- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many electronics businesses have closed in Scotland in each of the last three years and where these businesses were located.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not maintain a centrally held record of electronics businesses that have closed in Scotland. However, my department monitors Scottish Press stories of closures and the following information is derived from that source:
| Year | Company | Location |
| 1998 (from April) | Bourns Electronics | Dalgety Bay |
| | Mitsubishi | Haddington |
| | Shiva Corporation | Edinburgh |
| | Tarka Controls Ltd | Inverness |
| | Viasystems | Galashiels |
| 1999 | Simple Technology | East Kilbride |
| | Seagate Technology | Livingston |
| | Viasystems | Selkirk |
| | AMP | Port Glasgow |
| | Lite-On | Motherwell |
| | GEC Marconi | Dunfermline |
| | APW Enclosure Systems | Beith |
| | Mitsubishi | Livingston |
| | PCI UK | East Kilbride |
| 2000 | Seiko Instruments | Livingston |
| | Canon | Glenrothes |
| | Scotland Electronics | Forres |
| | Seagate Technology | Irvine |
| 2001 (to March) | Alps Electric | Arbroath |
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many electronics businesses have opened in Scotland in each of the last three years and where these businesses are located.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not maintain comprehensive records on the number of electronics businesses opened in Scotland. However, the Executive is aware of the following:1998-99 - four opened and are located in Livingston, Irvine and Bathgate;1999-2000 - four opened and are located in Glasgow, Port Glasgow, Glenrothes and Clydebank.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to improve service provision for deafblind people.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-15107 on 8 May 2001.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the recommended level of staffing is of the infection control team at Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer
The Scottish Office Department of Health provided guidance to the NHS on infection control arrangements, policy and procedures in the Scottish Infection Manual (1998). The guidance does not make recommendations about the level of staffing required to undertake the tasks and responsibilities it sets out. It is for NHS Trusts to decide, working within the overall guidance, what level of staffing is appropriate for infection control work within their working area.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS Hospital Trusts have infection control teams.
Answer
Infection control teams are in place in every NHS Trust in Scotland, including some in which teams are organised on a health board-wide basis to cover both acute and primary care settings in the area.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Alasdair Morrison on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the remarks made by the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning on 28 March 2001 (Official Report, col. 978) regarding refunds of area tourist board subscriptions, whether any such refunds have yet been made to businesses affected by the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
Answer
All ATBs have been provided with funding from visitscotland specifically to reduce the subscription burden on their members. It is for individual ATBs to decide exactly how this is to be implemented, for example, by cash refund or future credit.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff are currently working in the infection control team at Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer
This is a matter for the Trust. I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-15463.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-13850 by Susan Deacon on 16 March 2001, when the review of NHS dental access in remote and rural areas was initiated.
Answer
Problems of access to NHS dentistry within all areas of Scotland, including remote and rural areas, are kept under review by the Executive on a continuous basis and is one of the areas being looked at by the Implementation Support Group for the Action Plan for Dental Services in Scotland. There are no start and finish dates for reviewing dental access problems in rural areas.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will respond to the findings of the recent publication A Scottish Survey of General and Community Dental Practitioners published by the University of Aberdeen Toothousand Project.
Answer
The discussion document Workforce Planning for Dentistry in Scotland - A Strategic Review, which was published in October 2000, detailed a number of areas for review by the Scottish Advisory Committee on the Dental Workforce (SACDW). The findings of the Toothousand Project will be considered by the SACDW and its subgroups as part of this ongoing work, once the Scottish Survey of General and Community Dental Practitioners report has been officially published.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-13850 by Susan Deacon on 16 March 2001, when the review of NHS dental access in remote and rural areas is expected to conclude.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-15172.
