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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: S4W-30052

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when it was made aware of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s plan to close the children's ward at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Question reference: S4W-30050

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport agreed the plan by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to close ward six at the Vale of Leven Hospital.

Question reference: S4W-30056

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many babies born at the (a) Vale of Leven Community Midwifery Unit and (b) Royal Alexandra Hospital in each year since 2007 had parents who were resident in the Vale of Leven Hospital catchment area.

Question reference: S4W-30042

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many junior doctor posts there are at the Vale of Leven Hospital and how many are vacant, broken down by how long they have been vacant.

Question reference: S4W-30040

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many times clinics at the Vale of Leven Hospital have been cancelled in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S4W-30039

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) consultants, (b) doctors, (c) nurses, (d) allied health professionals, (e) administrators and (f) other staff have been based at the Vale of Leven Hospital in each year since 2007.

The Scottish Government remains committed to maintaining and improving services at the Vale of Leven Hospital. We have been consistently clear that we see a bright future for the hospital, which plays a crucial role in the local healthcare system.

Information on how many (a) consultants, (b) doctors, (c) nurses, (d) allied health professionals, (e) administrators and (f) other staff have been based at the Vale of Leven Hospital in each year since 2007 is not held centrally. Specific local information will be available from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Under this government, staffing levels in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have increased by 916.3 WTE, or 2.8 per cent.

Question reference: S4W-30038

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how much the Vale of Leven Hospital has spent on locum doctors in each year since 2007, also broken down by the number of locums employed.

Question reference: S4W-29997

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many school leavers in each year since 2007 did not go into education, employment or training.

The number of school leavers not in education (higher education or further education), employment or training are shown in the following table:

Year	Number of leavers	Number not in education, employment or training¹
2007-08	58,603	9,539
2008-09	53,324	8,084
2009-10	53,842	8,230
2010-11	53,850	7,474
2011-12²	49,610	5,731
2012-13²	51,515	5,620
2013-14²	49,980	4,718

1. Includes school leavers on activity agreements or in voluntary work. These are considered positive destinations in the Summary Statistics for Attainment, Leaver Destinations and Healthy Living publication. The figures presented also include school leavers where their destination was recorded as ‘unknown’.

2. The methodology and data available for 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 changed meaning caution should be exercised when making comparisons over time.

Source: The data included in the table comes from Skills Development Scotland’s (SDS) follow up of school leaver destinations. Information on the destination of leavers from publicly funded schools was provided to the Scottish Government by SDS. SDS collected information on the destination of each young person they had identified as being a school leaver during September 2014 (initial destination) and March 2015 (follow-up destination). The follow up destinations data provided in this table presents information on the outcomes of young people approximately nine months after leaving school.

While these figures outline the number of school leavers who are not in education, employment or training, the main headline measure used by the Scottish Government is the percentage of school leavers in a positive follow up destination. This considers voluntary work and activity agreements to be positive destinations, alongside higher education, further education, employment and training. The figure for 2013-14 school leavers not in a positive destination on this basis is 4,142 (including unknowns).

The percentage of school leavers in positive destinations at the time of the follow-up was 84.0% in 2007-08 and 91.7% for 2013-14 school leavers.

Question reference: S4W-29716

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what role integration joint boards have in decisions about the conditions proposed by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Economy in relation to the payment of the living wage in adult social care contracts, and the proposed changes to charges for services that they commission.

Question reference: S4W-29720

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what consequences will arise should resource transfer arrangements not be agreed with NHS boards by 9 February 2016.

Resource transfer arrangements have been superseded by the resource delegation arrangements required by the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014. The legislation requires agreement to be reached on budgets for delegation to integration authorities by 1 April 2016.

The £250 million of integration funding provided for in the local government settlement will be allocated to health boards, to whom ministers will give written direction to delegate the full sum to their integration authorities. Integration authorities will then allocate their share of the resources to their local authorities to meet the commitments set out in the settlement.