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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)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S3W-34552

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received the interim report from the Infertility Network Scotland on IVF services.

Question reference: S3W-34554

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that consistent criteria are applied to IVF treatment across Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-34556

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the definition is of one cycle of IVF treatment.

Question reference: S3W-34342

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-33665 by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010, what the likely cost of voluntary severance is based on workforce planning projections for individual NHS boards in 2010-11 and what the impact will be on future years.

Question reference: S3W-34341

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-33664 by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010, whether it will define small scale in the context of over 4,000 job losses in the NHS.

The reference to small scale was not made in relation to the overall projected staff changes in NHSScotland. The reference is in relation to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Grampian who are considering voluntary severance for a small number of their total planned reductions. The majority of the reductions will be achieved through a combination of natural turnover, vacancy management and early retirement.

Question reference: S3W-34340

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-33664 by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010, what funding will be set aside for the voluntary severance schemes in NHS (a) Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) Grampian.

No funding is being set aside centrally for the voluntary severance schemes that are being considered by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Grampian.

Boards have been advised that, when planning for service redesign or other organisational changes, they should only consider a voluntary severance scheme as a last resort and that these schemes require to be financed from within their existing budgets.

Question reference: S3W-34444

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 11 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates the total cost of physical inactivity in Scotland to be.

The National Physical Activity Strategy, Let''s Make Scotland More Active was published in 2003. As part of the development of that strategy it was estimated that £85.2 million could be saved if levels of inactivity were reduced by 1% each year for the next five years. These economic benefits are associated with the number of life years saved due to preventing 2,162 premature deaths from coronary heart disease, 128 deaths from strokes and 117 deaths from colon cancer.

Question reference: S3W-34337

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it relies on self-assessment by NHS boards to monitor their performance against the Staff Governance Standard.

The self assessment audit tool (SAAT) associated with the Staff Governance Standard is one element of the monitoring process. This tool is supplemented by a staff governance action plan that is formulated in partnership with trade unions/professional organisations. These submissions are also subject to audit both from the boards independent auditors and by the Staff Governance Unit within Scottish Government.

Following analysis and verification of the SAAT return, the information provided forms the basis for the workforce element of the Annual Review process where the board''s performance against the Staff Governance Standard is examined and discussed at a meeting with members of the Area Partnership Forum.

Question reference: S3W-34334

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the implementation of all Partnership Information Network policies in the NHS.

Implementation of the Partnership Information Network (PIN) Policies is monitored via the Staff Governance Standard monitoring arrangements that take place each year, including the completion by NHS boards of the self assessment audit tool.

Local issues regarding the implementation of any policies would be discussed and resolved in partnership with the trade unions and professional organisations at the NHS board area partnership forum.

Question reference: S3W-34343

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-33643 by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010, whether it will provide an exact number, to the nearest 100, of the people it expects to be employed in the NHS as of 1 April 2011.