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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.

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Question reference: S3W-38018

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual cost to NHSScotland is of providing interpreters and translators for GP and hospital appointments, broken down by NHS board.

This information is not held centrally.

It is primarily for NHS boards to co-ordinate interpreting and translation services that best meet the needs of their local populations.

NHS Health Scotland has worked with a range of partners to develop a translation, interpreting and communications support (TICS) strategy and action plan to support NHS boards to improve standards, availability and co-ordination of translation, interpreting and communication support services for those who need them.

The programme delivery plan for 2010-11 is available at:

http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/4592.aspx.

Question reference: S3W-38021

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive at how many GP and hospital appointments for which an interpreter was required did the patient not attend in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Question reference: S3W-38017

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many interpreters and translators, including those providing a telephone service, are employed on a full-time basis by NHSScotland, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S3W-38019

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many interpreters and translators NHSScotland employs on a freelance basis, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S3W-36169

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Schedule 1 offenders have been incarcerated in HMP Cornton Vale in each year since 2006, broken down by offence.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

In total there have been 44 Schedule 1 Offenders (i.e. those who have a history of offending against children as set out in Schedule 1 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland Act 1995)) incarcerated in HMP Cornton Vale since 2006 the breakdown, by year, is as follows.

Year	No. of Offenders
2006	8
2007	13
2008	7
2009	8
2010	8

The breakdown by offence, associated to the court disposal, is as follows:

2006

4 X Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937,S12(1)

1 X Assault To Injury

1 X Assault To Injury And Disfigurement

1 X Culpable Homicide

1 X Rape.

2007

7 X Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937,S12(1)

1 X Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937

1 X Con Police (Scotland) Act 1967, Section 41(1)(A)

1 X Attempted Murder Or Alt Culpable And Reckless Conduct

1 X Assault To Injury

1 X Rape

1 X Warrant Independent.

2008

4 X Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937,S12(1)

1 X Children And Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, Section 12(1) Or Alt Breach Of The Peace

1 X Assault And Robbery

1 X Assault To Injury And Danger Of Life.

2009

2 X Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937,S12(1)

2 X Culpable And Reckless Conduct

1 X Children And Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 Or Alt Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982

1 X Lewd, Indecent and Libidinous Practices and Behaviour

1 X Assault To Injury

1 X Warrant Independent.

2010

3 X Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937,S12(1)

3 X Assault To Injury

1 X Assault To Severe Injury, Permanent Disfigurement and Danger Of Life

1 X Children (Scotland) Act 1995,S83(A/B/C).

Question reference: S3W-35801

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 August 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £9 million awarded in 2008 for the development of carer information strategies has been spent on NHS operating systems, broken down by NHS board

Question reference: S3W-35799

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 August 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £9 million awarded in 2008 for the development of carer information strategies has been spent on carer information sessions, broken down by NHS board

Question reference: S3W-35800

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 August 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £9 million awarded in 2008 for the development of carer information strategies has been spent on training for carers, broken down by NHS board

Question reference: S3W-35797

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 August 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £9 million awarded in 2008 for the development of carer information strategies was allocated in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10, broken down by NHS board.

The allocation of funding to NHS boards and to the Scottish Ambulance Service for the development of carer information strategies in 2008-09 and in 2009-10 is set out in the following table.

NHS Board	2008-09 £000	2009-10 £000
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	77,000	231,000
NHS Borders	22,000	68,000
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	32,000	97,000
NHS Fife	69,000	206,000
NHS Forth Valley	53,000	159,000
NHS Grampian	91,000	274,000
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	245,000	734,000
NHS Highland	65,000	195,000
NHS Lanarkshire	108,000	323,000
NHS Lothian	136,000	408,000
NHS Orkney	6,000	17,000
NHS Shetland	6,000	18,000
NHS Tayside	79,000	237,000
NHS Western Isles	8,000	24,000
Scottish Ambulance Service	3,000	9,000
Total	1,000,000	3,000,000

A further £5 million has been allocated to NHS boards in 2010-11.

Question reference: S3W-35798

Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 August 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £9 million awarded in 2008 for the development of carer information strategies has been spent on training for NHS staff, broken down by NHS board

The £9 million allocated to NHS boards for carer information strategies (CIS) is for a three year period ending in March 2011. It is not possible to determine how much of the total has been allocated for specific purposes. We have not requested that NHS boards provide information on the level of resources allocated to particular aspects of the CIS. However, their annual reports to the Scottish Government must set out progress against the minimum requirements in NHS HDL (2006) 22 (24 April 2006). Based on the annual reports for the first year, 2008-09, there has been progress across all NHS boards in the main priority areas, with more to be done. The annual reports for the second year, 2009-10 have been requested and some have been submitted. They will all be assessed for continuing progress.