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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S2W-09695

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that the current pay structures of public bodies for which it is responsible are free from gender inequality.

Question reference: S2W-09696

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that public sector pay is free from gender inequality.

Question reference: S2W-09504

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive which company now owns Raigmore Hospital's magnetic resonance imaging scanner.

Question reference: S2W-09461

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of cardiothoractic surgical beds has been in (a) the Golden Jubilee National Hospital and (b) all other hospitals where cardiothoracic surgery is carried out in each year since 2002.

Information on a range of cost information, including the costs of cardiothoracic surgical beds in NHSScotland hospitals, is published by the Information and Statistics Division of the NHS National Services Scotland in the publication Scottish Health Service Costs. This can be accessed on the World Wide Web at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=1370&p_applic=CCC&p_serv

Information about costs for the Golden Jubilee National Hospital will be included for the first time in the 2003-04 version of the publication, due to be published in November 2004.

Information on the average running cost of a cardiothoracic bed in each NHS hospital providing this service in 2001-02 and 2002-03 is given in the following table.

Hospital	2001-02 Cost Per Bed	2002-03 Cost Per Bed
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary	£ 178,649	£199,912
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary	£202,997	£231,946
Glasgow Royal Infirmary	£195,752	£255,983
Hairmyres Hospital	£146,034	£139,746
Yorkhill	£213,902	£219,624
Western/Gartnavel	£185,085	£244,513
Scotland	£187,407	£223,347

Question reference: S2W-09462

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the operating costs per patient have been at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in each year since 2002.

Question reference: S2W-09693

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures are in place to ensure that it meets its obligations under the Equal Pay Directive.

The Scottish Executive has an equal pay policy which applies to all staff in its core departments. This commits the Executive to ensuring that all of its staff, regardless of gender, ethnicity or disability, receive equal pay for doing work of equal value. the Scottish Executive has also completed two equal pay audits as part of anongoing commitment to monitor and review its pay system to ensure it is free from bias. Other measures include the provision of equal pay training for those responsible for the design of the pay system and an on-going review of the pay rules to ensure they comply with best equal pay practice.

Question reference: S2W-09505

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it issues to NHS boards in respect of the sale of assets such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners.

Question reference: S2W-09535

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staffed beds there in each category of care in the NHS, broken down by NHS board area.

Information on average available staffed beds by category of care for Scotland and in each NHS board area for the year ending 31 March 2004 is shown in the following tables:

NHSScotland - Average Available Staffed Beds¹; by Specialty Group

and Health Board Area: Year Ending 31 March 2004p

	All specialities	Acute surgical	Acute medical	Dental	GP other than obstetrics	Obstetrics	Neo/post natal cot
Scotland	30 089	5 914	6 294	60	1 260	1 008	à 346
Argyll & Clyde	2 707	411	432	-	107	97	28
Ayrshire & Arran	2 068	378	424	5	93	80	25
Borders	658	90	112	-	120	22	8
Dumfries & Galloway²	819	153	154	2	60	31	10
Fife	1 750	252	334	4	51	61	17
Forth Valley	1 366	290	177	2	-	59	20
Grampian²	3 130	618	619	9	362	131	38
Greater Glasgow	6 185	1 523	1 467	19	-	196	80
Highland	1 278	292	336	2	120	63	12
Lanarkshire	3 016	537	587	7	91	79	21
Lothian	4 235	818	1 013	5	25	80	58
Orkney	94	21	-	-	42	8	-
Shetland	100	26	28	-	-	6	-
Tayside	2 455	462	541	6	166	80	29
Western Isles	227	46	71	-	21	14	-

NHSScotland - Average Available Staffed Beds¹; by Specialty Group

and Health Board Area: Year Ending 31 March 2004p

	Geriatric Medicine
	units other than long stay	long stay units	Psychiatric	Learning disabilities	Radiology specialities	Unspecified
Scotland	3 649	3 444	6 972	852	207	84
Argyll & Clyde	321	393	829	78	-	11
Ayrshire & Arran	306	251	394	109	4	-
Borders	59	97	143	7	-	-
Dumfries & Galloway²	51	141	168	43	-	6
Fife	174	289	490	61	-	17
Forth Valley	232	208	342	35	-	-
Grampian²	230	324	604	167	18	10
Greater Glasgow	891	605	1 259	38	94	15
Highland	110	67	222	40	12	2
Lanarkshire	400	334	791	169	-	1
Lothian	555	444	1 104	58	54	21
Orkney	-	23	-	-	-	-
Shetland	4	36	-	-	-	-
Tayside	296	218	585	48	25	-
Western Isles	20	14	41	-	-	-

Source: ISDScotland [Form ISD(S)1].

Notes:

p Provisional.

1 Includes joint-user and contractual hospitals.

2 Some information is estimated.

Question reference: S2W-09464

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Euan Robson on 27 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether its national review of the early years and childcare workforce will seek, and include, input from the Equal Opportunities Commission.

Question reference: S2W-09503

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it was aware of plans by NHS Highland to sell Raigmore Hospital's new magnetic resonance imaging scanner to a private company and then lease it back prior to the allocation of extra funding for NHS boards in June 2004; whether NHS Highland notified the Executive of such a sale and, if so, when and whether there was a tendering exercise carried out prior to the sale.