Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 17 March 2011
17 Mar 2011 · S3 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Scottish Executive Question Time
New Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Edinburgh)
Health and Wellbeing
Does the cabinet secretary agree that it is regrettable that we have not progressed further with the project? Does she accept that that is due, in part, to the Government’s failure to approve a proposal for a joint Royal hospital for sick children and neurosciences project that was presented to it by NHS Lothian back in December 2009 and the Government’s subsequent decision, in November 2010, to involve the Scottish Futures Trust in a different funding model? Are we not nearly two years behind where we should have been with the project?
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David McLetchie (Edinburgh Pentlands) (Con)
Con
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The Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing (Nicola Sturgeon)
SNP
The Scottish Government remains fully committed to the delivery of the Royal hospital for sick children as quickly as possible. As I indicated to Malcolm Chi...
David McLetchie
Con
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Nicola Sturgeon
SNP
No, I do not agree with that. I find it deeply regrettable that, as the country seeks to recover from the recession, the United Kingdom Government, of which ...
Margaret Smith (Edinburgh West) (LD)
LD
I share the concerns about the delay in the project. Given that the Scottish Government is continuing to give £850 million in capital to NHS Greater Glasgow ...
Nicola Sturgeon
SNP
Just as David McLetchie should direct his concerns about capital funding to his Tory colleagues in London, Margaret Smith should direct her concerns to her L...
Sarah Boyack (Edinburgh Central) (Lab)
Lab
I ask the question again: what tangible benefit is being brought to the project by the Scottish Futures Trust? My colleague George Foulkes made a freedom of ...
Nicola Sturgeon
SNP
The Scottish Futures Trust is providing vital support to NHS Lothian to develop the procurement strategy that will deliver the project. I hope that members w...