- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 30 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what its priorities are for the LEADER+ programme, what criteria will be used to define eligible projects and what specific themes, if any, will be promoted in the programme.
Answer
I expect to consult next month on how LEADER+ might be implemented in Scotland. In particular I will be seeking views on what themes would be appropriate. Feedback from consultation will be used to develop the Scottish LEADER+ programme.
Individual projects will be the responsibility of the LEADER+ Groups once they are established.
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 30 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a consultation document in relation to the LEADER+ programme and, if so, when it will be issued and when responses will have to be made.
Answer
I intend consulting early next month and will allow 12 weeks for responses.
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what total health spending in Scotland was in each year from 1997-98 to 1999-2000 and what total health spending is forecast to be in 2000-01 and 2002-03, taking into account all recent announcements of new health spending.
Answer
The information is as follows:
| | £ Million |
1997-98 | 4,354 |
1998-99 | 4,589 |
1999-2000* | 5,076 |
2000-01+ | 5,415 |
2001-02+ | 5,822 |
2002-03+ | 6,241 |
* Estimated Outturn
+ Planned Expenditure
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the #17 million announced on 1 June 2000 for the modernisation of GP surgeries and health centres is from the same modernisation fund referred to on 24 April 2000, 24 February 2000, 26 February 1999, 18 November 1998, 9 December 1998 and originally outlined on 16 July 1998.
Answer
As explained in the announcement the £17.4 million now allocated amongst 31 specific projects on 1 June 2000 comes from the second phase of the Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme. Bids against £12 million were invited on 24 February 2000, but funding available has now been increased to accommodate more projects.
Following the invitation (announced on 9 December 1998) to bid against £12 million for the first phase of this programme, details of a total of 44 successful individual projects to an increased total value of £15.5 million were announced on 26 February 1999.
These projects realise part of the £1.8 billion investment programme announced by the then Secretary of State on 16 July 1998 and confirmed by the then Minister for Health on 18 November 1998.
The total funds allocated against these two phases of this programme therefore stands at £33 million with 71 different projects supported across Scotland.
There was no announcement on 24 April 2000 relating to the funding of this programme.
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what its timetable is for the Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations 1999 to come before the Parliament for consideration.
Answer
I am advised by the Food Standards Agency that the proposed Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 have recently been communicated to the European Commission for clearance in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 98/34/EC laying down procedures for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations. Since one aspect of the regulations goes beyond the scope of Directive 92/46/EEC, which these regulations implement, the European Commission has three months in which to respond.
It will, therefore, be at least July before these regulations will be laid before the Scottish Parliament.
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive to detail the number of operations cancelled for non-medical reasons by year, and by health board, since 1996.
Answer
Information on the number of operations cancelled specifically for non-medical reasons is not collected.
Details of the total number of cancellations of planned admissions to hospital for inpatient and day-case treatment, by health board area of treatment, for the years ending 31 March 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, are given in the table. The figures show cancellations of all planned admissions to hospital including, because no distinction can be made, those where no operation was required.
Information on cancellations of hospital planned admissions is published annually in Scottish Health Statistics.
NHS in Scotland: Cancellations of Hospital Admissions1 by Health Board Area of Treatment; Years Ending 31 March 1996 to 31 March 1999
Health Board | 31 March 1996 | 31 March 1997 | 31 March 1998 | 31 March 1999 |
Argyll and Clyde | 253 | 634 | 674 | 828 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 184 | 179 | 241 | 289 |
Borders | 220 | 283 | 272 | 287 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 43 | 58 | 99 | 220 |
Fife | 656 | 880 | 877 | 796 |
Forth Valley | 112 | 182 | 283 | 268 |
Grampian | 1,364 | 1,435 | 1,432 | 1,874 |
Greater Glasgow2 | 1,923 | - | - | 2,468 |
Highland | 912 | 887 | 692 | 750 |
Lanarkshire | 252 | 262 | 93 | 281 |
Lothian | 2,326 | 2,507 | 1,888 | 2,170 |
Orkney | 4 | 13 | 23 | 7 |
Shetland | 13 | 26 | 16 | 24 |
Tayside | 881 | 765 | 937 | 947 |
Western Isles | 5 | 10 | 4 | 9 |
Source: ISD, Scotland.
Notes:
1. Cancellations made by hospital of admission of patients from the waiting list.
2. Information for the years ending 31 March 1997 and 31 March 1998 is not available in the Greater Glasgow Health Board area.
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Review Group's report regarding charging for criminal record checks under Part V of the Police Act 1977 will be published.
Answer
The work of the review group is continuing. No date has been fixed for publication of a report but the review group appreciates the need for conclusions to be reached as quickly as possible.
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-5496 by Susan Deacon on 4 April 2000, whether Scotland's share of the #2 billion extra for the NHS in the UK is new and additional to Scotland's block grant for the coming year.
Answer
Scotland received an extra £173 million for 2000-01 as its share of the £2 billion extra for the NHS in the UK. This funding is in addition to the increases for health agreed in the Budget Bill and will bring health provision for 2000-01 to £5,415 million.
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 4 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what are the areas that are eligible to receive transitional European Structural Funding as a result of losing Objective 2 status in the 2000-06 funding round.
Answer
The areas which are eligible for transitional funding in Scotland are those that lost Objective 2 and 5b status when the map was redrawn in 1999. A list of the wards now in transition is available in SPICe.
- Asked by: Ben Wallace, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 3 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4569 by Mr Jack McConnell on 6 April 2000, on what specific years since 1990 Treasury funding was reduced as a result of the operation of the ceiling under the Barnett formula when European Structural Fund grants were taken into account.
Answer
As I explained in response to question S1W-4569, there is no "ceiling" under the Barnett formula.
