Scottish Parliament Written answers

Wednesday, 12 November 2003

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Scottish Executive which Scottish police force premises are being used by Home Office officials involved in the deportation of asylum seekers.

  • Audiology

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will adopt the Royal National Institute of the Deaf and Her Majesty's Government’s Department of Health’s initiative that utilizes high street...

  • Audiology

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce free hearing tests for all, in light of the decision to introduce free eye and dental checks for all.

  • Audiology

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual cost is to the NHS of administering hearing checks.

  • Blood Donors

    To ask the Scottish Executive what urgent action it will take to encourage the donation of blood at a time of shortage in the NHS.

  • Carers

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was (a) allocated to and (b) spent on support for carers by (i) local authorities and (ii) other organisations in each of the last four years.

  • Civil Servants

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) new entrants and (b) new entrants aged over 50 to the Civil Service in Scotland were employed in each department in each of the last five years.

  • Debt Arrangement and Amendment (Scotland) Act 2002

    To ask the Scottish Executive when part 1 of the Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 will come into force.

  • Dentistry

    To ask the Scottish Executive how often, and for how long, on average, clinics dealing with tooth extractions under general anaesthetic are held in each NHS board area.

  • Dentistry

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is in each NHS board area for children awaiting a general anaesthetic for tooth extractions.

  • Dentistry

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many orthodontic consultants are employed by each NHS board, expressed also per head of population.

  • Education

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the current position is with regard to the Scottish Qualifications Authority’s programme on English for speakers of other languages and what the timescale...

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list in order of priority the health action points referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland .

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much the NHS drugs bill has been in each of the last three years.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on (a) atypical antipsychotic drugs, (b) antipsychotic drugs, (c) antidementia drugs and (d) Ritalin, in each of the last three years.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on psychological intervention, or other non-drug therapies, in respect of (a) severe and enduring mental illness, (b) attention deficit...

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive which drugs have been withdrawn from use for the treatment of people under 18 in each of the last three years.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the current recommended intake levels of selenium are for (a) males and (b) females.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to introduce full annual health checks for those aged 75 and over.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance has been issued to hospitals regarding patients’ nutrition.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether guidelines have been issued on the recommended number of dieticians employed in hospitals.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many dieticians are currently employed in each hospital.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are mechanisms in place to monitor the quality of food served in NHS hospitals and, if so, what such mechanisms are.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to monitor the success or failure of the healthy living campaign.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the cost of the healthy living campaign to date.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether the use of vitamin and mineral supplements for elderly people has been considered as a preventative action in relation to the long-term health of elderly people.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether progress on palliative care will form a specific part of the next accountability reviews of NHS boards.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have developed palliative care strategies arising from the establishment of palliative care networks.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will appoint a senior official to co-ordinate the public procurement of Scottish produce as part of its healthy eating campaign.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether the prescription of stoma appliances is currently under review and, if so, what aspects of the provision of such appliances are being reviewed and what...

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether Ebixa (memantine) is being routinely prescribed for the treatment of moderately severe to severe Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Light Pollution

    To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to deal with light pollution.

  • Mental Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether research has been carried out into any links between nutritional deficiencies and mental health illness.

  • Ministerial Correspondence

    To ask the Scottish Executive when the Lord Advocate will reply to Ian Hamilton QC in respect of his concerns about the quality of the fingerprint service provided by the Scottish Criminal Record...

  • National Health Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many administrative staff posts will be affected by the merger of NHS boards and trusts and what savings the NHS expects to make in each of the next three years...

  • National Health Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure that nurses and other health care staff employed by the NHS who are required to use their own vehicles when working in the...

  • Nuclear Submarines

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-411 by Ross Finnie on 18 September 2003, what the outcome was of discussions with Her Majesty’s Government following the...

  • Nursing

    To ask the Scottish Executive what support it provides to nursing students in rural areas who may have to travel considerable distances each day to their clinical placements.

  • Parliamentary Questions

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-2994 by Ms Margaret Curran on 21 October 2003, why it did not provide the information sought in that question in graph form as...

