- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has regarding the arrangement between the Care Commission and BUPA in relation to the secondment of staff.
Answer
Staffing arrangements,including secondments, are an operational matter for the Care Commission, whocan be contacted at:
The Care Commission
Compass House
11 Riverside Drive
Dundee
DD1 4NY.
0845 603 0890
www.carecommission.com.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many maternity units are achieving NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS) standards on ultrasound scanning; how many units met those standards last year, and how many units which previously met the standard are no longer doing so, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
The clinical standards onmaternity services and pregnancy and newborn screening which include ultrasoundscanning have not yet been fully reviewed by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. Thereview of maternity services standards is due to be complete during 2006. Thereview of pregnancy and newborn screening standards is due to be completed during2007-08. The information requested will be available from NHS QualityImprovement Scotland shortly after their review process.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is now in a position to publish a target date for the implementation of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS) standards in relation to ultrasound scanning.
Answer
All clinical standardspublished by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland are set to improve performanceand set targets for continuous service improvement.
Thereis no target date set for boards to meet the standards.
Boards are working towardsmeeting the Maternity Services and Pregnancy and Newborn Screening standardsboth published last year by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 22 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the staff of public bodies have been seconded to private and independent organisations in each year since 1999.
Answer
The number of staff secondedby the Scottish Executive to private and independent organisations in the period1 April 1999 to 31 March 2006 is 485. The following table shows a breakdown by financialyear and shows the number seconded to the private sector separately.
| Financial Year | Total Number of New Secondments | Number to Private Sector |
| 1999-2000 | 84 | 4 |
| 2000-01 | 65 | 4 |
| 2001-02 | 60 | 6 |
| 2002-03 | 58 | 3 |
| 2003-04 | 67 | 1 |
| 2004-05 | 84 | 1 |
| 2005-06 | 67 | 3 |
| Total | 485 | 22 |
For the purposes of answeringthis question the response is based on the position in the Scottish Executive only.The Scottish Executive does not hold information relating to other public bodies.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 22 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been to the public purse of secondment arrangements between public bodies and private and independent organisations in each year since 1999, also broken down by public body entering such arrangements.
Answer
The cost of the arrangementsfor secondments between the Scottish Executive and private and independent organisations,including the wider public and voluntary sectors, since 1999 has been £6,818,427.
| Year | Total |
| 1999-2000 | £383,414 |
| 2000-01 | £720,592 |
| 2001-02 | £831,446 |
| 2002-03 | £1,395,900 |
| 2003-04 | £1,255,020 |
| 2004-05 | £959,517 |
| 2005-06 | £1,272,538 |
| Total | £6,818,427 |
For the purposes of answeringthis question the response is based on the position in the Scottish Executive only.The Scottish Executive does not hold information relating to other public bodies.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued since implementation of the legislation and how many have been issued to people with diagnosed emotional or behavioural problems and learning difficulties.
Answer
The requested information isgiven in the following table.
Number of Crimes Cleared upEach Year as a Percentage of Crimes Recorded, by Police Force Area, 1999-2000To 2004-05
| Force | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Central | 57.0 | 55.1 | 57.8 | 65.2 | 64.2 | 66.7 | 61.2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 58.8 | 56.0 | 50.7 | 50.1 | 51.0 | 55.2 | 61.2 |
| Fife | 51.5 | 42.6 | 44.6 | 45.5 | 47.6 | 46.1 | 44.2 |
| Grampian | 38.0 | 36.3 | 33.3 | 37.2 | 40.1 | 36.3 | 32.6 |
| Lothian and Borders | 37.4 | 41.5 | 46.4 | 45.7 | 43.7 | 41.6 | 42.1 |
| Northern | 62.4 | 55.9 | 58.4 | 65.0 | 64.3 | 66.1 | 60.3 |
| Strathclyde | 43.1 | 43.4 | 44.1 | 43.9 | 45.6 | 47.3 | 42.7 |
| Tayside | 38.5 | 41.1 | 42.0 | 36.5 | 42.3 | 55.6 | 55.1 |
| Scotland | 43.1 | 43.1 | 44.3 | 44.8 | 46.2 | 47.4 | 44.6 |
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people contracted hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis in each year from 1978 to1992.
Answer
Non-A,non-B Hepatitis was a clinical diagnosis based on symptoms and confirmed bylaboratories as not being Hepatitis A or Hepatitis B. The laboratories did notreport such cases to Health Protection Scotland at the time. Thus, theinformation was not collected centrally and it is also unlikely to be availablelocally.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make available any documentation which explains the estimated number of patients who may have received blood infected with hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis virus.
Answer
Soldan et al Epidemiologyand Infection (2002) Volume 129:587-591 estimates the numbers infected prior to 1991 and is the source for thefigure for England that was quoted in the preliminary Report by LordRoss. Estimates from 1993 onwards are contained in VoxSanguinis; 2003 May;84(4):274-86. Estimates for Scotland used the same methodology but reflected the data from the Scottish HCV lookback programme.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were transfused with blood in each year from 1978 to 1992.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-25581 on 16 May 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates it has of the number of people who may have contracted hepatitis C but have not yet received a diagnosis and whether it will provide any or all documentation in relation to this matter.
Answer
It is estimated that 50,000individuals are currently living in Scotland who are HCV antibody positive, the majority of whomcontracted their infection through injecting drugs and 33,500 of whom remainundiagnosed. Of the 16,500 formally diagnosed, 400 (2.4%) of these areconfirmed as having contracted their infection through blood transfusion orblood products. The source of this data can be found from the paper within the Scottish Medical Journal 2006, Vol 51, Issue 2, Hutchison SJ, et al, HepatitisC Virus Infection in Scotland: Epidemiological review and public health challenges.
