- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-23351 by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 March 2002, what funding was provided by NHS Lothian for sleep disorder services in (a) 2000-01, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03 and (d) 2003-04 and what additional funding was provided to other NHS boards for referrals to the Sleep Centre in each year since 2001-02, broken down by board.
Answer
The table shows the fundingprovided by NHS boards in Scotland to the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh:
| NHS Boards | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 3,348 | 3,515 | 3,620 | 3,761 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 3,104 | 3,255 | 3,353 | 3,483 |
| Borders | 24,870 | 40,561 | 41,778 | 43,400 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 800 | 1,111 | 1,144 | 1,189 |
| Fife | 57,000 | 59,850 | 61,646 | 64,040 |
| Forth Valley | 47,293 | 50,407 | 51,919 | 53,935 |
| Grampian | 58,164 | 88,000 | 90,640 | 0* |
| Glasgow | 8,000 | 10,160 | 10,465 | 10,871 |
| Highland | 5,872 | 6,166 | 6,351 | 6,598 |
| Lanarkshire | 10,126 | 10,632 | 10,951 | 11,376 |
| Lothian | 172,420 | 266,744 | 274,746 | 285,416 |
| Orkney | 344 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shetland | 225 | 237 | 244 | 254 |
| Tayside | 62,000 | 65,100 | 67,053 | 69, 657 |
| Western Isles | 459 | 482 | 496 | 516 |
| Total | 454,025 | 606,220 | 624,406 | 554,496 |
Note: * Local provision since 2003-04.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, with reference to the report from the Expert Advisory Group on Infertility Services in Scotland, Evidence & Equity, published in April 1999, it will review the eligibility criteria for assisted contraception.
Answer
The Scottish Programme forClinical Effectiveness in Reproductive Health (SPCERH), commissioned by theChief Medical Officer, recently held aconsensus conference to reconsider the eligibility criteria for access to NHSfunded infertility treatment. The Executive are currently reviewing the feedbackfrom the conference and are also reviewing the current level of serviceprovision across the NHS boards. If after the completion of these reviews therewas a recommendation to change the criteria then this would be subject to afull public consultation.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps will be taken to introduce guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of all sleep disorders, in light of the finding of the report endorsed by the British Sleep Society, Dead Tired, that there are 84 sleep disorders.
Answer
There are no plans to takeany action directly related to this report. However, the ScottishIntercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), which is funded by the Executivethrough NHS Quality Improvement Scotland to produce good practice clinicalguidelines, published a guideline on the management of Obstructive SleepApnoea/Hypopnoea Syndrome (OSAHS) in September 2003. OSAHS is the most commonsleep disorder with a treatable medical cause, and the one which is believed tobe a factor in a significant number of traffic accidents. Copies of SIGNguidelines are available through the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dedicated diagnostic sleep beds there are and where they are located.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-23350 by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 March 2002, how many patients are currently on the waiting list for a first appointment at the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh; how, in relation to the answer, it defines “clinical priority”, and what the average waiting time is for a first appointment for those defined as being (a) a “clinical priority” and (b) “routine”.
Answer
There are 655 patientsawaiting a first appointment, and 25 patients (whose initial referral recommendsit) awaiting a first appointment and sleep study.
“Clinical priority” refersto patients such as those who may be at risk of falling asleep whilst undertakingactivities such as driving, or operating machinery, and to patients with otherrelevant medical conditions, such as cardiac disease.
There is no waiting list for“clinical priority” patients as they are given appointments immediately. Suchpatients may wait two to six weeks to be seen at appointment. “Routine” refersto all patients without priority.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the pay modernisation team looking at the impact of the general medical services and consultant contracts is expected to report and whether the report will include consideration of any retrospective implications for NHS boards.
Answer
The pay modernisation teamis co-ordinating a wide range of work at local and national level to aid theimplementation of the general medical services and consultants’ contract and tohelp oversee delivery of the contracts and their impact. This is an on-goingprocess taken forward through a number of strands and involving regular updatesand advice on implementation and its consequences. This work does involveconsideration of retrospective implications.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-158 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 June 2003, how much has been received by each further education college for social inclusion in each of the years referred to (a) excluding any funding attributable to the location of the college being in a rural area and (b) expressed also as a percentage of each college's budget.
