- 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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 15 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007, those who have enhanced disclosure certificates for working with children will require a separate certificate for working with vulnerable adults and, if so, whether it will review this requirement.
Answer
Under the Protectionof Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007, individuals working with childrenor protected adults will be expected to become members of the new vetting and barringscheme and this will replace the need for enhanced disclosure certificates. Peoplewill apply for scheme membership to work in the regulated adults’ or children’sworkforce or both, depending on the post or roles they undertake.
For example, a personcould apply to become a scheme member to work in the adults’ workforce, such asa care home for older people. If they subsequently wished to volunteer with theScouts, they would apply to be a scheme member in respect of regulated work withchildren. There may be vetting information which is relevant to working with childrenand which is not relevant to working with adults. This information will need tobe gathered and processed. This approach will ensure that information, which isrelevant to each workforce is assessed to confirm that the person is not unsuitable.All aspects of the new vetting and barring scheme, once implemented, will be keptunder review.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 15 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been a reduction in the number of equipment suppliers with an employment base in Scotland since Scottish Gas took over the management of the central heating programme in October 2006.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
This informationis not held centrally. However, Scottish Gas has continued to use the same mainmaterial supplier, based in Scotland, as used by the previous managing agent, since the start of the currentcontract in October 2006.
- 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 John Swinney on 15 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider issuing guidance to all bodies for which it has responsibility to ensure that recruitment shortages in the British armed forces do not lead to diminished public services through significantly increased recruitment activity by the armed forces in devolved areas.
Answer
We have no plansto issue such specific guidance.
