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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S3W-40143

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each NHS board spends on hospital food per patient per day.

This information is not held centrally, however Scottish Health Service Costs publishes information on catering costs per patient consumer week:

NHS Board	Catering Expenditure	Number of Patient Consumer weeks	Cost per patient consumer week
NHS Board	£000s		£
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	6,399	73,212	87.4
NHS Borders	1,719	23,455	73.3
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	2,420	28,142	86.0
NHS Fife	4,629	62,961	73.5
NHS Forth Valley	3,843	50,261	76.5
NHS Grampian	8,057	104,143	77.4
NHS Greater Glasgow	21,222	299,152	70.9
NHS Highland	5,172	55,664	92.9
NHS Lanarkshire	6,664	98,713	67.5
NHS Lothian	13,280	165,990	80.0
NHS Orkney	360	2,485	145.0
NHS Shetland	495	3,016	164.1
NHS Tayside	7,549	98,258	76.8
NHS Western Isles	812	6,630	122.5
Total	82,619	1,072,082	77.1

Question reference: S3W-39688

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a role in (a) monitoring or (b) regulating the use of internet sites that provide advice to people with mental health problems.

The regulation of the internet is reserved to the UK Government under the Scotland Act 1998.

The Scottish Government does monitor the use of specific internet sites that provide advice to people with mental health problems which are supported by its partner organisations. For example, on Breathing Space (hosted by NHS 24) and on Well Scotland (hosted by NHS Health Scotland), information such as number of hits, source of hits, and frequency of hits is collected to inform policy.

Additionally, the Scottish Government actively promotes support to help all people stay safe online, through various national and local initiatives, some of which are listed:

Get Safe Online is a joint initiative between the UK Government, law enforcement, leading businesses and the public sector. Their website www.getsafeonline.org contains advice to help people stay safe online and to avoid some of the risks and threats which exist.

The Scottish Government participates in the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, which is committed to improving the safeguards for young people, and published an Action Plan on Child Internet Safety in February 2010, available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/02/09154928/0. A second action plan is due to be published in March 2011.

Skills Development Scotland provides information through the National Learning Opportunities Database on a wide range of IT courses, including courses that help individuals learn about the responsible use of the computers and the internet. ILA Scotland provides funding for people on lower incomes to access a wide range of IT courses.

Question reference: S3W-39672

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the social care budget has been spent on (a) children’s, (b) older people’s and (c) disability services in each year since 2007-08, also broken down by local authority

Question reference: S3W-39673

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring arrangements are in place in respect of the £70 million Change Fund.

Question reference: S3W-40005

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what companies were involved in the proposed development of a continuing care facility at Blawarthill Hospital.

Question reference: S3W-39687

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether growing concerns have been brought to its attention regarding internet begging.

Question reference: S3W-39674

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how the voluntary sector is involved in determining the use of the £70 million Change Fund at a local level.

Guidance to local health, housing and social care partnerships on accessing the Reshaping Care Change Fund was issued on 23 December 2010. This set a clear expectation on partnerships to include Third and independent sector partners in preparing and agreeing their Change Plans.

All partnerships have now submitted local Change Plans to the Scottish Government. A report on these plans will be considered by the Ministerial Strategic Group (MSG) on Health and Community Care at its meeting on 15 March. The MSG will take into account the governance arrangements described by partnerships, and we will be in touch with all partnerships shortly thereafter.

Question reference: S3W-39671

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether all medical directors of NHS boards will review the circumstances of all older patients who died in their hospitals after being deemed medically fit for discharge in 2010.

Question reference: S3W-39669

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the number of older people who died in hospital while deemed medically fit for discharge and awaiting a care package in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010 and have died in 2011.

Question reference: S3W-39670

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the outcome of the review by the medical director of NHS Fife of the 93 patients who died in hospital after being deemed medically fit for discharge in 2010.