children from Scotland access these services.

Question reference: S4W-02499

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the (a) Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland and (b) Scottish Social Services Council inspect and report on (i) the level of qualifications and training of social care staff and (ii) social care employers' staff development and training strategy.

As part of their inspection process The Care Inspectorate review both the qualifications and the continuing professional development training plans of care home provider staff. Inspectors take account of this information and use it as a factor to determine if there should be further scrutiny when planning an inspection.

Where The Care Inspectorate has concerns regarding qualifications or levels of training in a service they would include this as part of their inspection process and include this in their inspection reports. SSSC has a duty to publish workforce intelligence. The Care Inspectorate also shares anonymised workforce data with SSSC to enable them to report publicly on the workforce and their qualifications.

The SSSC does not have an inspection function. In the course of undertaking their workforce development, registration and regulation functions they do collect and make available to others, including The Care Inspectorate, information related to the qualifications and training of social care staff. SSSC does not have enforcement powers over employers and does not routinely collect information on the staff development and training strategies produced by employers.