- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial provision is made for patients attending hospital out-patient appointments by public transport, including taxis, when the Scottish Ambulance Service non-emergency vehicles are booked to capacity, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The responsibility to commission non-emergency ambulance transport lies with medical practitioners, practicing midwives or dentists who determine when there is a clinical need for ambulance transport. The Scottish Ambulance Service Non-Emergency Service will endeavour to meet all such requests.
The NHS boards received guidance on patients’ entitlement to financial help in meeting reasonable travelling and related costs incurred in attending hospitals and clinics on 21 August 1996 in Management Executive Letter (1996) 70. The boards are known to use a number of alternative transport options such as taxis, hospitals’ own car services and voluntary organisations to provide other means of transport for their patients where this is appropriate. The cost of these services will vary across the country as some may be subsidised. Information on the actual costs incurred by NHS boards is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 29 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will meet the Conditions Precedent contained in Glasgow Housing Association's (GHA) business plan whereby it will provide the GHA with a letter of comfort which seeks to provide assurances to GHA's financial backers about the potential implementation of a rent convergence policy similar to that introduced in England and Wales.
Answer
The Glasgow Housing Association’s (GHA) concerns about rent convergence were addressed at the time of the transfer.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the remuneration rate for membership of health councils is set nationally.
Answer
Members of Scotland’s 15 local Health Councils are volunteers who are reimbursed for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many health councils there are, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Scotland currently has 15 local health councils, one in each NHS board area.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a publicly-available membership list for each health council.
Answer
Details about local health councils, including in some cases membership details, can be obtained from the Scottish Association of Health Councils on (0141) 225 6880 or through their website at
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sahc.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7908 by Cathy Jamieson on 13 May 2004, whether it has received a response from the Home Secretary on whether a suitable legislative vehicle has been found to allow amendments to the Private Security Industry Act 2001 in the UK Parliament.
Answer
Suitable legislative vehicles are currently being explored and the legislative programme for 2004-05 will be announced in the Queen’s Speech in November. I have written again to the Home Secretary to emphasise the urgency which the Scottish Executive attaches to introducing legislation to regulate the private security industry.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7908 by Cathy Jamieson on 13 May 2004, what information it has on the timescale for amending the relevant legislation to allow the Security Industry Authority to widen its remit to include Scotland.
Answer
My officials are working closely with the Home Office to ensure that legislation to regulate the private security industry is introduced at the earliest possible opportunity. The legislative programme for 2004-05 will be announced in the Queen’s Speech in November.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its initiatives require police officers to be diverted from front-line policing.
Answer
It is for Chief Constables to determine the deployment of their officers.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #5.1 million programme to put new high-tech heart machines in every front-line ambulance will be ring-fenced for use in ambulances in Glasgow.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-7988 on 18 May 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website ,the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many front-line ambulances there are, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Servicehas 496 front-line ambulances, 70 of which are based in NHS Greater Glasgow. Bythe end of May 2004 there will be a new high-tech heart machine in every front-lineambulance. I will write to the Member with the full breakdown of numbers of ambulancesby NHS board area in the near future.
