I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12642, answered on 13 December 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12642, answered on 13 December 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12642, answered on 13 December 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.

I refer the member to the question S2W-12642 answered on 13 December 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.

I refer the member to the question S2W-12642 answered on 13 December 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.

Payments to Scottish claimants will be made from the Scottish Consolidated Fund and Scottish ministers are accountable to the Scottish Parliament for all payments made from that fund.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12632, answered on 13 December 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search. 

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12632, answered on 13 December 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.

No publication date has been set as yet for “Scottish Community Care Statistics 2003”. The reason is that, this year, the publication is being re‑designed as a web-based series of linked documents, split by client group. Most of the information to be contained within the publication is already in the public domain and will be available from the Parliament’s Reference Centre. However, a list of the URLs for web versions of the most recent publications from which the data is drawn is as follows:

Day Care Services, Scotland 2003:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00359-00.asp

Direct Payments, Scotland 2004

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00370-00.asp

Home Care Services Scotland 2003

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00313-00.asp

Registered Blind and Partially Sighted Persons, Scotland 2003

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00292-00.asp

Care Homes, Scotland March 2004

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00367-00.asp

Financial Provision, 2003 

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00335-00.asp

Free Personal/ Nursing Care, Scotland 2004 

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00368-00.asp

Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics, 2002-03

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00344-00.asp

Special Needs Housing 

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00357-00.asp

Carers: results from the 2003 Scottish Household survey Annual Report

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/housing/shsar03-20.asp 

Geriatric Medicine and Hospitals: 

http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=1139&p_applic=CCC&

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=663&p_service=Cont

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=663&p_applic=CCC&p

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=962&p_applic=CCC&p

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/collect2.jsp?pContentID=2789&p_applic=C.

In October 2004, the average time that callers waited for their call to be answered by NHS 24 was 54 seconds. The maximum was 15 minutes, 28 seconds. The information is not available broken down by NHS board area.