- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding for safety and statutory works is allocated between NHS Trusts.
Answer
Over £45m of capital is allocated annually to NHS Trusts on a "Formula" basis; that is a formula based on Trust income and building and equipment depreciation levels. The annual formula allocations are generally used by Trusts for routine maintenance, achievement of statutory standards, and the purchase of items of equipment and small capital projects.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify, in terms of cost, the extent of the current backlog of safety and statutory works in each NHS Trust.
Answer
The information in the form requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been invested in the last two financial years (a) in each NHS Trust and (b) nationally on (i) backlogged maintenance on fabric and services; (ii) medical equipment replacement; (iii) X-ray equipment; (iv) vehicles, including mobile dental units and patient mini-buses; (v) portable equipment for all support services; (vi) IT equipment; (vii) energy conservation measures, and what the total national spending was in each of these categories in 1994-95 and 1995-96.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
It is for individual NHS Trusts to fund local priorities from the resources available.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what categories of expenditure NHS Trusts have to meet from their share formula allocation other than expenditure on the backlog of safety and statutory works.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to S1W-5075
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Gulf War veterans there are in prison in Scotland and what offences these veterans committed, specifying the total numbers in prison for each specific type of offence.
Answer
The information is not available.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 9 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the recovery plan submitted by Argyll and Clyde Acute NHS Trust proposes any retraining or re-skilling programmes for staff.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is working closely with the Trust and health board to ensure that robust financial stability plans are produced which will ensure that high quality patient care continues to be delivered within a sustainable financial framework.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sewage disposal systems are planned in the West of Scotland and elsewhere which incorporate the discharge of diluted untreated liquid sewage into publicly accessible burns, rivers or lochs.
Answer
West of Scotland Water Authority is currently implementing a major investment programme of extension, modernisation and replacement of its existing waste-water collection and treatment systems. This programme has many elements, including the improvement of combined storm water overflows whose operation has an adverse impact on the aquatic environment. Storm water overflows protect the network from overloading by diverting excess flow in exceptional conditions. A survey has been undertaken of the 1,000-plus storm overflows from the waste-water systems inherited by West of Scotland Water. Approximately 20% of these were found to be unsatisfactory in performance, and the investment programme will address this.
In all situations where combined storm water overflows are to be installed or improved, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency is consulted to ensure that discharges will not adversely impact the quality of the waters into which the overflows discharge. The Agency then grants, amends or refuses, under the Control of Pollution Act 1974, a formal Consent to Discharge which would define the frequency, extent and quality of any discharges.Throughout the United Kingdom, there are estimated to be around 25,000 combined sewer overflows in operation, and all sewerage undertakers are currently implementing similar improvement programmes.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 26 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1757 by Henry McLeish on 12 October 1999, whether the conditions applying to recent grants to UNISYS were varied from the norm by taking into account the closure of a UNISYS plant in Scotland and its removal elsewhere in 1991.
Answer
No. All RSA offers clearly state the provision that grant can be recovered if a plant or factory which is benefiting from grant assistance closes.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 25 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-988 by Mr Jack McConnell on 31 August 1999, whether it will list the local authorities which are giving discretionary rates relief within the terms of the Village Shops Relief scheme, and whether it will list the local authorities where no mandatory relief is given under the scheme.
Answer
The attached table indicates those local authorities in Scotland which gave discretionary rates relief and the amounts granted in 1998-99, the first year of operation of the scheme. There are eight local authorities where no mandatory relief is given under the scheme as they have no eligible shops.
| Mandatory | Discretionary |
| £ | £ |
| Aberdeen City | 0 | 0 |
| Aberdeenshire | 1,250 | 125,871 |
| Angus | 4,853 | 0 |
| Argyll & Bute | 28,245 | 95,323 |
| Clackmannanshire | 225 | 0 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 24,165 | 152,150 |
| Dundee City | 0 | 0 |
| East Ayrshire | 3,068 | 0 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1,488 | 7,230 |
| East Lothian | 2,835 | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh City of | 0 | 0 |
| Eielan Siar | 9,808 | 92,880 |
| Falkirk | 282 | 0 |
| Fife | 18,787 | 21,028 |
| Glasgow City | 0 | 0 |
| Highland | 51,799 | 34,788 |
| Inverclyde | 998 | 0 |
| Midlothian | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 5,717 | 72,184 |
| North Ayrshire | 3,835 | 0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 7,123 | 0 |
| Orkney | 6,959 | 5,242 |
| Perth & Kinross | 16,019 | 85,588 |
| Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Borders | 9,539 | 81,348 |
| Shetland | 8,578 | 18,415 |
| South Ayrshire | 6,916 | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 6,224 | 159,035 |
| Stirling | 3,698 | 58,457 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 500 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 0 | 0 |
| Scotland | 222,911 | 1,009,539 |
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a strategy for keeping transport moving in inclement weather.
Answer
The Scottish Executive maintains trunk roads and motorways to allow safe movement of traffic and to minimise delays caused by adverse weather conditions. The winter period starts on 1 October and finishes on 15 May and during this time a dedicated 24 hour winter service operates on all trunk roads.
