- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list, by constituency, health expenditure in Tayside for each of the past five years.
Answer
Details of NHS expenditure are only available by Health Board or NHS Trust. Health Boards are responsible for the costs of Healthcare for their resident population, whether this be spent within its geographical boundaries or in other locations. It is therefore not possible to provide data on a constituency basis.
The table below provides details of Tayside Health Board's expenditure over the five year period and have been taken from the Board's audited annual accounts.
Year | Revenue Expenditure £ |
1994-95 | 328,470,550 |
1995-96 | 339,941,279 |
1996-97 | 360,196,949 |
1997-98 | 370,292,050 |
1998-99 | 389,993,099 |
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines have been issued to Tayside Health Board regarding the acute services review which is currently under way.
Answer
The Acute Services Review published by the Health Department in June 1998 provides the context for Health Boards reviewing acute services.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local reviews of acute services are currently being undertaken by Health Boards in Scotland.
Answer
Information on local reviews of acute services by Health Board area is as follows:
In Hand | In the last five years | Under consideration |
Fife | Argyll and Clyde | Highland |
Forth Valley | Lothian | |
Lanarkshire | Orkney | |
Greater Glasgow | | |
Tayside | | |
Western Isles | | |
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local reviews of acute services have been planned by Health Boards in Scotland to take place in the next five years.
Answer
I refer Ms Cunningham to my answer to her question S1W-2854.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list, by constituency, per capita health expenditure in Tayside for each of the past five years.
Answer
Details of NHS expenditure are only available by Health Board or NHS Trust. Health Boards are responsible for the costs of Healthcare for their resident population, whether this be spent within its geographical boundaries or in other locations. It is therefore not possible to provide data on a constituency basis.
The table below shows per capita health expenditure by Tayside Health Board in the last five years.
Year | Expenditure per capita £ |
1994-95 | 806.66 |
1995-96 | 831.76 |
1996-97 | 861.92 |
1997-98 | 889.70 |
1998-99 | 937.03 |
The per capita figures have been calculated using the expenditure figures, as per the audited annual accounts, and the weighted population figures taken from the Scottish Health Service Costs Book for the relevant years.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list, by local authority area, health expenditure in Tayside for each of the past five years.
Answer
Details of NHS expenditure are only available by Health Board or NHS Trust. Health Boards are responsible for the costs of healthcare for their resident population, whether this be spent within its geographical boundaries or in other locations. It is therefore not possible to provide data on a Local Authority basis.
The table below provides details of Tayside Health Board's expenditure over the five year period and have been taken from the Board's audited annual accounts.
Year | Revenue Expenditure £ |
1994-95 | 328,470,550 |
1995-96 | 339,941,279 |
1996-97 | 360,196,949 |
1997-98 | 370,292,050 |
1998-99 | 389,993,099 |
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list by local authority area, per capita health expenditure in Tayside for each of the past five years.
Answer
Details of NHS expenditure are only available by Health Board or NHS Trust. Health Boards are responsible for the costs of healthcare for their resident population, whether this be spent within its geographical boundaries or in other locations. It is therefore not possible to provide data on a Local Authority basis.
The table below shows per capita health expenditure by Tayside Health Board in the last five years.
Year | Expenditure per capita £ |
1994-95 | 806.66 |
1995-96 | 831.76 |
1996-97 | 861.92 |
1997-98 | 889.70 |
1998-99 | 937.03 |
The per capita figures have been calculated using the expenditure figures, as per the audited annual accounts, and the weighted population figures taken from the Scottish Health Service Costs Book for the relevant years.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local reviews of acute services have been undertaken by Health Boards in Scotland in the past five years.
Answer
I refer Ms Cunningham to my answer to her question S1W-2854.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify, in relation to the Public Defence Solicitors' Office, (a) the number of clients serviced in 1998-99 on (i) a directed basis, and (ii) a voluntary basis, (b) the number of waivers from direction applied for and (i) refused and (ii) granted, and (c) the number of trials undertaken, pleas tendered and the number of pleas tendered at the trial diet.
Answer
The PDSO opened on 1 October 1998. By 31 March 1999, it had serviced 318 clients. Of these, 251 were directed and 67 were non-directed.
In the same period the PDSO received 382 waiver requests, of which 102 were refused and 280 were granted.
There were seven pleas of not guilty for which evidence was led at trial.The breakdown of pleas tendered at a trial diet is complex. This information is not currently available.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates have been made of the rise in Time Off in Lieu accruing to prison staff as a result of the recently imposed cessation of recruitment in the Scottish Prison Service.
Answer
There has not yet been any effect, as the next intake of officers were not due to become operationally available following their initial training, until 20 December.
