- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 14 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to use the Tenements (Scotland) Bill to address the needs of retirement home owners who own a share in the equity of their property.
Answer
There are no such plans. TheTenements Bill deals with ownership in tenement blocks. Occupiers of shared equityproperties do not own the properties.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 14 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to extend the rights given to sheltered and retirement home owners under the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 to those who own a share in the equity of their property.
Answer
There are no such plans. TheTitle Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 deals with property ownership. In a sharedequity arrangement the occupiers do not own the properties.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made towards the 2005 electronic service delivery target.
Answer
We have today published the Executive’s5th
Electronic Service Delivery Progress Report. Overall 87% of servicesprovided by the Executive, its agencies and non‑departmental public bodiesare now available online to some degree. This represents a 5% increase since the4th report was published in March last year. There has also been an increase inthe number of services reported from 539 to 585.There has been some delay incompiling this 5th report since we have developed a new database to make it mucheasier for respondents to provide the information we need. Further enhancementsare planned. Copies of the report have been placed in the Parliament’s ReferenceCentre. It is also available on the OpenScotland website at
www.openscotland.gov.uk. Future reportswill issue at six monthly intervals.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken, or is proposed, following the announcement on 18 December 2003 about the blood transfusion incident involving variant Creut'feldt-Jakob Disease.
Answer
I will make a statement toParliament on this tomorrow.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to receive the Phase 3 report of its Higher Education Review.
Answer
I received the report onFriday 27 February. The report is being published today, and copies will be placedin the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 31377).
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 3 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its performance in answering ministerial correspondence was in the fourth quarter of 2003.
Answer
In the answer given toquestion S1W-24583 on 28 March 2002, I undertook to continue to report quarterly on thenumbers of letters received by ministers and our performance in answering them.This is the third quarter in which I am reporting performance on letters onlyand not invitations.
In the quarter October toDecember 2003, 2,706 letters were received for ministerial reply of which 75%received a reply within 17 working days, and 89% received a reply within 25 workingdays. In the same period ministers received 589 invitations.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the number of cancer deaths at home is rising or falling.
Answer
The following table shows deaths from cancer by place of death from 1993 to 2002. It is reasonable to assume that deaths “not in an institution” are “at home”.
| | All Deaths | Hospital, Nursing Home, etc. | Not in an Institution |
| 1993 | 15,458 | 11,413 | 4,045 |
| 1994 | 15,164 | 11,268 | 3,896 |
| 1995 | 15,224 | 11,247 | 3,977 |
| 1996 | 15,171 | 11,282 | 3,889 |
| 1997 | 14,889 | 11,098 | 3,791 |
| 1998 | 14,752 | 10,922 | 3,830 |
| 1999 | 14,789 | 11,142 | 3,647 |
| 2000 | 14,958 | 11,266 | 3,692 |
| 2001 | 15,196 | 11,435 | 3,761 |
| 2002 | 15,051 | 11,275 | 3,776 |
Source: GRO Scotland, February 2004. 2002 is the last year for which cancer mortality figures are available.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to meet the desire of people with a life-limiting disease to die at home.
Answer
Enabling patients to remainat home during the terminal stages of their illness, if possible and if that istheir wish, requires integration of the specialist palliative care and primaryhealthcare teams. Managed clinical networks for palliative care promote thatintegration, which is why we support and encourage their development.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to increase the number of nurses with specialist qualifications in palliative care.
Answer
NHS boards are responsiblefor planning services in their areas and for securing the staff needed todeliver them.
The Executive remainscommitted to building the workforce capacity of NHSScotland and in order toassist NHS employers meet local health needs, we have invested record sums inhealth.
We are aware of the capacityissues for some specialist staff, and the department is working closely withNHSScotland to identify and increase the numbers of specialist nurses inpalliative care.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what services are being put in place to support palliative care at home, including assisting with the control of pain and other symptoms, providing extra help for carers, meeting the need for nursing care in the home at night and providing advice and information through a telephone support service.
Answer
We would expect NHS boards’palliative care needs assessments to take account of these issues, and a numberof initiatives are taking place across the country. The local and nationalreports from NHS Quality Improvement Scotland will help to achieve uniformityand equity of approach across the country as a whole in respect of theseservices and for those suffering from any progressive incurable illness.
