- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making on the new general practitioner contract, and whether the introduction of such contracts will require legislation and, if so, what the timetable for this is.
Answer
Negotiations on the new GP contract are on-going and at this stage it would be inappropriate for me to comment in detail on the need for legislation to implement the eventual agreement. The framework document published in April this year stated that phased implementation will take place from April 2003, or earlier if possible, recognising the requirements for primary legislation and consequential secondary legislation before full implementation.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31361 by Mr Jim Wallace on 18 November 2002, what the remit is of the project team conducting the review of common police services in relation to forensic science services.
Answer
A final remit has still to be agreed. This will be informed by a scoping study of the provision of forensic science services in Scotland which is currently being undertaken.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional capitation for teaching was allocated to each NHS board in each year since 1998-99.
Answer
Details of Additional Cost of Teaching (ACT) allocations made to the four teaching boards are as follows:
| 1998-99(£ million) | 1999-2000(£ million) | 2000-01(£ million) | 2001-02(£ million) | 2002-03(£ million) |
Grampian | 16.524 | 16.774 | 17.024 | 17.274 | 17.524 |
Greater Glasgow | 27.184 | 27.184 | 27.184 | 27.184 | 27.184 |
Lothian | 23.748 | 23.748 | 23.748 | 23.748 | 23.748 |
Tayside | 16.635 | 16.885 | 17.135 | 17.385 | 17.635 |
It is for the four teaching boards to make the appropriate financial arrangements with those NHS trusts responsible for the hospitals where teaching takes place.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce a performance indicator on smoking cessation in the new general practitioner contract.
Answer
Negotiations on the new GP contract are being taken forward on a UK basis by the NHS Confederation, representing the four UK Health Departments, and the UK General Practitioners Committee (GPC). As negotiations are currently on-going, it would be inappropriate for me to provide details of what is being discussed at this stage.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been granted to Records Enterprise and what that body's income has been in each year since 1997.
Answer
The funding to run the business activities of the General Register Office (GROS) for Scotland is given by the Scottish Executive to GROS, which in turn allocates funding to a number of business areas within the department. Records Enterprise is a branch of GROS. Its remit is to make available public records about individuals to customers, including genealogists. It does so by giving access to records held by the Registrar General which are open to the public, and charging for searching and for copies of the records in line with the statutory fees. Prices are set to recover the costs of Records Enterprise. The total income of Records Enterprise in 1997-98 was £818,491, in 1998-99 £992,142, in 1999-2000 £1,248,168, in 2000-01 £1,440,385 and in 2001-02 £1,515,947.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure that appropriate facilities are made available at local registration offices to allow public access to the new digital genealogy resources and what the cost will be to the customer of accessing such facilities.
Answer
The General Register Office for Scotland plan to make the full set of digital images of genealogical records which are being generated as a result of the Digitally Imaging the Genealogical Records of Scotland's people (DIGROS) project, available to all local registration services which adopt the new registration software and therefore have the requisite communications links.The fee that is charged by a local registrar to a customer making a general search in the annual indexes to the records for an hour or longer is prescribed in The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002 (SSI 2002 No. 390) which came into force from the first of October this year. However, local authorities, which provide the local registration service, may also charge for additional services offered by them. Such charges vary across local authorities.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to form partnerships with voluntary organisations in establishing the Scottish Family History Service.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-31506 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which organisations will be involved in providing the Scottish Family History Service.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-31506 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what will happen to the original archives held at registration offices upon completion of the digitising of these records under the DIGROS programme.
Answer
No decision has yet been taken on what will be done with the duplicate statutory registers held by local registration services when the digitisation of statutory registers has been completed. The registers themselves are the property of the Registrar General, while provision of storage and record accommodation is a matter for local registration services. Provision for the duplicate registers from a particular area will therefore be a matter for discussion between the Registrar General and the local registration service. The General Register Office for Scotland will be happy to be flexible in their approach to this, as they have been on previous occasions when registers have been replaced by microfiche.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what organisations have been consulted on the setting up of the Scottish Family History Service.
Answer
An announcement about the Scottish Family History Research Service project, including plans to consult a number of bodies, will be made shortly.