- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking, or plans to take, to suggest indicators and clinical audit criteria that can be used to assess the quality of prevention measures and treatments of coronary heart disease.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32506 today. 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: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking, or plans to take, to identify milestones and goals that will mark progress with the implementation of national standards of care for preventing and treating coronary heart disease.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32506 today. 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: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking, or plans to take, to identify early priorities in the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32506 today. 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: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking, or plans to take, to recommend service models enabling the efficient delivery of any national standards of care for preventing and treating coronary heart disease.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32506 today. 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: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 19 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned, or plans to commission, on the skills base that might be available amongst refugees currently residing in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive, in partnership with the Scottish Refugee Council, will be conducting an audit of asylum seekers' and refugees' skills early next year, with results due to be published in the summer.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 18 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the bid document forming the basis for the sums allocated to East Dunbartonshire Council under the Public Transport Fund, announced on 14 November 2002, included any submission for expenditure on Kirkintilloch town centre.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 18 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to increase the proportion of older people in East Dunbartonshire that are able to live independently by increasing home care opportunities since 1997.
Answer
Councils' expenditure on home care services is funded through the general local government settlement. Between 1997-98 and 2001-02, East Dunbartonshire Council's net expenditure on home care services increased 7.8% to £2.9 million. The table shows the number of clients in receipt of care at home from 1997. The figures show an upward trend for 2002.East Dunbartonshire Home Care Clients
| Year | No of clients | No of clients over 65 |
| 1997 | 1,275 | 1,136 |
| 1998 | 1,207 | 977 |
| 1999 | 1,010 | 832 |
| 2000 | 1,022 | 839 |
| 2001 | 986 | 830 |
| 2002 | 1,013 | 881 |
Source: SEHD H1 Homecare return form.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 17 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to reduce the proportion of unemployed people of working age in the East Dunbartonshire Council area.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on the funding and delivery of New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing partner organisations. There are a range of New Deal programmes available to all unemployed working age people in the East Dunbartonshire Council area who meet the qualification criteria. Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire also offer a variety of training opportunities as part of the Training for Work (TfW) programme. TfW is available on a voluntary basis to those aged 25 and over who have been unemployed for six months or more. Opportunities are enhanced by the JOBlink project, which has a full-time co-ordinator working exclusively in East Dunbartonshire. It is also supplemented by the Adult Recruitment and Training Credit which is available to employers recruiting unemployed TfW participants. TfW offers short, sharp courses relevant to the demands of local employers with the aim of progressing people into sustainable employment, as well as longer courses that can take up to a year.Since June 2001 an increased range of occupational specific training opportunities have been available to East Dunbartonshire residents.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 17 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what applications it has received for additional funding within the current financial year from East Dunbartonshire Council to extend, improve, integrate and modernise existing CCTV systems.
Answer
We recently announced to local authorities that, in addition to the Community Safety Partnership Award Programme funding for Community Safety Partnerships to address local priorities, £2 million would be available to upgrade existing CCTV systems and to assist police forces in Scotland to introduce Automatic Number Plate Recognition Systems (ANPR). East Dunbartonshire have submitted an outline proposal to upgrade the Kirkintilloch town centre system and to undertake a feasibility study for developing a central monitoring facility. The proposal will be considered along with all others received.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 17 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what reduction in the proportion of children living in (a) workless and (b) low-income households there has been since 1996.
Answer
The proportion of children living in workless households fell from 19% in 1996 to 14% in 2002.Using the headline measure of below 60% of median household income (after housing costs), the proportion of children in low-income households fell from 34% in 1996-97, to 30% in relative terms and 21% in absolute terms in 2000-01.Both of these sets of figures, together with figures on other measures of social justice, are contained in the publication Social Justice: A Scotland where everyone matters: Indicators of progress.
