- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 1 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds were allocated by it to (a) residential homes, (b) nursing homes, (c) respite care and (d) Care in the Community and what were the actual funds disbursed, broken down in each case by each local authority, in 1999-2000.
Answer
The grant aided expenditure allocated to each local authority for services for home-based elderly, residential accommodation for the elderly and for other social work services for 1999-2000 is listed in the Scottish Executive document
Grant Aided Expenditure 1999-2000, which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre, Bib. No. 3274. It should be emphasised that grant aided expenditure assessments form a basis for the allocation of total central government grant to local authorities; they are not spending targets or guidelines.
Figures for expenditure by local authorities are contained in the CIPFA publication Rating Review: Estimates of Income and Expenditure 1999-2000, also available in the Information Centre, Bib. No. 7547.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 1 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether local authority funding for care of the elderly in (a) residential homes, (b) nursing homes, (c) respite care and (d) Care in the Community is ring-fenced.
Answer
Local authority funding for the categories of care for the elderly listed is not ring-fenced.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 31 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many paediatric patients in the Scottish Borders will be affected by the centralisation of paediatric cardiac surgery in Glasgow.
Answer
On the basis of numbers in recent years, and taking into account the reducing trend in the need for paediatric cardiac surgery, it seems likely that around 4-7 children each year from the Borders Health Board area will require to have this form of surgery in Glasgow. Children from Dumfries & Galloway Health Board are already referred to Glasgow for cardiac surgery.
This question was originally answered on 24 May 2000.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 30 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much central funding for action against alcohol abuse was made available in each of the last five years to date, in cash and real terms.
Answer
Funding for tackling alcohol misuse is provided to health boards and local authorities, however the funding is not specifically earmarked for this use and it is up to them to decide how best to meet the needs of their resident population. Details of alcohol specific budgets held within the Health Department of the Scottish Executive and the Health Education Board for Scotland for the last three years are detailed below. This also includes voluntary body grants provisions under section 9 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 and section 16B of the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978.Scottish Executive Alcohol Misuse Central Funding
£000 |
1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 |
£463 | £461 | £993.601 |
Health Education Board Scotland (HEBS) Expenditure Specifically on Alcohol
£000 |
1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 |
£244 | £275 | £282 |
Notes:
1. The HEBS figures do not include the general contributions to alcohol abuse of non-specific initiatives.
2. Changes in accounting arrangements mean that it is only possible to provide comparable figures for the last three years.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 30 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the Deputy Minister for Community Care's statement in the debate on drugs misuse on 20 January 2000 (col 385), what plans it has to propose a debate on alcohol misuse.
Answer
We intend to hold a debate at a date to be scheduled.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 25 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-2130 by Sarah Boyack on 6 July 2000, whether the financing of the Borders railway line was discussed at the meeting with the Shadow Strategic Rail Authority on 26 June 2000 following the motion agreed by the Parliament on 1 June 2000 and whether any finance will be available from this source to reinstate the entire line from Edinburgh to Carlisle.
Answer
Yes. I reported to the Chief Executive of the Shadow Strategic Rail Authority my understanding that the Borders railway line is currently the subject of an application to the Public Transport Fund being prepared by Scottish Borders Council.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4524 by Mr Jim Wallace on 2 March 2000, what figures it has for net outward migration from the Scottish Borders for each year from 1996 to date for the age groups 18-30, 31-45, 45-60, and over 60.
Answer
Estimates of net migration by age-group for the Scottish Borders consistent with the Registrar General's mid year estimates of population are given in the following table.
| | Year ending 30 June |
| Age group | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
| Under 18 | 40 | 110 | 150 | 110 |
| 18-30 | -300 | -340 | -390 | -390 |
| 31-45 | 150 | 240 | 280 | 330 |
| 46-60 | 200 | 230 | 220 | 210 |
| 60+ | 100 | 80 | 90 | 100 |
| All ages | 190 | 320 | 360 | 350 |
Notes: 1 A positive figure indicates net inward migration.
2 Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not add due to rounding.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 23 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-5734 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 July 2000, what effect the security requirements of the number of VIP visits to Edinburgh since 1 July 1999 have had on policing in the Scottish Borders.
Answer
The deployment of resources and the setting of operational priorities are matters for the Chief Constable.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 23 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care will be established; who the members of the commission will be, and when the commission will be expected to report.
Answer
Subject to the necessary legislation obtaining Parliamentary approval, we expect the Commission to be established in October 2001. Appointments to the Commission will be made by Ministers in line with the public appointments procedures on the basis of open competition and will take account of the need for a balance of interests.
The details of our proposals for the Commission are contained in the Policy Position Paper The Way Forward for Care, which is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to its news release SE0028/2000 of 10 January 2000, why the criteria for diagnosing influen'a in Scotland differ from the criteria in England and Wales, given that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is UK-wide and that flu vaccines are purchased by the Department of Health in England and Wales on behalf of other UK health departments.
Answer
I refer to my answer provided to Question S1W-8815.
