- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications to Disclosure Scotland for disclosure checks have been returned to the applicants due to errors in (a) each year since its establishment and (b) each of the last six months, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of applications in each category of disclosure.
Answer
Disclosure Scotland hasbeen recording application returns since April 2004. They do not gatherinformation separately for the different levels of check. The availableinformation is provided in the following table.
| Period | Number of Applications Returned | % of Applications Returned |
| 2004-05 | 36,870 | 9.84% |
| 2005-06 | 44,828 | 8.29% |
| 2006-07 | 47,270 | 7.89% |
| January 2007 | 3,255 | 7.22% |
| February 2007 | 3,847 | 7.50% |
| March 2007 | 4,917 | 8.11% |
| April 2007 | 3,522 | 7.07% |
| May 2007 | 4,974 | 8.44% |
| June 2007 | 4,740 | 8.04% |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of applications to Disclosure Scotland have fallen outwith the turnaround times stipulated by each service agreement for (a) basic, (b) standard and (c) enhanced disclosures in (i) each year since its establishment and (ii) each of the last six months.
Answer
Disclosure Scotlandmeasures performance for Basic applications, and for standard and enhancedapplications against a service level agreement target of 14 calendar days.
The information requested isset out in the following table.
| Period | % of Applications Outwith SLA |
| Basic | Standard/Enhanced |
| 2002-03 | 1.0% | 7.9% |
| 2003-04 | 2.0% | 24.6% |
| 2004-05 | 1.2% | 22.8% |
| 2005-06 | 0.1% | 6.0% |
| 2006-07 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| January 2007 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| February 2007 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| March 2007 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| April 2007 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| May 2007 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| June 2007 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what average time is taken by Disclosure Scotland to respond to applications for disclosure checks.
Answer
At week ending 15 July 2007, theaverage turnaround time for correctly completed applications where there was noneed to gather information from police forces was 6.9 days.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there have been to Disclosure Scotland for (a) basic, (b) standard and (c) enhanced disclosures in (i) each year since its establishment and (ii) each of the last 12 months.
Answer
It is not possible toprovide separate figures for standard and enhanced disclosures. The informationthat is available is set out in the following table.
| Period | Applications Received |
| Basic | Standard/Enhanced |
| 2002-03 | 2,191 | 136,429 |
| 2003-04 | 178,818 | 187,162 |
| 2004-05 | 129,630 | 245,067 |
| 2005-06 | 209,484 | 331,267 |
| 2006-07 | 258,396 | 340,711 |
| July 2006 | 21,035 | 30,141 |
| August 2006 | 20,329 | 28,779 |
| September 2006 | 19,633 | 30,411 |
| October 2006 | 22,007 | 27,510 |
| November 2006 | 22,461 | 32,455 |
| December 2006 | 16,171 | 22,978 |
| January 2007 | 21,328 | 23,751 |
| February 2007 | 22,958 | 28,329 |
| March 2007 | 28,339 | 32,292 |
| April 2007 | 24,829 | 24,982 |
| May 2007 | 28,601 | 30,328 |
| June 2007 | 27,666 | 31,285 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of hospital administration was for each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The amount spent by each NHSboard since 1999 on hospital administration is included in the following table.
| Table 1: | NHS Hospital Management Costs 1999-2000 – 2005-06 |
| 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 20,196 | 22,884 | 23,896 | 25,680 | 25,548 | 35,411 | 37,743 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 15,927 | 18,632 | 20,259 | 22,454 | 24,387 | 25,601 | 28,566 |
| Borders | 6,605 | 6,753 | 7,241 | 7,882 | 7,790 | 10,872 | 7,618 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 8,806 | 8,662 | 8,939 | 9,212 | 7,438 | 9,222 | 9,975 |
| Fife | 15,009 | 16,066 | 19,397 | 19,142 | 22,823 | 20,014 | 20,989 |
| Forth Valley | 11,510 | 11,828 | 12,637 | 15,764 | 17,285 | 18,261 | 19,868 |
| Grampian | 27,188 | 29,609 | 31,862 | 34,923 | 35,849 | 31,650 | 34,010 |
| Greater Glasgow | 60,056 | 72,357 | 74,003 | 81,850 | 92,369 | 81,322 | 85,757 |
| Highland | 10,674 | 10,263 | 12,041 | 12,663 | 13,775 | 16,513 | 18,432 |
| Lanarkshire | 30,279 | 33,315 | 35,659 | 36,903 | 40,907 | 42,742 | 42,035 |
| Lothian | 41,552 | 48,099 | 47,758 | 57,599 | 58,732 | 63,475 | 57,194 |
| Orkney | 731 | 885 | 1,076 | 1,260 | 1,245 | 1,269 | 1,427 |
| Shetland | 835 | 872 | 1,152 | 1,280 | 1,556 | 2,277 | 2,390 |
| Tayside | 29,925 | 35,005 | 30,434 | 33,260 | 34,813 | 38,966 | 38,413 |
| Western Isles | 1,530 | 1,947 | 1,992 | 2,037 | 2,355 | 1,881 | 1,849 |
| Total | 280,823 | 317,177 | 328,346 | 361,909 | 386,871 | 399,478 | 406,265 |
The Boards’ spending onmanagement costs are taken from the Scottish Financial Return (SFR) 5.2, whichis completed by each hospital and submitted to the NHS National ServicesScotland Information and Statistics Division for publication in the Costs Book.
This expenditure reports thehospital management and administrative costs which includes the followingsupport services:
Medical: HospitalMedical/Paramedical Administrative Support;
Nursing: Senior Nursing andHospital Administrative Support;
Medical Records;
General: Hospitaladministration, including senior management; and
Agency: Administrativeagency staff and agency services.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage the flying of the Saltire throughout Scotland all year round.
Answer
I refer the member to thequestion S3W-2022 answered on 26 July 2007. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it plans to make for the responsibility for official flag stations in Scotland to be devolved to Scottish ministers.
Answer
The Scottish Government believes that all such matters should be the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish ministers. There are no immediate plans to make representations on this issue.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it will make to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, whose responsibility covers official flag flying, to remove the rule that the department applies with regard to the flying of the Saltire and the Union flag when flown together that the Saltire must never be flown in a superior position to the Union flag.
Answer
The union flag is flown outside Scottish Government buildings on 18 dates a year by Royal Command. The Saltire flies outside Scottish Government buildings throughout the year.
The Scottish Government believes that the Saltire is Scotland''s national flag and all such matters should be the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Ministers.Such matters are currently the subject of a consultation exercise following the Government''s publication of the constitutional reform green paper The Governance of Britain, published on Tuesday 3 July 2007.
The flag-flying guidelines apply to the Scottish Government, its related agencies and associated departments. A copy is held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43157).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to fly the Saltire permanently over governmental buildings for which it has responsibility.
Answer
The Scottish Government doesfly the Saltire at all its buildings. The flag flying guidance has, sinceSeptember 2005 stated that “The Saltire should now be flown every day.”
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue guidance to all non-departmental public bodies for which it has responsibility to encourage them to fly the Saltire as the principal flag above those of their properties for which there is an existing flagpole.
Answer
The Scottish Government has, since June 2001, distributed its flag flying guidance to all non-departmental bodies for which it has responsibility. The guidance advocates that the Saltire should be flown every day.
