- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 9 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to tackle any abuse of the Blue Badge scheme.
Answer
There are existing powers under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 available to local authorities to make all disabled parking bays legally enforceable.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 9 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what future plans it has to amend the Blue Badge scheme to cut down any abuse of the scheme.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13741 on 9 June 2008.
Powers exist under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 available to local authorities to make all disabled parking bays legally enforceable.
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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many copies of Choosing Scotland’s Future: A National Conversation have been purchased at a cost of £10 from Blackwell's bookshops.
Answer
To date, 172 copies of
Choosing Scotland’s Future have been sold by Blackwell’s bookshops. About 90 further copies have been sold via wholesalers and at the Edinburgh Book Festival.
Over 3,000 free copies were distributed to key stakeholders and public libraries following the launch of the paper, and a number of hard copies have been distributed internally within the government for use by policy officials with their stakeholders. The document is also available to download for free on the government’s National Conversation website – to date it has been downloaded over 9,200 times, and has been read online around 30,730 times.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all ambulances from the Vale of Leven, Helensburgh and Arrochar are double-crewed.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service has confirmed that all traditional Accident and Emergency Units (AEUs) are rostered to be double crewed. However, in exceptional circumstances, such as short notice sickness absence, a single manned unit AEU may be deployed.
The statement to Parliament on 4 June by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing made clear the position of the Scottish Government on these matters.
In addition there are single crewed Paramedic Rapid Response Vehicles at the Vale of Leven.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been screened for thrombophilia since May 2007.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. We have accepted the advice from the National Screening Committee that population screening for thrombophilia should not be offered. As with all the topics on which it offers advice, however, the committee keeps the evidence base under review.
It is usual in Scotland, however, for adult relatives of those with Factor V Leiden, the most common genetic mutation which gives rise to thrombophilia, to be offered genetic testing and given appropriate advice in the light of the result of that test.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the overtime budget was for the Scottish Ambulance Service for 2007-08 and what it is for 2008-09.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service has advised that the final overtime budget in 2007-08 was £2.615 million. The current planned overtime budget for 2008-09 is £3.247 million though this figure is subject to revision over the course of the year.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all ambulances are double-crewed, and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
The service operates a range of vehicle types deployed according to the clinical condition of the patient. Rapid Response Vehicles tend to be single responders, accident and emergency units should be double crewed, as should mid tier and urgent tier units.
The statement to Parliament on 4 June by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing made clear the position of the Scottish Government on these matters.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many paramedics are rostered on each ambulance across each shift pattern in the Vale of Leven, Helensburgh and Arrochar stations.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service has advised that crews are rostered to achieve at least one paramedic on each double crewed shift, as well as to provide the paramedic cover required for the shifts operated by the rapid response vehicle operating out of the Vale of Leven.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is concerned that a claim of bullying and harassment has been submitted to NHSScotland against senior management of the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Answer
The Scottish Government takes very seriously all claims of bullying and harassment.
However, it is important that such claims are dealt with thoroughly and appropriately by the board of the Scottish Ambulance Service as the employer, ensuring that due process is followed and that rights under employment law and NHSScotland’s staff governance framework are respected.
The statement to Parliament on 4 June by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing made clear the position of the Scottish Government on these matters.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many ambulances are available on each shift pattern in the Vale of Leven, Helensburgh and Arrochar stations.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service has provided the following table.
| Station | Resource | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| Vale of Leven | Day shift double crew Ambulance | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| | Night shift double crew Ambulance | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| | Day shift FRV Single crew paramedic 7-3 Mon-Fri & Sat/Sun 9am to 9pm | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| | Back shift FRV Single crew paramedic up to 11pm Mon-Fri | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Helensburgh | Day shift double crew Ambulance | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| | Night shift double crew Ambulance | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Arrochar | Day shift double crew Ambulance | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| | Night shift double crew Ambulance | o/c | o/c | o/c | o/c | o/c | o/c | o/c |
Notes:
o/c = on call from home address.
FRV = Fast Response Vehicle paramedic car.
Excludes Patient Transport Ambulances.
