Questions and answers

Question reference: S4W-17865

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 19 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many public relations posts there are in each NHS board, and what information it has for organisations that the NHS uses to help provide services.

Information on how many public relation posts there are in each NHS board is not centrally held. However, NHS boards may be in a position to provide information on the number of staff involved in public relations and corporate communications work if approached directly.

It should be noted that NHSScotland uses many thousands of organisations to help provide services. These include for example, suppliers of goods, voluntary sector partners and energy providers. The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested for these organisations.

Question reference: S4W-17864

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of each NHS board's budget is taken up by administration costs, and what information it has for organisations that the NHS uses to help provide services.

Table 1 shows the percentage of each NHS Board’s total costs taken up by administration costs for financial year 2011-12. The information is based on data from the 2011-12 Scottish Health Service Costs Book publication which includes data on the 14 territorial NHS Boards and two special boards, the State Hospital and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital. The administration costs include hospital and community administration costs (and cover both pay and supplies costs).

Table 1: NHS Board Administration Costs as % of Total Operating Costs for 2011-12

NHS Board	Total Operating Costs £’000	Total Admin Costs £000	Admin Costs (%)
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	676,345	52,305	7.7%
NHS Borders	187,138	12,622	6.7%
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	279,213	18,843	6.7%
NHS Fife	584,155	39,091	6.7%
NHS Forth Valley	484,010	34,724	7.2%
NHS Grampian	914,330	58,217	6.4%
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	2,731,997	197,741	7.2%
NHS Highland	569,823	43,241	7.6%
NHS Lanarkshire	939,016	68,115	7.3%
NHS Lothian	1,522,248	91,124	6.0%
NHS Orkney	41,162	6,190	15.0%
NHS Shetland	45,254	4,250	9.4%
NHS Tayside	846,978	65,399	7.7%
NHS Western Isles	66,560	6,458	9.7%
Golden Jubilee	105,549	7,277	6.9%
State Hospital	34,604	4,053	11.7%
TOTAL	10,028,382	709,650	7.1%

NHSScotland uses many thousands of organisations to help provide services. These include for example, suppliers of goods, voluntary sector partners and energy providers. The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested for these organisations.

Question reference: S4W-17867

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many non-medical (a) managerial and (b) administrative posts there are in each NHS board, also expressed as a percentage of the number of employees.

SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

WRITTEN ANSWER

12 November 2013

Index Heading: Health and Social Care

Margo MacDonald (Lothian) (Independent): To ask the Scottish Government how many non-medical (a) managerial and (b) administrative posts there are in each NHS board, also expressed as a percentage of the number of employees.

(S4W-17867)

Alex Neil:

Information on how many non-medical (a) managerial and (b) administrative post there are in each NHS Board, expressed as a percentage of the number of employees can be found in the following tables.

Table 1: Non-medical Managerial staff by NHS Health Board as at 30th June 2013:

Health Board	Whole Time Equivalent	Percentage¹
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	36.7	0.4%
NHS Borders	17.0	0.7%
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	12.0	0.3%
NHS Fife	33.5	0.5%
NHS Forth Valley	27.8	0.6%
NHS Grampian	68.6	0.6%
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	188.4	0.6%
NHS Highland	65.5	0.8%
NHS Lanarkshire	74.4	0.7%
NHS Lothian	129.5	0.7%
NHS Orkney	3.0	0.7%
NHS Shetland	5.0	0.9%
NHS Tayside	86.5	0.7%
NHS Western Isles	5.0	0.6%
National Waiting Times Centre	7.9	0.6%
NHS 24	5.4	0.5%
NHS Health Scotland	14.0	5.4%
NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland	7.9	2.7%
NHS National Education Scotland	7.0	0.7%
NHS National Services Scotland	64.8	2.2%
Scottish Ambulance Service	11.0	0.3%
State Hospital	10.0	1.6%

Management grades (non AfC) – Note that these are not all the managers in the NHS. This group describes those staff on senior management and executive level pay arrangements.

