- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider providing some form of bridging funding for the health service in Glasgow in order to address the special problems it has due to the scale of acute hospital changes and relocation of facilities required to implement the recommendations of the Carter review.
Answer
Greater Glasgow Health Board is working closely with its partner Trusts on an ambitious programme to modernise and improve acute health services across the city. The health board will need to demonstrate that the costs of any specific proposals are affordable within the overall revenue allocation it receives from the Scottish Executive Health Department; no separate bridging funds are allocated for acute hospital services and bids for strategic capital investment must represent value for money.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 26 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities in Scotland do not currently provide guide/communicator support for deafblind people.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 26 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to provide funding for guide/communicators for deafblind people in areas which do not fund such a service.
Answer
It is the responsibility of local authorities to assess the needs of deafblind people for services and to make provision for these within their budgets.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 26 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how it supports the role played by guide/communicators in the day-to-day life of deafblind people.
Answer
The Scottish Executive provides support through grant funding to national voluntary organisations under sections 9 and 10(1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 and section 16B of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 as amended.
In the current financial year Deafblind UK and SENSE in Scotland have been awarded grants amounting to £68,300 and £22,650 respectively. This funding provides training to enable deafblind people to develop communication skills, and supports voluntary organisations in working with local authorities and health boards in developing services for deafblind people.
The Social Work Services Inspectorate also published a report, Sensing Progress in 1998. It examined the planning, delivery, commissioning and management of social work services for people with a visual or hearing impairment or dual impairment. The report was followed up by inviting responses from local authorities and by holding three seminars across Scotland on the issues raised in the report. Local authorities responded positively to the recommendations of Sensing Progress and a number are in the process of acting on the recommendation to set up multi-agency resource groups.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 1 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance is available to local drugs forums to tackle the problem of drugs in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive provides over £1 million in total to Drug Action Teams in Scotland, to support implementation of the national strategy Tackling Drugs in Scotland: Action in Partnership. It is for Drug Action Teams to decide how these resources are spent, including the level of support for individual drug forums.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 19 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, if Glasgow City Council's housing stock is transferred, what long-term guarantees on terms and conditions will be given to staff other than the Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE) Regulations, which apply only at the time of transfer.
Answer
Staff transferring under the TUPE regulations will transfer on the same terms and conditions of employment as currently apply. The Executive is committed to the principle of no compulsory redundancies, no deterioration in terms and conditions and guaranteed collective bargaining.
The transfer of Glasgow's council housing into community ownership could generate some £1,600 million of investment, which would create significant employment opportunities, both for existing and for new staff.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to promote a positive approach among children and young people towards public transport.
Answer
The Safer Routes to School initiative is already doing much to encourage children to walk, cycle or use public transport to get to school. There are currently 89 schemes in Scotland. We intend to develop and extend the initiative further as part of our integrated transport policy.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 17 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations it has had with the trade unions involved in the proposed transfer of Glasgow City Council's housing stock.
Answer
I have had a number of discussions with trade union representatives about the Glasgow housing transfer. The framework document published on 10 April is the starting point for tenants, staff, trade unions and others to be fully involved in developing a transfer proposal. The STUC has been invited to nominate a representative to the Interim Management Committee of the Glasgow Housing Association.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that the unique nature of paediatric health services is taken into account when it considers the future of child health services in Glasgow and in Scotland as a whole.
Answer
The Scottish Executive recognises the unique nature of paediatric services. We have demonstrated that through the Chief Medical Officer's Acute Services Review. We expect local health services to act on those principles.Decisions affecting local communities are best taken by those who provide the services. In due course, I look forward to seeing firm proposals following Greater Glasgow Health Board's public consultation exercise on the future of acute services, including paediatric services, across the city.
- Asked by: Janis Hughes, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 6 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any reduction in NHS Trust management costs since May 1997.
Answer
Management cost percentages for all NHS Trusts for 1997-98 and 1998-99 were given in the answer to question S1W-1457. The management cost returns from NHS Trusts for 1999-2000 are required to be submitted to the Management Executive by 30 June 2000.
