- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which hospitals in each NHS board area have an (a) general paediatric and (b) specialist paediatric (i) department or (ii) unit, showing the specialism undertaken.
Answer
The Royal Hospital forSick Children Edinburgh, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children Glasgow and the Royal AberdeenChildren’s Hospital provide specialist services on a regional and nationalbasis whilst providing a general paediatric service to their local population.NHS board areas in Scotland that have a general paediatric unit are listed intable 1.
Table 1: General PaediatricMedical Units by NHS Board Area and Hospital1
| Area | Hospital |
| Argyll and Clyde | Inverclyde Royal Hospital Royal Alexandra Hospital Vale of Leven District General Hospital |
| Ayrshire and Arran | Ayrshire Central Hospital Crosshouse Hospital The Ayr Hospital |
| Borders | Borders General Hospital |
| Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary |
| Fife | Forth Park Hospital Victoria Hospital |
| Forth Valley | Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary Stirling Royal Infirmary |
| Grampian | Aberdeen Maternity Hospital Dr Gray’s Hospital Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital |
| Greater Glasgow | Queen Mother’s Hospital Royal Hospital for Sick Children Southern General Hospital The Princess Royal Maternity Unit |
| Lanarkshire | Monklands Hospital Wishaw General Hospital |
| Lothian | New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children St John’s Hospital At Howden |
| Tayside | Ninewells Hospital Perth Royal Infirmary |
| Western Isles | Western Isles Hospital |
Note:
1. As at March 2003.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which hospitals in each NHS board area are exclusively involved in paediatric medicine.
Answer
There are three hospitalsexclusively involved in paediatric medicine:
Royal Aberdeen Children’sHospital – NHS Grampian
Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow - NHS Greater Glasgow
Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh - NHS Lothian
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what ongoing training is available to NHS staff in hospitals in each NHS board area in respect of paediatric intensive care.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. However, there is a recognised Specialist Practitioner Qualificationfor Paediatric Intensive Care available through Glasgow Caledonian University. Overthe past five years, 42 students started the course, 26 have completed, 15 arein the process of completing, and one person has withdrawn.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 13 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to establish an autism-specific medical facility at a hospital to address the medical needs of those with autism.
Answer
The Scottish Executive hasno such plans. We are committed to improving services for people with autisticspectrum disorders through improved assessment and diagnosis, more informationand training for a range of professionals, and better inter-agency working.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 12 January 2004
To ask the Presiding Officer whether there was any audit exercise in relation to the Holyrood project after the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body took responsibility for it and prior to the establishment of Audit Scotland.
Answer
The Comptroller and AuditorGeneral was responsible for the audit of the Scottish Parliamentary CorporateBody for the relevant period. No formal examination of the Holyrood buildingproject was carried out at that time.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Monday, 05 January 2004
-
Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 12 January 2004
To ask the Presiding Officer whether there is any impediment to Lord Fraser of Carmyllie calling as witnesses to the Holyrood Inquiry the Auditor General for Scotland and employees of Audit Scotland who carried out work in relation to the report on the Holyrood building project in September 2000 and the investigation into the Flour City contract.
Answer
In his opening statement tothe inquiry on 12 September 2003, Lord Fraser stated " I, and I alone, willdecide which witnesses will be called. I will also decide to what matters theirevidence will be directed." Accordingly, the witnesses and the subjects tobe addressed are entirely matters for Lord Fraser to decide.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 5 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied with the working practices implemented by BEAR Scotland in connection with the winter maintenance rotas of trunk roads for which they are responsible and whether it has made any representations to the Health and Safety Executive about these matters.
Answer
BEAR Scotland Ltd mustcomply with all legislation affecting their workforce, including winter rotas.
The Scottish Executive takes health and safety issues very seriously and would immediatelyraise any alleged breach with BEAR and if necessary would not hesitate to raiseissues with the Health and Safety Executive.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to answer to question S2W-3452 by Nicol Stephen on 12 November 2003, what the 12 road projects referred to in the answer are, showing in each case the (a) road, (b) part of the road being upgraded and (c) total amount of spending from (i) local authorities and (ii) European structural funds.
Answer
The twelve road projects fundedfrom European Structural Funds are listed below with the associated local authoritycontributions to each project. Other local authority roads expenditure, given inthe Provisional Outturn Estimate, is managed locally.
| Road Being Upgraded | European Structural Funds Award | Local Authority Contribution | Total |
| Strategic timber transportation road network for Argyll (25.2 km of public road). | £730,820 over 5 years | £742,404 | £1,473,224 |
| Arran economic enhancement project (phase 1) road improvements. Including upgrading sections of A841 Brodick- Corrie- Lochranza and the B880 Brodick to Blackwaterfoot. | £166,000 over 1 year etc | £635,000 | £801,000 |
| A832 Achnasheen to Kinlochewe. | 710 over 2 years | 2130 | 2840 |
| A851 Broadford to Armadale (phases 3,4,5). | 1,816.6 over 5 years | 7,266.4 | 9083 |
| Gartcosh regeneration phase 2 link road and access corridor reclamation. | 1,490 | 1,200 | 2690 |
| Glasgow harbour transport Infrastructure. | 3,844.37 | 192 | 4036.37 |
| Inchinnan business park access road completion and structural landscaping. | 782.60 | 0 | 782.6 |
| Gartcosh access road. | 282.15 | 282.15 | 564.3 |
| Inchinnan access road phase 1. | 526.64 | 0 | 526.64 |
| West of Scotland Science Park road access phases 3 and 4. | 315.72 | 0 | 315.72 |
| Objective 2 South – projects including realignment of road to access Selkirk regeneration. | 90 | 0 | 90 |
| Objective 2 East – Rosyth strategic rail link access road. | 1,133.7 | 2400 | 3533.7 |
| Total | 11,888.6 | 14,847.954 | 26,736.554 |
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 19 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made provision for any of its staff giving evidence to the Holyrood Inquiry to receive counselling and, if so, what the cost of such counselling will be and from which budget line it will be met.
Answer
The Scottish Executive’s general arrangements for the availability of counselling support forstaff in a variety of circumstances, as part of our commitment as an employerto exercise a duty of care towards our staff, are available to Scottish Executive witnesses, if they wish to take up the service. The costs will dependon take up and will be met from the Scottish Executive occupational health budgetwithin the overall Scottish Executive administration budget.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Monday, 01 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give an assurance that the Mallaig to Armadale ferry service will continue irrespective of any decision on Skye Bridge tolls.
Answer
We have no plans to withdrawthe Mallaig–Armadale ferry service as a consequence of our commitment to endthe discredited toll regime on the Skye Bridge.
