- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost of replacement bank, agency and locum staff was to the NHS in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
The total costs associatedwith bank nurse, agency nurse and locum usage for 2002-03 are as follows:
Bank Nurse spend - £39million
Agency Nurse spend - £28.1million
Locum spend (fordirectly employed medical and dental locum staff in NHS Scotland) - £17.4 million (full year to March 2003).
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of contracted hours of NHS trust and board staff were lost to sickness absence in 2002-03 and what the trend has been of sickness absences over the last five years.
Answer
A pilot collection of occupational health and safety statistics has been made over the period 2000-01 to 2002-03 and these are due to be published shortly. The published data is not considered robust enough to be issued by NHS employer and will be shown by Scotland; Acute Trust, Island boards and Scottish Ambulance Service; Primary Care Trust, State Hospital, and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service; and health boards and special health boards not providing healthcare. The data collected on sickness absence is a percentage of the hours lost. The trend for the three years collected is:
| | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Scotland | 4.81% | 5.24% | 4.63% |
| Acute Trusts | 4.55% | 5.06% | 4.29% |
| Primary Care Trusts | 5.15% | 5.58% | 5.21% |
| Health Boards | 5.80% | 3.92% | 4.23% |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the management procedures are for sickness absence in the NHS.
Answer
The management proceduresfor promoting attendance are set out in the Managing Health at Work PartnershipInformation Network guideline. NHSScotland employers are expected to meet orexceed the guideline which can be seen at following website address
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/health/pinmhw.pdf.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost to the NHS was of the total amount of staff time lost to sickness absence and how much was paid to staff in occupational sick pay, over the last five years.
Answer
This information is notcollected centrally.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its Health Department has established a common definition of sickness absence and collated and disseminated any central information on levels of sickness absence across NHS trust on the same basis as the exercise carried out in England.
Answer
The Health Department established a common definition for the calculation of sickness absence as part of the occupational health minimum dataset pilot collection. The three years information is due to be published shortly and while the pilot data is not considered robust enough to be published by NHSScotland employer, the intention is for future publications to be published at that level.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of sickness absence has been in each NHS trust and board over the last five years; what average estimated annual amount is paid by NHS trusts in occupational sick pay, and whether there are any plans to reduce levels of sickness absence in the NHS.
Answer
A pilot collection of occupational health and safety statistics has been made over the period 2000-01 to 2002-03 and these are due to be published shortly. The published data is not considered robust enough to be issued by NHS employer and will be shown by Scotland; Acute Trust, Island boards and Scottish Ambulance Service; Primary Care Trust, State Hospital, and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service; and health boards and special health boards not providing healthcare. The data collected on sickness absence is a percentage of the hours lost. The trend for the three years collected is:
| | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Scotland | 4.81% | 5.24% | 4.63% |
| Acute Trusts | 4.55% | 5.06% | 4.29% |
| Primary Care Trusts | 5.15% | 5.58% | 5.21% |
| Health Boards | 5.80% | 3.92% | 4.23% |
Information on the level of occupational sick pay is not collected centrally.
NHSScotland is committed to reducing sickness absence. To help employers accomplish this, the Partnership Information Network issued guidance in January 2003 on Managing Health at Work. The section on “promoting attendance” section has the aim of helping employers to make the most of reducing short and long term absence by promoting positive attitudes to work and reducing staff ill-health as far as possible.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many votes were cast and how many spoilt ballots papers there were in each local authority election since unitary local authorities were created in 1996.
Answer
Information is not collectedon the number of spoilt ballot papers at local government elections.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many court actions over child contact and residence took place in (a) 2002 and (b) 2003, stating what the total legal aid bill was for such cases and how the legal aid bill was distributed between (i) parents with and parents without residence and (ii) mothers and fathers.
Answer
In 2002 there were 1,138court actions for child contact and residence in the Sheriff Court.There were also 6,422 divorce actions some of which may have includedapplications for contact or residence. In the Court of Session there were 68“Family Actions” raised and six “Husband-Wife” cases which did not includedivorce but may have included applications for contact or residence.
In 2003 there were 989 courtactions for child contact and residence in the Sheriff Court. There were also6,126 divorce actions some of which may have included applications for contactor residence some of which may have included applications for contact orresidence. In the Court of Session there 66 “Family Actions” and 6“Husband/Wife”cases which did not include divorce but may have included applications forcontact or residence.
As many applications forchild contact and residence are integral to other court actions, such asdivorce, it is not possible to separately identify the legal aid costs of suchapplications.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1101 by Mr Andy Kerr on 3 July 2003, what the administrative cost of collecting non-domestic rates has been in 2003-04, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The following table provides budget estimates of total expenditure on collection of non-domestic rate income for each authority for 2003-04, and is the mostup-to-date information that we hold on local authority expenditure.
| Local Authority | £000’s |
| Aberdeen, City | 217 |
| Aberdeenshire | 185 |
| Angus | 150 |
| Argyll and Bute | 118 |
| Clackmannanshire | 75 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 333 |
| Dundee | 252 |
| East Ayrshire | 132 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 65 |
| East Lothian | 122 |
| East Renfrewshire | 97 |
| Edinburgh, City | 131 |
| Eilean Siar | 120 |
| Falkirk | 246 |
| Fife | 339 |
| Glasgow | 890 |
| Highland | 263 |
| Inverclyde | 86 |
| Midlothian | 182 |
| Moray | 110 |
| North Ayrshire | 89 |
| North Lanarkshire | 206 |
| Orkney | 18 |
| Perth and Kinross | 197 |
| Renfrewshire | 118 |
| Scottish Borders | 59 |
| Shetland | 112 |
| South Ayrshire | 133 |
| South Lanarkshire | 644 |
| Stirling | 169 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 169 |
| West Lothian | 110 |
| Scotland | 6,160 |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for the enforcement of a child contact order were submitted in (a) 2002 and (b) 2003, stating the outcome of such applications.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not collate centrally information on the number of applicationsfor enforcement for child contact orders.
