- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) ambulances, (b) patient-transport vehicles, (c) small vans, (d) cars, (e) 4x4 vehicles and (f) specialist support vehicles has each Scottish Ambulance Service division had in service in each year since 2007.
Answer
Scottish Ambulance Service Fleet numbers and vehicle descriptions change periodically as a result of vehicle replacement programmes and developing strategy. The data requested is not held in the summary format requested from 2007 but extracts from fleet declarations in recent years is given in the following table:
| | A&E | Rapid Response Vehicles 4x4 | PTS - Van Conversion | PTS - Car | Specialist Vehicles (Island/NeoNatal/Training etc.) | Admin/ Support | Cars | Total |
2014 | 446 | 65 | 455 | 70 | 123 | 86 | 194 | 1439 |
2015 | 448 | 65 | 446 | 66 | 127 | 100 | 197 | 1449 |
2016 | 437 | 62 | 441 | 61 | 129 | 102 | 209 | 1441 |
2017 | 453 | 67 | 433 | 53 | 122 | 109 | 218 | 1455 |
2018 | 444 | 77 | 431 | 49 | 128 | 113 | 201 | 1443 |
Information cannot be provided in the format requested as this would be a resource intensive task for the Ambulance Service, however, a breakdown of fleet numbers, by Division, for 2018 is provided in the following table:
March 2018 - Operating Division | North East | North West | East Central | West Central | South East | South West | National | Total |
A&E | | | | | | | | |
Total A&E | 46 | 57 | 74 | 99 | 66 | 98 | 4 | 444 |
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Rapid Response Vehicles 4x4 | | | | | | | | |
Total Rapid Response 4x4 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 77 |
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PTS | | | | | | | | |
PTS Car | | 2 | 10 | 26 | 4 | 7 | | 49 |
PTS Van Conversion | 41 | 23 | 94 | 88 | 71 | 110 | 4 | 431 |
Total PTS | 41 | 25 | 104 | 114 | 75 | 117 | 4 | 480 |
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Specialist Vehicles | | | | | | | | |
Total Specialist Vehicles | 24 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 66 | 128 |
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Admin / Support | | | | | | | | |
Total Admin / Support | 2 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 68 | 113 |
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Staff Car Scheme | | | | | | | | |
Total Car Scheme | 6 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 131 | 201 |
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Grand Total | 127 | 113 | 224 | 258 | 171 | 269 | 281 | 1443 |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many children have been home schooled in each local authority in each school year since 2007.
Answer
The information being requested was discontinued in 2009. The link below to the Scottish Government website provides the annual publications for each year that the information is available: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PubChildrenOutwithSchool .
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many clearing places have been awarded to Scottland-domiciled students at Scotland's universities in each year since 2011.
Answer
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publishes the number of acceptances through clearing by Scottish domiciled students to Scottish Universities.
The following table shows the number of acceptances split by route, since 2011.
Scottish domiciled acceptances through clearing to Scottish Universities
Route | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Main scheme clearing | 1,080 | 1,255 | 1,180 | 970 | 1,245 | 1,185 | 1,215 |
Direct clearing | 130 | 175 | 175 | 160 | 265 | 350 | 380 |
Total | 1,210 | 1,430 | 1,355 | 1,130 | 1,510 | 1,535 | 1,595 |
Source: UCAS, End of cycle report 2017
Final clearing figures for the 2018 cycle will not be available until the 2018 End of Cycle report that will be published in December.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many nurses have (a) joined and (b) left NHS Tayside in each calander year since 2007.
Answer
The number of Nurses & Midwives working in NHS Tayside has increased by 1.5% between September 2006 and June 2018.
The total number of joiners and leavers across an entire year is not captured centrally. However, numbers of net joiners and net leavers are available.
The number of net joiners and net leavers for qualified nursing and midwifery staff in NHS Tayside each year between 2008 and 2017 is shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Qualified nursing and midwifery staff in NHS Tayside - Net joiners and leavers, in each year ending 30 Sep, from 2008 to 2017 (Whole Time Equivalent).
