- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what caused all three ambulance control rooms to not function on 21 July 2010.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service has advised that the Cardonald telephone system is the main Hub for the three Emergency Medical Dispatch Centres in Scotland and controls the operation of the local telephone systems at the other sites. An initial fault on the Inverness telephone system caused the corruption of the processor memory at Cardonald and this subsequently affected the telephony systems at all sites.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service assisted in dealing with all 999 ambulance calls from Scotland on 21 July 2010.
Answer
In line with contingency planning arrangements that are in place for the Scottish Ambulance Service, both the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and the North West Ambulance Service in England assisted in dealing with calls from Scotland on 21 July 2010.
The Scottish Ambulance Service has advised that during the times of 01:05 to 15:45, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service dealt with 121 calls and the North West Ambulance Service dealt with 28 calls, less than 10% of the incidents dealt with by the ambulance service that day. Of these, some calls were found to be duplicates, therefore 125 patients had their details taken and then passed back to Scotland for an ambulance to be dispatched.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the importance of stipulating that when public authorities let major contracts, such as the New South Glasgow Hospitals Project, they specify that successful contractors make use of and apply the national collective agreements that exist in the electrical and mechanical sectors, which are committed to and support apprentice/adult trainee recruitment, skills and competence training, direct employment, a modern employee reward and benefits package and high standards of health and safety.
Answer
At a national level, Scottish Government attaches high importance to supporting Scottish businesses and individuals through the financial support it gives to apprenticeship schemes. One of Scottish Government''s national outcomes is to realize our full economic potential with more and better employment opportunities for our people. Our commitment to the New South Glasgow Hospital project and the employment opportunities it will bring is well documented.
The preferred bidder, Brookfield, has an agreed position on the National Code of Conduct with the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and technicians (UCATT) and will formally enter into an agreement for the New Southern General Hospital Project following approval of the Full Business Case. UCATT will have a full time convener on site and Brookfield will support UCATT in seeking to ensure that the recommendations of the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC), with respect to pay and holidays, are adopted on the site.
More generally within NHS Scotland, the Frameworks Scotland national construction framework is used to support major public capital funded projects. Issues such as involvement of local businesses, skills and competence training employment and health and safety were factors taken in to account in the selection of the Principal Supply Chain Partners in the Framework.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-34827 by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 July 2010, who is represented on the national scrutiny group announced on 3 June 2010.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36104 on 15 September 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will specify what workforce plans have been considered and were approved by the national scrutiny group at its meeting on 4 August 2010.
Answer
The National Scrutiny Group was not established to approve NHS boards workforce plans as that responsibility properly rests with each individual NHS board. The National Scrutiny Group will monitor workforce plans to ensure they are the result of genuine partnership working and that the implementation of any changes described in those plans does not impact on the quality of patient care. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36104 on 15 September 2010 which gave details of the remit and membership of the National Scrutiny All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-34828 by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 July 2010, what issues were discussed by the national scrutiny group at its meeting on 4 August 2010.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36104 on 15 September 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-34826 by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 July 2010, what the detailed remit and operation are of the national scrutiny group announced on 3 June 2010.
Answer
The National Scrutiny Group met for the first time on 4 August 2010 under my chairmanship. I have placed copies of the agenda for that meeting, the supporting papers (which include remit and membership) and the minutes of the meeting in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 51640).
The second meeting was held on 9 September 2010 and among other things agreed to develop a process to facilitate the flow of commentaries on individual NHS boards'' workforce plans from local Area Partnership Forums to the National Scrutiny Group. I will make the papers for that meeting available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (under the above Bib. number) in due course, once the minutes have been circulated to group members. The next meeting is likely to be in early November.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 14 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what duties are required for parents to inform the local authority that a child is to be home-schooled.
Answer
Section 30 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 places a fundamental duty on the parent of every child of school age to provide education for them, either by their attendance at a public school or by other means.
Section 35 of the same act requires parents to seek the consent of the local authority if they propose to withdraw a child from a local authority school and home educate them. Section 37 places a duty, this time on the local authority, to take action in respect of any child which is being home educated, where they are not satisfied that the parent is providing suitable education.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 14 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring arrangements are in place for children who are home-schooled.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35399 on 12 August 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 14 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are home-schooled.
Answer
The information is given in the Scottish Government Statistics Publication, Children Educated Outwith School 2009, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 50387).
