- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have written to it raising concerns about CACI Ltd being contracted to provide IT work for the 2011 Census.
Answer
52.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the awarding of the contract for IT work on the 2011 Census.
Answer
A full evaluation of the Census programme, including the awarding of the contract which includes IT support, will take place following the completion of the Census.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it sought regarding the activities of CACI Ltd before awarding it a contract for IT work on the 2011 Census.
Answer
As part of the procurement process, the Registrar General obtained references about previous contracts that CACI (UK) Ltd had completed, as assurance of the company''s capability to deliver the required services. The main reference related to Ireland, because CACI (UK) Ltd had provided support services for the two previous Irish censuses.
The Registrar General also obtained copies of recent published accounts for CACI (UK) Ltd to ensure its financial stability, as well as details of its insurance cover and accreditations, and carried out other research on the status and history of the company.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have fully implemented the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
It is the responsibility of each local authority to implement the Act. The Act states that each local authority is required to publish an annual report on its performance of its functions in relation to the Act. The first reports cover the period 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2010 and are due to be published by 30 June 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to monitor the implementation of the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
The Act states that each local authority is required to publish an annual report on its performance of its functions in relation to the Act. The first reports cover the period 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2010 and are due to be published by 30 June 2011. The Act also requires the Scottish Government to publish a report on the local authorities. That report is due to be laid before the Parliament by 30 September 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a report to the Parliament on the progress made by local authorities in implementing the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
As set out in the Act, the Scottish Government will lay a report before the Parliament on the performance of local authorities in relation to the Act by 30 September 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial allocation has been made to each local authority to assist with the implementation of the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
During parliamentary passage of the then Bill, no additional funding was deemed necessary for implementation of the Disabled Persons'' Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding will be provided for the Choose Life programme in 2011-12.
Answer
Funding for Choose Life in 2011-12 is wrapped up within the total funding allocation to NHS Health Scotland of £1.4 million. Based on previous budget allocation, approximately 50% of this will be spent on Choose Life.
Under the concordat between the Scottish Government and COSLA, funding for local suicide prevention action is wrapped up in general allocations to local authorities.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding for the Choose Life programme has been distributed in each year since May 2007.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36286 on 28 September 2010. All answers to parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many readmissions to hospital there were in the NHS in 2009-10 and have been in 2010-11, broken down by NHS board
Answer
Table 1 shows the 28-day hospital emergency readmission rate in the financial years ending 31 March 2009 and 2010, broken down by NHS board of residence. Data for the financial year ending 31
March 2011 will be available in September 2011.
The period of 28 days is to some extent arbitrary, but has been widely adopted as maximising the trade off between including as many readmissions related to the initial admission as possible and excluding as many unrelated readmissions as possible. The figures include readmissions within 28 days whether or not the readmission was related to the previous hospital stay.
Table 1: Number of Discharges with a Subsequent Emergency Readmission within 28 days, and Hospital Emergency Readmission Rate as a Percentage of All Discharges, by NHS Board of Residence; Financial Years 2008-09 and 2009-10
| NHS Board | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| Number of Admissions | Number of Re-admissions | % Readmitted | Number of Admissions | Number of Re-admissions | % Readmitted |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 96,809 | 7,890 | 8.2% | 99,182 | 8,286 | 8.4% |
| NHS Borders | 24,750 | 2,229 | 9.0% | 24,226 | 2,135 | 8.8% |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 33,890 | 2,534 | 7.5% | 34,568 | 2,490 | 7.2% |
| NHS Fife | 75,829 | 5,657 | 7.5% | 75,902 | 5,501 | 7.2% |
| NHS Forth Valley | 46,618 | 4,069 | 8.7% | 47,004 | 4,296 | 9.1% |
| NHS Grampian | 103,144 | 7,612 | 7.4% | 105,322 | 7,967 | 7.6% |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 299,948 | 24,507 | 8.2% | 304,622 | 24,582 | 8.1% |
| NHS Highland | 74,866 | 5,571 | 7.4% | 75,108 | 5,564 | 7.4% |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 140,735 | 10,862 | 7.7% | 142,103 | 11,,106 | 7.8% |
| NHS Lothian | 149,002 | 13,422 | 9.0% | 149,048 | 12,587 | 8.4% |
| NHS Orkney Islands | 5,704 | 318 | 5.6% | 5,652 | 311 | 5.5% |
| NHS Shetland Islands | 5,065 | 315 | 6.2% | 5,251 | 305 | 5.8% |
| NHS Tayside | 77,019 | 6,933 | 9.0% | 71,884 | 6,835 | 9.5% |
| NHS Western Isles | 7,668 | 558 | 7.3% | 7,864 | 540 | 6.9% |
| All Scotland | 1,141,047 | 92,477 | 8.1% | 1,147,736 | 92,505 | 8.1% |
Source: ISD Scotland SMR01.
