Monday, 5 October 2009

Scottish Parliament Written answers

• Cancer
  To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the levels of use of (a) erlotinib, (b) rituximab, (c) capecitabine, (d) lenalidomide and (e) cisplatin in each NHS board in each year...
• Cancer
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints by patients relating to the refusal by an NHS board to fund a (a) cancer and (b) non-cancer treatment have been made in each year since 2000-01.
• Cancer
  To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the findings and recommendations made in the report by the Rarer Cancers Forum, Exceptional Scotland? , published on 16 March 2009.
• Cancer
  To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that anti-nausea treatments used to support patients receiving chemotherapy are made routinely available.
• Cancer
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on cancer services in each NHS board in each of the last five years, also expressed per head of population.
• Cancer
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on drugs for the treatment of cancer in each of the last five financial years.
• Cancer
  To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the number of patients in each of the last five years who have (a) paid privately for top-up cancer treatments and (b) had the costs...
• Crime
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of graffiti and vandalism have taken place in the Lothians region in each month since May 2007, broken down by local authority area.
• Digital Technology
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of the results of pilot work undertaken by BT in the Highlands on extending the distance from exchanges of good quality broadband capacity;...
• Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many combined heat and power district heating systems there are, broken down by local authority area.
• Environment
  To ask the Scottish Executive what measures and powers exist to regulate the use of jet skis in fresh and sea water.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive what funded measures to encourage the use of public transport and high-occupancy vehicles will be included as part of the Forth Replacement Crossing project.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive what measures to improve the infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians will be included as part of the Forth Replacement Crossing project.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether a dedicated cycle and pedestrian crossing will be included as part of the Forth Replacement Crossing project.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has conducted a full assessment of the opportunity costs of the Forth Replacement Crossing project.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Forth Replacement Crossing project has been evaluated against other projects in the Strategic Transport Projects Review in terms of value for money.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Forth Replacement Crossing project has been evaluated against other projects in the Strategic Transport Projects Review in terms of environmental impacts.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether the option of investing the cost of the Forth Replacement Crossing in other projects has been considered.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many residents it is estimated will have grounds for seeking compensation from it as a consequence of the impacts of the Forth Replacement Crossing project.
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much it estimates would need to be set aside in financial contingency if home loss payments were to be paid at the levels paid in England.
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the use of exceptional case requests by NHS boards and how many exceptional funding requests for treatment were (a) approved and (b)...
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients funded by the NHS in each of the last five years were treated in (a) England and (b) outside the United Kingdom, broken down by procedure.
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many hours of spare capacity there were in NHS facilities in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many hours were lost to the NHS as a result of patients failing to attend appointments in each year since 1999, also broken down by NHS board.
• Higher Education
  To ask the Scottish Executive when the Tripartite Advisory Group on universities will look at university funding comparisons across the United Kingdom and when those comparisons will be made.
• Housing
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been set aside in financial contingency for home loss payments.
• Medication
  To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the recommendations made by Professor Mike Richards in his report for the Department of Health, Improving access to medicines for...
• Medication
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement made by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 25 March 2009, when it expects to issue (a) guidance to NHS boards to support...
• Medication
  To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to conduct an evaluation of the effect of the Scottish Medicines Consortium’s modifiers on access to medicines for NHS patients.
• NHS Equipment
  To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is issued to local community care partnerships with regard to the provision of equipment and adaptations for people with progressive illnesses such as...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the National Planning Framework for Scotland 2 Strategic Environmental Assessment, the proposed new coal-fired power station at Hunterston was assessed...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the assessment matrix used to score potential national developments was published after the proposed National Planning Framework for Scotland 2...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will explain the reasoning behind its decision to include a new power station and transhipment hub at Hunterston as a final national development in the...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the proposed new power station and transhipment hub at Hunterston in the National Planning Framework for Scotland 2 scored 0/+ (neutral/positive) for...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it had with the developers or their agents regarding the proposed new coal power station at Hunterston before including the proposal as part of a...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that there was adequate consultation with local communities before the proposed new coal power station at Hunterston was included as part of a...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive what action it took to ensure that local communities that would be affected by proposed national developments were aware of the proposals before they were confirmed...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive what action it took to ensure that local communities that would be affected by national developments put forward in the National Planning Framework for Scotland 2...
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports on public local inquiries it is considering.
• Procurement
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on the administration of eProcurement Scotland in each year since its establishment in 2002.
• Procurement
  To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken by (a) it and (b) its agencies to save money on the cost of acquiring (i) office equipment, (ii) stationery, (iii) vehicles and (iv)...
• Renewable Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the comments by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in the news release of 26 August 2009 that "marine energy will be key to...
• Teachers
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has concerns that teachers retiring early, sometimes with many years of enhanced pensions, subsequently seek and obtain supply posts in the same authority...
• Telecommunications
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all of the telephone exchanges in Angus which are at full capacity for broadband.
• Transport
  To ask the Scottish Executive what new investment it will make in the Glasgow transport network.