- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider writing off the accumulated debts of NHS boards and, in particular, NHS Grampian's debt of £10.7 million.
Answer
In a statement to Parliament on 19 May 2005, I announced my intention to dissolve NHS Argyll and Clyde and clear the board’s accumulated deficit up to a maximum of £80 million. (The board currently have an accumulated deficit of £59.492 million and this is expected to rise to £72.541 million by 31 March 2006). The reasons for my decision on the dissolution and clearing of the debt are clearly set out in the
Report of Discussion about the Public Consultation on Redrawing NHS Boundaries in Argyll and Clyde.
With respect to NHS Grampian, the board are forecasting a £8.1 million deficit for the current financial year. However, the board have agreed a financial recovery plan with the department which demonstrates a return to financial balance in 2006-07.
I have repeatedly said that I expect all NHS boards to live within their allocated resources. Where they have deficits, these should be cleared by their own recovery plans, as is the case with NHS Grampian.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider giving revenue and capital support, either directly or indirectly, to the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no current plans to provide revenue or capital support to the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients, addicted to heroin and treated with methadone, have successfully had their methadone prescriptions reduced to zero in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
The redesigned Scottish Drug Misuse Database will enable collection nationally of information about patients receiving methadone as well as other types of treatment.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which exhibition and conference centres have received capital support and how much each has received.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not provided capital support to Scotland’s exhibition and conference centres. I understand that support has been provided by Scottish Enterprise, details of such support are a matter for the Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which exhibition and conference centres have received revenue support from it or any of its agencies in the last three financial years and how much each has received.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not provided revenue support to Scotland’s exhibition and conference centres. I understand that such support has been provided by Scottish Enterprise, details of such support are a matter for the Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms are in place to measure the public benefit of the new NHS consultant contracts.
Answer
The Scottish Executive issued a Health Department Letter (HDL(2005)28) on delivering the benefits of Pay Modernisation in July 2005. The HDL asked boards to submit Pay Modernisation Benefits Delivery Plans by 30 September 2005. This will allow the department to measure the effective delivery of the three strands of pay modernisation (Consultant Contract, Agenda for change and General Medical Services contract).
The Pay Modernisation Team are working with Audit Scotland who are currently undertaking an audit of the implementation of the consultant contract and a full report is expected to be published early in 2006.
The Executive hold an annual review with each health board. These reviews are held in public and are this year conducted by the Minister for Health and Community Care. Due to its high priority, Pay Modernisation is one of the items which boards are specifically asked to cover in their review.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many letters to university and college graduates have been issued in respect of the graduate endowment.
Answer
Forty-five thousand, four hundred and fifty-eight letters have been issued to university and college graduates in respect of the graduate endowment.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total amount of money is that ministers have billed university and college graduates for in respect of the graduate endowment.
Answer
As at 1 April 2005, £3,820,000 has been billed to university and college graduates in respect of their possible Graduate Endowment liability.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of graduate endowment funding it expects to recover.
Answer
The Scottish Executive expects recovery of all graduate endowment due.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each NHS board has spent from capital in order to balance its budget in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
The following boards transferred an element of their capital allocation as follows:
| NHS Board | 2002-03 (£ Million) | 2003-04 (£ Million) | 2004-05 (£ Million) |
| Argyll and Clyde | 10.400 | 3.000 | 13.473 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 3.818 | 5.697 | 6.300 |
| Borders | 4.378 | 6.200 | 5.854 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1.974 | 4.441 | 2.947 |
| Fife | 1.704 | 2.393 | 4.325 |
| Forth Valley | 3.037 | 5.206 | 5.913 |
| Grampian | 10.158 | 19.023 | 10.170 |
| Greater Glasgow | 20.155 | 25.905 | 23.969 |
| Highland | 3.954 | 4.970 | 1.450 |
| Lanarkshire | 19.403 | 11.450 | 12.850 |
| Lothian | 46.827 | 23.305 | 38.155 |
| Tayside | 15.369 | 17.059 | 14.287 |
| Orkney | 0.850 | 1.309 | 0.900 |
| Shetland | 0.869 | 0.773 | 0.750 |
| Western Isles | 1.000 | 0.500 | 0.855 |
| NHS National Services Scotland | 0.835 | 0.950 | 0.980 |
| Scottish Ambulance Service | 1.561 | 0.311 | 0.600 |
| State Hospital | 1.250 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
| Total | 147.542 | 134.992 | 146.278 |
The figures in the table represent total capital to revenue transfers. The majority of this relates to routine transfers in respect of refurbishment/maintenance projects, IM&T projects and other one off funding arrangements such as PPP fees.