Year ending 30 Sep | Nursing and Midwifery |
Net Joiners | Net Leavers |
2008 | 552.1 | 207.4 |
2009 | 310.5 | 201.4 |
2010 | 172.3 | 209.7 |
2011 | 172.0 | 176.4 |
2012 | 232.5 | 208.5 |
2013 | 301.8 | 236.1 |
2014 | 330.7 | 267.2 |
2015 | 329.5 | 309.3 |
2016 | 314.5 | 326.1 |
2017 | 312.0 | 323.1 |
Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS), ISD Scotland.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 11 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how much NHS Tayside has spent advertising clinical posts in each of the last five calendar years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government, as expenditure reported by Health Boards to the Scottish Government is not provided at this level of detail. The request for this information should be directed to NHS Tayside.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many fruit farmers in (a) Perth and Kinross, (b) Fife, (c) Stirling and (d) Clackmannanshire have applied for emergency loan funding from the National Basic Payment Support Scheme.
Answer
I announced the loan scheme to help farmers and crofters, including fruit and vegetable farmers, address weather related impacts and would encourage all farmers and crofters entitled to BPS payments in all parts of Scotland to apply for a loan. Loan offers will start to issue at the beginning of September and the first payments will be made in the first week of October.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2018
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 12 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to encourage a new generation of farmers into the agricultural industry.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 12 September 2018
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many nursing posts at NHS Tayside have been (a) advertised and (b) filled in each of the last five calendar years.
Answer
Information on the total number of nursing posts that have been advertised or filled in NHS Boards in a particular year is not centrally held.
ISD Workforce collects quarterly census data on the number of nursing vacancies at national and NHS Board level. A vacancy is defined as a post which has been cleared for advert after being through the redeployment process (internal or external advert) and remains a vacancy until an individual starts in the post.
The most recent data, published on 4 September 2018, can be found at http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2018-06-05/Nursing-and-Midwifery.asp .
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how much money each NHS board has received from the Clinical Teaching (ACT) levy.
Answer
The Scottish Government provides Additional Cost of Teaching (ACT) funding to support the clinical training of undergraduate medical and dental students in the NHS. This funding is administered by NHS Education Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government.
The most recent available annual funding amounts are set out in the following table. Figures for 2017-18 will be available after the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts for 2017-18 have been signed off by the Auditor General for Scotland and laid in the Scottish Parliament. We expect this to be completed by the end of September.
Medical ACT | |
Board | 2016-17 |
Ayrshire & Arran | £2,706,021 |
Borders | £667,018 |
Dumfries & Galloway | £873,594 |
Fife | £2,891,186 |
Forth Valley | £1,240,771 |
National Waiting Times Centre | £393,262 |
Grampian | £12,722,567 |
Greater Glasgow & Clyde | £16,737,663 |
Highland | £3,051,567 |
Lanarkshire | £2,704,458 |
Lothian | £17,873,447 |
Orkney | £49,936 |
Scottish Ambulance Service | £5,198 |
Shetland | £127,304 |
National Services Scotland (SNBTS) | £30,781 |
State Hospital | £31,853 |
Tayside | £12,531,034 |
Western Isles | £151,193 |
Medical ACT Total | £74,788,855 |
Dental ACT | |
Board | 2016-17 |
Grampian | £3,147,059 |
Greater Glasgow & Clyde | £9,178,427 |
Tayside | £5,426,275 |
Dental ACT Total | £17,751,761 |
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Total of All ACT | £92,540,616 |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce overcrowding on trains between the central belt and Fife
Answer
Over £475M is being invested in ScotRail’s rolling stock which will deliver major enhancements to train facilities and increase seating capacity by 23% by the end of 2019. Compared to the start of the franchise, ScotRail will be operating more than 200 additional services and providing a substantial increase to seats on services across the network. Passengers across Tayside, Stirlingshire, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Fife and the Borders will all benefit from these improvements.
Introduction of the Hitachi class 385 electric trains and the iconic High Speed Trains allows three carriage Class 170 diesel trains to ‘cascade’ onto Fife and Borders routes. More trains at peak times will be formed of 6 carriages and these will provide 20% more seats than today for customers in Fife.
