- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff in NHS (a) Highland, (b) Grampian, (c) Orkney, (d) Shetland and (e) Western Isles will have or have had their contracts terminated in order to reduce staff numbers in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09; (iii) 2009-10 and (iv) beyond 2010.
Answer
While boards receive more funding than ever before, it is right for them to look critically at service delivery to ensure efficiency and best value for taxpayers money, and to consider how services should be staffed as patterns of care change for the good (e.g. more day care; more community based care; shorter hospital stays).
All boards have confirmed that they would expect to manage the bulk of any workforce reductions through normal turnover and that there will be no compulsory redundancies.
There are of course a number of situations where staff will have their contract terminated, and not receive redundancy pay, as part of normal management practice by NHS boards. These situations will include staff coming to the end of their fixed term contract, staff who have been subject to disciplinary proceedings or staff who have volunteered to leave the organisation.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many short-term contracts are not being renewed in NHS (a) Highland, (b) Grampian, (c) Orkney, (d) Shetland and (e) Western Isles and whether this includes (i) doctors, (ii) nurses, (iii) nursing support staff, (iv) midwives, (v) administration workers, (vi) administration support staff and (vii) other employees.
Answer
This information is not centrally available.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, of the projected 108 job losses within NHS Highland, how many staff will be redeployed to alternative posts.
Answer
This information is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when The Carers Strategy for Scotland will be published.
Answer
The Scottish Government has been developing the carers and young carers strategy in partnership with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, working closely with health boards, carer organisations and other stakeholders. We will publish the strategy once we have agreed it with COSLA, our strategy partners.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what input from the Parliament it expects in the development of the carers strategy.
Answer
In the development of the draft Carers Strategy for Scotland, I have taken into account views expressed by MSPs during debates in Parliament on carers'' issues and by members of the Equal Opportunities Committee.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will seek a parliamentary debate on the draft carers strategy.
Answer
The Equal Opportunities Committee agreed after its meeting on 1 December 2009 that it would be preferable to have a parliamentary debate after publication of the strategy. This is because the issues are well known, having been debated and discussed over the last few years. Such a debate would be considered by the Parliamentary Bureau in the normal way.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 11 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-33490 by Alex Neil on 12 May 2010, what the actual budget is for the Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12 and how many applications were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful.
Answer
The budget for the Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme in 2010-11 is £3.6 million. Although the Affordable Housing Investment Programme budget for next financial year has not yet been set, it is intended to provide the balance of funding amounting to £1.3 million during 2011-12.
Full details of the pilot scheme, including applications received and those projects being supported, have been published on the Scottish Government''s website at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-environment/Housing/investment/grants/ruralhomesforrent/ruralhomesforrent.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-31800 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2010, what it means by near future and whether it considers that there has been an unacceptable delay in the publication of the findings of the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation (TAGRA).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33780 on 1 June 2010, which provides an update of the work of Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation (TAGRA) relating to its remote and rural review. All answers to written parliamentary questions can be found on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
The Scottish Government does not consider there to have been an unacceptable delay in the publishing of TAGRA''s findings. TAGRA has not yet completed its report, and its findings will be published once it has done so. The evidence that has been viewed by TAGRA as part of its research is published on its website at http://www.tagra.scot.nhs.uk/meetingpapers.html, alongside the minutes from its meetings, as part of its commitment to having a fair and transparent formula.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Orkney were directly connected to a diagnosis of assault by sharp object in each of the last five years for which information is available.
Answer
In order to minimise the risk of disclosure due to small numbers it is not possible to provide the number of occupied bed days for NHS Orkney.
The aggregate number of occupied bed days for all island boards (NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isles) where a diagnosis of assault by sharp object is available in the answer to question S3W-33978 on 10 June 2010. 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.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take action to ensure that further education students receive an acceptable minimum amount of student support throughout their studies and how the additional money for 2010-11 announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will assist further education students.
Answer
Ministers have no role in setting the budgets of individual colleges. That is the responsibility of the Scottish Funding Council, which for 2010-11 has increased by 6.2% (£4.9 million) the resources it provides to colleges for the purpose of providing bursaries and other student support.