Answer
The information requested is as follows:
| College | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| | Total specific social inclusion element | % specific social inclusion to core allocation | Total specific social inclusion element | % specific social inclusion to core allocation | Total specific social inclusion element | % specific social inclusion to core allocation |
| Aberdeen College | £115,257 | 0.75% | £279,914 | 1.73% | £313,326 | 1.87% |
| Angus College | £27,786 | 0.65% | £49,375 | 1.05% | £50,976 | 1.05% |
| Anniesland College | £256,365 | 4.95% | £504,858 | 8.90% | £530,400 | 9.10% |
| Ayr College | £82,338 | 1.46% | £194,423 | 3.08% | £228,091 | 3.52% |
| Banff and Buchan College of Further Education | £819 | 0.02% | £1,818 | 0.04% | £2,341 | 0.05% |
| The Barony College | £8,871 | 0.70% | £10,018 | 0.71% | £11,167 | 0.78% |
| Borders College | £957 | 0.02% | £3,737 | 0.09% | £2,849 | 0.07% |
| Cardonald College | £256,339 | 3.38% | £507,839 | 6.09% | £549,134 | 6.29% |
| Central College of Commerce | £134,295 | 2.92% | £312,708 | 6.70% | £383,692 | 7.82% |
| Clackmannan College of Further Education | £39,253 | 1.54% | £71,797 | 2.58% | £71,157 | 2.51% |
| Clydebank College | £210,907 | 3.32% | £352,497 | 5.51% | £362,290 | 5.54% |
| Coatbridge College | £120,543 | 3.13% | £249,642 | 6.01% | £277,925 | 6.54% |
| Cumbernauld College | £25,657 | 0.81% | £60,515 | 1.82% | £85,598 | 2.53% |
| Dumfries and Galloway College | £36,736 | 0.82% | £78,953 | 1.69% | £87,414 | 1.87% |
| Dundee College | £270,339 | 2.63% | £522,863 | 4.45% | £607,668 | 4.97% |
| Edinburgh's Telford College | £198,813 | 1.52% | £395,741 | 2.92% | £436,261 | 3.13% |
| Elmwood College | £8,072 | 0.24% | £16,130 | 0.44% | £21,046 | 0.55% |
| Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education | £92,192 | 1.05% | £181,450 | 1.89% | £207,886 | 2.05% |
| Fife College of Further and Higher Education | £112,473 | 1.58% | £244,891 | 3.10% | £266,292 | 3.24% |
| Glasgow College of Building & Printing | £139,200 | 2.11% | £313,173 | 4.51% | £356,887 | 4.89% |
| Glasgow College of Food Technology | £91,455 | 2.97% | £273,557 | 7.89% | £258,752 | 7.23% |
| Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | £119,644 | 3.04% | £208,757 | 5.03% | £250,934 | 5.78% |
| Glenrothes College | £32,944 | 0.64% | £80,217 | 1.46% | £94,603 | 1.66% |
| Inverness College | £20,621 | 0.34% | £40,335 | 0.82% | £41,912 | 0.81% |
| James Watt College of Further and Higher Education | £281,725 | 2.05% | £771,276 | 4.58% | £781,620 | 4.48% |
| Jewel and Esk Valley College | £79,881 | 1.12% | £151,101 | 1.97% | £164,458 | 2.09% |
| John Wheatley College | £272,332 | 7.07% | £342,172 | 7.93% | £406,437 | 8.97% |
| Kilmarnock College | £87,962 | 1.54% | £227,707 | 3.85% | £255,300 | 4.17% |
| Langside College | £179,501 | 2.71% | £387,034 | 6.04% | £433,678 | 7.28% |
| Lauder College | £50,681 | 0.90% | £104,890 | 1.71% | £144,578 | 2.30% |
| Lews Castle College | £154 | 0.01% | £333 | 0.02% | £524 | 0.04% |
| Moray College | £2,695 | 0.06% | £4,308 | 0.13% | £2,687 | 0.08% |
| Motherwell College | £211,157 | 2.56% | £445,416 | 4.69% | £528,230 | 5.40% |
| North Glasgow College | £114,838 | 2.29% | £311,894 | 5.53% | £385,984 | 6.57% |
| Oatridge Agricultural College | £7,947 | 0.45% | £11,414 | 0.63% | £17,139 | 0.90% |
| Perth College | £23,560 | 0.43% | £33,381 | 0.79% | £33,597 | 0.79% |
| Reid Kerr College | £204,736 | 2.47% | £473,557 | 5.06% | £506,320 | 5.29% |
| South Lanarkshire College | £52,604 | 1.38% | £108,815 | 2.68% | £112,477 | 2.67% |
| Stevenson College Edinburgh | £174,005 | 1.57% | £350,942 | 3.27% | £309,010 | 3.12% |
