- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 17 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has investigated the possibility of amending the Scotland Rural Development Programme to provide incentives for food producers who produce local food and use native breeds and integrated farming systems.
Answer
Support measures for activities that may assist food producers who produce food for the local market, use native breeds or use integrated farming systems already exist within the current Scotland Rural Development Programme through a combination of support that is available through Rural Priorities and the Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation grant scheme.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 23 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of the potential impact of the 2010-11 Scotland’s Winter Festivals programme.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has transferred operational responsibility for the delivery of St Andrew''s Day and Winter Festivals commitments to EventScotland from 2010 onwards. The change of delivery model will bring about a sharper economic focus to Winter Festivals activity, and will ensure that these benefits are extended beyond central Scotland. EventScotland, as delivery agents, will put in place their own methods of evaluation, which includes:
Asking each funded event to submit a post-event outcome report.
Commissioning event audience research for St Andrew''s Day events.
Undertaking Media Evaluation.
Monitoring web traffic on the campaign websites.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 22 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what is the quota for wind-powered generators, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Scottish Government''s target is for annual renewable electricity generation to be the equivalent of 80% of gross electricity consumption by 2020. The aim is for the target to be met by a wide range of renewable sources including onshore and offshore wind as well as hydro, wave, tidal and biomass combined heat and power. The target is not broken down by technology or local authority area.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 2 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many practising dentists there were in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10.
Answer
Data showing the number of practising dentists in Scotland is available at
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5898.html.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the benefits of telecare services for remote and rural communities.
Answer
All 32 health and social care partnerships across Scotland have now received their 2010-11 Telecare Development Programme allocation of £4 million and all are pursuing and developing local Telecare services, many in remote and rural communities.
Significant impacts have been evidenced on supporting people effectively using Telecare at home as a very real alternative to hospital or care home admission.
We are asking local partnerships, within their plans for this year, to further mainstream telecare services and increase convergence with telehealth activity. The Scottish Government''s Joint Improvement Team is working closely in pursuit of this with local partnerships and the Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT).
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 26 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the national wealth was held by each income decile in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10.
Answer
Information about wealth by income decile is not available at Scotland level.
Some information about the relationship between earned income and wealth at UK level is available in the income annex to the Wealth and Assets Survey annual report published by the Office for National Statistics:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Product.asp?vlnk=15074.
The following table shows the percentage of total national income received by each of the income deciles in Scotland.
Percentage of total national equivalised household income (before housing costs) received by each income decile in Scotland: 2006-07 to 2008-09
| Decile | 06-07 | 07-08 | 08-09 |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 9 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| 10 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
Source: Family Resources Survey.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) students enrolled on dentistry courses and (b) newly qualified dentists there were in (i) 2006-07, (ii) 2007-08, (iii) 2008-09 and (iv) 2009-10.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally available. However, NHS Education for Scotland has provided the information in the following table sourced from the Higher Education Statistics Agency and Scottish Dental Schools:
| Academic Year | Dental School Students 1 | Graduates 2 |
| 2006-07 | 754 | 124 |
| 2007-08 | 775 | 133 |
| 2008-09 | 815 | 148 |
| 2009-10 | Not Available | 171 |
Notes:
[1]. Source: Higher Educations Statistics Agency (HESA). Courses coded as pre-clinical dentistry or clinical dentistry with course level at pre-registration degree leading to registration with regulatory body. Includes years 1 to 5 but excludes dormant students and may not include those for whom this is not their main subject. HESA data not available for 2009-10. The data relate to Dundee Dental School, Glasgow Dental School and Aberdeen Dental School.
2. Source: Scottish dental schools. The first students from Aberdeen Dental School are expected to graduate in 2011-12.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37250 by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 November 2010, what the (a) total number of attendances for and (b) estimated cost of echocardiography was in 2008-09.
Answer
This information is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community planning partnerships have (a) expressed an interest in and (b) committed to participating in the Low Carbon Vehicle Procurement Support Scheme.
Answer
All 32 Scottish Community Planning Partnerships have expressed an interest in and committed to participating in the Low Carbon Vehicle Procurement Support Scheme.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding the NHS allocated to investigating the causes and prevention of sudden cardiac deaths in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10.
Answer
This information requested is not available. During 2008-09 and 2009-10, the Government made available £200,000 to support the Cardiac Assessment in Young Athletes (CAYA) programme. It offers cardiovascular assessment of those aged between 15 and 25 who are engaged in competitive sports.
We have also supported the establishment of the Familial Arrhythmia Network Scotland (FANS). The network aims to raise awareness of familial arrhythmias, define and agree referral protocols, develop national guidance for clinical and genetic testing and establish a national register which will support long term follow-up. As we indicated in our Heart Disease and Stroke Action Plan, FANS should extend its activities to cover cardiomyopathies, as these represent another significant cause of sudden cardiac death.
