- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what average capped income recipients of direct payments in each local authority area are allowed to retain before being required to pay back part of the cost of their care.
Answer
Direct payment recipients are usually allowed to keep two months allocation of money as contingency before paying back part of the cost of their care.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals in each local authority area are currently in receipt of direct payments under section 7 of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002.
Answer
Not all the data requested is available. Table 1 of the 2004-05 statistics release, published by the Scottish Executive on 13 September at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/74529, shows the numbers and values of direct payments for self-directed community care by local authority. A copy is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37408.) Data for 2005-06 will be published in September 2006.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals in each local authority area are employed in the delivery of services to people in receipt of direct payments and how many such individuals are local authority employees.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. However,most of this data will be available from 2005-06 onwards.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on what the (a) total cost and (b) cost to it was of hosting the G8 summit, broken down into costs incurred (i) prior to, (ii) during and (iii) after the summit.
Answer
Final estimates of the costsof the G8 summit are not yet available. Information will be published later in the year.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring of the activity of individual sheriff courts is currently being undertaken by the Judicial Appointments Board and what monitoring has taken place since the board's inception.
Answer
Monitoring the activity of individual sheriff courts does not lie within the remit of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what training is given to members of the Judicial Appointments Board before and during the period of their appointment.
Answer
There are five legal membersof the Judicial Appointments Board: a judge, a sheriff principal, a sheriff, a solicitorand an advocate. The five lay members bring their own professional backgrounds tothe board, with expertise for example in human resources and in education. One isalso a professor of law. No training was therefore offered prior to appointment.After appointment, lay members have undertaken familiarisation with the courts.The board has met with the Lord President of the Court of Session and with the Directorof the Judicial Studies Committee. It has also commissioned presentations on equalopportunities and on recruitment and selection processes.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what programme of visits to sheriff courts has been undertaken by the Judicial Appointments Board since its inception.
Answer
Lay members of the Judicial AppointmentsBoard for Scotland have undertaken familiarisation visits to sheriff courts.The five legal members were already familiar with the courts system.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what choice of treatment was available to patients diagnosed with (a) HIV and/or (b) hepatitis C prior to 1987.
Answer
Prior to 1987, there were noeffective anti-retroviral therapies for HIV and Hep C. Hep C was not identifieduntil 1989. It was not until the mid-90's that a licensed antiviral therapy becameavailable.
For HIV, certain treatments forlife-threatening conditions associated with HIV were available. Effective combinationanti-retroviral therapy became available in the UK in 1996.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what regular contact and communication is maintained by members of the Judicial Appointments Board with existing members of the judiciary in Scotland.
Answer
Three members of the board aremembers of the judiciary in Scotland. Three other members meet very regularly with existingmembers of the judiciary as part of their professional lives. After receiving theboard’s recommendations, the First Minister consults with the Lord President of the Court of Session – Scotland’s senior judge – before making recommendations for appointmentto her Majesty the Queen.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what regular contact and communication is maintained by members of the Judicial Appointments Board with sheriff courts.
Answer
The Judicial Appointments Boardfor Scotland includes among its members a serving sheriff and a servingsheriff principal. Several other members of the board have contact and communicationwith sheriffs on a regular basis as part of their professional lives. In addition,representatives of the board have met with representatives of the Sheriff’s Association:on 27 April 2004 and on 25 January 2005. Such contact is maintained as needed ratherthan on a predetermined basis.
