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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.

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Question reference: S4W-02596

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards are in place to ensure that publicly limited companies taking over all or part of the business of Choices Care do not experience similar problems.

Responsibility for legislation relating to any oversight of the governance of a public limited company, whether for community care purposes or not, would fall within the “regulation of a business association”, and is therefore reserved to the United Kingdom Parliament.

In this regard I have written to the Secretary of State for Health to request that Scottish Government Officials are involved in considering what action may be taken to guard against future risks such as those highlighted in the Southern Cross case.

Question reference: S4W-02593

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what regulatory bodies are responsible for the oversight of the governance of publicly limited companies delivering community care services on behalf of local authorities.

Question reference: S4W-02445

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the salary cost of (a) temporary and (b) agency staff employed by the Scottish Ambulance Service (i) was in each year since 2007-08 and (ii) is expected to be in 2011-12.

The Scottish Ambulance Service has advised that the cost of temporary and agency staff since 2007-08 has been:

Year	Amount (£)
2007-08	278,000
2008-09	341,000
2009-10	348,000
2010-11	109,000

The budget for 2011-12 is currently £20,000 but this figure is subject to revision over the course of the year. The figures are not held centrally broken down between temporary and agency staff.

Question reference: S4W-02448

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether all ambulances from the (a) Vale of Leven Hospital, (b) Helensburgh and (c) Arrochar stations are double-crewed.

The Scottish Ambulance Service has provided the following table setting out rostered resources for these stations.

Station	Resource	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
Vale of Leven	Day shift A&E Ambulance	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Night shift A&E Ambulance	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
	Day shift PRU: 07.00 -15.00 Mon-Fri. Sat & Sun 07.30 to 19.30 hrs	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Back shift PRU: Mon-Fri 15.00 – 23.00 Sat & Sun 07.30-19.30 hrs	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Helensburgh	Day shift A&E Ambulance	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Night shift A&E Ambulance	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Arrochar	Day shift A&E Ambulance	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Night shift A&E Ambulance	o/c	o/c	o/c	o/c	o/c	o/c	o/c

Notes:

o/c = on call from home address.

PRU = Paramedic Response Unit.

The Scottish Ambulance Service have confirmed that the accident and emergency ambulances operating from the stations at Vale of Leven, Helensburgh and Arrochar are rostered to be double crewed by a paramedic and a technician. The Paramedic Response Unit that operates from the Vale of Leven Station is rostered to be crewed by a Paramedic.

Question reference: S4W-02450

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many ambulances are available on each shift pattern at the (a) Vale of Leven Hospital, (b) Helensburgh and (c) Arrochar stations.

Question reference: S4W-02451

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patient transport ambulances cover (a) Dumbarton, (b) Vale of Leven, (c) Helensburgh and (d) Lomond.

Question reference: S4W-02447

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many shifts have not been covered by the Scottish Ambulance Service due to staff sickness or vacancies at (a) Vale of Leven Hospital, (b) Helensburgh and (c) Arrochar stations in each month since April 2010.

It is not possible to provide the information in the format requested. However, the Scottish Ambulance Service has provided the following information which sets out all shifts not covered. These may be seen in the context of over 5,500 rostered shifts for this time period across the three stations. Reasons for shifts not covered will include staff sickness.

	Vale of Leven	Helensburgh	Arrochar
April 2010	2	2	0
May 2010	0	0	0
June 2010	0	2.5	1
July 2010	0	0	1
August 2010	0	0	0
September 2010	0	0	0
October 2010	0	0	0
November 2010	1.5	2	0
December 2010	2	2	0
January 2011	3	2	0
February 2011	0	2	1
March 2011	0	2	2
April 2011	0	1	1
May 2011	0	1	0
June 2011	2	2	0
July 2011	0.5	3	0
August 2011	0	1	0

Question reference: S4W-02449

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether at least one paramedic is rostered on each ambulance across each shift pattern at the (a) Vale of Leven Hospital, (b) Helensburgh and (c) Arrochar stations.

Question reference: S4W-02452

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many shifts have not been covered by the patient transport service in (a) Dumbarton, (b) Vale of Leven, (c) Helensburgh and (d) Lomond in each month since April 2010.

Question reference: S4W-02400

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will set the threshold for means testing for residential care at £100,000, as recommended by the Commission on Funding of Care and Support.