1. The percentage shown is of the total number of staff within each NHS board.

Table 1: Non-medical Administrative staff by NHS Health Board as at 30th June 2013:

Health Board	Whole Time Equivalent	Percentage¹
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	1410.5	16.8%
NHS Borders	446.8	17.8%
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	591.6	17.2%
NHS Fife	1193.8	17.0%
NHS Forth Valley	841.4	17.1%
NHS Grampian	1688.9	14.8%
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	5322.4	15.9%
NHS Highland	1259.2	15.8%
NHS Lanarkshire	1621.7	16.0%
NHS Lothian	2765.8	14.6%
NHS Orkney	107.8	23.4%
NHS Shetland	122.0	22.2%
NHS Tayside	1966.4	16.8%
NHS Western Isles	157.2	18.8%
National Waiting Times Centre	211.0	15.9%
NHS 24	563.3	56.0%
NHS Health Scotland	212.4	81.6%
NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland	284.5	96.0%
NHS National Education Scotland	498.7	51.4%
NHS National Services Scotland	1883.0	62.6%
Scottish Ambulance Service	318.2	7.7%
State Hospital	96.6	15.3%

1. The percentage shown is of the total number of staff within each NHS board.

Question reference: S4W-17863

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 5 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what organisations the NHS uses to help provide services, broken down by the (a) cost of the service, (b) number of employees and (c) ratio between highest and lowest paid employee.

Detailed information on NHSScotland expenditure is available on the NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) Information Services Division (ISD) website. ISD publish the Scottish Health Service Costs (known as the Cost Book) which provides a detailed analysis of where resources are spent in NHSScotland.

NHSScotland uses many thousands of organisations to help provide services. These include for example, suppliers of goods, voluntary sector partners and energy providers. The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested for these organisations.

Question reference: S4W-17866

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 29 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board paid in commissioning work from non-medical consultants in the latest year for which information is available, and what information it has for organisations that the NHS uses to help provide services.

Question reference: S4W-17546

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to conduct a review of the effectiveness of Police Scotland's (a) set-up and (b) operations before April 2015.

Police Scotland operates independently of Ministers. The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has a statutory function of delivering continuous improvement of policing and holding the Chief Constable to account. At the end of each financial year the SPA will prepare an annual report providing an assessment of its performance in delivering its own functions as well as an assessment of the Police Service’s performance. In addition, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary for Scotland will report on the efficiency and effectiveness of the police service in Scotland and Audit Scotland have indicated they will undertake a series of performance audits on police reform.

Question reference: S4O-02507

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Police Scotland's reported decision to ask the City of Edinburgh Council to grant licences for saunas only on the condition that items of a sexual nature are not allowed on the premises.

Question reference: S4W-15680

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Friday, 14 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many police officers were involved in the recent raids on saunas in Edinburgh, broken down by local policing area.

Question reference: S4W-15679

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Friday, 14 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the cost was of the recent Police Scotland raids on saunas in Edinburgh.

Question reference: S4W-15503

Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothian, Independent
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 June 2013

To as the Scottish Government how many officials are on loan to it from other UK civil service departments, broken down by (a) directorate and (b) grade, and from what departments.

At 7 June 2013 there were 8 staff on loan from another government department to the Core Scottish Government.

1 employee at C1 grade assigned to Directorate for Digital from Cabinet Office.

1 employee at Fast Stream grade assigned to Directorate for Health and Social Care Integration from Department for Work and Pensions.

1 employee at Fast Stream grade assigned to The Quality Unit (Health and Social Care) from Department for Work and Pensions.

1 employee at B2 grade assigned to Directorate for Safer Communities from HM Revenue and Customs.

1 employee at C2 grade assigned to Directorate for External Affairs from Home Office.

1 employee at C3 grade assigned to Directorate for Justice from Ministry of Justice.

1 employee at C1 grade assigned to Directorate for Justice from Scottish Court Service.

1 employee at B1 grade assigned to Ministerial Private Offices from Historic Scotland.

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