Parliamentary questions
Stewart Maxwell
854 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
21 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce Avastin (bevacizumab) and Erbitux (cetuximab) to treat advanced bowel cancer.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The Scottish Medicines Consortium(SMC) provides advice to NHS boards and their Area Drug and Therapeutics Committees(ADTCs) across Scotland about the status of all newly licenced medicines, all newformulations of existing medicines and any major new indicatio…
18 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many trainees have been enrolled in Scottish Enterprise-funded training places in each of the last five years, broken down into age (a) 16-18, (b) 19-24 and (c) 25 and over.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The information asked for isnot held centrally as it is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.</p>
18 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and what percentage, of Scottish Enterprise’s budget has been allocated to training in each of the last five years.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: Details of Scottish Enterprise’sexpenditure on Skills and Training are published annually in their accounts. Theaccounts provide information on both gross (total operating income) and net (Grantin Aid) expenditure. The figures in the table below show gross ex…
14 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is taken to ensure that tenants and home owners are held responsible for the condition of their properties.
Answer · Tom McCabe: The information is availablein the Accession Monitoring Report May 2004 - June 2006 an online report availablefrom the Home Office’s Immigration and Nationality Directorate.</p>
14 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is taken to ensure all property, both rented and privately owned, is properly maintained.
Answer · Tom McCabe: The information is availablein the Accession Monitoring Report May 2004 – June 2006 an online report availablefrom the Home Office’s Immigration and Nationality Directorate.</p>
14 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is taken to ensure that tenants and home owners are held responsible for the condition of their properties.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-27789 on 4 September 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at: <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webap…
14 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is taken to ensure all property, both rented and privately owned, is properly maintained.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The owners of privatelyowned properties are responsible for their maintenance. Where lack ofmaintenance affects neighbouring properties, the owners of those properties mayrequire maintenance to be carried out, either in terms of title obligations orunder comm…
14 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many council houses have had similar renovations carried out more than once in the last 10 years, broken down by local authority.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: This information is not heldcentrally.</p>
14 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are used to decide which local authority and housing association properties are to be renovated.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: Local authorities and housingassociations will consider a range of factors in deciding which properties are tobe improved. These will include the current condition of the housing, legislativerequirements including Health and Safety, Tolerable Standard or Buil…
14 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on the renovation of local authority and housing association properties in the last 10 years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The available information isgiven in the following table which shows total capital expenditure on local authorityhousing in each year since local government reorganisation in 1996-97. Informationon housing association expenditure, broken down by local authori…
10 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing staff have had their employment terminated after being offered redeployment for any reason other than ill-health or organisational changes in each NHS board in each of the last five years.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Information on the number ofstaff offered redeployment is not collected centrally.</p>
10 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing staff have had their employment terminated after being offered redeployment due to organisational changes in each NHS board in each of the last five years.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Information on the number ofstaff offered redeployment is not collected centrally.</p>
10 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing staff have had their employment terminated after being offered redeployment due to ill-health in each NHS board in each of the last five years.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Information on the number ofstaff offered redeployment is not collected centrally.</p>
10 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing staff have had their employment terminated after being offered redeployment in each NHS board in each of the last five years.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Information on the number ofstaff offered redeployment is not collected centrally.</p>
9 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incident reports there have been in each NHS board in each of the last five years.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This information is not heldcentrally. Each NHS board maintains its own incident reporting and monitoring systemand these systems do not allow comparisons directly due to data definition differences.</p>
9 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency nurses have been used by each NHS board in each of the last five years and what the cost was to each board of employing such nurses.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Information on the use and associatedcosts of agency nurses for individual NHS boards in Scotland canbe accessed on table E13 of the following link:</p><p><ahref="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=1350&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.…
