- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when NHS Lothian will implement all 40 recommendations of its External Reference Group for Older People’s Services’ Final Report.
Answer
This is a matter for NHS Lothian.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funds will be made available to NHS Lothian to implement in full the recommendations of its External Reference Group for Older People’s Services’ Final Report.
Answer
NHS boards are given anannual allocation of funds. It is for each NHS board to meet the health careneeds of its residents form the level of funding available, taking account ofnational and local priorities.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact NHS Lothian’s External Reference Group for Older People’s Services’ Final Report will have on local authorities across Scotland.
Answer
Local authorities across Scotlandmust set their own priorities. In doing so, they should take account ofexisting good practice, evidence based research and formal guidance and, along withtheir health colleagues, consider whether their services for older people couldbenefit from any of the recommendations of this report.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funds will be made available to all NHS boards to implement in full the recommendations of NHS Lothian’s External Reference Group for Older People’s Services’ Final Report.
Answer
NHS boards are given anannual allocation of funds. It is for each NHS board to meet the health careneeds of its resident population from within the level of funding available.Health boards should consider whether their services for older people couldbenefit from any of the recommendations of this report.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication of NHS Lothian’s External Reference Group for Older People’s Services’ Final Report in March 2006, whether the Executive has any plans to implement the recommendations of the report across Scotland.
Answer
The report was commissionedby NHS Lothian and the External Reference Group reported to the board. It isnot for the Scottish Executive to implement but it has important implicationsfor the care of older people across Scotland, and I will be drawing it to the attention of NHS chairsand chief executives.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive why Higher and Further Education Students’ Income, Expenditure and Debt in Scotland 2004-2005 excluded data from students who started their course before August 2001.
Answer
Higher and Further Students’Income, Expenditure and Debt in Scotland 2004-05 aimed at collectingcomprehensive data on full-time students’ income, expenditure and debt, and toidentify any differences by students’ socio-economic and institutionalcharacteristics. The focus of the survey is on the condition of students receivingsupport under the mainstream arrangements that came into place in 2001,primarily:
abolition of tuition fees forall who undertake an undergraduate course for the first time;
the re-introduction of studentgrants for young people from low-income families;
retaining means testedstudent loans for student living costs but changing maximum non-means-testedloan rates to take account of tuition fee arrangements, and
introduction ofsupplementary allowances for higher education students lone parent grant andlone parent childcare grant in addition to existing supplementary grants (e.g.Disabled Students Allowance).
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources will be made available to Lothian and Borders Police to implement its Youth Strategy Action Plan 2005-08.
Answer
I refer to the member to the answer to question S2W-24651 on 13 April 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources will be made available to Lothian and Borders Police to provide additional weekend policing in the communities of Armadale, Blackridge and Westfield.
Answer
The Lothian and Borders JointPolice Board has set a budget of over £185 million for Lothian and Borders Policein 2006-07. It is a matter for the Chief Constable to determine how these resourcesare used to meet local needs and pressures.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 31 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what HM Treasury discount rate has been applied to student loans subsidies in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
The HM Treasury discount rateused to calculate the resource cost of student loans in the Scottish Executive accountswas six per cent prior to the 2003-04 financial year; 3.5 per cent in 2003-04 and2004-05, and 2.2 per cent from the 2005-06 financial year onwards.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 28 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the principle of students studying abroad as part of their degree course.
Answer
Yes. I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-24259 on 23 March 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
