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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S2W-14092

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will involve service users in the development of performance indicators for direct payments.

Question reference: S2W-14091

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is encouraging user-led support organisations to participate at a local and national level in the development and delivery of direct payments.

Question reference: S2W-14117

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park plan will be published.

Question reference: S2W-14118

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources are given to each (a) local authority and (b) NHS board for care of the elderly.

Local authority Grant Aided Expenditure, including for community care for older people, is published on the Scottish Executive website at www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/gaestats.

Grant Aided Expenditure is funded by a combination of centrally provided government funding through Aggregate External Finance and funding raised by local authorities through locally raised council tax revenue. Local authorities are free to spend above or below the Grant Aided Expenditure level, according to their own priorities. The money that local authorities receive through Aggregate External Finance is, in the main, provided by way of a block grant and is not allocated to specific services.

Grant Aided Expenditure is allocated to individual local authorities on the basis of a needs-based distribution formula agreed with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.

General funding allocations to NHS boards of £6.01 billion for 2005-06 were detailed in written answer S2W-14069 on 4 February 2005. 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/webapp/wa.search. It is for boards to decide how best to utilise these funds to meet the health care needs of their resident populations, including services for older people, taking account of national and local priorities.

£29.5 million was allocated to NHS boards in 2004-05 for local authority/NHS Partnerships specifically to tackle the problems of delayed discharges in Scotland. These funds were distributed as follows:

NHS Board	£000
Argyll and Clyde	2,553
Ayrshire and Arran	2,292
Borders	665
Dumfries and Galloway	957
Fife	1,982
Forth Valley	1,559
Grampian	2,679
Greater Glasgow	5,455
Highland	1,367
Lanarkshire	3,152
Lothian	3,986
Orkney	124
Shetland	134
Tayside	2,361
Western Isles	234
Total	29,500

Similar delayed discharge allocations for 2005-06 have yet to be announced.

Question reference: S2W-14113

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when the final report of the Tolled Bridges Review will be published.

Question reference: S2W-14085

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to support disabled people who wish to live independently.

There are a number of strategies in place to assist disabled people to live independent lives, whether for housing, health, transport, employment or lifelong learning.

Supporting People, which delivers housing support services to people with disabilities and other service users, allocated approximately £138 million in 2003-04 to directly support nearly 6,500 disabled people across Scotland to live independently in their own homes.

Direct Payments allow disabled people to buy the community care they are assessed as needing. Being self-directed, it gives users choice and control over the services they receive, with £8.3 million in 2003-04 providing care for 912 users including disabled people.

Free Personal and Nursing Care is available for disabled and non-disabled people aged 65 and over and the Executive committed £250 million from 2002 to 2004 with a further £147 million for 2004-05 and £153 million for 2005-06. There will also be free local off-peak bus travel across Scotland for older and disabled people from April 2006.

The European Social Fund helps people with disabilities back into the labour market. Measure 2.1 aims to improve social inclusion in target groups such as disabled people by supporting access to training, employment and income earning opportunities and by addressing the key barriers they face.

Question reference: S2W-14093

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to develop a network of independent living centres across Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-14086

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will adopt the recommendations made in Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People, published by the UK Cabinet Office in January 2005.

Question reference: S2O-05464

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it issues to local authorities on priorities for the replacement or refurbishment of schools.

Question reference: S2W-11729

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 January 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what performance indicators are in place to monitor the promotion of direct payments by local authorities.