- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many 0845 numbers (a) it uses, (b) its agencies use and (c) non-departmental public bodies use and what revenue it has derived, or costs it has incurred, from each such number in each year since 1999.
Answer
Information on the use of 0845numbers across the Scottish Executive, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies is notheld centrally and therefore the information requested could only be provided atdisproportionate cost.
Communications and InformationServices Division manages telephony services used within the Scottish Executive. The Division uses one 0845 number in the provision of telephony services,specifically to facilitate calls to the Scottish Executive on a local call tariff from anywhere in the UK. This service costs about £9,000 per annum.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of NHS boards are experiencing staffing shortages in midwifery.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is committed to building workforce capacity within NHSScotland.
Under the banner of Facingthe Future, a number of recruitment and retention initiatives have beenlaunched to specifically build capacity across the nursing and midwifery workforce.These include a review of workload, a review of nurse bank arrangements in Scotland as wellas additional funding for clinical leadership programmes.
Presently we are unaware of anyspecific concerns relating to a shortage of midwives in Scotland.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the three-month vacancy rate was for (a) consultant psychiatrists, (b) psychiatric nurses and (c) all medical and dental staff in the NHS in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answer
Three-month vacancy rates arenot held for consultant psychiatrists. Instead a total vacancy rate and one forover six months is collected via the annual census. At September 2004, the oversix months vacancy rate for consultants within all psychiatric specialties
was4.7%.
Vacancy rates for other gradesof medical and dental staff are not collected centrally.
The three-month vacancy ratefor qualified nurses working within mental health services is 0.9%. This compareswith a rate of 1.2% for all qualified nurses and midwives in NHSScotland.
Further details are availableat:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=1346&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of midwifery students left their course before completion in each of the last five years.
Answer
The most recent data showingthe percentage of pre-registration midwifery students, who leave their course eachyear, is detailed in the table below.
| Year | Midwifery |
| 1996-97 | 31.2% |
| 1997-98 | 21.7% |
| 1998-99 | 29.1% |
| 1999-2000 | 25.4% |
| 2000-01 | 23.9% |
Source: ISD.
It should be noted that not allwill necessarily be lost to the service as some students choose to transfer to othernursing categories during training.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many in-patients were waiting for (a) less than three months, (b) less than six months, (c) less than nine months, (d) less than 12 months and (e) more than 12 months for an NHS appointment in June 1999, broken down by individual speciality and NHS board.
Answer
The information requested isbeing compiled by the Information Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland.I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and will arrangefor a copy of my reply to be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9744 by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 August 2004, how many out-patients were waiting for (a) less than nine weeks, (b) less than 13 weeks, (c) less than 26 weeks, (d) more than 26 weeks and (e) more than 52 weeks for an NHS appointment, broken down by individual speciality and NHS board, in the most recent quarter for which figures are available.
Answer
The information requestedis being compiled by the Information Services Division of NHS National ServicesScotland. I will write to the member as soon as the information is available andwill arrange for a copy of my reply to be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many out-patients were waiting for (a) less than nine weeks, (b) less than 13 weeks, (c) less than 26 weeks, (d) more than 26 weeks and (e) more than 52 weeks for an NHS appointment in June 1999, broken down by individual speciality and NHS board.
Answer
The information requested isbeing compiled by the Information Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland.I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and will arrangefor a copy of my reply to be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many in-patients were waiting for (a) less than three months, (b) less than six months, (c) less than nine months, (d) less than 12 months and (e) more than 12 months for an NHS appointment, broken down by individual speciality and NHS board, in the most recent quarter for which figures are available.
Answer
The information requested isbeing compiled by the Information Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland.I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and will arrangefor a copy of my reply to be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports procurators fiscal received from each police force in 2003-04 and, of these, how many (a) were marked "no proceedings" on account of delay on the part of the reporting agency, (b) proceeded to trial, (c) resulted in a conviction and (d) are currently pending.
Answer
The collation and analysis of the relevant information for this parliamentary question means that it cannot beanswered by the deadline. I will write providing a detailed answer to the questionas soon as the collation and analysis is complete.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10232 by Ross Finnie on 29 September 2004, on what date the comprehensive guidance for rural communities across Scotland on developing village halls will be published.
Answer
The work of producing the guidanceon developing village halls was put out to a competitive tender in October of lastyear. However, we did not receive a tender that met the required specification andare considering options as to the most appropriate way forward.
