- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been fined under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 in each financial year since 1999-2000, stating in each case the value of the fine.
Answer
The available information, which relates to calendar years, is given in the following table:
Number of persons fined for offences under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912, 1999-2002
| Year | Number fined | Average fine imposed (£) |
| 1999 | 28 | 386 |
| 2000 | 23 | 357 |
| 2001(1) | 20 | 859 |
| 2002 | 21 | 371 |
Note:
1.The relatively high figure for average fine imposedin 2001 reflects the disproportionate effect of a small number of cases withvery high fines imposed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the Department of Trade and Industry's White Paper Fair, Clear and Competitive - The Consumer Credit Market in the 21st Century, what representations or responses it has made in relation to the White Paper, in particular with regard to the section on licensing arrangements.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has been thoroughly consulted by the Department of Trade and Industryon all areas, both during to the preparation and since the publication of the whitepaper. This demonstrates the Executive meeting the Partnership for a Better Scotland commitment to work with the DTI totackle harassment by loan sharks, introduce fairer credit schemes and newprotection from exorbitant interest rates.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any information on a national or NHS board area basis on any incidents in which a patient's health or recovery has been put at risk due to outdated equipment and, if so, whether it will provide such information for each year from 1999-2000 to date.
Answer
The information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what central information it has on the status of medical equipment in NHS boards and whether it will take steps to introduce a specific national medical equipment management standard, as referred to in recommendation 5 of Audit Scotland's report, Better Equipped to Care? - Follow-up report on managing medical equipment.
Answer
The Scottish Executive only holds central information on the monetary value of medicalequipment as an integral part of the summarised annual accounts for the NHS.NHS bodies themselves are required to maintain asset registers which detail themedical equipment owned by that body. The Scottish Executive will be considering fully therecommendations of Audit Scotland’s report Better Equipped to Care? – Follow upreport on managing medical equipment including recommendation 5 and willrespond in due course.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5962 by Malcolm Chisholm of 25 February 2004, what the cost was of providing free personal care for the 780 people under 65 with dementia.
Answer
Only those aged 65 and overare eligible to apply for free personal care. I refer the member to the answergiven to S2W-5963 in respect of those under age 65.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been given under the Rural Transport Fund to Scottish Borders Council in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03, broken down by project.
Answer
The Rural Transport Fund comprises three elements: the Rural Community Transport Initiative (RCTI), the Rural Petrol Stations Grant Scheme (RPSGS) and the Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant Scheme (RPPTGS). Scottish Borders Council received no funding under RCTI or RPSGS, but received RPPTG of £0.158 million in 1999-2000, £0.167 million in 2000-2001, £0.193 million in 2001-02 and £0.212 million in 2002-03. Councils are free to spend these funds as they see fit. The following tables show Scottish Borders Council’s distribution of these funds in 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02. The Council has yet to provide data for 2002-03. We shall continue to pursue the Council and provide the missing information separately as soon as it is received.
Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant 1999-2000 Scottish Borders Council Expenditure
| Route | Amount |
| Service 67: Kelso - Galashiels/Galashiels - St Boswells | £47,290 |
| Service 30: St Boswells & Lauderdale to Edinburgh | £0 |
| Service 73: Selkirk - Galashiels | £2,548 |
| Service 102: Peebles - West Linton-Edinburgh | £25,052 |
| Service 223: Yetholm - Kelso-Coldstream-Berwick | £4,383 |
| Service 67: Kelso - Galashiels (evening service) | £6,566 |
| Service 7:3 Selkirk-Galashiels (evening service) | £3,388 |
| Service 92: Peebles - West Lothian | £2,804 |
| Service 60: Berwick - Duns | £479 |
| Services 23/67: Berwick - Kelso/Kelso - Galashiels | £12,676 |
| Service 64: Kelso - Roxburgh - St Boswells | £2,816 |
| Service 37: Chirnside - Ayton - Eyemouth | £12,865 |
| Service 31: Selkirk - Edinburgh/Edinburgh - Newcastle | £24,850 |
| Service 195: Galashiels - Carlisle | £12,000 |
