- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to reduce crime rates in disadvantaged areas in Renfrewshire since 1996.
Answer
The level of funding provided to police forces is now at record levels as are police numbers. Targets have also been set for the police to reduce violent crime and to increase drug seizures. CCTV has made an impact and Renfrewshire has benefited from Executive funding from the CCTV Challenge Competition, receiving a total of £180,692 since 1996.On 1 April we introduced a new Community Safety Partnership Award Programme to replace challenge funding and Renfrewshire Community Safety Partnership was awarded £147,522 in the current financial year to address local community safety priorities. Since 1996, Paisley Partnership has assisted local communities and agencies to develop a number of initiatives aimed at tackling crime in the 11 most disadvantaged areas in Renfrewshire. Many of these initiatives have been led by community groups and tackle the most pressing issues at local level. For example, a new initiative Communities Against Drugs is aimed at reducing the number of drug dealers in the social inclusion partnership areas.Renfrewshire Council has also been allocated £4.5 million over three years from the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund for a number of community safety initiatives.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what drug action teams are operating in the Paisley North constituency area; how much funding has been allocated to each such team, and what indicators have been established to assess the effectiveness of the teams.
Answer
Paisley North falls within the area of the Argyll and Clyde Alcohol and Drug Action Team (ADAT).The Executive provides support funding of £122,049 to Argyll and Clyde Alcohol and Drug Action Team to ensure strategic planning of drug-related work and the co-ordination of drugs services. Funding for services is allocated through statutory funding streams or direct to local drugs initiatives. The main elements of drug-specific funding for Argyll and Clyde are:Argyll and Clyde NHS Board (drug treatment services ) £1,243,484 per annum.Renfrewshire local authority (rehabilitation) £235,000 per annum.Renfrewshire local authority (Changing Children's Services Fund) £668,000 over three years 2001-02 to 2003-04.In addition, the area benefits from a number of other funding initiatives which impact on the drugs problem, including crime prevention and criminal justice initiatives.All Drug Action Teams report annually to the Executive on action taken, and action planned, against national targets and standards. Details can be found on the national drugs website at:
http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the (a) #100 million to tackle drug misuse in communities, (b) funding for 34 new CCTV projects and (c) #45.5 million to tackle youth crime will be spent in the Renfrewshire Council area and how these funds will be used.
Answer
The most complete information we have about Renfrewshire's allocation from the £128 million (£100 million augmented by a further £28 million over three years from Budget Consequentials) additional funding made available for tackling drug misuse is contained in the answer given to question S1W-31752 today.I understand that the reference to CCTV funding relates to the Make our Communities Safer CCTV Challenge Competition for 2000-01, which awarded funding to 34 CCTV schemes. No application was received that year from the Renfrewshire Council area. However, Strathclyde Passenger Transport made a successful bid for CCTV in 16 railway stations, one of which is in the Renfrewshire Council area - Howwood. The Make our Communities Safer CCTV Challenge Competition ran from 1996-97 to 2001-02, awarding £10.3 million to 161 projects. Successful projects within the Renfrewshire council area are detailed in the answer given to question S1W-31385 on 19 November 2002.Of the £25.5 million allocated to local authorities over four years from 2000-01 to prevent and reduce youth crime, £961,280 has been allocated to Renfrewshire. Of the £20 million EYF money earmarked for youth crime this year, Renfrewshire has received £128,506. For more information on the use of this money, I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-31379 on 19 November 2002. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how the #4 billion additional spending on public services up to 2005-06 as a result of the UK spending review has been, or will be, allocated and how much has been, or will be, allocated to the Renfrewshire Council area.
Answer
Every area of Scotland will benefit for our plans for investing in Scotland over the next three years, as our budget rises to over £25 billion by 2005-06. As I have made clear, this investment will be matched by delivery on our priority targets - bringing better schools, more effective transport services, better health, lower crime and continued growth in opportunities for all. All of Scotland will benefit from the better public services that we will deliver. The resources committed to individual areas will depend on a wide range of detailed programme allocations, some of which have yet to be made. For example, the local government revenue and capital allocations for East Renfrewshire Council for the next three years were announced on 4 December. More details of the Executive's other spending plans for the period up to 2005-06 were published in Building a Better Scotland: Spending Proposals 2003-06 on 12 September, and in The Scottish Executive: Draft Budget 2003-04: Detail on 31 October. And further details on individual programme allocations will be made in due course.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 4,000 jobs planned to be created or safeguarded through Regional Selective Assistance have been, or will be, located in the Renfrewshire Council area.