9 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bank nurses have been used by each NHS board in each of the last five years and what the cost was to each board of employing such nurses.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Information on the use and associatedcosts of bank nurses for individual NHS boards in Scotland canbe accessed on table E16 of the following link:</p><p><ahref="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=1350&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.sh…
9 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing hours per ward have been worked in each NHS board in each of the last five years.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Information on the number ofnursing hours worked per ward across NHS Scotland is not held centrally. NHS employersare responsible for the planning and appropriate deployment of their staff.</p>
9 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure that there is adequate staffing on all hospital wards at all times.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The staffing of NHS hospitalwards and departments is a matter for NHS boards to manage in the light of clinicalneeds in their area. The Scottish Executive Health Department is currently takingforward a project for nursing and midwifery which will make recomme…
9 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what savings are expected to be made by each NHS board following the Executive’s decision to ban the use of non-contract agency nursing staff.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Following the Scottish ExecutiveHealth Department’s directive to NHS boards that the use of non-contracted PremiumRate Labour Agencies should cease with immediate effect, it is estimated that NHSScotlandwill save over £5.1 million per annum on agency labour c…
8 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, patients who have been discharged from hospital have subsequently been readmitted as emergency cases within (a) seven days, (b) 14 days, (c) 21 days and (d) 28 days in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested isgiven in tables 1 to 8 of <i>Emergency admissions within 7, 14, 21 and 28 daysof discharge by NHS Board of Treatment for financial years 2000-01 to 2004-05</i>a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information C…
4 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) “go-live” date and (b) initial set-up cost was for each Health Scotland website and what the (i) operational cost and (ii) number of hits has been in each year of operation of these sites.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This is an operational matterfor NHS Health Scotland. Their contact details are:</p><p>NHS Health Scotland</p><p>Woodburn House Canaan Lane EDINBURGH EH10 4SG</p><p>Tel: 0131 536 5500</p><p>E-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]"title="Send email to f…
4 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S2W-15561 by Cathy Jamieson on 22 April 2005, which IT projects, other than the criminal history system replacement project, have been initiated and started without a separate budget having been defined.
Answer · Tom McCabe: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-27685 on 7 September 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facilityfor which can be at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.sea…
4 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive which IT projects it has initiated and started without an estimate of costs having been established in advance.
Answer · Tom McCabe: All internal IT projects thatrequire funding are subject to approval by the Executive’s Information Systems SteeringGroup (SEISSG), or by the ICT Senior Managers to whom authority to approve fundingfor smaller projects is delegated. All internal IT projects a…
4 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15561 by Cathy Jamieson on 22 April 2005, what the implementation date will be of the criminal history system replacement project.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The Scottish Police InformationStrategy intends to deliver the new criminal history system to the Scottish CriminalRecord Office by the end of December 2006. A period of user acceptance testing willthen be required and, subject to the satisfactory completion …
2 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent chiropodists have been employed by each NHS board in each of the last five years.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: Information on staff employedin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics, at <b><a href="http://www.isdscotland.org/workforce">www.isdscotland.org/workforce</a></b>.</p><p>Section F gives details of therape…
22 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26836 by Mr Andy Kerr on 22 June 2006, what percentage of staff affected by Agenda for Change have had to wait more than (a) 3 months, (b) 6 months and (c) 12 months to hear the outcomes of their job evaluations.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This information is not heldcentrally.</p>
14 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, nurses recruited in each of the last five years are nurse consultants.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information available isnot in the form requested. Since 2001, NHS Scotland has appointed 41 nurse consultants.Fifteen further posts have been approved and three posts are vacant. These postsare strategic clinical leadership roles and, as such, are a smal…
14 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, nurse consultants are educated to masters or PhD level.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This information is not heldcentrally. However, the guidance for establishing nurse consultant posts statesthat the postholder will have or be workingtowards a masters degree; have research experience and a record of scholarship andpublication.</p>
14 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, staff affected by Agenda for Change have had to wait more than (a) 3 months, (b) 6 months and (c) 12 months to hear the outcomes of their job evaluations.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Job evaluation in NHSScotlandis carried out in partnership between employers and trades unions/professional organisations.</p><p>Applying the job evaluation processto 150,000 staff is a complex exercise and while NHSScotland as a whole has madegood progress s…