- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 25 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Bookstart scheme to allocate £27 million for pre-school education in the written word in England and Wales will be applied in Scotland.
Answer
As pre-school education is a devolved matter, the recent announcement of £27 million over three years for Bookstart in England will not apply to Scotland. The Scottish Executive currently funds Bookstart Scotland to provide a free bag of books to every baby in Scotland.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 27 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the responses to its consultation on the draft Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Bill were in favour of the retention of school boards, either as they are or with some amendment, improvement or adjustment to their current form, and what percentage of the responses received were totally committed to their abolition.
Answer
The information requested isnot available. Responses are still being analysed.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that prevention and community support are made a priority in implementing the aims of its sexual health strategy, Respect and Responsibility, in light of the lessons learned in Lothians collaborative approaches to HIV in the 1980s and 1990s and to sexual health under the Executives Healthy Respect initiative.
Answer
NHS boards have been asked tosubmit detailed clinical plans and inter-agency strategies to support the deliveryof the Sexual Health Strategy by end September 2005. These will include demonstrableevidence on collaborative approaches in responding to prevention and community initiativeson sexual ill health.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that there is an inclusive, informed debate and a consensus on the values needed to underpin the effective implementation of its sexual health strategy, Respect and Responsibility.
Answer
The sexual health strategy isbased upon responses received to a wide ranging and inclusive consultation process.The implementation of that strategy will be guided by the National Sexual HealthAdvisory Committee, chaired by myself. The membership of this committee is drawnfrom key stakeholders including health and local authority interests, voluntaryorganisations and faith groups.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what specific resources will be made available to the voluntary and community sectors to enable them to contribute effectively to the implementation of the Executive's sexual health strategy, Respect and Responsibility.
Answer
The Executivehas agreed additional funding of £15 million over the next three financial yearsto help with the implementation of the strategy. Most of the first year’s fundingof £5 million, some £4.5 million, has already been made available to NHS boardsand is directed towards improving frontline clinical services and in particular,reducing waiting times and improving service access and availability.This is new money which is inaddition to the resources already being spent by NHS boards and other agencies takingforward sexual health initiatives on behalf of the Executive and in 2005-06 is approximately£10.5 million. Over £500,000 of these funds has gone to voluntary organisations.
I have also asked NHS boards, in collaboration with other local stakeholderssuch as local authorities and voluntary sector partners, to provide local interagencysexual health strategies that reflect the underpinning principles and general themesof Respect and Responsibility. Thevoluntary sector is also well represented on the National Sexual Health AdvisoryCommittee, which will advise the delivery of the national strategy.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure the practical integration of HIV interventions into the action plan of its sexual health strategy, Respect and Responsibility.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-17310 on 27 June 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16378 by Mr Andy Kerr on 18 May 2005, whether the proposed facilities for acute psychiatric patients will be of the same standard as those previously proposed by the management of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
Answer
Meeting the clinical needs of all patients in Lothian is the responsibility of Lothian NHS Board. The new Royal Edinburgh Hospital will provide acute in-patient facilities for patients from Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian. This will include modern, purpose-designed, smaller wards, and an Intensive Psychiatric Care unit to treat those who are most unwell. Such facilities are not currently available locally to patients from East Lothian and Midlothian.
Service users and carers are involved in the planning process to ensure that standards of accommodation meet users’ needs.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16378 by Mr Andy Kerr on 18 May 2005, when the building of the new facilities for acute psychiatric patients will be completed.
Answer
I understand from NHS Lothian that the new Royal Edinburgh Hospital, which will provide acute psychiatric in-patient facilities for patients from Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian, is planned to open in 2009-10.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools took part in the OECD's "PISA 2003" survey (a) in total and (b) broken down by local authority and how many (i) independent schools and (ii) pupils from each school took part in the survey.
Answer
98 Scottish secondary schools took part in the OECD’s
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey in 2003. This sample is representative of all mainstream secondary schools in Scotland (local authority, grant-aided, and independent schools). The breakdown by local authority is provided in the following table. Three independent schools took part in the survey. In total, 2,732 pupils participated in the survey. Thirty-five 15-year old pupils from each school were randomly selected.
| Local Authority | Number of Schools in PISA 2003 |
| Aberdeen City | 5 |
| Aberdeenshire | 4 |
| Angus | 3 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0 |
| Clackmannanshire | 2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 |
| Dundee City | 3 |
| East Ayrshire | 4 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1 |
| East Lothian | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 2 |
| City of Edinburgh | 5 |
| Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar | 1 |
| Falkirk | 1 |
| Fife | 7 |
| Glasgow City | 10 |
| Highland | 6 |
| Inverclyde | 1 |
| Midlothian | 2 |
| Moray | 2 |
| North Ayrshire | 1 |
| North Lanarkshire | 10 |
| Orkney Islands | 1 |
| Perth and Kinross | 2 |
| Renfrewshire | 3 |
| Scottish Borders | 4 |
| Shetland Islands | 0 |
| South Ayrshire | 1 |
| South Lanarkshire | 4 |
| Stirling | 3 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 2 |
| West Lothian | 4 |
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the tests carried out in schools for the OECD "PISA 2003" survey were internally invigilated.
Answer
In all but one school the PISA 2003 tests were invigilated by external test administrators who were not members of the school staff. School staff administered the tests in one small school in a remote location.
