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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-14418

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 8 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many people who are registered with the chronic medication service have asthma, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S4W-14420

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 8 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the annual cost is of providing the chronic medication service.

Question reference: S4W-14490

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many claims it estimates will be made for (a) community care and (b) crisis grants in 2013-14, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S4W-14491

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on what budget has been allocated for (a) community care and (b) crisis grants in 2013-14, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S4W-14489

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many claims were made for (a) community care grants and (b) crisis loans in 2012-13 and to what value, broken down by local authority.

We do not have any information about the number of claims for community care grants, and crisis loans in 2012-2013. Information on the number of claims for community care grants and crisis loans for previous years has been published by the Department for Work and Pensions on its webpages at:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107093842/http://www.dwp.gov.uk/local-authority-staff/social-fund-reform/localisation-data/

Question reference: S4W-14492

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with COSLA about council tax rebates for 2014-15.

Question reference: S4W-14494

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to restructure the council tax and, if so, whether it will increase the top band rates.

Question reference: S4W-14493

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will fully fund council tax support for 2014-15.

Question reference: S4F-01367

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2013

To ask the First Minister whether the reported comments of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing that “we are still going to need the same number of beds, the same number of hospitals, the same number of doctors and nurses just to stand still” in relation to an ageing population reflect Scottish Government policy.

Question reference: S4W-14312

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many of its media and communications staff work (a) in and (b) with its health and social care directorate and what the total salary costs are.

Currently 14.1 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) communications staff supports the work of Health Ministers and the Director General Health and Social Care/Chief Executive of NHSScotland, who is responsible for seven Directorates in the Scottish Government. There is no Directorate for Health and Social Care. Of these FTE, 10.1 work in the Communications Directorate, while a further four work in other directorates.

These staff work on media, digital and stakeholder communications, including communications with the 132,000 staff working in NHSScotland and the 700 staff in the Scottish Government's health directorates. They also deliver the Scottish Government's public health campaigns, including Detect Cancer Early and Organ Donation. In addition to health policy, staff also work on the Commonwealth Games and sport policy.

The total 2012-13 annual staffing cost, (which covers salary and employer costs; e.g. pensions and NI, and the cost of employing any secondees) was £809,000.