- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 12 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have made direct payments available within the last financial year to disabled persons in order to purchase services.
Answer
The latest information available indicates that the following local authorities make direct payments available to people with disabilities.
| Authority |
| Aberdeenshire |
| Aberdeen City* |
| Angus* |
| Argyll and Bute |
| City of Edinburgh |
| East Lothian* |
| Fife |
| Highland* |
| Moray |
| North Lanarkshire* |
| Orkney* |
| Renfrewshire* |
| Scottish Borders* |
| Shetland |
| South Ayrshire |
| West Lothian |
* Pilot project
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 11 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that colleges of further education publish disability statements, similar to those required in England and Wales.
Answer
There is no statutory requirement for further education colleges in Scotland to produce disability statements. It is however, a condition of a college's grant-in-aid that its Annual Report should contain statements as to how students with learning difficulties are provided for.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 22 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration has been given to establishing a supporters - shareholders trust in order to allow football supporters to buy shares in their respective clubs.
Answer
As I said during the recent debate about football finances I am interested to hear more about new models of club ownership. I particularly want to explore what role, if any, the Scottish Parliament and Executive could play in encouraging increased supporter participation in the running of football clubs. I also want to hear the views of the SFA and the other football authorities. A meeting is being arranged to discuss this early next year.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 21 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average level is of direct payment made by local authorities to disabled persons in the current financial year in order to purchase services.
Answer
Information on levels of payment is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 30 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to include resource transfer within Scottish Health Service Costs, prepared by the Information and Statistics Division and published annually.
Answer
The Scottish Health Service Costs book is subject to ongoing development to reflect continuing changes to the health service in Scotland. At present the issue of what should be included in respect of funds transferred out of the Health Service to support community facilities is one of many being discussed.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1791 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 26 October 1999, from which budget the additional #0.8 million compensation paid in 1998-1999 was provided.
Answer
The payments referred to were made under Section 10 (1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 and came from funds allocated to Grants to Voluntary Organisations. The total cost to that budget was offset by an increase in funds transferred from provision allocated to the European Social Fund Objective 3 budget.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 8 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the level of consultation which will take place in relation to appointing the Director or Chief Executive of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Answer
There has already been considerable consultation with the police and other relevant organisations about the establishment of the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency.The arrangements for appointing the Director are among a range of issues currently under consideration.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 July 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 5 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the amount of public funding for learning disability services in Scotland in each of the past five years divided between the health service, local authorities and the voluntary sector.
Answer
The following table shows the amount of public funding for learning disability services in Scotland in each of the past five years, where data are available, for health service and local authorities. Figures for the voluntary sector are not collected by the Scottish Executive. The figures show the increasing emphasis on caring for people in the community rather than in hospital.
| | Health Service£m | Local Authorities£m | Total£m |
1998-99 | 111.11 | n/a3 | n/a |
1997-98 | 117.0 | 141.54 | 258.5 |
1996-97 | 116.3 | 129.1 | 245.3 |
1995-96 | 119.4 | 116.2 | 235.7 |
1994-95 | n/a2 | 93.2 | n/a |
1993-94 | n/a2 | 57.8 | n/a |
Sources: Health Service: Performance Monitoring Returns (SOHD EID)
Local Authorities: Local Government Finance Returns (LFR 3 Social Work)
Notes:
- The Health Service figure for 1998-99 is provisional and may be subject to revision.
- Health Service Community figures were not broken down for learning disabilities prior to 1995-96.
- LFR data for 1998-99 are not yet available.
LFR data for 1997-98 are provisional and may be subject to revisions.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 26 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients are currently in hospital awaiting local authority provided community care packages in each health board area.
Answer
A pilot exercise to assess the reasons for delayed discharges from NHS care has not yet produced the comprehensive detail required to provide the information requested. Work involving the key agencies is continuing to develop information systems that will provide the necessary detail.
On the basis of information currently available for 13 of the 15 health board areas, in the 35,524* average available staffed beds in Scotland, there are 2,015 patients whose discharge has been delayed, for a variety of possible reasons, by more than the two days referred to in the pilot definition. (* Source ISD Scotland, 1998-99 provisional figures-excluding joint user and contractual beds)
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 26 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings it has had with the Home Office to discuss the implications for Scotland of proposed changes to the Race Relations Act 1976.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the United Kingdom government on a wide range of issues including the proposed changes to the Race Relations Act 1976.
