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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.

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Question reference: S3W-26923

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the monitoring information showing (a) attendance, (b) age and (c) geographical location of patients at the Sandyford Hub Clinic at the Vale of Leven Hospital.

Question reference: S3W-26926

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Sandyford Hub Clinic at the Vale of Leven Hospital will offer evening opening hours.

Question reference: S3W-26925

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients attended the Dumbarton Health Centre Family Planning and Well Woman Clinic between January 2009 and its closure in April 2009.

Question reference: S3W-26922

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the monitoring of attendance at the Sandyford Hub Clinic at the Vale of Leven Hospital records the (a) town of residence and (b) age of the patient.

The Sandyford Initiative, including the Sandyford Hubs, routinely monitor attendance, including the age and postcode of patients, using the national sexual health patient management system (NaSH).

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde introduced an additional monitoring questionnaire for users of the new Dunbartonshire Sexual Health Hub at the Vale of Leven Hospital in June 2009. This questionnaire was in place until August 2009 and also monitored age and postcode of the patients. The information collected by this questionnaire is currently being analysed and will be published by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in due course.

Question reference: S3W-26882

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was allocated for the Energy Assistance Package and how much has been spent to date.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21692 on 1 April 2009. 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.

The £3.6 million allocated to Energy Savings Trust to manage the Energy Assistance Package is drawn down monthly on a flat profile therefore £1.545 million has been spent to end August.

Citizens Advice Direct has received funding of £40,000 from a total annual grant of £80,000 to provide income maximisation checks under EAP as part of a wider programme of financial inclusion activity.

£2.5 million has been allocated to local authorities and RSLs to deliver insulation measures in social sector accommodation. Spend against this budget is historically drawn down in the third and fourth quarters of the financial year.

Spend to date against the £44.5 million for stage 4 and legacy fuel poverty programme measures is £10.2 million. This is in line with the expected profile as spend on installation measures is traditionally weighted towards the last two quarters of the financial year.

Question reference: S3W-26881

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the operation of the low income, low assets (LILA) route to bankruptcy and (a) abolish the £100 application fee and (b) provide access to LILA for homeowners.

A review of the low income, low assets (LILA) route into bankruptcy after one year of operation is currently being conducted by the Accountant in Bankruptcy and a report will be published by the end of September 2009.

The £100 application fee is payable by all debtors who apply for bankruptcy not just those who demonstrate eligibility by virtue of the LILA criteria. The fee is intended to meet the administration costs associated with the award process. We do not expect the review to produce evidence to support the abolition of the debtor application fee. If there were no fee, the administration costs would otherwise have to be borne by the public purse.

By definition, LILA allows for assets of low value only. The amendment of the LILA criteria to allow access through this route to homeowners would result in increased costs for debtors, and for the Accountant in Bankruptcy, to establish that there was little or no equity in the home.

We are looking at alternatives to allow access to bankruptcy for a wider group of people by way of a certificated route. This will allow homeowners access to bankruptcy if they consider this is the best course of action for them.

Question reference: S3W-26749

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what it would cost per annum to implement a minimum pay rate of £7 per hour for all staff covered by its public sector pay policy.

The information requested is not held centrally.

Contact details for each of the bodies subject to the Scottish Government''s Public Sector Pay Policy are as follows:

The Scottish Government and its associated departments: www.scotland.gov.uk;

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service: www.copfs.gov.uk, and

Executive Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies and Public Corporations “ contact details for each body can be found on the Government''s Public Bodies website:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/Links.

Question reference: S3W-26750

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff covered by its public sector pay policy have a pay rate of under £7 per hour, broken down by public body.

The information requested is not held centrally.

Contact details for each of the bodies subject to the Scottish Government''s Public Sector Pay Policy are as follows:

The Scottish Government and its associated departments: www.scotland.gov.uk;

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service: www.copfs.gov.uk, and

Executive Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies and Public Corporations “contact details for each body can be found on the Government''s Public Bodies website:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/Links.

Question reference: S3W-26748

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the lowest hourly pay rate is for staff covered by its public sector pay policy and how many staff are employed at that rate, broken down by public body.

The information requested is not held centrally.

Contact details for each of the bodies subject to the Scottish Government''s Public Sector Pay Policy are as follows:

The Scottish Government and its associated departments: www.scotland.gov.uk;

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service: www.copfs.gov.uk, and

Executive Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies and Public Corporations “ contact details for each body can be found on the Government''s Public Bodies website http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/Links.

Question reference: S3W-26883

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 10 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) households and (b) individuals contacted the Energy Saving Trust for the Energy Assistance Package by the end of August 2009.