Parliamentary questions
Adam Ingram
1,244 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
17 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15892 by Susan Deacon on 5 June 2001, when it expects a Scottish Medicines Consortium to be established, what its remit will be and what (a) public and (b) private funding it will receive.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The Chief Medical Officer has asked Professor David Lawson to develop proposals for a Scottish Medicines Consortium. Professor Lawson hopes to complete this work in September. Until then it is not possible to be precise about the remit or budget of the propos…
17 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland and what its annual funding is.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The remit and membership of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland can be found on the board's website <A HREF="http://www.clinicalstandards.org.uk/">www.clinicalstandards.org.uk</A>. In 2001-02 the board has a budget of £3 million.
17 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the Public Health Institute for Scotland and what its annual funding is.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The Public Health Institute of Scotland's remit is: <I><FONT FACE="Arial"><P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">"to protect and improve the health of the people of Scotland by working with relevant agencies and organisations to increase our understanding of the determinants of …
17 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network receives annually from (a) it and (b) private companies.
Answer · Susan Deacon: In 2001-02 the Clinical Resource and Audit Group grant to the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) was £810,000. SIGN receives no core funding from any private companies. However, it does seek sponsorship for its national meetings from private c…
17 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the Health Technology Board for Scotland, who its members are and what its annual funding is.
Answer · Susan Deacon: Full details of the Health Technology Board for Scotland's (HTBS) remit and membership can be found on the HTBS website at www.htbs.org.uk.<P>It's budget for 2001-02 is £2 million.
17 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the Common Services Agency and what its annual funding is.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The remit of the Common Services Agency (CSA) is to provide, facilitate or co-ordinate essential national and regional services for the NHS in Scotland that are effective, efficient and provide value for money. In addition to its headquarters, the CSA is made…
17 Aug 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the Clinical Resource and Audit Group, who its members are and what its annual funding is.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The remit and membership of the Clinical Resource and Audit Group can be found on the group's website <A HREF="http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/crag">www.show.scot.nhs.uk/crag</A>. In 2001-02 the group has a budget of £3.146 million.
27 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive which hospitals have been sold in each year since 1999; what revenue was raised from any such sales, and how much of this revenue was re-invested in community care packages, broken down by health board area.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The table details, by health board area, the hospitals and partial hospital sites which have been sold since 1999 and the total capital receipts realised to date from these disposals. Such receipts supplement the level of capital available for investment in N…
27 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive which hospitals have been closed in each year since 1999, broken down by health board area.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The information is contained in the following table: <TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=595><TR><TD WIDTH="18%" VALIGN="TOP"><P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Year of Closure</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP"><P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Health Board</TD><TD WIDTH="37%" V…
17 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in the implementation of its road to rail freight strategy.
Answer · Sarah Boyack: Awards of Freight Facilities Grants already made will remove over 13.4 million lorry miles from Scotland's roads each year. The doubling of resources for this grant scheme to £36m over the period 2001-2004 is evidence of our continued commitment to enco…
17 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what applications it has received for supporting funding to expand the Eurocentral rail freight terminal in Lanarkshire.
Answer · Sarah Boyack: The Scottish Executive has not received an application for Freight Facilities Grant funding to expand the Eurocentral rail freight terminal in Lanarkshire.
13 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive which psychiatric hospitals have been sold since May 1999.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The following table sets out the psychiatric hospitals and parts of such hospital sites that have been sold since May 1999, as at 31 July 2001:<P><TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=602><TR><TD WIDTH="37%" VALIGN="TOP"><FONT FACE="Arial"><P ALIGN=…
13 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the total revenue received from the sale of psychiatric hospitals since May 1999 has been used to fund community care packages, broken down by health board area.
