Monday, 2 November 2009

Scottish Parliament Written answers

• Dentistry
  To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS medical professionals can make and fit dentures.
• Dentistry
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether and, if so, by what process practising denturists can register with the General Dental Council.
• Diabetes
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital emergency admissions were recorded for diabetic ketoacidosis and hypoglycaemic coma in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09, broken down by (i) age, (ii)...
• Education
  To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in preparing the second stage strategy for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Education, taking the first...
• Education
  To ask the Scottish Executive what funding there will be for the delivery plan for financial education in the classroom.
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware that children requiring tinted glasses due to Meares-Irlen Syndrome do not receive support to purchase tinted glasses.
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any research that establishes a link between higher educational attainment and the use of tinted glasses among people affected by Meares-Irlen...
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has taken steps to support families who have children affected by Meares-Irlen Syndrome.
• Maternity Services
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies were (a) born and (b) born between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm at the Vale of Leven Hospital Community Maternity Unit, in each of the last three years.
• Mental Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in psychiatric hospitals in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those were known problem drug users.
• Ministerial Correspondence
  To ask the Scottish Executive what its performance was in answering ministerial correspondence in the second quarter of 2009.
• Schools
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will name the secondary school in Renfrewshire that was rebuilt or substantially refurbished in 2008-09, as stated in Table 4 of the School Estate...
• Scottish Government Ministers
  To ask the Scottish Executive what account it takes of decisions of the Parliament that are critical of the actions of ministers.
• Suicide
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many suicides were recorded in the Lothians region in 2008, broken down by parliamentary constituency, gender and cause of death.
• Teachers
  To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of its funding to local authorities to maintain teacher numbers, whether it has concerns about the reduction in teachers by over 100 in the Renfrewshire...
• Teachers
  To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of its funding to local authorities to maintain teacher numbers, whether it has concerns that the reduction in teacher numbers exceeds the proportionate...