- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what number of midwives each NHS Trust specified as its desired establishment level and how many midwives each trust actually had in post, in each of the last three years.
Answer
Information on the establishment level of midwives for each NHS Trust is not available centrally. Following Trust reconfiguration in 1999, the numbers of whole-time equivalent midwives in post at 30 September 1999 and 2000 are shown in the table below.Midwives employed in NHSScotland by Trust
Staff in Post at 30 September 1999 and 2000Whole-time equivalent
| 1999 | 2000P |
| Scotland | 2,962.8 | 2,927.3 |
| Argyll & Clyde Acute Trust | 208.9 | 204.6 |
| Ayrshire & Arran Acute Trust | 213.8 | 211.1 |
| Ayrshire & Arran PCT | 3.6 | 1.0 |
| Borders General NHS Trust | 40.5 | 45.4 |
| Borders PCT | 29.0 | 27.7 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Acute & Maternity | 87.4 | 99.1 |
| Dumfries & Galloway PCT | 25.0 | 14.9 |
| Fife Acute Trust | 147.1 | 153.3 |
| Fife PCT | - | - |
| Forth Valley Acute Trust | 163.7 | 163.3 |
| Forth Valley PCT | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| Grampian PCT | 83.9 | 87.6 |
| Grampian University Hosps | 224.6 | 225.6 |
| Greater Glasgow PCT | - | - |
| Highland Acute Trust | 92.8 | 96.8 |
| Highland PCT | 121.0 | 110.8 |
| Lanarkshire Acute Trust | 249.8 | 248.7 |
| Lanarkshire PCT | 15.8 | 12.6 |
| Lomond & Argyll PCT | 51.8 | 48.6 |
| Lothian PCT | 1.0 | - |
| Lothian University Hosps | 256.0 | 258.5 |
| N. Glasgow University Hosps | 221.5 | 210.9 |
| Orkney | 16.9 | 16.8 |
| Renfrew & Inverclyde PCT | - | 1.0 |
| S. Glasgow University Hosps | 146.5 | 145.7 |
| Shetland | 31.2 | 28.6 |
| Tayside PCT | 39.5 | 14.8 |
| Tayside University Hosps | 210.2 | 219.4 |
| W. Lothian Healthcare | 83.1 | 86.6 |
| Western Isles | 33.9 | 30.6 |
| Yorkhill Trust | 158.9 | 157.7 |
P Provisional.Source: National Manpower Statistics from Payroll, ISD Scotland.
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which institutions currently train midwives; how many midwives graduated from each institution in each of the last three years, and how many of these graduates subsequently obtained employment as midwives in the NHS.
Answer
The information requested is in the table below. However, the number of graduates finding employment in the NHS as midwives is not collected centrally.Midwifery Completions by Year of Completion
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | All 3 years |
| Institution | 3-year | 18-month | Total | 3-year | 18-month | Total | 3-year | 18-month | Total | 3-year | 18-month | Total |
| Bell College | 16 | 0 | 16 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 51 | 0 | 51 |
| Glasgow Caledonian University | 24 | 0 | 24 | 19 | 0 | 19 | 22 | 7 | 29 | 65 | 7 | 72 |
| Napier University | 23 | 28 | 51 | 23 | 26 | 49 | 30 | 14 | 44 | 76 | 68 | 144 |
| Robert Gordon University | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 54 | 54 |
| University of Dundee | 21 | 0 | 21 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 21 | 64 | 0 | 64 |
| University of Paisley | 31 | 15 | 46 | 27 | 6 | 33 | 28 | 8 | 36 | 86 | 29 | 115 |
| University of Stirling | 13 | 13 | 26 | 16 | 11 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 27 | 45 | 35 | 80 |
| Total | 128 | 76 | 204 | 125 | 60 | 185 | 134 | 57 | 191 | 387 | 193 | 580 |
Source: NBS Statistical Supplement to Annual Report 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000.
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what contribution the M74 northern extension will make to its objectives of reducing road usage and improving public transport.
Answer
From the traffic analysis undertaken to date it is expected the M74 scheme will achieve a significant reduction in traffic flows on a number of busy parallel local roads over a wide area within Glasgow and South Lanarkshire. The contribution that public transport can make to reducing car usage will be fully explored in the Central Scotland Transport Corridor Studies. I have already undertaken to Parliament that the Executive will implement the decisions flowing from this study.
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost is of the M74 northern extension between Parkhead and the Kingston Bridge and how this will be financed.
Answer
The current estimated project cost for the M74 from Fullarton Interchange on the existing M74 to the M8 west of Kingston Interchange is £245 million at May 2000 prices. This cost excludes design costs and VAT, if applicable.The project costs have been allocated in the following amounts
- Scottish Ministers £214 million
- Glasgow City Council £21.8 million
- South Lanarkshire Council £4.0 million
- Renfrewshire Council £2.2 million
Other public/private sector funding £3.0 million
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated timetable is from commencement to completion of construction of the M74 northern extension.
Answer
I expect the M74 project to be completed in 2008.
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any requirements will be placed on local authorities to ensure that the M74 northern extension does not become congested with commuter traffic, and, if so, what these requirements will be.
Answer
The Scottish Executive and its partners, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Councils, are currently working together with Strathclyde Passenger Transport, in the Executive's Central Scotland Transport Corridor Study, and through the Public Transport Fund and other funding mechanisms. They plan to deliver public transport improvements in the M74 corridor to provide a genuine choice for transport users. In particular the Cathcart Road and Glasgow Road routes will be developed as corridors for public transport priority.
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it proposes to take to make students over 19 eligible for free dental treatment and eye tests.
Answer
Students in full-time education aged 18 and under are entitled to free NHS dental treatment and NHS sight tests. Apart from the existing circumstances set out below, there are no current plans to raise the age threshold for free dental treatment and sight tests.Those students aged 19 and over who are on low incomes may be entitled to full or partial remission of NHS charges under the NHS Low Income Scheme. Help under the scheme is income-related and based on an assessment of each claimant's ability to pay in light of their financial circumstances.A number of students are eligible for free NHS sight tests on other grounds, for example those who are diagnosed diabetics or glaucoma sufferers or wear glasses with at least one complex lens.
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 8 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will bring forward proposals to require energy audits of houses at point of sale.
Answer
The Housing Improvement Task Force will consider the information provided to purchasers under the current arrangements and advise on whether changes to those arrangements to promote energy efficiency would be deliverable. The Scottish Executive will consider what legislative changes are necessary when the task force has completed its work.
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 8 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of any benefits which could result from the adoption of a system of energy audits for residential property transactions and, in particular, what contribution such a system could make to reducing carbon dioxide emissions over the next 10 years.
Answer
No assessment has been made at this stage.
- Asked by: Robert Brown, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 8 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S10-2658 by Jackie Baillie on 7 December 2000, whether all local authorities have reported on progress towards their Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 targets and when it intends to publish a report on authorities' progress in this area.
Answer
The first progress reports have now been received from all local authorities and a report on them by the Scottish Executive will be published shortly.