Answer · Susan Deacon: Generally, the proceeds from the sale of mental health facilities are not directly reinvested in mental health since the mental health service will have been reprovided through capital investment or resource transfer prior to the mental health facility being …
13 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much revenue has been received from the sale of psychatric hospitals since May 1999, broken down by health board area.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The following table sets out the resources achieved from the sale of psychiatric hospitals and parts of the sites of such hospitals since May 1999, as at 31 July 2001:<P><TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=602><TR><TD WIDTH="50%" VALIGN="TOP"><FON…
13 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is regarding the use of the revenue from the sale of psychiatric hospitals.
Answer · Susan Deacon: Current guidelines indicate that the proceeds from the sale of psychiatric hospitals, like the proceeds from all other NHSScotland properties, should be fully reinvested in improving patient care.
11 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the budget of each local authority for 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02 and the Executive's contribution to these budgets.
Answer · Angus MacKay: The information is contained in the following tables. Local authorities supplement the revenue grant support they receive from the Executive with funding from council tax.<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Central Government Grant To Councils - 1999-00 To 2001-02<P ALIGN="JU…
11 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the budget of each health board for 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02 and the Executive's contribution to these budgets.
Answer · Susan Deacon: Details of the Executive's contribution to budgets are as follows:<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=489><TR><TD WIDTH="36%" VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT=98><P>Health Board</TD><TD WIDTH="21%" VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT=98><FONT FACE="Arial"><P ALIGN="CENTER">Ex…
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated average annual cost will be of an individual school intervention programme for children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as recommended in the SIGN 52 guideline assuming (a) 2% prevalence of ADHD and (b) 5% prevalence of ADHD.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: It is not possible to estimate the cost of implementation as the terms of the recommendation are general and do not provide specific guidance on the structure and content of programmes to meet individual needs.
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated annual cost of implementing the SIGN 52 guideline in full will be (a) in total and (b) per individual diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: These costs cannot be calculated with any degree of accuracy. A wide range of professionals are involved currently in the treatment of ADHD, and no assessment can be made of how many will need additional training or what their individual needs will be.
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the prevalance of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been amongst juvenile offenders in Scotland since 1 January 2001.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: It is not possible to provide this information. The medical records of juvenile offenders are confidential between the individual and the clinicians involved in his or her care and would not necessarily be revealed to the police or judicial authorities.
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been among school-age victims of road traffic accidents since 1 January 1999.
Answer · Sarah Boyack: The information requested is not held centrally.
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers have received in-service training on the special needs of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: This information is not held centrally.
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many educational psychologists are currently employed by each local authority
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The most up to date information held by the Executive relates to August 2000. This is provided in the following table:<FONT SIZE=2><P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Source: Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists (ASPEP) Staffing Survey 31 August 2000 <T…
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many paediatricians with specialist interest or training in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are currently working in Scotland broken down by (a) health board area and (b) local education authority area.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The information requested is not available centrally. Staff data is classified by main specialty only and does not identify sub-categories of specialty or special interest.
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many child and adolescent psychologists are currently working in Scotland broken down by (a) health board area and (b) local education authority area.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The information on child and adolescent psychologists for health board and local education authority areas is not available centrally. However, the numbers of psychologists employed in NHSScotland have risen from almost 302 in 1997 to almost 352 in 2000 (WTE)…
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children of school age are currently resident in Scotland broken down by (a) health board area and (b) local education authority area.
Answer · Iain Gray: The following tables give the Registrar General's 2000 Mid-Year Estimates of Population for school age children for health board and council area.<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH=620><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=20…
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to support parents and carers of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: It is for health boards in consultation with education authorities and social work departments to provide such support on the basis of local needs.
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be an opportunity for parents and carers to request alternative tests for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder such as hair, blood and urine tests.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: It is open to parents and carers to ask for alternative tests for children with ADHD. Whether the request will be met is a matter for individual clinical judgement.
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will fund a research project looking at the long term effects of different methods of treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Answer · Susan Deacon: Within the Scottish Executive Health Department, the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health services and patient care within the NHS in Scotland and, as such, is the main departmental funder of NHS-…
10 Jul 2001 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to carry out an audit of the stimulants which are currently being prescribed in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Answer · Susan Deacon: The Executive has no plans to carry out such an audit.