- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the cost of providing children with free year-round access to council swimming pools.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-6557 on 3 December 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.>
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated rate of health inflation was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
In line with the HM Treasury estimate of the GDP deflator, the Scottish Government is using 2.7% as an estimate of average annual cost inflation across the full NHS resource budget.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make available the statistical evidence that demonstrates that the Counterweight Programme has produced positive results in the NHS Tayside area.
Answer
We are monitoring progress of the Counterweight programme on a regular basis. In addition Robert Gordon University are, as part of the roll-out, evaluating its performance. We expect to make available analysis on the delivery of Counterweight across all health boards at an appropriate point in the future.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been awarded to NHS Tayside to administer the Counterweight Programme in each year since commencement.
Answer
The cost of delivering Counterweight in NHS Tayside between April 2006 and March 2008 will be £308,000. Of that, £268,000 goes to Robert Gordon University who lead the development of Counterweight in Scotland and £40,000 to NHS Tayside. The programme is designed to be self-sustaining after two years as a key element is training of staff that allows the Counterweight team to withdraw direct involvement in delivery.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive in which year financial support was initially provided to NHS Tayside to administer the Counterweight Programme.
Answer
Funding for delivery of Counterweight in NHS Tayside is for two years from April 2006. The programme is designed to be self-sustaining after two years as a key element is training of staff that allows the Counterweight team to withdraw direct involvement in delivery.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacant posts there are for dentists in hospital and community dental services in NHS Tayside and, of these, how many have been vacant for six months or more.
Answer
The details of vacant consultant posts are published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce. The consultant vacancies table in the medical and dental section gives the number of consultant vacancies in hospital and community dental specialties by NHS board area and year. Information is not available at local health board area level. The table also gives the number of posts which have been vacant for six months or more. Latest available data is at 30 September 2007.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of whole-time equivalent qualified school nurses that it will make provision for by 2011 in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas and in total.
Answer
The exact number of school nurses employed by 2011 in the local authority areas in question is a matter for the relevant health boards and will depend on a number of factors yet to be determined. Our intention is that those school aged children and young people in areas of greatest need will in the future have easier access to a wider range of nursing and other health care support. A health care model targeted at deprived and other areas with high numbers of disadvantaged children will be developed in 2008.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the commitment in Principles and Priorities: The Government's Programme for Scotland to “increase the number of school nurses” is the equivalent of the commitment on page 10 of the SNP manifesto to “a doubling of the number of school nurses”.
Answer
Our plans are to increase the range of nursing and other health care support available to school aged children and young people. A health care model targeted at deprived and other areas with high numbers of disadvantaged children will be developed in 2008. School nurses will have an important part to play in this.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 19 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected number of secondary school pupils is in school session 2008-09 in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas and in total.
Answer
The information requested is published on the government website, at the following address
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PupilProjections2006.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 19 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected number of primary school pupils is in school session 2010-11 in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas and in total.
Answer
The information requested is published on the government website, at the following address
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PupilProjections2006.
