- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 30 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for NHS medical physicists there currently are in each health board area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 30 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for NHS medical physics technicians there currently are in each health board area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many current vacancies there are in the NHS for (a) radiographers, (b) radiologists and (c) specialist cancer nurses, broken down by health board.
Answer
The latest available data are shown for qualified radiographers in Table 1 and for consultant radiologists in Table 2. Information on vacant posts for specialist cancer nurses is not collected centrally.
| Table 1: Qualified radiographer vacancies1 by Health Board Area: at 31 March 2000 |
| Whole Time Equivalent All vacancies | Vacant over 3 months |
| Argyll & Clyde | 1.0 | - |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 1.8 | - |
| Borders | 1.0 | - |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 1.4 | 0.4 |
| Fife | 3.5 | 1.5 |
| Forth Valley | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Grampian | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Greater Glasgow | 5.0 | 3.0 |
| Highland | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Lanarkshire | 2.0 | - |
| Lothian | 5.0 | - |
| Orkney | - | - |
| Shetland | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Tayside | - | - |
| Western Isles | - | - |
Source: ISD(M)36, ISD Scotland.
Notes:
1. The response rate for the PAMS vacancy survey was 94%.| Table 2: Consultant Radiologist Vacancies by Health Board Area: at 30 September 2000 |
| Headcount All Vacancies | Vacant over 6 months |
| Scotland | 16 | 3 |
| Argyll & Clyde | - | - |
| Ayrshire & Arran | - | - |
| Borders | - | - |
| Dumfries & Galloway | - | - |
| Fife | 8 | 1 |
| Forth Valley | 1 | - |
| Grampian | 2 | - |
| Greater Glasgow | - | - |
| Highland | - | - |
| Lanarkshire | 2 | 1 |
| Lothian | 1 | - |
| Orkney | - | - |
| Shetland | - | - |
| Tayside | 1 | 1 |
| Western Isles | 1 | - |
Source: ISD(M)4, ISD Scotland.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many silent 999 calls from mobile phones the emergency services have received in each of the last three years, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to tackle the problems associated with silent 999 calls from mobile phones.
Answer
Arrangements to filter out "silent" emergency calls originating from mobile phones have been in place across the United Kingdom for about a year. Set procedures are applied to determine whether a "silent" call is inadvertent. Calls will continue to be connected to the police where there is any indication that assistance is required.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12080 by Susan Deacon on 30 January 2001, how much revenue was raised in 2000-01 from NHS prescriptions charges and is estimated to be raised in 2001-02.
Answer
The revenue raised from prescription charges in Scotland in 2000-01 is likely to be £43.4 million; this figure is provisional pending finalisation of the NHS Trust annual accounts. The estimate of revenue to be raised in 2001-02 is £45.7 million.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 21 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all farms and farmers who have participated in the GM crop trials.
Answer
Consent for individual sites to participate in the farm scale evaluation programme is held by Aventis CropScience and not individual farmers. The Scottish Executive holds detailed map references of all sites and gives these wide publicity but does not hold information about the ownership of individual sites.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 21 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail all payments made to farmers who have participated in the GM crop trials.
Answer
No payments have been made by the Scottish Executive to farmers for participating in GM crop trials.Contractual arrangements between the farmer and the biotech company are an entirely private matter.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 21 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive where in the sports and culture level 3 budget the savings of #2 million planned for 2002-03 and 2003-04 will be made and what effect these savings will have on programmes funded by this budget.
Answer
There is a net addition over the three years. But there will be a variety of small changes in 2003-04.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to increase the numbers of radiographers undergoing training.
Answer
The number of Radiographers working in NHS Scotland has increased by 70 WTE (6%) since 1996.An additional 61 funded student places for certain Professions Allied to Medicine groups including Radiographers have been made available by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council from October 2001.
