- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of Not Seen. Not Heard. Not Guilty: The Rights and Status of the Children of Prisoners in Scotland by the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland, what plans it has to ensure better support for the estimated 13,500 children affected by the imprisonment of a parent every year.
Answer
The Scottish Government and its related agency, the Scottish Prison Service, provides financial support to Families Outside, a Scottish charity which helps families each year through the Scottish Prisoner''s Family Helpline. Through research, training and partnership work, Families Outside aims to raise awareness of the needs of families affected by imprisonment so that they can get the information and support they need to cope.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executivehow many officers are employed by Strathclyde Police and deployed in the North Lanarkshire division.
Answer
The operational deployment of resources is a matter for chief constables, and no information is held centrally on the number of officers deployed in specific local authority areas.
Figures on the number of police officers employed in Strathclyde as a whole are given in the Police Quarterly Strength Return, copies of which are held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43307).
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many doctors in (a) Monklands, (b) Wishaw and (c) Hairmyres hospitals are due to retire in the next (i) year and (ii) four years.
Answer
The specific information requested is not centrally available. However, the following table shows the number of doctors in NHS Lanarkshire who will reach the age of 65 in each year from 2008 to 2012. Please note also that there are five doctors in NHS Lanarkshire aged 65 or over as at 30 September 2007.
HCHS Medical Staff in NHS Lanarkshire Reaching the Age of 651
| Year | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
Source: ISD Scotland.
Note: ages 60 to 64, as at 30 September 2007.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the findings of the General Teaching Council Scotland’s 2006-07 employment survey of probationer teachers, whether it plans to allocate additional funding to enable local authorities to employ additional teachers.
Answer
The Scottish Government has already allocated an additional £9 million to enable local authorities to employ additional teachers in the academic year 2007-08 in order to alleviate a situation we inherited. The funding was baselined and forms part of the recent local government financial settlement.
We have also signed a concordat with local government that commits local authorities to broadly maintain teacher numbers when pupil rolls are falling. This will provide additional employment opportunities for new teachers.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will cost to (a) refurbish Monklands District General Hospital, (b) establish a Lanarkshire cancer centre at Monklands, (c) develop in-house mental health and learning disability facilities and (d) develop Airdrie Health Centre and whether the finance for these improvements was included in the recent NHS board allocations or whether additional funding will be made available.
Answer
NHS Lanarkshire are due to consider their 2008-09 Local Delivery Plan in March 2008, agreeing the board''s priorities for the next five years “ until the board do this the estimated costs of the above projects cannot be confirmed.
The board will be expected to manage all of their services, including the above projects where approved, within the resources available to them. I have already confirmed that I will provide £100 million capital funding to NHS Lanarkshire to support the regeneration of Monklands District General Hospital.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for doctors there are in (a) Monklands, (b) Wishaw and (c) Hairmyres hospitals, broken down by grade, and for how long each position has been vacant.
Answer
The specific information requested is not centrally available. However, details of vacant consultant posts are published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce. The consultant vacancies table in the medical and dental section gives the number of consultant vacancies in hospital specialties by NHS board area and year. The table also gives the number of posts which have been vacant for six months or more. Latest available data is at 30 September 2007.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 26 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there were under the central heating programme during September 2007 and, of these, how many have been assessed, how many applicants have been judged as eligible, how many had central heating installed in each calendar month since then and, for those remaining eligible applicants, in which calendar month they have been advised to anticipate installation.
Answer
The managing agent (Scottish Gas) has indicated that 1,910 applications were received in September 2007. Of those, 1,352 applicants have been deemed eligible and 44 remained to be fully assessed at the end of January 2008.
From the total number of applicants in September, one received a heating system in October, seven in November, eight in December and 32 received their heating system in January.
From the applications still in progress it was expected that 319 will be installed in March, 704 in May and 70 in June.
For 2007-08 the average time a householder has waited between applications and the month in which their system was installed has been six months, around the same as it has been since 2004-05 and lower than the eight month average waiting time in 2002-03.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 26 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there were under the central heating programme during December 2007 and, of these, how many have been assessed, how many applicants have been judged as eligible, how many had central heating installed in each calendar month since then and, for those remaining eligible applicants, in which calendar month they have been advised to anticipate installation.
Answer
The managing agent (Scottish Gas) has indicated that 1,340 applications were received in December 2007. Of those 775 applicants have been deemed eligible and 164 remain to be fully assessed at the end of January 2008.
From the total number of applicants in December, at the end of January none have received a heating system.
From the applications still in progress it is expected that 43 would be installed in July 635 in August and 37 in September.
For 2007-08 the average time a householder has waited between applications and the month in which their system was installed has been six months, around the same as it has been since 2004-05 and lower than the eight month average waiting time in 2002-03.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 26 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there were under the central heating programme during October 2007 and, of these, how many have been assessed, how many applicants have been judged as eligible, how many had central heating installed in each calendar month since then and, for those remaining eligible applicants, in which calendar month they have been advised to anticipate installation.
Answer
The managing agent (Scottish Gas) has indicated that 2,584 applications were received in October 2007. Of those 1,832 applicants have been deemed eligible and 68 remained to be fully assessed at the end of January 2008.
From the total number of applications in October, one applicant received a heating system in November, eight in December and 15 received their heating system in January.
From the applications still in progress it was expected that 230 would be installed in March, 1,214 in June and 83 in July.
For 2007-08, the average time a householder has waited between applications and the month in which their system was installed has been six months, around the same as it has been since 2004-05 and lower than the eight month average waiting time in 2002-03.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 26 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there were under the central heating programme during November 2007 and, of these, how many have been assessed, how many applicants have been judged as eligible, how many had central heating installed in each calendar month since then and, for those remaining eligible applicants, in which calendar month they have been advised to anticipate installation.
Answer
The managing agent (Scottish Gas) has indicated that 2,554 applications were received in November 2007. Of those 1,619 applicants have been deemed eligible and 123 remain to be fully assessed at the end of January 2008.
From the total number of applicants in November, two received a heating system in December and 20 received their heating system in January.
From the applications still in progress it was expected that 151 would be installed in March, 1,134 in July and 86 in August.
For 2007-08 the average time a householder has waited between applications and the month in which their system was installed has been six months, around the same as it has been since 2004-05 and lower than the eight month average waiting time in 2002-03.
