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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: S5W-01029

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 12 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when it will establish a new consumer body; what powers the body will have; what budget it will have, and how it will be funded.

Question reference: S5W-01164

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 12 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it uses external staff to fill temporary vacancies and, if so, who provides the staff.

Question reference: S5W-00941

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 11 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many births there have been by women resident in (a) Dumbarton, (b) the Vale of Leven, (c) Helensburgh and Lomond, (d) Clydebank, (e) Bearsden and (f) Milngavie in each year since 2009, also broken down by the number of home births.

The table below provides information on births for the above mentioned areas.

To note:

1) Areas were determined by using the closest possible match using National Registers of Scotland (NRS) Scottish Postcode Directory. For more information on these geographies, see the following link: http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/geography/our-products/nrs-postcode-extract/2016-1

2) Figures are based on births to women who were usually resident in these areas.

3) Figures are based on the year of registration of the birth, and are recorded by financial year.

4) NRS does not collect information on home births, but records the institution in which the event took place. NRS are able to identify hospital births, and births which did not take place in an institution. The majority of these non-institution births will be home births, but some may have taken place in other locations, e.g. on route to hospital etc.

Number of Births to women resident in selected areas by year and location of birth

		2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014

(a) Dumbarton

Hospital	249	202	242	225	209	233
Non-institution	4	1	0	1	4	0

(b) Vale of Leven

Hospital	279	292	284	304	273	262
Non-institution	2	3	1	1	2	6

Hospital	233	204	227	241	201	202
Non-institution	1	3	1	5	1	4

(d) Clydebank

Hospital	337	338	317	285	302	278
Non-institution	2	3	5	9	6	5

(e) Bearsden

Hospital	199	203	244	194	248	227
Non-institution	0	3	3	4	0	3

(f) Milngavie

Hospital	106	93	96	98	114	86
Non-institution	0	0	0	1	0	0

Question reference: S5W-00939

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 11 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the community maternity units that are operating in each NHS board area.

A full list providing a breakdown of the alongside and free-standing maternity units in NHS board area is available below:

NHS Board	Community Maternity Unit
Ayrshire and Arran	Arran War Memorial Midwifery Led Unit, Crosshouse
Dumfries and Galloway	Clenoch Birthing Centre, Galloway Community Hospital, Stranraer
Fife	Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy – Midwife-Led
Grampian	Peterhead Community Hospital Aberdeen Maternity Hospital – Alongside Midwifery Unit
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	Royal Alexandra, Paisley Community Unit Inverclyde Royal, Greenock Vale of Leven, Alexandria
Highland	Dunoon and Districts Hospital Victoria Hospital, Rothesay Mid Argyle Hospital, Lochgilphead Belford Hospital, Fort William Campbeltown Hospital Lorn and Islands Hospital, Oban Islay Hospital Dr MacKinnon Memorial Hospital, Skye
Lothian	Simpson Birthing Centre
Shetland	Shetland Maternity Unit (GP/Midwife led)
Tayside	Montrose Infirmary, Community Midwifery Unit Arbroath Infirmary, Community Midwifery Unit Perth Community Maternity Unit Dundee – Midwifery Unit
Western Isles	Uist and Barra, Benbecula

Question reference: S5W-00938

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 7 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-29329 by Annabelle Ewing on 25 January 2016, whether it will provide an update on how many modern apprentices in the oil and gas sector have been hired using the Adopt an Apprentice scheme.

Question reference: S5W-00843

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport last met the chair or chief executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to discuss services at the Vale of Leven Hospital, and whether it will publish the minutes of the meeting.

Question reference: S5W-00842

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde local delivery plan is subject to ministerial approval.

Question reference: S5W-00795

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 30 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-00367 and S5W-00369 by Keith Brown and Jamie Hepburn on 14 and 15 June 2016 respectively, whether it will provide a breakdown of how it arrived at the figure of "more than 2,500 individuals" being provided with support by the Energy Jobs Taskforce, and whether it is satisfied with the accuracy of this answer and, if so, for what reason.

Question reference: S5W-00844

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport is aware of the reported proposal in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde draft local delivery plan to transfer birthing services from the Vale of Leven Hospital to the Royal Alexandra Hospital and, if so, when the cabinet secretary was informed of this.

Question reference: S5W-00841

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has allocated each year to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde toward the promotion of the Community Maternity Unit at the Vale of Leven Hospital since the publication of the agreement, Vision for the Vale, broken down by type of marketing activity.

This government has substantially increased funding for all health boards since 2007. We have increased NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde’s frontline budget by £444.3 million from £1,634.9 million to a planned £2,079.2 million; a cumulative cash increase of 27.2% (2006/07 to 2016/17). In 2016-17, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde’s annual resource budget increased by 5.2% to £2,079.2 million, an above inflation increase, having previously increased by 2.7% in 2015/16. It is for individual health boards to determine how these resources are spent locally, in line with national policies, priorities and frameworks.