- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to secure an agreement over funding between St Margaret of Scotland Hospice and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0212-01.htm
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Salmond on 12 February 2009
To ask the First Minister, in light of the decision to prevent local authorities from charging pensioners for assistance with food preparation, what guarantees the Scottish Government will offer that charges hitherto levied will be refunded.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0212-01.htm
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many inspections have been carried out by the Care Environment Inspectorate since November 2008; where they have been carried out, and what conclusions have been reached.
Answer
The NHS Care Environment Inspectorate will provide robust, external inspection of NHS facilities, including unannounced visits. This is intended to enhance safety, assurance and public confidence.
Following a period of consultation which closed on 12 December 2008, the NHS Care Environment Inspectorate is now being established with the intent that it will be operational from April 2009. Accordingly, there have been no inspections since November 2008.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 11 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the (a) size of population, (b) number of staff employed and (c) ratio of local authority employees to head of population in each local authority.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following table. Part (a) shows the latest estimate of working age population (males aged 16 to 64 and females aged 16 to 59) by local authority. Part (b) shows the latest statistics on the number of staff employed by each local authority. This includes both full-time and part-time staff.
Care should be taken when comparing local authority staff levels to the working age population as some members of local authority staff may work beyond standard working age.
Table 1: Working Age Population, Local Authority Staff and Ratio of Staff to Working Age Population by Local Authority
| Local Authority | (a) Size of Working Age Population (2007) | (b) Staff Employed Local Authority (Head Count) 2008 (Q3) | (c) Ratio of Staff to Working Age Population |
| Aberdeen City | 138,793 | 11,492 | 1 in 12 |
| Aberdeenshire | 148,042 | 13,831 | 1 in 11 |
| Angus | 64,938 | 5,765 | 1 in 11 |
| Argyll and Bute | 54,002 | 5,271 | 1 in 10 |
| Clackmannanshire | 31,176 | 2,869 | 1 in 11 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 86,138 | 8,214 | 1 in 10 |
| Dundee City | 88,929 | 8,267 | 1 in 11 |
| East Ayrshire | 73,746 | 6,789 | 1 in 11 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 63,129 | 4,935 | 1 in 13 |
| East Lothian | 56,129 | 4,902 | 1 in 11 |
| East Renfrewshire | 53,078 | 4,796 | 1 in 11 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 318,108 | 20,116 | 1 in 16 |
| Eilean Siar | 15,354 | 2,559 | 1 in 6 |
| Falkirk | 94,225 | 8,010 | 1 in 12 |
| Fife | 222,954 | 22,454 | 1 in 10 |
| Glasgow City | 388,537 | 31,841 | 1 in 12 |
| Highland | 132,067 | 12,726 | 1 in 10 |
| Inverclyde | 49,996 | 4,760 | 1 in 11 |
| Midlothian | 48,666 | 4,734 | 1 in 10 |
| Moray | 52,615 | 5,121 | 1 in 10 |
| North Ayrshire | 82,188 | 7,454 | 1 in 11 |
| North Lanarkshire | 204,418 | 17,884 | 1 in 11 |
| Orkney Islands | 11,937 | 2,137 | 1 in 6 |
| Perth and Kinross | 84,773 | 6,084 | 1 in 14 |
| Renfrewshire | 106,034 | 8,844 | 1 in 12 |
| Scottish Borders | 65,745 | 5,774 | 1 in 11 |
| Shetland Islands | 13,425 | 3,825 | 1 in 4 |
| South Ayrshire | 66,165 | 5,654 | 1 in 12 |
| South Lanarkshire | 192,773 | 15,795 | 1 in 12 |
| Stirling | 54,367 | 4,440 | 1 in 12 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 57,287 | 6,266 | 1 in 9 |
| West Lothian | 106,858 | 8,419 | 1 in 13 |
Source:(a) General Register Office for Scotland “ Mid Year Population Estimates (June 2007).
(b) Scottish Government “ Joint Staffing Watch Survey “ Quarter 3 2008 (September 2008).
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what services are tendered out to private contractors by NHS hospitals and what plans there are to put additional services out to competitive tender.
Answer
For information relating to outsourced cleaning and catering contracts, I refer the member to answers to questions S3W-17133 and S3W-17134 on 5 November 2008.
Information on other contracted out services is not held centrally. NHS boards are responsible for the tendering of contracts for services and the information broken down by hospital can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence there is that banning private companies from cleaning hospitals will lower the prevalence of hospital-acquired infections, given that cleaning services were not contracted out at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20355 on 5 February 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 9 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of meningitis B there have been in the last three months for which information is available and how many there were over the same period in 2008.
Answer
From 1 October 2008 to 31 December 2008 (the last three full months for which data is available), Health Protection Scotland is provisionally aware of 14 cases of Meningitis B infection. This compares to 16 cases of meningitis B from 1 October 2007 to 31 December 2007.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of meningitis B there have been in each year since 1999.
Answer
The number of meningitis B cases reported to Health Protection Scotland (HPS) each year from 1999 is set out in the following table. Figures reflect the number of reported cases of meningitis B to the end of December each year.
Number of Meningitis B cases reported to HPS
| Year | |
| 1999 | 105 |
| 2000 | 117 |
| 2001 | 106 |
| 2002 | 62 |
| 2003 | 86 |
| 2004 | 68 |
| 2005 | 66 |
| 2006 | 63 |
| 2007 | 73 |
| 2008* | 57 |
Note: *2008 data is still provisional and may be subject to change.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS hospitals are cleaned by a private contractor and which are cleaned by an in-house team.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17133 on 5 November 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
All other NHS hospitals are cleaned by in-house teams.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be to the NHS of phasing out private cleaning services.
Answer
The basis of the decision was to ensure better patient care, a more seamless joining up of services and the ability to vary cleaning and other services within hospitals when required. Our health boards are responsible for demonstrating value for money through sharing best practice, benchmarking with others and delivering on performance targets. The main cost element in the provision of cleaning services is staff and for some time now the rates of pay and other terms and conditions whether provided in house are broadly comparable.
I refer the member to answer to question S3W-16361 on 25 September 2008, for more detailed information. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
Cost has therefore not been a key driver behind this development.
