- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support it plans to make available for the Glasgow north/south CrossRail scheme.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is prepared to consider all public transport initiatives that will bring improved services to the public. The Glasgow north/south Crossrail scheme is the responsibility of Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive, and it is up to it to take matters forward and bid for funds. No approach has been made to the Scottish Executive by SPTE for financial support for the scheme.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 17 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many inpatient operations were performed in the Greater Glasgow Health Board area in each of the last three years.
Answer
The following table shows the total number of operations performed in Greater Glasgow on an inpatient basis
1 during the years 1997/98 to 1999/00. It also shows the number of 'principal' operations performed in Greater Glasgow on an inpatient basis
1 during the same time period:
Year | Total Number of Operations2 | Number of Principal Operations |
1997/98 | 152,649 | 107,633 |
1998/99 | 160,805 | 110,976 |
1999/00 | 152,914 | 105,816 |
Notes:1 The information shown is based on patients treated as inpatients in NHS hospitals in Greater Glasgow health board area.2 Includes any secondary or other operations during the same episode of care.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 17 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations were performed on a day surgery basis in hospitals in the Greater Glasgow Health Board area in each of the last three years.
Answer
The following table shows the total number of operations performed in Greater Glasgow on a day surgery basis
1 during the years 1997/98 to 1999/00. It also shows the number of 'principal' operations performed in Greater Glasgow on a day surgery basis
1 during the same time period:
Year | Total Number of Operations2 | Number of Principal Operations |
1997/98 | 95,217 | 81,929 |
1998/99 | 100,862 | 87,823 |
1999/00 | 98,926 | 86,548 |
Notes:1 The information shown is based on patients treated as day cases in NHS hospitals in Greater Glasgow health board area. Patients who received an operation in an outpatient setting are excluded as this information is not held centrally.2 Includes any secondary or other operations during the same episode of care.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in its review of the planning system with particular reference to controversial planning applications.
Answer
The Executive's programme for modernising the planning system includes the current consultation on the Review of Strategic Planning, a forthcoming consultation on public involvement in the planning system and the development of a policy statement on design and quality. The planning system already identifies a category of applications called "bad neighbour development"; we have no plans to develop separate procedures for dealing with a category of "controversial" applications.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 31 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance and funding it has made available since 1999 to voluntary and community groups and local authorities in relation to building community relations between local residents and asylum seekers and refugees and thereby facilitating social inclusion.
Answer
The Scottish Executive's policy is to provide funding to national organisations, while funding for groups operating locally should be decided locally.
The Scottish Executive provided funding of £191,844 in 1999-2000, £196,356 in 2000-01, and £202,914 in 2001-02 to the Scottish Refugee Council. This is to assist the council to provide advice, support and practical help to refugees and their families in Scotland, and to fund the council's housing policy work with local authorities, housing associations and others on the development of accommodation and support provision and the council's own provision of housing support and advice to refugees.
The Scottish Executive has not issued guidance on these matters.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 30 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in the Greater Glasgow Health Board area who had operations on a day surgery basis were subsequently admitted to hospital due to complications resulting from the surgery in each of the last three years.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 5 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many international-standard indoor running tracks there currently are in Scotland.
Answer
The Kelvin Hall in Glasgow stages indoor athletics events of international standard and is the only such facility in Scotland. As I said in my response to question S1O-03427, sportscotland has ongoing dialogue with local authorities and the Scottish Athletics Federation about the provision of adequate national facilities for athletics.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any adjustments in the levels of revenue support grant for local authorities will be made as a result of the provisions in the Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) (No.2) (Scotland) Order 2001 (SSI 2001/230).
Answer
The intention of the revised levels of fee is to allow local authority licensing boards to achieve full cost recovery for processing gaming licences under the Act. Since there are many more licences for bingo than for casinos, it is unlikely the changes will result in less income for licensing boards. The changes follow the recommendations of the Gaming Board, following a National Audit Office study of the board. The revised fees should more accurately reflect the costs to local authority licensing boards of administering the licensing process.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 28 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the New Futures Fund will continue beyond the end of its three-year funding period in March 2002.
Answer
I have been reviewing the future of this initiative, and will make an announcement as soon as possible.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 28 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive in which health board areas the brain cancer drug temo'olomide is available.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Temozolomide is available on the NHS and its use depends on the clinical judgement of specialists experienced in the management of brain cancer.
