- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether elderly people entitled to free personal care are also entitled to free NHS podiatry care.
Answer
The planning and provisionof NHS services is a matter for NHS boards. The issue of access to NHSchiropody services is a matter for clinical decision in the light of the healthneeds of individual patients.
Free personal care isintended to provide people with support with daily tasks, including personalhygiene which can be undertaken without the intervention of a healthcareprofessional.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 18 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that there will be sufficient provision of high quality money advice and how such provision will be reviewed to guarantee that resources are made available to meet demand.
Answer
Since 2002 the Executive hasallocated £3 million per annum to local authorities to increase the provisionof money advice services in Scotland. This is complemented by Executive funding of £0.5 millionper annum for Citizens Advice Scotland and Money Advice Scotland to provide support andtraining for the money advice field and ensure that a quality service isdelivered to their clients.
Mary Mulligan announced on26 January 2004 additional funding of £4 million to help meet increasing demandfor front-line money advice services, as well as to support specific vulnerablegroups of people for whom money advice is difficult to access.
The Executive’s funding willbe kept under review based on information provided by local authorities andother providers of money advice services, who are able to identify demands onservices, including demand arising from the impending Debt Arrangement Schemewhich will be available later this year.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 18 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what support is being given to credit unions to enable them to give low income households access to cheap credit.
Answer
Mary Mulligan announced on 3 September 2003that the Scottish Executive is allocating £400,000 to support credit unions in2003-2004, and £500,000 per annum in each of 2004-05 and 2005-06. This funding isbeing targeted towards those credit unions best placed to impact financialexclusion and serve low-income households by supporting them to increase theircapacity to grow membership, and to provide affordable savings and loansservices to those members.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure equal access to podiatry treatment in the NHS.
Answer
The planning and provisionof NHS services is a matter for NHS boards. The issue of access to NHSchiropody services is a matter for clinical decision in the light of the healthneeds of individual patients.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce pilot schemes for low income debtors who are unlikely to have sufficient surplus income to make repayments under the Debt Arrangement Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2004, as recommended in the report by Citi'ens Advice Scotland, On the Cards: the Debt Crisis Facing Scottish CAB Clients.
Answer
The Scottish Executive wants the Scheme to help as many people as possible. There is a powerin the Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 for pilot studies to be undertaken. Thisis specifically aimed at debtors with very little surplus income for whom noexisting viable payment distribution facility currently exists. It is intendedthat a pilot study will be undertaken as soon as practicable after the schemeis operational.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money is allocated to each further education (FE) college to address social inclusion.
Answer
Because of the fundamental role that FE colleges have in encouraging people of all ages and from different backgrounds to participate in post-school learning, a large proportion of the resources available to FE colleges can be associated in some way with the promotion of social inclusion.
The figures provided in the table relate to the specific elements that cover the additional costs of social inclusion, over and above the standard funding perstudent place, provided to colleges by the Scottish Further Education FundingCouncil in 2003-04.
| Further Education College | Amount |
| Aberdeen College | £331,920 |
| Angus College * | £119,811 |
| Anniesland College | £555,844 |
| Ayr College | £230,829 |
| Banff & Buchan College of Further Education * | £104,137 |
| The Barony College * | £33,467 |
| Borders College * | £114,326 |
| Cardonald College | £633,488 |
| Central College of Commerce | £404,415 |
| Clackmannan College of Further Education | £75,755 |
| Clydebank College | £359,852 |
| Coatbridge College | £337,907 |
| Cumbernauld College | £77,683 |
| Dumfries and Galloway College * | £270,695 |
| Dundee College | £674,651 |
| Edinburgh's Telford College | £473,449 |
| Elmwood College * | £122,774 |
| Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education | £229,615 |
| Fife College of Further & Higher Education | £242,033 |
| Glasgow College of Building and Printing | £371,661 |
| Glasgow College of Food Technology | £318,800 |
| Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | £268,946 |
| Glenrothes College | £106,175 |
| Inverness College * | £166,960 |
| James Watt College of Further & Higher Education | £913,548 |
| Jewel and Esk Valley College | £161,225 |
| John Wheatley College | £450,295 |
| Kilmarnock College | £299,128 |
| Langside College | £448,915 |
| Lauder College | £130,288 |
| Lews Castle College *** | £90,089 |
| Moray College * | £87,096 |
| Motherwell College | £558,615 |
| North Glasgow College | £510,312 |
| Oatridge Agricultural College * | £38,006 |
| Perth College | £161,763 |
| Reid Kerr College * | £531,215 |
| South Lanarkshire College | £117,386 |
| Stevenson College Edinburgh | £388,524 |
| Stow College | £400,012 |
| The North Highland College ** | £213,306 |
| West Lothian College | £70,719 |
| Orkney College *** | £63,225 |
| Shetland College of Further Education *** | £17,121 |
Source: Scottish Further Education Funding Council.
Notes:
1. These figures consist of the entry costs social inclusion premium; retention and achievement social inclusion premium; and remote student element of the core funding provided to colleges by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC).
2. In addition to the figures shown above, colleges in receipt of the remote student element also received a remote institutional based element at a base rate of £191,359 for 2003-04. Colleges that are extremely remote but on the mainland received a 15% increase on this base rate and island colleges received a 30% increase. Remote colleges are marked *, extremely remote **, and island ***. SFEFC is currently reviewing the way in which the funding methodology takes account of remoteness.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of attempted suicide there have been in psychiatric hospitals and units in each of the last five years, broken down by hospital or unit.
Answer
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be invested in water and sewerage infrastructure in 2003-04.
Answer
Current forecasts suggestthat Scottish Water expects to invest a total of £380 million in water andsewerage infrastructure in 2003-04.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what provision has been made for the foot care of those who have been removed from NHS chiropody lists.
Answer
The planning and provisionof NHS services is a matter for NHS boards. The issue of access to NHSchiropody services is a matter for clinical decision in the light of the healthneeds of individual patients.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish proposals regarding the fluoridation of the water supply.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-5804 on 9 February 2004.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/search_wa.
