- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will deliver cash savings of at least 20% over the next four years in reducing scrutiny and what impact this will have on health and social care scrutiny bodies.
Answer
As part of its 2010 Spending Review, the government made a commitment to achieve savings on the direct costs of external scrutiny over the next four years. These will be delivered through: a reduction in administration and management costs as a result of the reduced set of scrutiny bodies which will be in place from this year; efficiencies required of all public sector organisations; changes to scrutiny activities to make them more proportionate, risk-based and better targeted; and more joint-working, co-ordination and sharing of knowledge between scrutiny bodies.
Both SCSWIS and HIS will contribute to these savings and are taking account of the planned reductions in the development of their inspection plans, business plans for 2011-12 and corporate plans for the next three years. These plans will be published by the new bodies after they are established on 1 April 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37312 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2010, on what basis the chair and members of the National Performance Management Committee are paid.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-38130 on 13 December 2010 which explained the basis on which the Chair of the National Performance Management Committee is paid. The other members of the committee are not remunerated for their membership of the committee.
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.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37313 by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2010, whether there is a continuing need for the National Performance Management Committee if there is no performance-related pay for the next two years.
Answer
Yes, there is a continuing need for the National Performance Management Committee. The specific responsibilities for the committee, as set out in HDL 2006(54) and its formal Terms of Reference “ a copy has been placed in SPICe (Bib. number 52071) - require it to ensure NHSScotland has a fit for purposes performance management process in place, regardless of any link to pay. Six of the committee''s eight specific responsibilities are unrelated to pay.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior civil servants are employed in its health directorate.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40433 on 16 March 2011. 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.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior managers are employed in each (a) NHS board and (b) Special Health Board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39384 on 24 February 2011. 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.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of the value of surplus NHS land and buildings.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The day-to-day management of NHSScotland assets including the sale of surplus land and buildings is a matter devolved to NHS boards to undertake following well established guidance and mandatory procedures as directed by the NHSScotland Property Transactions Handbook.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37317 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2010 and given the need to ensure that the principles of diversity and equality policies are followed, for what reason the National Performance Management Committee does not collate information on the sex and ethnicity of the NHS Executive Managers Cohort.
Answer
It is the responsibility of health boards as employers to ensure compliance with their obligations on all aspects of equality and diversity and to conduct impact assessments as required
The National Performance Management Committee collates and analyses information in relation to posts and not individuals.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what budget reduction has been applied to Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland for 2011-12.
Answer
Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS) has up to £35.9m available to it in 2011-12. That is the same figure as the 2010-11 baseline, ie the cost in that year of the corresponding functions in SCSWIS''s three predecessor bodies. The total available includes provision for one-off transitional costs. The amount budgeted for operating costs in 2011-12 is £33.7m.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37318 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2010, when it will provide the distribution of appraisal scores for the NHS Executive Managers Cohort for 2009-10.
Answer
Further to the answer to question S3W-37318, the following table now includes the percentage distribution for both the Executive and Senior Management cohorts across each of the performance ratings for the 2009-10 performance year.
| Year | Unacceptable | Incomplete | Fully Acceptable | Superior | Outstanding |
| 2007-08 | 0.00% | 2.33% | 79.87% | 17.47% | 0.33% |
| 2008-09 | 0.25% | 1.88% | 80.62% | 16.43% | 0.82% |
| 2009-10 | 0.16% | 2.13% | 82.50% | 14.64% | 0.57% |
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.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37690 by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 November 2010, what progress has been made in achieving a 25% reduction in senior manager posts in the NHS, expressed as a (a) number and (b) percentage.
Answer
I refer to the member to the answer to question S3W-37689 on 9 December 2010. The guidance referred to in that answer, which had been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52181) made clear that progress against the target will be monitored as part of each board''s annual workforce plans and projections. Boards'' workforce plans and projections for 2010-11 were already in place when the target was announced on 16 October 2010. I would therefore expect progress against the target to begin to feature in boards'' workforce plans and projections for 2011-12 which will be available later this year.
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.
