- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14458 by Mr Tom McCabe on 15 March 2005, how capital projects are managed post procurement.
Answer
The Scottish Public Finance Manual sets out details of project management responsibilities for major investment projects. The precise management of capital projects post procurement will vary depending upon the nature of the individual project. For example, each IT capital project will have a project manager responsible for post procurement management whereas trunk road contracts are managed by a hierarchy of professional supervision provided by the contractor and an engineer appointed by the client, all under a quality assurance scheme. Professional engineers within the department provide the highest level of supervision to ensure adherence to contracted price, quality and delivery time.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many video installations in private properties for the purposes of surveillance at the request of the police there have been in the last full year for which figures are available and how many prosecutions have resulted, broken down by police force area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-18233 on 2 September 2005, in which I explained that the figures are not held in the format requested. 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: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources and facilities were made available to schools and teachers to teach the vocationally-based Highers and Advanced Highers that are now being withdrawn.
Answer
The Scottish Qualifications Agency (SQA) has not yet made any announcement concerning the withdrawal of specific National Courses. However, it is anticipated that the SQA will shortly be communicating with all centres to provide an update on the development of the catalogue of National Courses. This letter will explain how the SQA intends to develop a dynamic portfolio of qualifications which meet the needs of Scottish learners.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14458 by Mr Tom McCabe on 15 March 2005, which minister is responsible for each of the 40 capital projects referred to in the answer.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-18639 on 15 September 2005. 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: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects the Speed Enforcement Camera System on the A77 to reduce the need for police officers to patrol this stretch of road.
Answer
The Speed Enforcement Camera System (SPECS) does not affect road policing patrols on the road. The system is operated by Strathclyde Safety Camera Partnership under the Scottish Safety Camera Programme. At the discretion of the Chief Constable, local police forces can undertake speed enforcement out with the Scottish Safety Camera Programme.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is confident that the six-month waiting time target for in-patient and day care treatment to be implemented from December 2005 will be achieved by orthopaedic departments.
Answer
NHS board chairs have assured me at the recent annual review meetings that they will deliver the six months waiting times commitment for in-patient and day case treatment by December 2005.
NHSScotland has made excellent progress in reducing waiting times for orthopaedic surgery. The latest figures show than on 30 June 2005, only 670 patients with a guarantee had waited more than six months for in-patient or day case orthopaedic treatment. This is a 64% reduction on the position on 30 June 2004. These figures clearly show that our policies of increasing NHS capacity and using the independent health care sector are working and providing significant benefits for patients.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many orthopaedic surgeons are employed and how many vacancies there are in each NHS board area.
Answer
NHS Scotland employed 146.6WTE (whole-time equivalent) Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Consultants at September 2004. This represents an increase of 10.6WTE consultants since September 1999. The vacancy rate for vacancies over six months has remained stable over 2003 and 2004 and is at 4.3% of the establishment.
Information on orthopaedic consultant staff in post and vacancies in NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Section B gives details of all medical and dental staff employed in NHS Scotland. In particular, tables B11 and B12 show the WTE and headcount number of trauma and orthopaedic consultant staff in post and vacancies broken down by NHS board area. Latest available figures are at 30 September 2004.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sexually-transmitted disease clinics there are in the NHS Lanarkshire area, giving (a) staffing levels, (b) consulting hours per week and (c) average waiting time for an appointment.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there have been cutbacks in the provision of sexually-transmitted disease clinics within the NHS Lanarkshire area since 1999.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are classes or types of vehicles which cannot be captured by the Speed Enforcement Camera System on the A77.
Answer
The Speed Enforcement Camera System (SPECS) detects all classes of vehicles with front-facing number plates. It does not detect motorcycles. Speeding motorcycles and other vehicles will be detected by normal road policing patrols in marked and unmarked vehicles along the route.
