- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 8 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many junior doctors have been employed by the NHS in each NHS board area in each year since the publication of the New Deal for Junior Doctors in Scotland.
Answer
The information requested is available from the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 20163).
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Auditor General for Scotland will publish the results of the inquiry into the management of NHS waiting lists and whether the inquiry will include the reopened waiting lists for clinical psychology and dietetics detailed in the report Review of Learning Disability Services in Forth Valley by the Scottish Health Advisory Service in December 2001.
Answer
Audit Scotland hopes to publish its report in May. It will cover the management of waiting lists in all 28 trusts in Scotland.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the reopened waiting lists for clinical psychology and dietetics detailed in the report Review of Learning Disability Services in Forth Valley by the Scottish Health Advisory Service in December 2001, what steps are being taken in order to guarantee that a waiting list place is available for any patient who needs it.
Answer
Instructions have been issued to NHSScotland, reiterating that it is unacceptable to refuse to accept a referral to an appropriate clinical professional for clinical consultation or treatment.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 3 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the circular documents or any other mailings intended for distribution to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools that it has issued in each of the last three years and how many pages each such mailing contained.
Answer
The detailed information requested is not held by the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 3 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of the total number of teachers registered to teach in primary schools in each of the past ten years were (a) male and (b) female.
Answer
The information requested is not held by the Scottish Executive. It is a matter for the General Teaching Council for Scotland. We have been informed that the information is not readily available from its records.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients in each NHS hospital in Forth Valley contracted hospital-acquired infections in each of the past three years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 27 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Education and Young People will next meet representatives of the teaching unions and what issues will be discussed.
Answer
I have met representatives from the Educational Institute of Scotland and Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association within the last three weeks to discuss a variety of issues. I have no further plans to meet representatives of the teaching unions before the end of the current parliamentary session.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 26 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to comments made by the Visitor Services Manager of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Interim Committee in The Courier on 11 March 2002, what (a) research has been done on or (b) estimates have been made of how many additional visitors from England, Wales and the rest of Europe there will be following the establishment of the proposed Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
Answer
Whilst the Interim Committee is a participant in a project to develop common baseline information about visitor surveys, I am not aware of any precise estimates of additional visitors to the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, nor of specific research into that aspect. The Visitor Services Manager's remarks, as reported, were framed in general terms.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which spending allocations to the former Forth Valley Health Board in each of the past two years have been based on the Arbuthnott formula for distributing health funding, including any additional or one-off items of expenditure.
Answer
Plans for implementation of the Arbuthnott formula were announced in September 2000. An additional £12 million was make available nationally in September 2000, to make progress in implementing the recommendations in the Arbuthnott Report. Forth Valley Health Board received £0.307 million. For 2001-02 all health boards received a minimum increase in unified budget of 5.5%, with those boards currently below their Arbuthnott formula targets making some move towards that target. Forth Valley Health Board received an increase in unified budget of 6% in 2001-02. In addition, Forth Valley received £0.623 million from the Health Improvement Fund and an additional £0.568 million as a contribution towards the extra costs involved in managing winter pressures, which were distributed on the basis of the Arbuthnott formula.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-23171 by Mike Watson on 5 March 2002, whether Historic Scotland has set any targets for increasing the proportion of its budget represented by income.
Answer
Historic Scotland does not set its income targets, as a proportion of its total budget. Its income targets reflect what is achievable in any given sphere of commercial activity. It has published key performance targets, relating to market share and retail spend per visitor. The overall budget for Historic Scotland in future years will be determined as a result of the Spending Review 2002. Potential commercial income will be taken into account in that process.
