- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of local authorities (a) reducing respite services and (b) providing emergency respite services only.
Answer
There has been an increase in overall respite weeks provision across Scotland. Statistics published on 28 September show that the amount of respite provision rose by 8,950 weeks between 2007-08 and 2009-10, exceeding the target of a rise of 6,000 weeks.
I refer the member to An Official Statistics Publication for Scotland: Respite Care, published on 28 September 2010 which includes information for each local authority on total respite weeks, 2006-07 to 2009-10. Eight authorities have provided less respite weeks in 2009-10 compared with the position in 2007-08 (baseline year). The link is:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/Recent/Q/Page/6.
The Carers and Young Carers Strategy, published jointly with COSLA in July, has clear expectations around the provision of innovative, personalised short breaks/respite, preventative support and emergency respite. That is why I announced in the strategy £1 million for short breaks in 2010-11. We have decided to roll this forward, making £5 million in total to 2015. The National Carers Organisations are about to finalise proposals for the use of this funding.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of performance-related pay to the NHS Executive Managers Cohort was in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10 and what the cost would have been if the National Performance Management Committee had not limited payments.
Answer
The pay remits for the Executive and Senior Management cohorts are assessed nationally in accordance with Scottish Government Public Sector Pay Policies: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-sector-pay which require aggregated figures. The total pay bill details given below include any costs resulting from staff progressing through their pay ranges based on performance and include all employers'' costs.
Year | Total Pay Bill Costs |
2007-08 | £101,963,089.00 |
2008-09 | £101,934,464.00 |
2009-10 | £100,819,636.00 |
The National Performance Management Committee has no responsibility for pay and cannot limit payments.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what NHS capital projects are legally committed, broken down by NHS board and the value of each project.
Answer
Legally committed projects form part but not all of the overall capital investment programme for NHSScotland. The following table is based on information received from the relevant NHS board for projects in excess of their delegated limit:
NHS Board | Project Name | Capital Value £ million |
Dumfries and Galloway | Mental Health Services | 27.3 |
Fife | Cupar Community Health | 9.8 |
Fife | General Hospital and Maternity Services | 170.8 |
Forth Valley | Equipping of New Acute Hospital | 7.0 |
Grampian | Chalmers Hospital / Health Centre | 15.4 |
Grampian | Foresterhill Energy Centre | 12.5 |
Grampian | Aberdeen Emergency Care Centre | 110.0 |
Greater Glasgow and Clyde | New South Glasgow Hospitals Project “ Phase 1 “ Laboratories and Facilities Management (Note 1) | 89.75 |
Highland | Migdale Community Hospital | 8.3 |
Highland | Mull and Iona Progressive Care Unit | 4.8 |
Lanarkshire | Airdrie Resource Centre | 27.0 |
Lothian | Midlothian Community Hospital (FBC Addendum) | 29.6 |
Lothian | Musselburgh | 18.3 |
Lothian | Royal Victoria Hospital | 43.6 |
Tayside | Nuclear Medicine, Ninewells | 10.4 |
Tayside | Perth and Kinross Dental Treatment and Training Centre | 7.6 |
Tayside | Equipment - Tayside Mental Health NPD Project | 95.0 |
NSS | Accommodation (Glasgow - Meridian) | 6.2 |
SAS | Defibrillator Replacement | 7.5 |
SAS | Vehicle Replacement | 25.5 |
State Hospital | State Hospital Refurbishment | 90.0 |
National Commitment | Primary Care Modernisation Programme Schemes on site | 11.0 |
Totals | | 827.35 |
Note:
1. Phase 1 of the New South Glasgow Hospitals Project represents the development of laboratories, facilities management building, new city mortuary and electrical supply for the Southern General site and is legally committed. This project forms part of the £842 million New South Glasgow Hospitals Project to which the Scottish Government is fully committed to delivering.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 17 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available to carers centres through carers information strategies for 2010-11, broken down by carers centre.
Answer
It is not possible to determine how much of the total of £5 million allocated to NHS boards for carer information strategies (CIS) in 2010-11 has been allocated to carers centres. We have not requested that NHS boards provide information on the level of resources allocated to particular aspects of the CIS. However, we fully expect the boards'' annual reports to the Scottish Government for 2010-11, to be received after March 2011, to set out progress and achievements against the minimum requirements in NHS HDL (2006) 22 (24 April 2006).
We know from discussions with carers'' organisations, NHS boards, local authorities and carers that a significant part of the total CIS funding of £9 million over three years is supporting carers centres.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the role is of the National Performance Management Committee.
Answer
The role of the National Performance Management Committee is set out in HDL 2006(54). The committee''s terms of reference has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52071).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the distribution of appraisal scores was for each NHS board and Special Health Board in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10 and is in 2010-11.
Answer
Comparative information by NHS board on the performance management outcomes for staff in the Executive and Senior Management Cohorts is not released. In many cases this would lead to the identification of individuals due to the small numbers involved.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 17 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current annual revenue and capital budget is for the (a) Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and (b) Cairngorms National Park.
Answer
The revenue and capital budgets for 2010-11 are detailed for each of the national park authorities in the following table.
| Operating* | Capital | Total |
| £000 | £000 | £000 |
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority | 7,512 | 67 | 7,579 |
Cairngorms National Park Authority | 4,871 | 33 | 4,904 |
Note: *The operating figure includes depreciation.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 17 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether senior managers in the (a) Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and (b) Cairngorms National Park receive bonus payments and, if so, how much has been paid in each year since the parks’ establishment.
Answer
In the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority senior managers do not receive any non-consolidated bonus payments and none has been paid. In the Cairngorms National Park Authority, annual totals of between £1,260 and £2,644 have been awarded to senior managers since 2007-08. A further breakdown cannot be provided without contravening data protection principles, as this information could identify individuals.
Chief executives'' pay arrangements are covered separately by the Scottish Government''s pay policy for senior appointments, and remuneration details for both National Park Authority chief executives are published yearly in the organisations'' annual report and accounts.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made changes to the number of new entrants to trainee doctor programmes for 2010-11.
Answer
There has been no change to the number of new entrants to Foundation Training programme for 2010-11, which remains at 804.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many members of the NHS Executive Managers Cohort were or are (a) male and (b) female in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09, (iii) 2009-10 and (iv) 2010-11.
Answer
Information on the gender of staff in the Executive and Senior Management Cohorts is not held centrally.