- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) Scottish residents were referred for treatment in English hospitals and (b) English residents were referred for treatment in Scottish hospitals in each year since 1999.
Answer
Comparable data forreferrals for treatment in each direction is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) headcount and (b) whole-time equivalent NHS vacancies there were for (i) diagnostic and (ii) therapeutic radiographers in each year since 1997 in total and broken down into positions vacant for (1) less than three, (2) three to six, (3) six to nine, (4) nine to 12, (5) 12 to 15, (6) 15 to 18 and (7) over 18 months.
Answer
Information on vacant postsin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website underWorkforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce. SectionF gives details of allied health professionals vacancies in NHS Scotland. Inparticular, table F7 shows the whole time equivalent (WTE) number ofradiographer vacancies from 31 March 2001 to 31 March 2005, broken down bythose posts vacant more or less than three months.
The radiography vacancy rate decreasedby 2.2% to 5.3% in the year to March 2005. The radiography vacancy rate forvacancies over three months is 3.5%.
Information for diagnosticand therapeutic radiographer vacancies is available from 2005, as this level ofdetail was not collected prior to this date. Further breakdown on the length ofvacancies and the headcount number is not available.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many elective admissions there were for (a) MRI scans and (b) CT scans in each year since 1997.
Answer
Patients are not normallyadmitted to hospital for MRI or CT scans. As the procedures only take a shortperiod of time and are non-invasive, they are usually undertaken at outpatientclinics.
Patients who have beenadmitted to hospital for surgical or medical reasons may receive an MRI or CTscan during their hospital stay. However, the Office of Population Censuses andSurveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures (Fourth Revision)used on central returns, does not explicitly identify MRI or CT scans.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are currently on waiting lists for aids and adaptations, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested isnot currently held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the life expectancy rates were for (a) males and (b) females in each year from (i) 1980 to 1985 and (ii) 1990 to 1995, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in Life expectancy at birth 1980 to 1995, a copy of whichhas been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 37186).
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which five management consultancies received the highest value of contracts awarded by it in each of the last five years and what the total value was of the contracts awarded to each.
Answer
Listed are the payments made over the past three years where the word consultancy appears in the account code. Information pre SEAS is not available.
02/03
| Vendor Name | Ac | Ac Desc | Invoice Amount SUM |
| Glasgow City Council | 60101555 | Consultancy Services Swsg 2 | 440,457.63 |
| Astron Document Services Limited | 60100650 | Committees and Consultancies | 286,441.00 |
| Sinclair Knight Merz | 20001425 | Rail Consultancies | 213,914.22 |
| ICAS Limited | 40100905 | Consultancy | 163,716.85 |
| Press Data Bureau | 40100905 | Consultancy | 154,603.78 |
03/04
| Vendor Name | Ac | Ac Desc | Invoice Amount SUM |
| Ernst & Young LLP | 60052650 | Rail Consultancies | 752,091.09 |
| PA Consulting Services Limited | 60253240 | Safety Cameras PA Consulting | 371,192.02 |
| Astron Document Services Limited | 60100650 | Committees and Consultancies | 342,047.26 |
| Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 60204205 | Consultancy Services:Other | 244,573.45 |
| Valuation Office Agency | 60204205 | Consultancy Services:Other | 227,086.38 |
04/05
| Vendor Name | Ac | Ac Desc | Invoice Amount SUM |
| Newell and Budge Security Limited | 40100905 | Consultancy | 951,346.47 |
| Office For National Statistics | 40100905 | Consultancy | 883,169.00 |
| Ernst & Young LLP | 60171310 | Rail Consultancies | 864,357.85 |
| Miller Mitchell Burley Lane | 40100905 | Consultancy | 671,326.50 |
| Astron Document Services Limited | 60221765 | Tobacco consultation | 457,178.45 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it spent on organising or sponsoring conferences in each year since 1997.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot keep a central record of expenditure on conferences or similar events.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has evaluated on whether there is a relationship between the number of hours spent watching television and children's academic achievement.
Answer
Researchers in SEED areaware of published research findings that examine the relationship between timespent watching television and children’s academic achievement. The Departmenthas not, however, assessed the body of research in this field.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total number of accident and emergency attendances was in each NHS board area in each of the last five years for which figures were available.
Answer
The information requested isshown in the following table. Data for the year ending March 2005 are not yetcomplete.
The figuresinclude return attendances as well as new presentations.
NHSScotland– Accident and emergency Attendances1; by NHS Board Area YearsEnding 31 March 2000 - 2004
| | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| Scotland | 1,552,634 | 1,530,276 | 1,527,403 | 1,501,272 | 1,513,863 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 149,082 | 148,378 | 147,806 | 144,412 | 151,214 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 116,287 | 111,695 | 109,220 | 107,188 | 110,035 |
| Borders | 29,532 | 30,531 | 31,823 | 32,219 | 31,503 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 39,483 | 40,175 | 41,898 | 42,104 | 42,709 |
| Fife | 89,652 | 90,591 | 89,305 | 85,360 | 88,916 |
| Forth Valley | 76,571 | 76,542 | 77,228 | 75,219 | 75,030 |
| Grampian | 124,890 | 113,419 | 114,252 | 109,222 | 102,699 |
| Greater Glasgow | 376,734 | 373,273 | 370,410 | 363,440 | 359,969 |
| Highland | 61,749 | 61,028 | 61,225 | 59,231 | 64,776 |
| Lanarkshire | 160,336 | 163,472 | 159,772 | 165,762 | 174,120 |
| Lothian | 206,080 | 203,918 | 197,654 | 188,191 | 183,639 |
| Orkney | 2,551 | 2,555 | 2,714 | 2,915 | 3,292 |
| Shetland | 7,190 | 7,407 | 8,972 | 7,999 | 8,036 |
| Tayside | 105,809 | 100,005 | 107,780 | 109,623 | 109,058 |
| Western Isles | 6,688 | 7,287 | 7,344 | 8,387 | 8,867 |
Source:ISD Scotland.
Note:1. Excludes patients attending for A&E treatment that are seen by GPs.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what research projects it has commissioned since 1999 and what the timetable is for the publication of each piece of research that has yet to be completed.
Answer
To provide a comprehensiveanswer to this question would involve disproportionate cost. There are,however, a number of websites where Scottish Executive's research programmesare recorded:Theannual report of the Scottish Executive Health Department ChiefScientist's
Office, available at
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/cso, givesdetails of research grants awarded.Thecurrent research programme of the Education Department is available at www.scotland.gov.uk/insight. Thepublications section of that Website lists earlier publications, by topic.Researchcommissioned by the Science and Research Group of the Scottish ExecutiveEnvironment and Rural Affairs Department is described at www.scotland.gov.uk/topics/research/abrg.TheWebsite of the Environment Group of ERAD is at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/environment-group-research.Socialresearch contracts acrossDepartments, in 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2003-04: www.scotland.gov.uk/topics/research/research/sr/secontractors.Researchprojects commissioned in connection with official statistics aredetailed in the relevant topic pages of the statistics website:
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics.
