- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact Delivering for Remote and Rural Healthcare: What it Means for You will have on the delivery of the management of acute medical conditions at the Gilbert Bain Hospital, detailing how the new arrangements will differ from those currently provided.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12979 on 27 May 2008. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact Delivering for Remote and Rural Healthcare: What it Means for You will have on the delivery of out-patient, day case, in-patient and rehabilitation services at the Gilbert Bain Hospital, detailing how the new arrangements will differ from those currently provided.
Answer
Delivering for Remote and Rural Healthcare will impact on all Rural General Hospitals (RGH) including Gilbert Bain Hospital by improving local access to a range of emergency, diagnostic and planned treatment services.
NHS boards are responsible for planning and delivering services to meet the healthcare needs of their resident populations. Work is on-going to implement the recommendations contained within the report and boards are expected to deliver these objectives in accordance with Chief Executives Letter 23/2008 circulated on 13 May 2008.
Further details may be found in the full report of the Remote and Rural Steering Group and in particular the technical annexes (online only) which is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 45640).
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact Delivering for Remote and Rural Healthcare: What it Means for You will have on the delivery of maternity care at the Gilbert Bain Hospital, detailing how the new arrangements will differ from those currently provided.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12979 on 27 May 2008. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 7 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any restrictions apply to councillors employing individuals as political advisers.
Answer
Provisions relating to political advisers are contained within the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take, following the late dispatch to island based national concessionary travel card holders of their 2008-09 ferry vouchers, to ensure that the vouchers are, in future years, sent out well in advance of the start of the period which they cover.
Answer
For future financial years Transport Scotland are arranging with the ferry voucher production company to print and issue ferry vouchers in January of each year. Vouchers will display a start date of 1 April and expiry date of 31 March the following year.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) percentage and (b) total value of public sector contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises was in each financial year from 2003-04 to 2007-08.
Answer
Information is not available on the number of contracts by percentage awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises for the period given and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. We have only partial indications for financial year 2005-06 and information for other financial years is not currently available.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 24 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a target for the percentage of public sector contracts that are awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises and, if so, what that target is.
Answer
The Scottish Government believes such a target would be appropriate and is currently exploring how it can be defined and applied.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional expenditure will be required to meet the staffing costs of implementing its P1 to P3 class-size reduction policy, broken down by local authority.
Answer
We have signed an historic concordat with local government under which year on year progress will be made in reducing primary 1 to primary 3 classes to a maximum of 18. The rate and scale of progress will vary between local authorities and it is for individual local authorities to ensure that they employ sufficient numbers of teachers to achieve the commitment depending on their local circumstances. Consequently, individual local authority costs are not available.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional teachers are required to meet its P1 to P3 class-size reduction commitments, broken down by local authority.
Answer
We have signed an historic concordat with local government under which year on year progress will be made in reducing primary 1 to primary 3 classes to a maximum of 18. The rate and scale of progress will vary between local authorities and it is for individual local authorities to ensure that they employ sufficient numbers of teachers to achieve the commitment depending on their local circumstances.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 22 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that limiting applications to the Rural Developments Contracts – Rural Priorities programme to those made online complies with all EU regulations governing access to grant schemes.
Answer
Yes.
