- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-792 by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007, how many recruitment visits there have been to hospitals by the British armed forces in each year since 1999, broken down by hospital.
Answer
The information requestedis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-792 by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007, how many NHS staff are currently on special leave with pay and serving with the Territorial Army or reserves and how many staff were on such leave on the same date in the previous eight years.
Answer
The information requestedis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 29 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will commission research into the connection between drivers’ sleepiness or falling asleep at the wheel and road traffic accidents.
Answer
There are no currentplans to do so. The future economic and social research programme for transport,which includes road safety, is currently being developed and is expected to be finalisedby September.
The UK Governmenthas been conducting research into sleep-related road accidents for over 10 yearsand has published reports on a number of studies.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 29 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of research undertaken by police in Leicester regarding the connection between road traffic accidents and sleepiness.
Answer
The Scottish Executiveis not aware of research undertaken by police in Leicester. We are, however, aware of the work of the Loughborough University’s Sleep Research Centre on aspects of driversleepiness and road traffic accidents.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 22 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of the Transport Research Laboratory’s survey of lorry drivers at service stations with regard to the connection between weight and sleep disorders including sleep apnoea.
Answer
Yes, we are awareof the report and have noted its content.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider extending access to free personal care to the estimated 1,350 to 1,650 people under the age of 65 suffering from dementia.
Answer
The free personalcare policy was introduced to benefit people aged 65 and over, and the governmentis focusing its attention on addressing implementation issues arising from thispolicy. There are no current plans to extend this general provision to other caregroups. For people under the age of 65, two forms of support are provided. Nursingcare payments are available to care home residents who fully fund their care homecosts, and people who have dementia or any other degenerative illness who requirecare, and who live in their own homes, can claim Disability Living Allowance.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has that customers on Scottish Power’s dynamic teleswitched tariff cannot switch to another supplier without incurring additional costs.
Answer
I am advised byOfgem that a consumer is not likely to incur additional costs in switching to asimilar dynamic teleswitching tariff offered by an alternative supplier.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will carry out a review of the operation of the Warm Deal and central heating programme and whether as part of any such review it will consider extending the criteria for eligibility, in consultation with organisations representing older people and people with disabilities.
Answer
The centralheating and Warm Deal programmes have already provided free central heating for83,000 homes and free insulation for 317,000 homes in Scotland. The majority of
these free installations have benefited people over60 years of age.
A formal review of the Fuel Poverty Statement is not required until August 2010. The contractfor the delivery of current programmes runs till March 2008. I am open to suggestionsas to how the effectiveness of these programmes in combating fuel poverty can beimproved in future.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local advisory councils of the Scottish Health Council there are; where the councils are located and what funding they receive.
Answer
There is a Local AdvisoryCouncil (LAC) in each of the 14 territorial NHS board areas. The following tabledetails total expenditure, which represents members expenses, by each LAC in 2006-07:
| NHS Board | Actual Expenditure 2006-07 (£) |
| Grampian | 1,575 |
| Highland | 2,044 |
| Orkney | 1,524 |
| Shetland | 638 |
| Western Isles | 309 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1,210 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 837 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 410 |
| Lanarkshire | 74 |
| Tayside | 1,172 |
| Fife | 231 |
| Lothian | 316 |
| Borders | 1,086 |
| Forth Valley | 636 |
| Total | 12,062 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21691 by Mr Andy Kerr on 19 January 2006, which NHS boards have developed strategic partnerships with the Citizens Advice Bureau in their areas to provide independent advice and support for patients and when any such partnerships were developed.
Answer
The following tabledetails the current position in relation to the partnerships between NHS boardsand the Citizens Advice Bureau for the provision of an independent advice and supportservice:
| NHS Board | Implementation Date |
| Ayrshire and Arran | Still under negotiation |
| Borders | 1 April 2007 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 April 2007 |
| Fife | Still under negotiation |
| Forth Valley | 1 June 2007 |
| Grampian | 29 January 2007 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 1 December 2006 - interim service April 2007 - full service |
| Highland | 1 August 2007 - interim service 1 January 2008 - full service |
| Lanarkshire | 1 September 2006 |
| Lothian | 1 April 2007 - interim service 8 July 2007 – full service |
| Orkney | 1 July 2007 |
| Shetland | 1 January 2007 |
| Tayside | 1 April 2007 |
| Western Isles | 1 October 2006 |
