- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide any additional funding to police boards to cover the extra police pensions costs for 2009-10.
Answer
There are no plans to provide any additional funding to police boards for this. Under the terms of the concordat, it is for police authorities to negotiate jointly the amount of funding that will be provided by local authorities to meet policing costs.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will indicate the cost of policing Faslane 365 protests at HMNB Clyde.
Answer
The organisation of police operations, including the allocation of resources to this operation, is a matter for the Chief Constable of Strathclyde.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide Strathclyde Police Joint Board with additional funding to cover the cost of policing Faslane 365 protests at HMNB Clyde.
Answer
There are no plans to provide additional funding to Strathclyde to cover these costs as there have been numerous protests at Faslane over the years and the need to police Faslane will have been built into the force’s budgets.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide an additional £29 million to Strathclyde Joint Police Board to cover its additional pension costs for 2009-10.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14795 on 15 July 2008 All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing signed off her quote for the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter on clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
I approved my response to the enquiry from the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter by e-mail at 14:45pm on 6 June.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter first contacted the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, her private office or her press office about the outbreak of clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
The Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter first contacted me at my MSP e-mail account at 10:49am on 6 June.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people make up the infection control team for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and what their positions are.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that there are 36.2 whole-time equivalent infection control nurses (for both acute and primary services), 5.4 whole-time equivalent infection control doctors, one general manager and one assistant general manager across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The board also employs a consultant nurse in infection control, an infection control manager and a hand hygiene co-ordinator.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing sent her quote on clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital to the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter.
Answer
My response to the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter was sent by e-mail at 15:46pm on 6 June.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the consultant microbiologist left the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
I am advised that the Consultant Microbiologist left the Vale of Leven in early 2002. I would also refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14335 on 14 July 2008.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any changes of staffing in the infection control team at the Vale of Leven Hospital have been made since the outbreak of clostridium difficile at the hospital, and, if so, when these were made.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14365 on 14 July 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
