- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) nursing, (b) dental, (c) medical and (d) paramedical staff have daily or regular patient or client contact, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what policies there are to protect carers providing long-term care from having respite care withdrawn without adequate and equitable alternative provision.
Answer
The Executive recognisesthat respite care is an integral and central part of the range of health andsocial care services which should be available to service users and carers. OurPartnership Agreement reflects our firm commitment to develop respite provisionacross Scotland and over the last three years £22 million has been providedto local authorities specifically to develop short break services. Theseresources are just part of the total resources available to local authorities.Authorities must decide, with other statutory bodies including health boards,how much to spend on respite provision. It is a matter for local authorities,working with other agencies and with users and carers, to make decisions onrespite provision for individuals. All local authorities have complaints proceduresin place to address any concerns users and carers may have about caremanagement or service planning and delivery decisions.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is sufficient dental cover on the Isle of Arran to ensure that residents, including children, do not have to travel off the island to receive dental treatment and, if not, why such a situation has developed and what action is being taken to address it.
Answer
Responsibility for theoverall provision of NHS dental services on the Isle of Arran rests with Ayrshireand Arran Primary Care NHS Trust. However, I announced on 20 November a numberof further measures to support NHS dentistry in Scotland, some of which will beavailable to dentists going to practice in non-designated areas such asAyrshire and Arran.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much public money was awarded to Border Biofuels Limited in respect of its proposal for an experimental biomass plant near Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran, broken down by the awarding public body, and what the outcome was of the planning application for the plant.
Answer
No public funding has beenawarded to the development. The project was granted outline planning permissionby North Ayrshire Council on 8 October 2001, subject to a list of 25conditions.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the current Scottish Water proposals in respect of wastewater treatment on the Isle of Arran represent best value and what the reasons are for the position on the matter.
Answer
Ministers have tasked ScottishWater with delivering the current capital programme (Quality and Standards II) toquality standards as specified by the appropriate regulator (in this case the ScottishEnvironment Protection Agency) and to overall efficiency targets as set by theWater Industry Commissioner. Within this context, development of investmentproposals in specific locations, such as Arran, are operational matters for Scottish Water.Accordingly, I have asked the Chief Executive to write to you about thismatter.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, if the current Scottish Water proposals in respect of wastewater treatment on the Isle of Arran are implemented, how many homes on the island would remain unconnected to the public sewage system; where these homes are located; what percentage of homes in each area specified by Scottish Water for improvement work would remain unconnected to the public sewerage system, and by what method homes not connected to the public sewerage system would dispose of raw sewage.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-6396 on 8 March 2003.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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 or any other legislation, tenants of residential homes attached by an internal corridor to residential care units are prevented from entering or frequenting such units and, if so, what the reasons are for these provisions.
Answer
The Regulation of Care(Scotland) Act 2001 and subordinate legislation made under that act enablesregulation of the standard and fitness of premises used to provide careservices for the purpose of ensuring the safety and well-being of the careservice users.
The application andinterpretation of the act (and associated subordinate legislation) is anoperational matter for the Care Commission. If the member has a specific casein mind I would invite him to write directly to Jacquie Roberts, Chief Executive of the Care Commission.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will carry out an investigation into the reasons for the number of headstones at graves in cemeteries around Ayrshire that have been deemed unsafe by local authorities in the last few months, resulting in relatives of deceased people having to pay charges of around #100 to local authorities to have the headstones made safe.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no plans to do so. Responsibility for the general management,regulation and control of burial grounds rests with local authorities undersection 17 of the Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855. Local authorities, as burial authorities,also have a responsibility under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 totake reasonable precautions where there is a foreseeable risk to either personsat work or members of the public.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance it can provide to any companies whose ability to compete with overseas businesses has been adversely affected by increases in water rates.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is committed to creating the conditions to maximise sustainableeconomic growth in the medium and long term.
Smart, Successful Scotland,our strategy for the Enterprise Networks, is crucial in delivering this. Themost recent surveys from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce and CBI Scotland all confirm encouragingincreases in business activity.
Water charges have had torise to pay for much needed investment. Scottish Water has been tasked to makesubstantial efficiencies to ensure these increases are kept to the minimum.Already in their first year, Scottish Water’s operations became 10% moreefficient.
- Asked by: Campbell Martin, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 26 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding provided to local authorities in relation to their responsibilities for looked after children is ring-fenced for the purpose of providing direct benefits to children in care.
Answer
Funding for looked afterchildren is not ring fenced and we have no plans to do so. It is up to eachlocal authority how it allocates funding, taking account of local needs andpriorities as well as national priorities. All local authorities in Scotlandhave benefited from above inflation increases in revenue grant this year andover the next two years.
