- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21691 by Mr Andy Kerr on 19 January 2006, which NHS boards have developed strategic partnerships with the Citizens Advice Bureau in their areas to provide independent advice and support for patients and when any such partnerships were developed.
Answer
The following tabledetails the current position in relation to the partnerships between NHS boardsand the Citizens Advice Bureau for the provision of an independent advice and supportservice:
| NHS Board | Implementation Date |
| Ayrshire and Arran | Still under negotiation |
| Borders | 1 April 2007 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 April 2007 |
| Fife | Still under negotiation |
| Forth Valley | 1 June 2007 |
| Grampian | 29 January 2007 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 1 December 2006 - interim service April 2007 - full service |
| Highland | 1 August 2007 - interim service 1 January 2008 - full service |
| Lanarkshire | 1 September 2006 |
| Lothian | 1 April 2007 - interim service 8 July 2007 – full service |
| Orkney | 1 July 2007 |
| Shetland | 1 January 2007 |
| Tayside | 1 April 2007 |
| Western Isles | 1 October 2006 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions and on what dates the Joint Ministerial Committee has met since 1999, excluding any sub-committee meetings.
Answer
The Joint MinisterialCommittee has met in plenary three times since 1999, on the following dates:
1 September 2000.
30 October 2001.
22 October 2002.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding NHS Health Scotland has received in each year since 1999.
Answer
NHS Health Scotland’s levels of funding, since inception in April 2003,are set out in the following table.
| Financial Year | Revenue Resource Limit (£000) |
| 2003-04 | 13,969 |
| 2004-05 | 17,148 |
| 2005-06 | 19,672 |
| 2006-07 | 22,595 |
This informationis available in the annual reports published by NHS Health Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any communication from the UK Government since May 2007 to propose that a meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee be convened.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the voluntary sector receives funding from NHS Health Scotland and, if so, how much it has received in each year since 1999.
Answer
The figures forfunding, since NHS Health Scotland’s inception in 2003, are shown in the followingtable.
| Organisation | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | Total Funding |
| Voluntary Health Scotland | £0 | £95,130 | £75,110 | £72,325 | £242,565 |
| Community Health Exchange (CHEX) | £146,574.80 | £74,545.50 | £105,118 | £9,050 | £335,288.30 |
| Scottish Community Development Centre (Learning Evaluation And Planning (LEAP)) | £0 | £88,229.99 | £371,242.28 | £418,451.46 | £877,923.73 |
| Community Development Foundation | £9,106 | £192,319.95 | £0 | £0 | £201,425.95 |
| Young Scot | £287,880.58 | £143,475 | £130,000 | £130,000 | £691,355.58 |
| Barnardos | £55,471 | £51,402 | £49,796 | £0 | £156,669 |
| Family Planning Association | £0 | £22,500 | £21,525 | £15,600 | £59,625 |
| Jog Scotland | £25,000 | £25,000 | £40,000 | £0 | £90,000 |
| Paths to Health | £3,867 | £0 | £4,790 | £21,500 | £30,157 |
| Paths for All Partnership | £31,000 | £31,000 | £31,000 | £65,000 | £158,000 |
| ASH Scotland | £0 | £106,800 | £98,002 | £48,037 | £252,839 |
| Age Concern Scotland | £6,500 | £6,500 | £17,500 | £4,850 | £35,350 |
| Age Concern Orkney | £0 | £8,175 | £4,822.90 | £4,087.50 | £17,085.40 |
| No Smoking Day | £50,000 | £35,000 | £25,000 | £25,000 | £135,000 |
| Totals | £615,399.38 | £880,077.44 | £973,906.18 | £813,900.96 | £3,283,283.96 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29690 by Mr Andy Kerr on 14 November 2006, what the projected funding is for the Scottish Health Council in each financial year from 2007-08.
Answer
The funding allocationagreed for the Scottish Health Council for 2007-08 is £2.711 million. Funding forsubsequent years will be set following the spending review, which is currently underway.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local advisory councils of the Scottish Health Council there are; where the councils are located and what funding they receive.
Answer
There is a Local AdvisoryCouncil (LAC) in each of the 14 territorial NHS board areas. The following tabledetails total expenditure, which represents members expenses, by each LAC in 2006-07:
| NHS Board | Actual Expenditure 2006-07 (£) |
| Grampian | 1,575 |
| Highland | 2,044 |
| Orkney | 1,524 |
| Shetland | 638 |
| Western Isles | 309 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1,210 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 837 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 410 |
| Lanarkshire | 74 |
| Tayside | 1,172 |
| Fife | 231 |
| Lothian | 316 |
| Borders | 1,086 |
| Forth Valley | 636 |
| Total | 12,062 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 19 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the call by the EIS for a ban on recruitment by the armed forces in schools, whether ministers will issue immediate guidance to education authorities to ensure that this practice ceases.
Answer
Local authoritiesand schools are presently and rightly responsible for considering thearrangements under which any potential employer offers advice on careeropportunities to pupils, and does that in a professional manner, appropriate tothe pupils’ age and maturity, and in a way which does not seek to exert undueor inappropriate influence.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS employees have been recruited into the British armed forces following recruitment activities in hospitals and what the resulting impact has been on the delivery of health services to patients in each year since 2003.
Answer
The information requestedis not available centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider banning the practice of recruitment visits to hospitals by the armed forces targeting NHS staff, in light of pressure on NHS boards to deliver high-quality health provision to patients.
Answer
The Scottish Governmenthas no plans to ban recruitment visits to hospitals by the British Armed Forces.Recruitment visits are in the main held for recruitment to the reserves or TerritorialArmy (TA) and are carried out with the permission of the hospital. NHS staff areentitled under employment law legislation to take special leave with pay to performessential civic and public duties, such as serving as a reserve or in the TA.
