- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 26 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the Scottish Household Survey has cost in each of the last four years.
Answer
Expenditureon the Scottish Household Survey by the Scottish Executive in each of the last four financial years has been asfollows:
| 1999-2000 | £547,000 |
| 2000-01 | £717,000 |
| 2001-02 | £739,000 |
| 2002-03 | £841,000 |
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many public service employees are currently serving as volunteer reservists in Iraq.
Answer
Information on public serviceemployees is not held centrally. It is known, however, that one member of the Scottish Executive core staff is currently serving as a volunteer reservist. The location of the posting is not known.
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to double the level of resources available for the treatment of alcohol abuse, as referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland.
Answer
The Partnership Agreement commitsthe Executive to review the scale of alcohol problems and the cost of its consequences.Decisions on the level of future resources for alcohol problems support and treatmentservices will be made on completion of this review and following submission of outstandingfinancial information from local Alcohol Action Teams.
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive why projects under the Transforming Waste Scotland Programme are precluded from generating revenue that could sustain their viability.
Answer
This programme is funded bythe New Opportunities Fund, one of the national lottery distribution bodies,and led by Forward Scotland. Given that the programme is funded by the nationallottery, it is not appropriate for the Scottish Executive to comment about detailed issueson eligibility for funding.
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Forward Scotland will produce revised guidelines and clear criteria on how applications under the Transforming Waste Scotland programme are judged.
Answer
As Transforming WasteScotland is a national lottery programme, funded by the New Opportunities Fund,it is for the New Opportunities Fund and their agents to consider whatguidelines and criteria should be provided to applicants.
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21643 by Ross Finnie on 23 January 2002, what method will be used to establish baseline figures in respect of the amount of controlled waste collected by, or for, local authorities for the purposes of meeting its obligations under the EU Landfill Directive (1999/31/EC) and when it will publish the 1995 baseline tonnage figures for each local authority.
Answer
The Executive will shortly beconsulting on how it will allocate allowances to the 32 local authorities in Scotland in schemeyears. This allocation will not necessarily be based on the levels landfilled in1995. There are therefore no plans at present to publish the 1995 tonnages.
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to address the difference in salary levels between middle grade doctors and junior training grade doctors.
Answer
I have taken the term“middle grade doctors” to refer to non-consultant career grade (NCCG) doctors.The salary levels applied to non-consultant career grades and to juniortraining grade doctors, as for all medical staff, are recommended annually bythe Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body (DDRB), which is independent ofgovernment. The Scottish Executive has consistently accepted all therecommendations of the DDRB and implemented them in full.
The DDRB made clear this yearin their Thirty-Second Report that any consideration they might give toadditional remuneration for NCCGs should follow on from reviews into medicalcareer structures which are currently being undertaken across the UK,including in Scotland. These reviews are expected to report to ministersbefore the end of the year.
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there have been for (a) junior, (b) staff and (c) registrar grade NHS accident and emergency doctors in each NHS board area in each of the last three years.
Answer
The number of vacant Accident and emergency staff grade posts in NHSScotland by NHS board area for each of the last three years is shown in the table.
Table 1: Staff Grade Vacancies Within Accident and Emergency, by NHS Board at 30 September.
| | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| Scotland | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Fife | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forth Valley | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grampian | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Greater Glasgow | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Highland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lanarkshire | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lothian | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tayside | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Orkney | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shetland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Western Isles | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) junior, (b) staff and (c) registrar grade NHS accident and emergency doctors have been (i) recruited and (ii) employed in each NHS board area in each of last three years.
Answer
Information on the number of staff
recruited is not held centrally.
However, information on the number of (a) House Officers/Senior House Officers (Junior, non-Registrar), (b) Staff and (c) Registrar Grade NHS doctors in post is collected as part of the annual workforce census at 30 September each year.
Information for Accident and Emergency doctors, by NHS board are as shown in the table.
Table 1: Accident and Emergency Doctors, by NHS BOARD area, as at 30 September
| | House Officer/Senior House Officer | Staff Grade | Registrar Grade Doctors |
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| Scotland | 198 | 202 | 227 | 24 | 29 | 29 | 32 | 37 | 42 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 17 | 26 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 13 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Borders | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 12 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forth Valley | 10 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grampian | 15 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| Greater Glasgow | 51 | 46 | 55 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 11 |
| Highland | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lanarkshire | 25 | 22 | 28 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Lothian | 26 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 12 |
| Tayside | 18 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Orkney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shetland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Western Isles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 July 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 30 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will increase funding to Victim Support Scotland to deal with any increase in the number of referrals to it by the police following the recent relaxation in data protection regulations.
Answer
I am delighted that more victims are being referred to Victim Support Scotland (VSS) now that the Data Protection issue has been resolved. I am also pleased that we have been able to build the capacity of local victim services by increasing their core funding by 27% since 1999-2000, including a 3.3% rise in 2003-04.Future decisions on funding will be informed by a strategic review of VSS, which was completed in March this year. Victim Support Scotland is currently taking forward the recommendations of that review in partnership with the Executive. This includes consideration of how local services are delivered and funded. As an initial response to the review, local victim services will benefit from an additional £25,000, which we have provided to fund a national volunteer recruitment campaign and increased training support.
