- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to reconsider its recommendation in Regulating Care and the Social Services Workforce that day care services be included in a national regulation framework and ensure that the provision of such services by day care centres is a statutory requirement on local authorities.
Answer
It remains our intention to include day care services in the new national regulation framework. We have no plans to make the provision of such services by day care centres a specific statutory duty for local authorities.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 23 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will appoint and fund a water safety officer in parallel with a similar appointment in England.
Answer
Scottish Ministers regulate drinking water quality under provisions in the Water (Scotland) Act 1980. The consultation
paper Managing Change in the Water Industry invited views on whether additional powers in this area are needed, given the prospect of increased competition in the Scottish water and sewerage sector.
The Executive is considering responses to the consultation paper at present. Any new provisions for regulating drinking water quality will be included in the Water Services Bill planned for the current parliamentary session and will be the subject of full consultation before the Bill's introduction.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many day care centres there are in total and broken down by local authority.
Answer
The table below details the number of centres and places available in centres for all adult client groups in 1998, the latest year for which figures are available.
Day Centres for Adults1, 1998
| Number of Centres 2 | Number of Places Available |
Aberdeen City | 24 | 696 |
Aberdeenshire | 58 | 1081 |
Angus | 12 | 359 |
Argyll & Bute | 11 | 357 |
Clackmannanshire | 8 | 284 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 15 | 767 |
Dundee City | 12 | 598 |
East Ayrshire | 15 | 350 |
East Dunbartonshire | 2 | 139 |
East Lothian | 5 | 280 |
East Renfrewshire | 4 | 146 |
Edinburgh City | 35 | 1786 |
Eilean Siar | 18 | 142 |
Falkirk | 14 | 440 |
Fife | 25 | 966 |
Glasgow City | 53 | 2524 |
Highland | 73 | 1167 |
Inverclyde | 11 | 282 |
Midlothian | 4 | 126 |
Moray | 17 | 290 |
North Ayrshire | 11 | 351 |
North Lanarkshire | 29 | 1033 |
Orkney | 4 | 77 |
Perth & Kinross | 15 | 520 |
Renfrewshire | 14 | 809 |
Scottish Borders | 18 | 670 |
Shetland | 9 | 174 |
South Ayrshire | 14 | 645 |
South Lanarkshire | 28 | 869 |
Stirling | 7 | 227 |
West Dunbartonshire | 10 | 403 |
West Lothian | 10 | 410 |
Scotland | 585 | 18968 |
Source: SEHD Community Care Statistics, D1-B return.
Notes:1. Includes centres for older people, people with learning disabilities, people with mental health problems, physically disabled people and other adult client groups.
2. Includes centres with four places or less (most of which are attached to residential homes).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 23 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10384 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 27 October 2000, whether it will make available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre the homelessness applications data referred to.
Answer
The information has already been made available to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, Document Supply Centre in the following Scottish Executive Statistical Bulletin
Operation of the Homeless Persons Legislation in Scotland 1988-89 to 1998-99: National and Local Authority Analyses: HSG/2000/5. This bulletin is also available from the Scottish Executive website:
www.scotland.gov.uk. Table 20 of the bulletin details the information to which the answer in question S1W-10384 refers.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 23 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10386 by Mr Frank McAveety on 27 October 2000, whether it will include on the implementation group on the central heating installation programme representatives from grassroots fora for pensioners.
Answer
Age Concern Scotland and Help the Aged are both represented on the group. We look to them to consult as appropriate and convey the results to other pensioner interests.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review its assessment of the likely estimated level of cardiomyopathy in the light of the letter to the Minister for Health and Community Care of 26 May 2000 from W J McKenna, Professor of Cardiac Medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School in London given the difference in estimated level between this letter and the Executive's press release SE01054/2000 on 11 April 2000.
Answer
The comments in Professor McKenna's letter have been drawn to the attention of the Chairman of the Child Health Sub-Group of the National Screening Committee. The Sub-Group is keeping this issue under regular review, as it does with any other topic where the evidence base is still evolving.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 20 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-9968 by Mr Jack McConnell on 19 September 2000, of the five responses concerning better provision for pensioners, how many of those advocated implementation of the Sutherland recommendations with regard to personal care "in full" and, with regard to the issues raised at away days regarding "properly funding care in the community", what the majority view was on the funding of personal care and which organisations' representatives supported this view.
Answer
Five of the 172 written responses received to the Executive's consultation document
Investing in You concerned better provision for pensioners. Of these, one suggested the full implementation of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly recommendations. The other responses raised a range of issues including increased financial support to local authorities to enable them to provide better support for care for the elderly and care in the community; and provision of free long-term care for the elderly.
The views expressed at the away days suggested that increased funding to provide better support to look after older people in their own homes and support for carers should be a key priority. These views were supported by representatives from the Prince's Trust, Elderly Forum and Community Care Forum.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Sunday, 12 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has regarding the continued provision of consultant-led specialisms at the Borders General Hospital.
Answer
The Borders General Hospital is an essential part of healthservice provision in the Scottish Borders and it continues to provide highquality consultant-led services. In recent months new consultants have beenappointed in anaesthetics, radiology and haematology services.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any concerns about the security of employment of the 1,000 Burton's Biscuits employees in Edinburgh following the sale this week to the venture capital firm Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, the same investment firm that financially backed Viasystems.
Answer
The Scottish Executive always takes an interest in any take-over which may have employment consequences in Scotland. The new owners of Burton's Biscuits have stated that they intend to rationalise production across various sites, following merger with another biscuit company. We shall therefore monitor developments closely.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 14 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any jobs were lost and, if so, how many as a result of the transfer of Sea-cats operations from Stranraer to Troon; whether job losses are projected as a consequence of the further relocation from Troon to Belfast in 2001, and if so, how many, and what steps are being taken to prevent the loss of any jobs to Northern Ireland.
Answer
I understand that there were no overall job losses associated with the relocation of Seacat's operating base from Stranraer to Troon in July this year. Similarly, none are planned as part of the relocation of the company's operational base to Belfast. The relocation to Belfast is a commercial decision by Seacat.
