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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S2W-27774

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing staff have had their employment terminated after being offered redeployment due to ill-health in each NHS board in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-27776

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing staff have had their employment terminated after being offered redeployment for any reason other than ill-health or organisational changes in each NHS board in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-27775

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing staff have had their employment terminated after being offered redeployment due to organisational changes in each NHS board in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-27773

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing staff have had their employment terminated after being offered redeployment in each NHS board in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-27687

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) “go-live” date and (b) initial set-up cost was for each Health Scotland website and what the (i) operational cost and (ii) number of hits has been in each year of operation of these sites.

Question reference: S2W-27652

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 28 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent chiropodists have been employed by each NHS board in each of the last five years.

Information on staff employedin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Section F gives details of therapeutic,health care science, technical, pharmacy and ambulance staff in post. In particular,table F1 shows the whole-time equivalent (WTE) of therapeutic staff by NHS board,in each year from 1995. WTE adjusts headcount to take account of part time working.

Question reference: S2W-27054

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 July 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26836 by Mr Andy Kerr on 22 June 2006, what percentage of staff affected by Agenda for Change have had to wait more than (a) 3 months, (b) 6 months and (c) 12 months to hear the outcomes of their job evaluations.

Question reference: S2W-26803

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 23 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people visited Scotland from (a) Australia, (b) Belgium, (c) Canada, (d) Denmark, (e) Finland, (f) France, (g) Germany, (h) the Republic of Ireland, (i) Italy, (j) Japan, (k) the Netherlands, (l) New Zealand, (m) Norway, (n) Spain, (o) Sweden and (p) the United States of America in (i) 2004 and (ii) 2005.

The number of visitors to Scotland fromAustralia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United States of America in 2004 and 2005 is shownin the following table:

Visits (000)	2004	2005 (Provisional)
Australia	119	135
Belgium	27	44
Canada	150	187
Denmark	22	48
Finland	7	7
France	109	150
Germany	198	296
Republic of Ireland	79	156
Italy	75	127
Japan	28	20
Netherlands	78	99
New Zealand	24	33
Norway	16	64
Spain	105	124
Sweden	18	139
United States of America	405	356

Source: International PassengerSurvey.

It is important to note thatthe 2005 figures include, for the first time, an estimate of the numberof overseas visitors who arrived in Scotland via Prestwick. Many of these visitors are from Sweden, and sothe figures for 2005 in the above table for Sweden in particular, and for someother countries with direct flights to Prestwick, are therefore not directly comparable with those ofprevious years.

Question reference: S2W-26836

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, staff affected by Agenda for Change have had to wait more than (a) 3 months, (b) 6 months and (c) 12 months to hear the outcomes of their job evaluations.

Job evaluation in NHSScotlandis carried out in partnership between employers and trades unions/professional organisations.

Applying the job evaluation processto 150,000 staff is a complex exercise and while NHSScotland as a whole has madegood progress so far, health boards are currently at different stages of the Agendafor Change assimilation process. The current position is that 83% of staff havebeen job matched of whom 15% have been assimilated onto their new Agenda for Changebanding.

It is currently anticipated thatAgenda for Change will be introduced and operational by end 2006, with all staffexpected to be assimilated to the new pay bands by October 2006 and payment of arrearsmade by December 2006

Question reference: S2W-26837

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, nurse consultants are educated to masters or PhD level.