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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-11132

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to encourage the development of day care centres.

Question reference: S1W-11128

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1933 by Iain Gray on 7 October 1999, what role day care centres play in assisting older people to reside in their homes for as long as practicable, in providing respite for carers and in preventing isolation.

Question reference: S1W-11129

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people, who have been assessed as needing residential care, have died in the (a) Scottish Borders Council and (b) East Lothian Council areas whilst waiting to be placed in residential or nursing care in each year from 1997 to 2000 to date.

Question reference: S1W-11125

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 23 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S1W-10209 lodged on 3 October 2000.

Question reference: S1W-11130

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to reconsider its recommendation in Regulating Care and the Social Services Workforce that day care services be included in a national regulation framework and ensure that the provision of such services by day care centres is a statutory requirement on local authorities.

Question reference: S1W-11098

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 23 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will appoint and fund a water safety officer in parallel with a similar appointment in England.

Scottish Ministers regulate drinking water quality under provisions in the Water (Scotland) Act 1980. The consultation paper Managing Change in the Water Industry invited views on whether additional powers in this area are needed, given the prospect of increased competition in the Scottish water and sewerage sector.

The Executive is considering responses to the consultation paper at present. Any new provisions for regulating drinking water quality will be included in the Water Services Bill planned for the current parliamentary session and will be the subject of full consultation before the Bill's introduction.

Question reference: S1W-11131

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many day care centres there are in total and broken down by local authority.

The table below details the number of centres and places available in centres for all adult client groups in 1998, the latest year for which figures are available.

Day Centres for Adults¹, 1998

	Number of Centres ²	Number of Places Available
Aberdeen City	24	696
Aberdeenshire	58	1081
Angus	12	359
Argyll & Bute	11	357
Clackmannanshire	8	284
Dumfries & Galloway	15	767
Dundee City	12	598
East Ayrshire	15	350
East Dunbartonshire	2	139
East Lothian	5	280
East Renfrewshire	4	146
Edinburgh City	35	1786
Eilean Siar	18	142
Falkirk	14	440
Fife	25	966
Glasgow City	53	2524
Highland	73	1167
Inverclyde	11	282
Midlothian	4	126
Moray	17	290
North Ayrshire	11	351
North Lanarkshire	29	1033
Orkney	4	77
Perth & Kinross	15	520
Renfrewshire	14	809
Scottish Borders	18	670
Shetland	9	174
South Ayrshire	14	645
South Lanarkshire	28	869
Stirling	7	227
West Dunbartonshire	10	403
West Lothian	10	410
Scotland	585	18968

Source: SEHD Community Care Statistics, D1-B return.

Notes:

1. Includes centres for older people, people with learning disabilities, people with mental health problems, physically disabled people and other adult client groups.

2. Includes centres with four places or less (most of which are attached to residential homes).

Question reference: S1W-11096

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 23 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10384 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 27 October 2000, whether it will make available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre the homelessness applications data referred to.

The information has already been made available to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, Document Supply Centre in the following Scottish Executive Statistical Bulletin Operation of the Homeless Persons Legislation in Scotland 1988-89 to 1998-99: National and Local Authority Analyses: HSG/2000/5. This bulletin is also available from the Scottish Executive website: www.scotland.gov.uk. Table 20 of the bulletin details the information to which the answer in question S1W-10384 refers.

Question reference: S1W-11097

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 23 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10386 by Mr Frank McAveety on 27 October 2000, whether it will include on the implementation group on the central heating installation programme representatives from grassroots fora for pensioners.

Question reference: S1W-08790

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review its assessment of the likely estimated level of cardiomyopathy in the light of the letter to the Minister for Health and Community Care of 26 May 2000 from W J McKenna, Professor of Cardiac Medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School in London given the difference in estimated level between this letter and the Executive's press release SE01054/2000 on 11 April 2000.