- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a contract with Stationery Office Holdings and, if so, how long the contract is for; what services are provided to it by them, and what criteria were used to select Stationary Office Holdings.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not have a contract with Stationery Office Holdings.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a contract with Banner Business Supplies and, if so, how long the contract is for; what services are provided to it by them, and what criteria were used to select Banner Business Supplies.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has a contract with Banner Business Supplies which commenced on 1 August 1999 for a period of three years plus an option of two one year extensions, subject to performance.Banner Business Supplies provides office stationery products and desktop accessories to Scottish Executive offices across the country. Following open competition and detailed evaluation of nine tenders, Banner was selected on the basis of value for money and its delivery capability.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will be participating in the planned review by Her Majesty's Government of the rural post office network due to report in autumn 2001.
Answer
The Postal Services Commission will advise the UK Government on the best way to channel financial assistance to rural post offices. It is due to report by autumn 2001. The Scottish Executive will be participating in the consultation process planned by the Commission.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which department and minister will be responsible for representing its interests in relation to the structure of the post office network in Scotland.
Answer
The Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning has the overall responsibility for post office matters within the Scottish Executive but I am the lead Minister on day-to-day issues and in attending relevant meetings at UK level.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre the visit reports of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Group for each health board.
Answer
The outcome reports from the visits of the Mental Health and Well Being Support Group have been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre. Future reports will also be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre. The reports and wider information on the work of the support group are available on website
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/mhwbsg.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is monitoring the mental health frameworks in place in each health board area and the extent to which managers have regard to the framework in their area.
Answer
The Framework for Mental Health Services in Scotland sets a template by which the visiting Mental Health and Well Being Support Group assess and advise both locally and to the Scottish Executive on local agency progress. Senior managers of the health boards, NHS Trusts and the local authorities are involved in this process. The outcome reports of the visiting group are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre and on the web at
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/mhwbsg. Mental health services will also be included in the new comprehensive performance management framework for NHSScotland as announced in
Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 22 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S1W-7142 lodged on 24 May 2000.
Answer
The question was answered on 24 November.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 13 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail, for each Executive agency and non-departmental public body, whether or not they have a contract with or employ the services of Tactica Solutions; what the length is of any such contracts, and how much has been paid to Tactica Solutions to date and what services were provided by them, broken down for each body.
Answer
The detailed information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been diagnosed with attention deficiency disorder and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in each of the last three years, broken down by health board.
Answer
The information is not available centrally in the form requested. However, information from a sample of GP records in practices across Scotland whose population is nationally representative suggests the following numbers of patients with attention deficiency disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were seen by GPs in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. It is not possible to provide information prior to 1998-1999 because the codes used to record ADD/ADHD were not in use before that period.
| Year | Estimated number of patients |
| 1998-99 | 1,600 |
| 1999-2000 | 1,800 |
These data refer to diagnoses known to the patients' GP. There may be other patients whose condition is managed by specialist services, such as child psychiatry, who may not see their GP for these conditions and will therefore not be included in the data.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 8 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Tactica Solutions changes the content of any documents given to them for design and production on its behalf.
Answer
Tactica Solutions is responsible for managing the design and production of documents but not their textual content which is determined and approved in both draft and published format by the Scottish Executive.
