- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 11 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the £1 million to improve delivery of community service orders, announced on 24 October 2008, including a breakdown of its allocation by criminal justice authority.
Answer
It is not possible at this stage to indicate the specific grant allocations for individual community justice authorities (CJAs) for the 2009-10 financial year in respect of the additional £1 million. Work is currently in progress on determining overall criminal justice social work services grant allocations for 2009-10 financial year of which the additional £1 million forms part. It is hoped to inform CJAs of their grant allocations for the next financial year by end December 2008.
CJAs have been advised in writing of the position.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many free flu vaccinations have been funded in 2008 and how many were funded in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The total number of free flu vaccines funded by the Scottish Government, based on claims for reimbursement by Community Pharmacists on the basis of vaccines dispensed, is detailed in the following table. Figures for flu season 2008-09 are not yet available.
| | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 84,548 | 81,837 | 72,982 |
| NHS Borders | 24,696 | 28,063 | 30,537 |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 37,933 | 35,302 | 35,706 |
| NHS Fife | 75,050 | 79,924 | 80,949 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 63,374 | 62,163 | 66,864 |
| NHS Grampian | 95,375 | 107,257 | 104,260 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 260,986 | 267,532 | 256,826 |
| NHS Highland | 65,440 | 66,574 | 68,831 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 102,288 | 107,920 | 101,219 |
| NHS Lothian | 157,189 | 161,804 | 155,688 |
| NHS Orkney | 3,929 | 4,876 | 4,948 |
| NHS Shetland | 3,816 | 1,660 | 1,625 |
| NHS Tayside | 85,869 | 88,032 | 84,967 |
| NHS Western Isles | 5,643 | 6,743 | 5,310 |
| Scotland | 1,066,136 | 1,099,687 | 1,070,712 |
Source: Prescribing Information System, ISD Scotland (extracted 31 October 2008).
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 5 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much child care funding was ring fenced under the Working for Families programme in the last year prior to single outcome agreements.
Answer
There was no ring fencing for any particular element of the programme including child care.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many businesses and charities will benefit from its 10-day target for paying its bills from small businesses, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The improvements to the Scottish Government''s systems and processes will improve payment performance to all suppliers.
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17031 on 5 November 2005. Our payment system does not distinguish between smaller and larger businesses. Nor does this system hold information about the charitable status of our suppliers, or their local authority area.
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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total value of public procurement is with small businesses in Scotland.
Answer
Information concerning the total value of public procurement with small businesses in Scotland is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However, based upon information held in the Scottish Procurement Information Hub relating to financial year 2006-07, the total expenditure by Scottish public bodies with small and medium-sized enterprises is £2.962 billion. This figure does not include expenditure by public bodies where the value on any one occasion is less than £1,000.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bills from small businesses are paid within 10 days and how many are not.
Answer
We do not currently hold this information, as our payment system does not classify suppliers according to business size. It would be disproportionately expensive to gather this information.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16575 by Shona Robison on 8 October 2008, whether it will publish the routine monitoring by each NHS board that suggests that an increasing number of GPs are participating in the human papilloma virus vaccination programme.
Answer
No. This information is routinely monitored at board level as each contract is between the board and the GP practice. It is not centrally collected for the whole of Scotland.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 31 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time has been for completing community service orders in 2008 and what it was in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 30 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there have been changes for 2008 to those people deemed to be at risk for the purpose of free flu vaccinations.
Answer
Following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccine and Immunisation, no changes were made to the list of groups considered to be at risk from the flu for the 2008-09 flu season.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 29 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will agree to Fife Council’s proposals to reduce the number of homes planned to be built in Fife by 4,270.
Answer
In line with our public announcement in August on progress with the Fife Structure Plan, a decision has not yet been reached, as Scottish Government is considering draft modifications, and progressing the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of their environmental effects, with a view to publishing the proposed modifications and the SEA Environmental Report for public consultation later this autumn. For that reason it is not yet possible to comment on Fife Council''s proposals to reduce the number of homes.