| Service 114: Jedburgh - Bonchester Bridge - Hawick | £2,901 |
| Service 174: Ettrick-Selkirk | £2,109 |
| Ettrick-Ettrickbridge (community bus route) | £1,202 |
| Service 130: Moffat - Yarrow-Galashiels | £6,365 |
| Kelso - Coldstream - Wooler - Newcastle | £2,881 |
| Total | £173,175 |
Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant 2000-2001 Scottish Borders Council Expenditure
| Route | Amount |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels/Galashiels - St Boswells | £41,779 |
| Service 30 St Boswells & Lauderdale to Edinburgh | £16,311 |
| Service 73 Selkirk - Galashiels | £3,060 |
| Service 102 Peebles - West Linton - Edinburgh | £33,378 |
| Service 223 Yetholm - Kelso - Coldstream - Berwick | £4,548 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels | £6,697 |
| Service 73 Selkirk - Galashiels | £3,456 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels | £4,841 |
| Service 20 Kelso - Jedburgh - Hawick | £4,189 |
| Service 37 Chirnside - Ayton - Eyemouth | £15,907 |
| Service 31 Selkirk - Edinburgh/Edinburgh - Newcastle | £14,535 |
| Service 195 Galashiels - Carlisle | £12,240 |
| Service 61 Earlston - Galashiels | £2,555 |
| Service 174 Ettrick - Selkirk | £5,565 |
| Ettrick-Ettrickbridge (community bus route) | £1,065 |
| Service 130 Moffat - Yarrow - Galashiels | £6,365 |
| Kelso - Coldstream - Wooler - Newcastle | £2,938 |
| Defecit brought forward from previous year | £15,175 |
| Total | £194,604 |
Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant 2001-2002 Scottish Borders Council Expenditure
| Route | Amount |
| Service 61 Earlston - Galashiels | £2,800 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels | £6,878 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels | £4,972 |
| Service 73 Selkirk Galashiels (Sunday service) | £2,669 |
| Service 73 Selkirk - Galashiels | £3,549 |
| Service 195 Galashiels - Carlisle | £35,573 |
| Service 102 Peebles - West Linton - Edinburgh | £64,797 |
| Service 102 Peebles - West Linton | £13,200 |
| Service 223 Yetholm - Kelso - Coldstream - Berwick (to 30/7/01) | £1,732 |
| Service 20 Kelso - Jedburgh - Hawick | £1,588 |
| Service 223 Yetholm - Kelso - Coldstream - Berwick (from 30/7/01) | £3,465 |
| Service 37 Chirnside - Ayton - Eyemouth | £18,537 |
| Service 31 Selkirk - Edinburgh/Edinburgh - Newcastle | £16,425 |
| Service 67 Kelso - Galashiels/Galashiels - St Boswells | £11,375 |
| Service 31 Selkirk - Edinburgh/Edinburgh - Newcastle | £6,532 |
| Service 195 Galashiels - Carlisle | £7,911 |
| Service 174 Ettrick - Selkirk | £12,979 |
| Ettrick-Ettrickbridge (community bus service) | £1,003 |
| Service 130 Moffat - Yarrow - Galashiels | £5,243 |
| Kelso-Coldstream - Wooler - Newcastle | £2,938 |
| Capital expenditure (Footway between Fountainhall and bus stops on A7) | £12,500 |
| Defecit brought forward from previous year | £27,604 |
| Total | £266,270 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring takes place of the funding to the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh with regard to evaluating outcomes.
Answer
This is a matter for NHS Lothian,as part of its responsibility for planning, monitoring, evaluating and managingthe performance of the services it provides to patients.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5925 by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004, whether the number of patients awaiting a first appointment at the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh included any patients who had been on the waiting list in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03.
Answer
Some of the patients waitingfor a first appointment at the Sleep Centre were referred in the course of2002-03. None were referred before 2002-03.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5926 by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004 and the reduction in funding for the Sleep Centre in the current financial year from the 2001-02 and 2002-03 levels, whether it intends to increase funding to the centre and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Funding of the Sleep Centrein Edinburgh is a matter for NHS Lothian. I understand that theapparent reduction in funding referred to was a consequence of Grampian NHSBoard setting up a local sleep disorder service in 2003-04. Patients fromGrampian no longer require to travel to Edinburgh for treatment, and Grampian NHS Board, therefore, nolonger makes payments to NHS Lothian in respect of this service. There is noindication that overall funding for sleep disorder patients in Scotland hasbeen reduced.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding by NHS boards for referrals to the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh is ring-fenced.
Answer
NHS boards are responsiblefor arranging and funding treatment for their residents in other NHS boardareas, where that is appropriate. Core funding for the Sleep Centre is part ofNHS Lothian’s general financial allocation.
