- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost will be of the residential pain service referred to by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing in a report in the Daily Express on 21 January 2013.
Answer
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is currently assessing options for the most appropriate service model for Scotland. As part of its assessment NSS will consider the cost and clinical effectiveness of all the options. This work is expected to be completed by the end of summer 2013.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what funding has been given to each local authority to assist with the implementation of self-directed support, and what proportion of this is transitional funding for services.
Answer
Each local authority has been given an allocation of funding as part of a three year programme to support transformation in adult social care and children’s services for self-directed support. The following table details the amounts allocated to each local authority for transformation funding 2012 to 2015.
The Scottish Government has not been prescriptive in setting the proportion of transformation funding that should be spent on transitional or “bridging” costs and this will vary between local authorities.
| Local Authority | 2012-13 * | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| Aberdeen City | £251,440 | £426,000 | £225,560 |
| Aberdeenshire | £259,360 | £445,740 | £236,560 |
| Angus | £176,640 | £268,080 | £152,520 |
| Argyll and Bute | £161,680 | £235,180 | £136,680 |
| Clackmannanshire | £113,280 | £131,780 | £88,720 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | £219,760 | £359,260 | £195,640 |
| Dundee City | £212,720 | £343,280 | £186,840 |
| East Ayrshire | £177,960 | £269,960 | £152,520 |
| East Dunbartonshire | £155,520 | £222,020 | £130,960 |
| East Lothian | £155,080 | £222,020 | £130,960 |
| East Renfrewshire | £146,720 | £204,160 | £122,160 |
| Edinburgh, City of | £477,160 | £909,160 | £452,160 |
| Eilean Siar | £100,960 | £104,520 | £75,520 |
| Falkirk | £195,560 | £307,560 | £170,560 |
| Fife | £383,880 | £710,820 | £360,200 |
| Glasgow City | £604,760 | £1,168,600 | £567,440 |
| Highland | £258,920 | £446,680 | £237,000 |
| Inverclyde | £151,120 | £211,680 | £125,240 |
| Midlothian | £140,120 | £190,060 | £115,560 |
| Moray | £148,480 | £207,920 | £123,920 |
| North Ayrshire | £194,680 | £305,680 | £169,240 |
| North Lanarkshire | £324,480 | £583,920 | £299,920 |
| Orkney Islands | £91,280 | £84,780 | £66,280 |
| Perth and Kinross | £211,840 | £344,220 | £188,600 |
| Renfrewshire | £214,480 | £347,980 | £189,480 |
| Scottish Borders | £175,760 | £265,260 | £150,760 |
| Shetland Islands | £92,600 | £87,600 | £68,040 |
| South Ayrshire | £185,880 | £286,880 | £160,880 |
| South Lanarkshire | £329,760 | £596,140 | £306,520 |
| Stirling | £146,720 | £204,160 | £122,160 |
| West Dunbartonshire | £154,200 | £217,320 | £127,440 |
| West Lothian | £186,320 | £290,640 | £163,960 |
*This includes £25,000 awarded to each local authority, specifically to enable children’s services teams to engage in SDS implementation.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how the implementation of self-directed support by local authorities is being monitored.
Answer
The Scottish Government is working with stakeholders, including the Care Inspectorate, to develop an outcomes-based framework for the monitoring and evaluation of self-directed support implementation.
Currently only data on the numbers of people taking direct payments is collected centrally. However from April 2013 the Scottish Government's new Social Care Survey will begin collecting data on the number of people choosing different self-directed support options.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government where the residential pain service referred to by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing in a report in the Daily Express on 21 January 2013 will be located.
Answer
NHS National Services Scotland is currently assessing options for the most appropriate service model for Scotland. This work is expected to be completed by the end of summer 2013.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government when it will consult on the regulations regarding the removal of charges for carers for support services.
Answer
We will consult on the regulations by the end of April 2013.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 January 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 31 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government when it will respond to Health Board Elections and Alternative Pilots: Final Report of the Statutory Evaluation.
Answer
The Scottish Government has received the independent evaluation on health board elections and alternative pilots and will be considering the implications of the information contained in the report early in 2013.
A copy of the final report was placed with the Scottish Parliament Information Centre on 20 December 2012 (Bib. number 54605).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 January 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 31 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what the turnout was for the NHS board elections in (a) Dumfries and Galloway and (b) Fife.
Answer
The Independent Evaluation of the Health Board Elections carried out by the London School of Economics reported that turnout of eligible electors was 22.6% (26,516) in Dumfries and Galloway and 13.9% (39,761) in Fife.
The Scottish Government will take this information in to account as it considers the independent evaluation on health board elections and alternative pilots.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 30 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to ask the University of Sheffield to provide an update of its alcohol minimum price modelling research to take into account the most recent data included in Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy: Second Annual Report.
Answer
There are no plans for the Scottish Government to update the modelling carried out by the University of Sheffield. The most recent report on the modelling was published in January 2012 and contained the most up to date data available at that time, and on which the Parliament passed the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 30 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage reduction in alcohol consumption it expects to achieve from the introduction of a 50 pence per unit minimum price of alcohol and how this compares with the reduction in alcohol consumption between 2009 and 2011 recorded in Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy: Second Annual Report.
Answer
In the Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy: 2nd Annual Report, analysis of the most recent data shows that per adult sales decreased by 5% between 2009 and 2011 (two year time period). This is a total reduction across adult sales and is not broken down by drinker type. The report does not estimate what impact the reduction in sales has had on harm. Caution is required when considering changes in alcohol sales over such short time periods; it is generally considered good practice to assess trends over as long a time series as the data allows. On this basis, alcohol sales have increased by 10% since 1994. The Scottish Government is committed to introducing minimum unit pricing in order to help tackle alcohol misuse in Scotland. A key component of minimum unit pricing is that it targets a reduction in consumption of alcohol which is cheap relative to its strength. This is significant because it is these alcoholic products which are favoured and consumed by hazardous and harmful drinkers. Minimum unit pricing would, therefore, affect hazardous and harmful drinkers more than moderate drinkers, in terms of the amount they drink, how much they spend and how much they benefit from reductions in harm.
The University of Sheffield modelling estimates that a 50p minimum unit price will result in a reduction in overall alcohol consumption of 5.7% per annum. This is allocated differentially over drinker type with moderate drinkers estimated to reduce alcohol consumption by 2.8%, hazardous drinkers by 4.8%, and harmful drinkers by 10.7%.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 January 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 30 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-11979 by Alex Neil on 9 January 2013, whether the £14.2 million allocated for people affected by thalidomide is index-linked.
Answer
The £14.2 million funding for Thalidomiders in Scotland will be index linked over the 10-year period, beginning April 2013.
