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Written Answers Tuesday 25 September 2012 SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT Enterprise and Environment Stewart Maxwell (West Scotland) (Scottish National Party): To ask the Scottish Government what support it offers to small businesses wishing to export. (S4W-09605) Nicola Sturgeon: The Scottish Government through its trade and investment arm, Scottish Development International (SDI), is committed to supporting and working with any Scottish business that wants to trade internationally. In doing so it provides a range of products and services that can be accessed by businesses at all stages of growth, development and international ambition. SDI provides direct advice and services to business for example, international strategy, preparedness and mentoring support through to market entry assistance and help for companies establishing overseas market presence. SDI also works closely with Business Gateway (and local authorities) to provide export support to their clients. Companies at an early stage of development, who are yet to be in a position to engage in international markets, can access a comprehensive catalogue of services and information via both SDI and Business Gateway (which links direct to the SDI website). This includes online self-help tools, practical guides to exporting, industry overviews, regulations and the Smart Exporter skills programme. Elaine Murray (Dumfriesshire) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Government whether Scottish Water is prevented from offering compensation to residents who have been financially disadvantaged by road closures caused by projects that have taken longer than scheduled. (S4W-09637) Nicola Sturgeon: The Scottish Government has directed Scottish Water to undertake numerous improvements to water and wastewater services during the current regulatory period which runs from 2010 to 2015. These are improvements that will benefit communities across Scotland. Scottish Water strives to keep works periods as short as possible and to deliver on schedule so as to minimise the impact on the local community. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, it is inevitable that some projects will take longer than scheduled. Scottish Water is not under any statutory duty to compensate residents for financial loss allegedly caused by project overruns where there is a road closure. As these works are being taken forward to deliver benefits to the local communities and are funded by the generality of customers it is not considered appropriate to compensate residents for the inconvenience that may arise in the course of the construction of the necessary infrastructure. Finance Bruce Crawford (Stirling) (Scottish National Party): To ask the Scottish Government whether it can set conditions regarding wage rates when negotiating with contractors. (S4W-09603) Nicola Sturgeon: Contractors are required to comply with their statutory obligations relating to employment. Public bodies cannot require contractors to pay their employees a wage set higher than the National Minimum Wage as a condition of contract performance. Drew Smith (Glasgow) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Government whether it will include a clause in its proposed Sustainable Procurement Bill to prevent public contracts being awarded to firms that engage in illegal trade union blacklisting. (S4W-09635) Nicola Sturgeon: We are currently consulting on the proposed content of the Procurement Reform Bill and dealing with inappropriate conduct and poor performing suppliers is an important aspect of the consultation. The public consultation was launched on 10 August and runs until 2 November 2012. Health and Social Care Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (Scottish National Party): To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to improve diagnosis of dementia in hospital inpatients, in light of the recent report by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. (S4W-09488) Alex Neil: The Scottish Government’s National Dementia Strategy recognises that improving diagnosis of dementia is key to helping people access effective care, treatment and support. We met our diagnosis target nationally and, earlier this year, The Alzheimer Society published Mapping the Dementia Gap: Progress on improving diagnosis of dementia 2010-2011, detailing relative performance across the United Kingdom, which showed Scotland’s strong performance on diagnosis, especially in comparison to England and Wales. We are addressing the challenges associated with improving the diagnosis of dementia in hospitals and The Chief Nursing Officer continues to work with NHS boards to improve service response in hospitals, including improving the identification and recording of dementia, which includes improving the sharing of information between primary and secondary care. This activity complements the programme of inspections of acute general hospitals by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), which have highlighted the identification and recording of dementia as an area for improvement. Action plans drawn up by boards to address areas for improvement identified by the HIS reports include attention to these issues, and we expect boards to be giving the action plans urgent attention. We also continue our national action to help develop and upskill the dementia workforce, including training 300 Dementia Champions by 2013 from acute general hospital and associated care settings, to lead change at the frontline, and supporting Alzheimer Scotland in appointing a Specialist Dementia Nurse to every NHS board, with 11 in post to date. Supporting the identification and assessment of people with dementia in hospitals is an integral part of the work of both the champions and the specialists. The Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland (2011) states that hospitals are required to have systems in place so staff can easily identify someone with dementia and that hospitals should have access to specialist dementia advice. Kezia Dugdale (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-01014 by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 May 2012 (Official Report, c. 9129), whether further progress has been made regarding the availability of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). (S4W-09489) Kezia Dugdale (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Government when transcatheter aortic valve implantation treatment will be available in Scotland. (S4W-09490) Alex Neil: TAVI has been available to Scottish patients since 2008 on a case-by-case basis, with patients who are considered suitable being referred by their local health board to an appropriate provider outwith Scotland. It was announced on 11 September 2012 that a Scottish TAVI centre would be set up at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The first patients were assessed by the Edinburgh team this week and I understand that the first TAVI procedures are planned to be undertaken in October. Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent by each NHS board on sub-contracting work to the private sector in each year since 2004. (S4W-09496) Alex Neil: Information on NHS boards spend on the use independent sector activity is only available from 2008-09. I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-07376 on 3 August 2012. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx. Information obtained from NHS boards on the spend on the use of the independent healthcare sector in 2011-12 is provided in the following table. NHS Board 2011-12 £000 Ayrshire and Arran 7 Borders 49 Dumfries and Galloway 0 Fife 605 Forth Valley 718 Grampian 2,328 Greater Glasgow and Clyde 1,308 Highland 0 Lanarkshire 2,992 Lothian 3,046 Orkney 0 Shetland 0 Tayside 498 Western Isles 0 NHSScotland 11,551 The Scottish Government’s policy is that NHS boards should use NHS Funding to build sustainable capacity. The use of the independent healthcare sector should only be used in the margins to deal with short-term capacity issues. This is reflected in the significant reduction in NHS spend to the independent sector from £23.9 million in 2008-09 to £11.6 million in 2011-12. Learning and Justice Lewis Macdonald (North East Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Government how many offenders convicted after June 2006 whose crimes could have warranted an Order for Lifelong Restriction (a) have been released from prison in each year since that date and (b) are in prison. (S4W-09517) Kenny MacAskill: The statutory criteria that govern the imposition of Orders for Lifelong Restriction can be found in sections 210B to 210G of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. It is for the court to decide whether an offender may fit the criteria when deciding on an appropriate sentence following conviction. The court will be aided in this regard by a risk assessment order produced by an accredited risk management professional. We do not hold information relating to the number of offenders who could have potentially received an Order for Lifelong Restriction. Information held by the Risk Management Authority shows that, to date, 89 Orders for Lifelong Restriction have been imposed since they were introduced. No offender receiving an Order for Lifelong Restriction has been released from prison with one offender dying while in custody and another successfully appealing the Orders for Lifelong Restriction sentence. Neil Bibby (West Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish
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