| Stow College | £153,122 | 2.84% | £248,674 | 4.50% | £301,584 | 5.18% |
| The North Highland College | £2,006 | 0.07% | £4,275 | 0.17% | £9,148 | 0.35% |
| West Lothian College | £33,116 | 0.83% | £73,292 | 1.39% | £95,256 | 1.84% |
| Orkney College | £0 | 0.00% | £0 | 0.00% | £0 | 0.00% |
| Shetland College of Further Education | £0 | 0.00% | £0 | 0.00% | £0 | 0.00% |
Source: Scottish FurtherEducation Funding Council.
Notes:
1.The social inclusion elements are shown as a percentage of the core formulafunding allocation to colleges. This represents the majority of fundingallocated to colleges by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council(SFEFC). It excludes other SFEFC funding outwith the core formula. This caninclude claims based grants (e.g. fee waiver); funding to support students'living costs which is not core teaching activity; one off funds paid tocolleges for specific projects; and funds paid to other bodies to support thework of colleges. To include funds such as these in the comparison would bemisleading as much of the funding cannot be split by college and/or isconceptually different to core funding.
2. There has been somedebate over the basis on which the social inclusion elements of college fundingare calculated. The element which supports entry costs and retention aretriggered in respect of students living in Scotland’s 20% most deprivedpostcodes, which are generally in urban areas. SFEFC is currently reviewing howthe funding methodology takes account of remoteness.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each region has received from the European Regional Development Fund, broken down by individual project.
Answer
In the current 2000-06European Structural Funds Scottish programmes, European Regional DevelopmentFunding (ERDF) is available in the Highlands and Islands Special TransitionalProgramme and in the east of Scotland, south of Scotland and western Scotland objective2 programmes. Individual projects receiving ERDF grants under these programmes aredetailed in European Regional Development Fund Awarded by Individual Projectas at January 2004, a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 30800).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether retrospective applications can be made to the European Regional Development Fund and, if so, which projects have successfully so applied.
Answer
Retrospective applicationsare normally not permitted for European Structural Funds. However in 2003, withthe Commission’s approval, some projects in the current 2000-2006 Objective 2East of Scotland and Western Scotland programmes were allowed toclaim funding retrospectively, in consideration of the delay to the start of the programmes.
A full list of approvedretrospective project information is given in List of Projects that Appliedfor ERDF funding Retrospectively in 2003, a copy of which has been placedin the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 30799).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 4 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding from the European Regional Development Fund remains unallocated, broken down by region.
Answer
In the current 2000-06European Structural Funds Scottish Programmes, the total
European RegionalDevelopment Fund (ERDF) grant remaining unallocated is detailed below.
| Scotland 2000-2006 Programme | Unallocated ERDF Funding (grant) As at January 2004 |
| Highlands and Islands Special Transition Programme | £55,950,675 |
| South of Scotland Objective 2 | £19,806,907 |
| East of Scotland Objective 2 | £56,998,361 |
| Western Scotland Objective 2 | £144,700,000 |
| Urban II | £4,000,000 |
