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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)
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Question reference: S2W-12657

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 December 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether all the documents used by the Skipton Fund in reaching decisions on ex gratia payments will be made available to appellants against a decision made by the fund.

Question reference: S2W-12642

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 December 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many unsuccessful applicants to the Skipton Fund have requested an appeal against the decision and, of these, how many have had their appeal heard.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12632, answered on 13 December 2004, which gives the status of applications received by the Skipton Fund as at 26 November 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Patient groups have been consulted and have commented on an initial proposal for the appeals process and the membership of an independent appeals panel. The UK Health Departments are now considering arrangements for the appeals process and the appointment of the panel.

Appointments to the panel will be made through the public appointments process. Funding for the panel will come from the total budget allocated to the Skipton Fund.

Decisions on the granting of legal aid are a matter for the Scottish Legal Aid Board. The Skipton Fund will not meet any legal or other expenses incurred by an applicant.

Question reference: S2W-12632

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 December 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have applied to the Skipton Fund.

The following table provides figures in relation to the number of stage I and stage II applications received by the Skipton Fund and their status as at 26 November 2004:

	Stage 1	Stage 2
Application forms dispatched	4,496	338
Total completed applications received	3,095	117
Declined	140	0¹
Number of claims paid	2,501	81
Total amount paid to claimants	£50,020 ,000	£2,025,000

Note: 1. A small number of stage 2 applications have been deferred because the claimants do not yet meet the criteria for payment.

Question reference: S2W-12658

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 December 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether applicants to the Skipton Fund are entitled to legal representation when appealing against a decision taken by the fund.

Question reference: S2W-12660

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 December 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the appeals panel in respect of the Skipton Fund is paid for by the fund and, if not, where the funding for the panel comes from.

Question reference: S2W-12659

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 December 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether applicants to the Skipton Fund are entitled to legal aid if they appeal against a decision taken by the fund.

Question reference: S2W-12662

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 December 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding has been given to the MacFarlane Trust to enable it to administer the Skipton Fund and from which budget such additional funding came from.

Question reference: S2W-12661

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 December 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the funding of the Skipton Fund is used for administrative purposes, broken down into (a) office costs, such as rent, business rates, telephones, electricity and any other such costs, (b) medical panels, (c) the processing of initial decisions and (d) processing appeals.

Question reference: S2W-11201

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 29 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish Scottish Community Care Statistics 2003, as referred to in the Statistics Release, Home Care Services Scotland, 2003.

No publication date has been set as yet for “Scottish Community Care Statistics 2003”. The reason is that, this year, the publication is being re‑designed as a web-based series of linked documents, split by client group. Most of the information to be contained within the publication is already in the public domain and will be available from the Parliament’s Reference Centre. However, a list of the URLs for web versions of the most recent publications from which the data is drawn is as follows:

Day Care Services, Scotland 2003:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00359-00.asp

Direct Payments, Scotland 2004

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00370-00.asp

Home Care Services Scotland 2003

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00313-00.asp

Registered Blind and Partially Sighted Persons, Scotland 2003

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00292-00.asp

Care Homes, Scotland March 2004

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00367-00.asp

Financial Provision, 2003

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00335-00.asp

Free Personal/ Nursing Care, Scotland 2004

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00368-00.asp

Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics, 2002-03

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00344-00.asp

Special Needs Housing

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00357-00.asp

Carers: results from the 2003 Scottish Household survey Annual Report

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/housing/shsar03-20.asp

Geriatric Medicine and Hospitals:

http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=1139&p_applic=CCC&

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=663&p_service=Cont

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=663&p_applic=CCC&p

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=962&p_applic=CCC&p

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/collect2.jsp?pContentID=2789&p_applic=C.

Question reference: S2W-12162

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 November 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 26 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the maximum time is that callers to NHS 24 have to wait for their call to be answered, broken down by NHS board area.