- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 30 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and what percentage of, health board funding has been ring-fenced for mental health services in each year since May 1999, broken down by health board area.
Answer
Funding for mental health services is not ring-fenced. NHS Boards are given a unified budget to meet the health care needs of their resident populations. It is for NHS Boards to decide how best to utilise this funding to meet local and national priorities including mental health services.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what projects relating to the support of carers, families and partners of those suffering from mental health problems it is currently funding.
Answer
Projects aimed at supporting the carers, families and partners of people with mental health problems are primarily provided through local authorities and NHSScotland, often working with the voluntary sector. A wide range of such projects is currently running across Scotland, supported under a number of different initiatives. The Strategy for Carers in Scotland doubled, from April 2000, the resources available to local authorities to support carers, including carers of people with mental health difficulties. From April this year local authorities are also receiving significant new funding to expand short break services, which will benefit many people and their carers. Local authorities use these resources to meet local needs, including those of carers of people with mental health difficulties. Mental Illness Specific Grant also funds many projects which help people with mental health difficulties, their families and carers. In addition, through the Scottish Health Plan Our National Health and projects such as Allies in Change, we are promoting the involvement of mental health service users and their carers in service planning and delivery.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to tackle mental health problems among young people.
Answer
Our National Health sets out our ambition for the development of improved health services for children and young people. The Child Health Support Group are working to produce a framework against which agencies will plan and deliver improved care responses across the whole range of children's services.
The planning and preventative measures for mental health needs will be further informed by the outcomes of the Scottish Needs Assessment Programme review which has been commissioned to examine current needs and provision. Their report is expected early next year. The Mental Health and Well Being Support Group will complement both these approaches and continue their work with the care agencies on the broad improvement agenda.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have applied for respite care but have not been accommodated since May 1999, broken down by (a) health board area and (b) local authority area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has provided for respite care since May 1999.
Answer
We are allocating record levels of resources to local authorities for social care, with £1.25 billion provided this year. It is for authorities to use these resources to best meet local needs, including the provision of respite care or short breaks. In recognition of the importance of short break services we have made significant new funding available to local authorities from April this year to expand their current level of respite provision by an additional 22,000 weeks each year across Scotland by 2003-04. These resources will increase from £5 million in 2001-02 to £11 million by 2003-04. This is in addition to the £10 million a year already ear-marked under the Strategy for Carers in Scotland for supporting for carers and providing short breaks, doubling the resources previously available to authorities for these purposes.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations the Scottish Road Safety Campaign has made to it on the issue of slow moving vehicles on primary roads and what subsequent representations it has made or plans to make to the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions on any necessary changes to existing legislation.
Answer
The Scottish Road Safety Campaign has made no such representations. The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the Government on a wide range of issues, including road safety.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Transport and Planning or any other minister has at any time indicated that a public enquiry into the proposed A1 expressway between Haddington and Dunbar would result in the expressway not being built.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will reconsider its plans to construct the proposed A1 expressway between Haddington and Dunbar without slip roads to East Linton in view of potential reduction in the tourism and retail sectors as outlined in the report by Roger Tym and Partners, A1 Haddington - Dunbar Expressway Economic Amendment of Passing Trade at East Linton.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when work will commence on the proposed A1 expressway between Haddington and Dunbar, and how the timescale now compares with the timescale given in Strategic Roads Review - Scheme Decisions, the supplementary report to Travel Choices for Scotland: Strategic Roads Review.
Answer
I announced in November 1999 that five schemes, including the A1, will proceed to construction over the next three years. I had envisaged that, subject to satisfactory progress on the completion of the necessary statutory procedures, construction could begin in 2001. However, that process has taken slightly longer than envisaged in 1999, due to a combination of objections which required to be considered fully and the impact of foot-and-mouth disease, which delayed ground construction work and topographical surveys.
The necessary procedures were completed in August 2001 and tenders were promptly invited for the construction work. I hope to see that work start in summer 2002.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive why no public local inquiry was held on the proposal to construct the A1 Haddington to Dunbar expressway option as recommended in Travel Choices for Scotland: Strategic Roads Review.
Answer
When Travel Choices for Scotland: Strategic Roads Review was published in November 1999 public reaction to the expressway had not been tested by the publication of draft orders. Contrary to expectations, the orders subsequently published did not attract objections that would have made the holding of a public local inquiry necessary.
