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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-21513

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 19 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive why Crown Production 16, the Secretary of State for Scotland's consent memo in respect of Skye Bridge, was utilised for criminal prosecutions if the Secretary of State had properly made a statutory statement.

Question reference: S2W-21510

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 19 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive why an unsigned and undated draft of the Assignation Statement in 1991 relating to the Skye Crossing Toll Order was produced and whether this was in order to comply with a statutory requirement.

Question reference: S2W-21468

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what obligations are placed on the Care Commission to communicate with, and report incidents to, public bodies, such as the NHS and local authorities, which involve patients or clients whose health and social care services have been contracted to the private sector.

The Care Commission is responsible for regulating care services under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (the act). The act places a number of statutory duties on the Care Commission to communicate with local authorities and health boards in relation to services in their area. These duties apply regardless of whether or not the service is being provided by the private sector under contract to a public body.

Where the Care Commission serves an improvement notice on a care service that is not provided by a local authority, the act requires the Care Commission to send a copy of that notice to the local authority in whose area the service is provided. Where the Care Commission makes an application to court for urgent cancellation of a care service provider’s registration or variation or removal of a condition on the provider’s registration, the Care Commission must as soon as practicable notify each local authority and health board within whose area the care service is provided and any other statutory authority whom it thinks appropriate to notify.

The Care Commission is also required under the act to establish a procedure for investigating complaints against care services. The commission has drawn up a “fast track” procedure for notifying health boards and/or local authorities, where the Care Commission considers that they have a direct interest in a complaint.

In addition to these legal obligations the commission has Memorandums of Understanding with a number of public bodies (including some local authorities and health boards), to facilitate the exchange of information about matters related to its regulatory activities (for example, complaints, inspection/monitoring programmes and reports).

Question reference: S2W-21469

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what statutory obligations of accountability are in place in respect of the provision of health care by private sector providers.

Care services (whether provided by the public, private or voluntary sector) defined under the Regulation of Care Act (Scotland) 2001 are required to register with the Care Commission. The commission is responsible for regulating care services against the requirements of the act and associated regulations, taking account of the appropriate National Care Standards, including clinical standards published by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-21470

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what obligations there are on NHS boards to ensure the quality of care of patients whose care has been contracted to the private sector.

Question reference: S2W-21467

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS psychiatric beds for elderly people have been contracted to the private sector in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-21466

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS continuing care beds have been contracted to the private sector in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-21431

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients admitted to acute medical receiving wards were subsequently transferred to more than one ward during their hospital stay from October to March inclusive in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-21429

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the bed occupancy rates for acute medical receiving wards were from October to March inclusive in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Information on the percentage bed occupancy rates of acute medical/general receiving wards is not available centrally. Information on the percentage bed occupancy for acute medical specialties for the six months ending 31 March for the years 2001-05 is shown in the table.

Percentage Acute Medical Bed Occupancy^1,2; by NHS Board Area; Six Months Ending 31 March 2001-05

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005^P
Scotland	85	85	85	86	86
Argyll and Clyde	88	86	84	86	88
Ayrshire and Arran	87	86	87	88	87
Borders	83	82	88	86	87
Dumfries and Galloway	82	83	82	89	87
Fife	85	85	82	83	87
Forth Valley	81	81	77	83	79
Grampian	85	87	87	85	84
Greater Glasgow	85	86	86	86	86
Highland	85	87	81	83	82
Lanarkshire	81	83	87	91	88
Lothian	87	85	88	88	90
Shetland	81	83	76	69	73
Tayside	84	85	87	85	87
Western Isles	81	88	76	83	78

Question reference: S2W-21430

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the bed occupancy rates for general medical wards were from October to March inclusive in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.