- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland granted an indemnity in respect of loss under the terms of the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 in each year from 1999-2000 to 2005-06 and what total value of indemnities was paid in each of those years.
Answer
| Year | No. of Titles on the Land Register | No. of Indemnity Cases Granted | Value of Indemnities Paid |
| 1999-2000 | 693,326 | 44 | £73,347 |
| 2000-01 | 769,526 | 67 | £320,320 |
| 2001-02 | 868,935 | 54 | £86,076 |
| 2002-03 | 971,574 | 53 | £76,725 |
| 2003-04 | 1,073,837 | 86 | £410,416 |
| 2004-05 | 1,166,324 | 77 | £446,977 |
| 2005-06 | 1,256,241 | 83 | £394,174 |
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 5 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to publish its response to the issues raised in Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - One year on: A consultation on the operation of the Act after one year in force.
Answer
The on-going, limited reviewof the early operation of Freedom of Information in Scotland is providingthe opportunity to consider how the act is working in practice. The outcome of the review will be announced in due course.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions and at what cost (a) Ministry of Defence and (b) Coastguard Service helicopters have been used to transport a patient from (i) one of the North Isles of Orkney to Balfour Hospital, Kirkwall, (ii) one of the North Isles of Orkney to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and (iii) Kirkwall to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary between 1 April 2006 and 31 October 2006
Answer
The information requested isset out in the following table:
| | Ministry of Defence | Coastguard |
| Patients | Cost | Patients | Cost |
| (i) | - | - | 1 | £4,636 |
| (ii) | - | - | - | - |
| (iii) | 2 | Not Known* | - | - |
Notes:
#Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service
*The Scottish Ambulance Servicehas not yet received an invoice from the Ministry of Defence for these missions.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost to the Scottish Ambulance Service was in 2005-06 for the use of (a) Ministry of Defence and (b) Coastguard Service helicopters to attend patients in Orkney.
Answer
The information requested isprovided in the following table:
| | Ministry of Defence | Coastguard |
| 2005-06 | £30,504 | £8,683 |
Note: #Information provided bythe Scottish Ambulance Service.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions the Scottish Ambulance Service’s EC 135 helicopter has been deployed to transport patients from or within Orkney in each month since January 2006.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following table:
| Month of 2006 | Occasions when EC 135 Helicopter has been Deployed to Transport Patients from or Within Orkney |
| January | 29 |
| February | 28 |
| March | 40 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 5 |
Note: #Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
The Executive have supplied the following corrected answer:
Mr Andy Kerr: The information requested is set out in this table:
| Month of 2006 | Occasions when EC 135 Helicopter has been Deployed to Transport Patients from or Within Orkney |
| January | 12 |
| February | 12 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 5 |
Note: # Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 27 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-1257 by Cathy Jamieson on 5 February 2004, what further action has been taken to encourage greater use of mediation services.
Answer
The Executive supports a rangeof measures designed to achieve early resolution of disputes and the resolutionof disputes outwith the formal court system. We provide funding for a range of mediation services including funding ofaround £70,000 per annum for two new In-Court Mediation pilots introduced in Aberdeen andGlasgow this year. The Scottish Mediation Network (SMN) have been awarded £110,820this year, allowing them to undertake projects that raise public awareness and understandingof mediation and to develop a quality assurance scheme within the mediation sector.The Executive are also providing core funding of £141,365 and a training grant of£37,671 for Family Mediation Scotland allowing families to reach agreement throughmediation. Further, ten Local Family Mediation Services have been awarded £643,152in funding this year. The new civil justice “Advice Finder” website launched inMay reinforces the Executive’s support and further promotes the use of mediation.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made towards implementation of the Partnership Agreement commitment progressively to introduce a scheme of national bus, rail and ferry concessionary travel for young people, initially for all in full time education or training.
Answer
We are currently finalising proposalsfor implementing the Executive’s Partnership Agreement commitment to progressivelyintroduce a national scheme of concessionary travel for young people. I shall makean announcement shortly, giving full details of the scheme.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 19 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases alleging medical negligence against the NHS and NHS boards there has been resort to alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, in each year since 1999-2000.
Answer
The number of cases allegingmedical negligence against NHSScotland put forward by the CentralLegal Office for alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, in eachyear since 1999-2000 is seven. The following table provides a breakdown ofcases on a year by year basis. Of these cases, none achieved a satisfactoryconclusion through the use of alternative dispute resolution.
| Year | Number of Cases |
| 2000 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 |
| 2004 | 2 |
| 2005 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 |
| Total | 7 |
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the annual budget of (a) each NHS board and (b) the NHS was spent on managerial salaries and administration costs in (i) 1995-96, (b) 2000-01 and (iii) the most recent financial year for which figures are available.
Answer
The Boards’ spending onmanagerial salaries and administration costs are taken from the previous parliamentaryanswer S2W-25425 and shown together in the following data. This includesexpenditure on both administration and management costs.
The definition ofadministration expenditure has changed over the period due to changes inaccounting guidance and also in the configuration of the health service,particularly the dissolution of NHS trusts. Consequently the figures shown arenot entirely comparable over these years. Expenditure on managerial salaries isnot held centrally by the Scottish Executive and is therefore not separatelyanalysed. Expenditure by each NHS board for 1995-96 is no longer held centrallyso only total NHS expenditure is shown.
The proportion of the annualbudget of (a) each NHS Board and (b) the NHS, that was spent on managerialsalaries and administration costs is shown in the following table.
| NHS Board | 1995-96 | 2000-01 | 2004-05 |
| Argyll and Clyde | - | 6.4% | 7.8% |
| Ayrshire and Arran | - | 6.1% | 5.6% |
| Borders | - | 7.8% | 8.5% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | - | 6.9% | 5.2% |
| Fife | - | 6.1% | 5.7% |
| Forth Valley | - | 5.5% | 6.1% |
| Grampian | - | 7.1% | 5.8% |
| Glasgow | - | 8.2% | 7.3% |
| Highland | - | 6.2% | 7.1% |
| Lanarkshire | - | 7.3% | 7.1% |
| Lothian | - | 7.5% | 7.1% |
| Orkney | - | 6.9% | 6.2% |
| Shetland | - | 5.5% | 8.4% |
| Tayside | - | 9.1% | 8.1% |
| Western Isles | - | 8.2% | 7.4% |
| NHS | 9.2% | 7.3% | 6.9% |
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed in managerial and administrative posts in (a) the NHS and (b) each NHS board on (i) 31 March 1996, (ii) 31 March 2001 and (iii) the most recent date for which figures are available.
Answer
Information on staffemployed in NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics websiteunder Workforce Statistics, at:
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Section G gives details of Aaministrativeand estates staff. In particular, table G2 shows the headcount of administrative and managerialstaff by NHS board, in each year from 1995.
Prior to 2003, figures werepublished as at 30 September. From 2003, figures are published every six monthsat 30 September and 31 March. Latest available figures are at 30 September 2005.
