- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available for the training and employment by NHS Scotland of stoma nurses and for the treatment of patients suffering from Crohn’s disease.
Answer
The funding made available fortraining and employment of stoma nurses is a matter for NHS boards.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Answered by Tavish Scott on 12 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates are available anent the number of (a) older people and (b) disabled people living in (i) West Renfrewshire and (ii) Inverclyde who will be eligible for free travel under the national concessionary travel scheme.
Answer
People aged 60 and over and eligibledisabled people will be able to use the new Scotland-wide free bus travel schemefor older and disabled people.
Information for older peopleis based on the 2001 census which holds data based on local authority areas. AsWest Renfrewshire is a parliamentary constituency which is composed ofparts of local authorities it is not possible to provide a figure for this area.
The number of people aged 60based on information from the 2001 census for Inverclyde is 18,521 and we estimatethat the number of eligible disabled people will increase these totals by about10%.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 2 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions have taken place with management representatives of the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (SFPA) and the representatives of crew members of SFPA vessels anent the implementation of no smoking rules on such vessels (a) whilst operating in Scottish waters and (b) when in Scottish ports.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-25288 on 2 May 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 2 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions have taken place with the appropriate management and trade union representatives anent the implementation of no smoking rules on maritime vessels that are owned, or leased, by the Executive and whether these rules are applicable when such vessels are operating outwith Scottish waters.
Answer
Within the ScottishExecutive, maritime vessels are owned by the Scottish Fisheries ProtectionAgency (SFPA) and Fisheries Research Services (FRS).
SFPA introduced a smoking policyfor all its staff on 16 March 2006, prior to which the issue of smoking arrangementshad been discussed at various meetings involving representatives of managementand staff. The policy itself was the subject of full consultation with allrelevant trades union. As far as the agency’s marine staff are concerned, the policydesignates the areas on board each class of agency vessel where smoking ispermitted and it applies regardless of whether the vessels are within oroutwith Scottish waters or are in port.
Within FRS discussions areon-going to formalise a revised smoking policy for vessels. Current no smokingrules allow smoking only in a restricted number of designated areas on boardvessels and apply whether the vessels are within or outwith Scottish waters, orare in port.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the (a) names of, (b) occupations of and (c) areas represented by the members of the recently created NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23997 on 15 March 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.Interviews were scheduled on26 April 2006 and on 5 May 2006 to increase board membership on the Greater Glasgow andClyde NHS Board following the recent transfer of responsibility for the Argylland Clyde area.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people convicted in each of the last five years for the illegal trafficking of women into Scotland for forced sexual purposes were foreign nationals and what information it has on whether they will be deported upon the completion of their imprisonment.
Answer
Information on thenationality of offenders is not available from the statistics on convictions heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how appointments to the new NHS board which will replace NHS Greater Glasgow and part of NHS Argyll and Clyde will be made; who will be in charge of the selection and training of these appointees; how many people will be chosen to represent (a) community interests, (b) the interests of patients and (c) the interests of staff on the board and what the length of their tenure will be.
Answer
The appointments processwill comply with the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments inScotland (OCPAS) – Code of Practice. The selection panel will be chaired by aDirector from the Scottish Executive Health Department, with the Chair of the NHSGreater Glasgow and Clyde Board and an OCPAS Assessor as panel members. It ishowever, appropriate to note that the panel makes recommendations, but it isthe Minister for Health and Community Care who makes the appointment(s).Induction and training is a matter for individual boards.
The appointment round hasbeen planned with a view to the recruitment of three additional non-executivemembers on the new NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Board to represent theinterests of the public, patients and stakeholders in the former NHS Argyll andClyde area. Additionally work is in hand to ensure that a Councillor fromInverclyde Council and Renfrewshire Council is represented on the new NHS GreaterGlasgow and Clyde Board.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been proceeded against in the courts for offences in relation to the Terrorism Act 2000 and, of these, how many have been convicted and what the range of punishments imposed by the courts has been.
Answer
The available information isgiven in the following table. The court proceedings statistics for 2004-05 areplanned for publication in spring 2006.
Persons Proceeded Against inScottish Courts for Offences Under the Terrorism Act 20001, 2000-03
| | Number |
| Total proceeded against | 31 |
| Total with charge proved of which given: | 27 |
| Custodial sentence | 10 |
| Monetary penalty | 12 |
| Other sentence | 5 |
Note: 1. Where main offence.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a date has been set for the dissolution of NHS Argyll and Clyde and the establishment of an NHS board for the Greater Glasgow area and those catchment areas that are within the sphere of NHS Argyll and Clyde.
Answer
A date has been set. ScottishStatutory Instrument 2006 No. 32 – The National Health Service (Constitution ofHealth Boards) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006 formally dissolves NHS Argylland Clyde from 1 April, 2006. A further instrument, Scottish Statutory Instrument2006 No. 33 – The National Health Service (Variation of the Areas of Greater Glasgowand Highland Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 2006 lays out the formal steps necessaryto transfer the responsibilities, staff, assets and other resources of NHS Argylland Clyde Health Board to NHS Greater Glasgow and NHS Highland.
The effect of these Orders isthat from 1 April 2006, health services in the Argyll and Bute local authority areawill become the responsibility of NHS Highland, while services in the local authorityareas of Inverclyde, Renfrew, and those parts of East Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshirenot already within NHS Greater Glasgow, will become the responsibility of NHS GreaterGlasgow.
NHS Greater Glasgow has recentlyconsulted on changing its name to reflect its extended boundaries and I understandthat from the 1 April, NHS Greater Glasgow will be commonly known as NHS GreaterGlasgow and Clyde.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all current board members of NHS Argyll and Clyde showing (a) occupation, (b) place of employment, (c) period of tenure of office and (d) remuneration and how many members were appointed to represent the interests of (i) patients, (ii) local communities within the board’s catchment area and (iii) medical and ancillary staff.
Answer
Information on NHS board membershipis provided on the Scottish Public Bodies Directory at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/directory.Board membership comprises threediscrete categories; The Chair and Non-Executive members; Stakeholder members (LocalAuthority Councillors, Chair of the Area Partnership Forum and Chair of the AreaClinical Forum), and Executive members (Chief Executive and Director of Financeetc).
