- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 15 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what calculation it has made of the number of offshore oil and gas workers who reside outside the United Kingdom but also have accommodation in Scotland.
Answer
The 2001 Censuses for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland only collected information about residents of these countries and not people whose usual residence was outside the UK.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 15 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what calculation it has made of the number of offshore oil and gas workers who reside elsewhere in the United Kingdom but also have accommodation in Scotland.
Answer
The 2001 Censuses for England, Wales and Northern Ireland collected information about residents of these countries. While counts are available of how many residents of these countries worked on offshore installations, no information was collected about whether they also had accommodation elsewhere.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 15 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what calculation it has made of the number of offshore oil and gas workers who reside in Scotland.
Answer
According to the 2001 Census, there were 17,199 residents of Scotland who worked offshore. Of these, 15,416 left from a departure point in Scotland, 694 from a departure point in the rest of the UK and 1,089 from a departure point outside the UK.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 31 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13128 by Jim Mather on 3 June 2008, what the value of each regeneration project (a) is in 2008-09 and (b) will be for the following three years.
Answer
This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise. I will ask its Chief Executive to write to you in this regard.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any proposals for reconfiguring ambulance services in the (a) Grampian and (b) Highlands and Islands areas have been subject to consultation with staff or with trade unions representing staff in the relevant Scottish Ambulance Service divisions.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14973 on 29 July 2008. 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.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any proposals for reconfiguring ambulance services in the Scottish Ambulance Service’s (a) East Central and (b) South East divisional areas have been subject to consultation with staff or with trade unions representing staff in the relevant divisions.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14973 on 29 July 2008. 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.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals have been considered for reconfiguring ambulance services in the Scottish Ambulance Service’s (a) East Central and (b) South East divisional areas.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14973 on 29 July 2008. 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.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any proposals for reconfiguring ambulance services in the (a) Grampian and (b) Highlands and Islands areas have been subject to consultation with or a report by the independent scrutiny panel set up by ministers to report on proposals for reconfiguration of NHS services.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14973 on 29 July 2008. 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.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals have been considered for reconfiguring ambulance services in the (a) Grampian and (b) Highlands and Islands areas.
Answer
There are currently no plans nor proposals to reconfigure ambulance services in Scotland. However, the Scottish Ambulance Service continues to utilise and manage all its resources to deliver the highest possible levels of patient care.
In relation to operational management, however, the Scottish Ambulance Service has taken a decision to merge the North East and North & West Operating Divisions. Any redesign of the administrative management of this new North Division will be the subject of consultation with all stakeholders, particularly Scottish Ambulance Service staff, and this will be taken forward by a general manager with extensive project management experience. A programme of consultation and engagement is currently being developed. Any changes to the management and administrative structure as a consequence of this merger will not affect the location or deployment of ambulances in the North of Scotland and will not adversely impact on the quality of patient care or the speed of response to emergency calls.
In the course of her statement on 4 June, the Cabinet Secretary for Health & Wellbeing advised that the service would be developing a comprehensive stakeholder engagement plan, designed to give better information to MSPs, ambulance service staff and the wider public about service development. The Scottish Government expects the ambulance service to apply the principles of such a plan in all circumstances where change may be under consideration. This applies to operational management change as well as to changes that impact on patient care.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any proposals for reconfiguring ambulance services in the (a) Grampian and (b) Highlands and Islands areas have been subject to consultation with NHS boards, local authorities, police or fire services or any external stakeholders in the relevant areas.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14973 on 29 July 2008. 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.
