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Issues around the delivery of Primary Care Services is a matter for NHS boards. We are aware that a number of representations from General Practitioners were received about the establishment of geographically based community nursing teams in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Lothian and the correspondents were advised that their views were considered in the decisions made at both board and community health and care partnership level.

The impact of changes to community nursing teams would be monitored by individual NHS boards. NHS Lothian has also advised that a patient experience questionnaire is in the process of being piloted.

Any consultation with general practitioners and the public about the establishment of geographically based community nursing services would be undertaken by individual NHS boards. NHS Lothian has confirmed that consultation via regular communication networks with all relevant interests was undertaken through Community Health Partnerships prior to these changes being introduced. A public information leaflet has also been produced and will be circulated to inform patients and their families of this change.

The Scottish Government currently has no plans to sign up to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection humane household product standard as this relates to domestic rather than industrial/professional use. However, as confirmed in S4W-01054, the Scottish Government does not use any cleaning product that has been tested on animals.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

Excluding capital, headquarters and other central costs, the net expenditure for HMP and YOI Cornton Vale for the last five years was

Year £m

2006-07 10.4

2007-08 11.2

2008-09 11.3

2009-10 11.5

2010-11 11.4.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The average cost per prisoner place is recorded each year in the SPS Annual Report and Accounts. The accounts are available on SPS’s website www.sps.gov.uk. Separate details of average per capita cost of holding different categories of prisoner are not available. Female prisoners are accommodated in several prisons across Scotland.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

Budgets for the next two years will be set by the Scottish Government later this year.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

Budgets for the next two years will be set by the Scottish Government later this year.

The Scottish Government does not use cleaning products in its premises that have been tested on animals.

Growth, Talent, Ambition, the Scottish Government’s creative industries strategy, which was published on March 21 2011, sets out how the public sector in Scotland is working to support the creative industries. It can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/03/21093900/0.

Public sector support for the creative industries is coordinated through the Scottish Creative Industries Partnership Coordination Group, which is chaired by Creative Scotland and includes COSLA, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Funding Council and Skills Development Scotland as members.