- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital beds there are in each health board area per thousand population.
Answer
The following table shows the number of available staffed beds in NHS Hospitals in each health board area per 1,000 population for the year ending 31 March 2000. The figures, which cover all specialties, are provisional.NHS Staffed Beds per 1,000 Population, Year Ending 31 March 2000
Health Board | Beds per 1,000 Population |
Argyll & Clyde | 7.62 |
Ayrshire & Arran | 5.74 |
Borders | 6.44 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 6.70 |
Fife | 5.66 |
Forth Valley | 6.71 |
Grampian | 6.82 |
Greater Glasgow | 7.83 |
Highland | 6.82 |
Lanarkshire | 6.37 |
Lothian | 5.80 |
Orkney | 4.40 |
Shetland | 5.20 |
Tayside | 8.00 |
Western Isles | 9.00 |
Scotland | 6.77 |
Differences in the number of NHS staffed beds per 1,000 population between health boards reflect a number of factors including the healthcare needs of different populations and the fact that some hospitals provide treatment to patients from other health board areas.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 15 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what importance it places on the provision and availability of targeted access to capital finance as part of its enterprise review and its social inclusion strategies.
Answer
We attach importance to the provision and availability of targeted access to capital as part of our enterprise review and our social inclusion strategies. A number of schemes of support are available from the Scottish Executive and through the Enterprise Network. These include, for example, the 拢12 million Business Growth Fund launched last year to provide loan finance to companies unable to access sufficient support from established sources, and the new Invest for Growth scheme replacing Regional Selective Assistance grant for grants below 拢100,000.
The Scottish Executive, in partnership with other organisations, also wishes to encourage the provision of and access to finance to enable social economy organisations in Scotland to develop, thereby stimulating enterprise and wealth creation in disadvantaged communities. The model to meet this aim is the Social Investment Scotland Fund.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 15 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial start-up support it is able to give to community or micro-finance initiatives.
Answer
I refer Mr Kenneth Gibson to the answer I gave to question S1W-9407 on 15 September 2000.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much housing association grant was allocated to housing associations in each local authority in each year from 1995-96 to 1999-2000 inclusive, in real terms.
Answer
For the period in question the information was not collected in the form requested.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide definitive guidance to all Scottish local authorities on the siting of telecommunications masts, particularly the siting of those masts near primary schools and high rise flats and, if not, why not.
Answer
I intend to issue for consultation a draft national planning policy guideline and draft planning legislation on telecommunications development. A planning advice note containing information and advice on siting and design will be issued to accompany the final version of the new legislation and policy guidance.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8927 by Sarah Boyack on 17 August 2000, why the terms of settlement of the two court actions against the consulting engineers who designed the Kingston Bridge are confidential to the two parties and not open to public scrutiny.
Answer
It was a condition of the settlement that the terms would not be disclosed and would remain confidential to the parties beyond that the actions had been settled out of court without any admission of liability by the defendants and each party had borne its own expenses.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 8 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many full time equivalent jobs there were in each year from 1994-95 to 1999-2000 in each of the textile, footwear, leather and clothing manufacturing sectors.
Answer
The number of employee jobs in Scotland in the textile, footwear, leather and clothing manufacturing sectors is shown in the following table. The leather and footwear sectors have been combined due to confidentiality.
| | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |
Textiles | 21,300 | 22,200 | 19,200 | 17,700 |
Clothing | 14,000 | 15,100 | 13,500 | 13,700 |
Leather and Footwear | 1,400 | 1,400 | 1,200 | 1,100 |
Source: Annual Employment Survey, Office for National Statistics.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 8 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what output was in each of the last five years for which figures are available in each of the textile, footwear, leather and clothing manufacturing sectors.
Answer
Data on the gross output of manufacturing businesses in Scotland are available from the Scottish Production Database for the five years to 1997 as follows:
| | Gross output (拢 million) |
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 |
Textiles | 913 | 958 | 920 | 1027 | 979 |
Clothing | 714 | 774 | 874 | 967 | 857 |
Leather and Footwear | 120 | 95 | 126 | 110 | 137 |
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the NHS capital allocations and actual expenditure were for each health board in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
The following table sets out the capital allocations and expenditure for each health board area for the period 1997-98 to 1999-2000:
Health Boards | 1997-98 Allocation 拢000 | 1997-98 Expenditure 拢000 | 1998-99 Allocation 拢000 | 1998-99 Expenditure 拢000 | 1999-2000 Allocation 拢000 | 1999-2000 Provisional Expenditure* 拢000 |
Argyll & Clyde | 7,167 | 5,404 | 6,200 | 5,043 | 3,750 | 3,500 |
Ayr & Arran | 8,347 | 7,798 | 7,335 | 6,005 | 3,411 | 2,181 |
Borders | 2,172 | 282 | 4,352 | 1,303 | 5,943 | 4,119 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 3,889 | 2,379 | 1,969 | 1,221 | 2,423 | 1,183 |
Fife | 4,332 | 3,207 | 3,266 | 2,478 | 5,837 | 2,687 |
Forth Valley | 3,856 | 2,267 | 4,951 | 3,821 | 6,178 | 4,065 |
Grampian | 10,060 | 7,698 | 12,343 | 10,910 | 8,167 | 6,526 |
Greater Glasgow | 34,901 | 27,759 | 27,535 | 23,876 | 45,341 | 38,918 |
Highland | 7,212 | 6,357 | 5,726 | 4,644 | 5,371 | 3,704 |
Lanarkshire | 9,826 | 7,060 | 19,960 | 16,515 | 10,525 | 6,937 |
Lothian | 30,278 | 19,759 | 33,616 | 22,882 | 39,173 | 27,301 |
Orkney | 758 | 758 | 1,353 | 1,353 | 2,474 | 2,474 |
Shetland | 2,662 | 2,662 | 1,052 | 1,052 | 2,279 | 2,279 |
Tayside | 31,974 | 25,081 | 16,774 | 8,059 | 6,665 | 984 |
Western Isles | 1,132 | 1,132 | 972 | 972 | 3,345 | 3,345 |
TOTAL | 158,566 | 119,603 | 147,404 | 110,134 | 150,882 | 110,203 |
* The 1999-2000 figures are unaudited.
Capital to revenue transfers amounting to 拢39.0 million, 拢37.3 million and 拢40.7 million in 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000 respectively were made to enable health boards and NHS Trusts to meet the costs of minor projects and non-added value elements of capital schemes.
From 2000-01 onwards, all capital funds must be spent on capital items.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Voluntary Charter on Smoking in Public Places will improve the current situation where 92% of public houses in areas of deprivation do not have smoking policies in place to protect the health of staff and customers.
Answer
I refer Mr Gibson to the answer to question S1W-8262 on 10 July 2000.