Answer
Following the publication of Regional Selective Assistance - Grant offers accepted April - September 2002, which detailed the planned creation or safeguarding of over 4,000 jobs in Scotland, I can confirm that 997 of these planned jobs are expected to be located in the Renfrewshire Council area.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #25 million for free local off-peak bus travel for elderly and disabled concessionary card holders has been allocated to the Renfrewshire Council area.
Answer
Renfrewshire's share of these resources is part of its unhypothecated general block grant allocation and is not identified separately. It is for the council to establish its actual level of expenditure on individual services.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many families in the Renfrewshire Council area have benefited from Sure Start Scotland, and in what ways, and how much of that organisation's #42 million funding was allocated to projects in the area.
Answer
To date £61 million has been allocated to local authorities in Scotland to implement the Sure Start Scotland programme. Of that total, Renfrewshire Council has received £2.476 million. It has used the money to extend existing provision, such as expansion of all day care resources and the extension of the childminding service. It has also created new services previously not available within the council's area such as outreach support and support to ethnic minority families.A recent national mapping exercise found that Sure Start Scotland has offered support to over 15,000 additional children and 6,000 parents in 2000-01. However, it is not possible to break this down to local authority level as raw data would not be of sufficient quality and completeness to support analysis or to allow conclusions to be drawn or comparisons with other data to be made. The figures cover a wide range of provision which vary in intensity from one-off interventions to sustained support over a long period.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #48 million to build and renovate health centres has been, or will be, allocated to Argyll and Clyde NHS Board and what projects the funds will be used for.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has so far allocated £5,766,000 to support 17 projects in the Argyll and Clyde NHS Board area from the Primary Care Premises Modernisation Programme. A list of the projects concerned has been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 25368).
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 350 one-stop clinics are located in the Renfrewshire Council area; where such clinics are located, and what services they offer.
Answer
Information on one-stop clinics operated by NHSScotland is not available in the specific format requested.NHS Argyll and Clyde currently operates 29 one-stop clinics where patients receive consultation, diagnostic tests, results, and if appropriate treatment, all in a single visit. Details of these one-stop clinics are given in the following table.One-Stop Clinics Operated By NHS Argyll And Clyde
| Location | Service |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding (Gynaecology) |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Breast Clinic |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Cataract |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Colorectal Cancer |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Colposcopy |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Diabetes |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Early Pregnancy Assessment Centre |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Genito-Urinary Medicine Referral |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Rheumatology |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Social Gynaecology |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Uro-Gynaecology Clinic |
| Inverclyde Royal Hospital | Vulval Clinic (Dermatology and Gynaecology) |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding (Gynaecology) |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Breast Clinic |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Cardiology |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Colposcopy |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Early Pregnancy |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Genito-Urinary Medicine Referral |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | HbA1C Near Patient Testing (Adult Diabetes) |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | HbA1C Near Patient Testing (Paediatric Diabetes) |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Head and Neck Cancer Clinic |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Hysteroscopy |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Lumps and Bumps |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Memory Clinic |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital | Social Gynaecology |
| Vale of Leven Hospital | Breast Clinic |
| Vale of Leven Hospital | Chest Pain |
| Lorn and Island District General Hospital | Chest Pain |
| Russell Institute, Paisley | Genito-Urinary Medicine |
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of additional #3.2 billion to be spent on health by 2007-08 as a result of the UK Budget 2002 will be allocated to the Argyll and Clyde NHS Board and what instructions will be issued about the use of these funds.
Answer
Argyll and Clyde NHS Board has been given an indicative increase in unified budget for 2003-04 of £30.115 million. Boards will be notified of actual unified budgets for 2003-04 soon. Decisions on indicative allocation increases to unified budgets for future years have not yet been taken.