  • People with Disabilities

    To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has regarding any increase in the use of coaches for public transport as a result of changes brought in by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995...

  • Planning

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether the ruling of 23 October 2003 at the High Court in England, which overruled a decision to give approval for a mobile phone mast on health grounds, will have...

  • Planning

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-588 by Ross Finnie on 9 October 2003, whether any of the area formerly known as Rosyth Royal Naval Dockyard, purchased by...

  • Police

    To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to section 16 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Bill, how many police officers of or above the rank of Superintendent are on duty on an...

  • Prison Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were detained in HM Prison Cornton Vale on 29 October 2003 (a) in total and (b) serving (i) custodial sentences for non-payment of fines and (ii)...

  • Rail Freight

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many spare paths exist for freight trains each week on the Nith Valley line.

  • Rail Freight

    To ask the Scottish Executive what constraints there are with regard to the resumption of rail freight services to (a) Stranraer and (b) Cameron Bridge.

  • Rail Services

    To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it will give to the quality of service provided to the public when it awards the franchise for rail travel in Scotland.

  • Rail Services

    To ask the Scottish Executive what submissions it has received and what proposals it has regarding the rail service to Dunbar in respect of both the East Coast Mainline and the Scotrail franchise.

  • Regulation of Care

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether guidance issued to local authorities on the direction of choice in regard to discharge from hospitals to care homes is being reviewed; if so, what form the...

  • Renewable Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place in respect of applications to build wind farms; whether such measures include impact assessments on social and economic criteria, and how...

  • Renewable Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has undertaken into the possibility of job creation in connection with the development of alternative energy.

  • Renewable Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many turbines and blades have been produced in Scotland for Scottish and UK-based wind farms in each of the last five years and how these figures compare with...

  • Renewable Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications it is currently considering for the establishment of (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind farms, broken down by local authority area.

  • Road Accidents

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many accidents have been recorded on the A90 at the Invernorth and Gash junctions south of Fraserburgh in each of the last seven years and how many such...

  • School Transport

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4716 by Mr Sam Galbraith on 12 April 2000, what costs were incurred by each local authority in respect of school transport in...

  • Scottish Criminal Record Office

    To ask the Scottish Executive what quality checks were made in respect of the fingerprinting evidence submitted by the Scottish Criminal Record Office for the High Court trial in Ayr during...

  • Scottish Criminal Record Office

    To ask the Scottish Executive in how many criminal court cases in each of the last three years in which the Scottish Criminal Record Office has submitted fingerprint evidence has the accused been...

  • Scottish Criminal Record Office

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many times in each of the last three years the Scottish Criminal Record Office has submitted fingerprint evidence in criminal cases and how many times that...

  • Scottish Criminal Record Office

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has decided not to use fingerprint evidence provided by the Scottish Criminal Record Office to it in...

  • Scottish Executive Finance

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be spent on each of the 59 headings referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland (a) in the current year and (b) in each of the next three years.

  • Scottish Executive Publications

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost was of producing and distributing the document Building Better Cities, Delivering Growth and Opportunities .

  • Transport

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on roads in the current financial year from budgets other than the core transport budget, including from European development funds.

  • Water Industry

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the reasons were for not capping increases in water bills for business customers.

  • Water Industry

    To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanism it will use to ensure that future strategic reviews of charges in the water industry will consider the capacity of Scottish Water to meet new demands,...

  • Water Industry

    To ask the Scottish Executive how it will assist low income households pay water bills when the Transitional Water and Waste Water Charges Scheme ends on 31 March 2004.

  • Water Industry

    To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it received in regard to any potential impact of new pricing arrangements on water bills of business customers.

  • Water Industry

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the range will be of any increases arising from new water pricing arrangements.

  • Water Industry

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce any measures to assist water customers affected by increases in water bills.

  • Water Industry

    To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation is envisaged by the Water Industry Commissioner for the next strategic review of charges for water and sewerage services.

  • Young People

    To ask the Scottish Executive what funding will be made available to local authorities for the provision of services to young people leaving care.

  • Parliamentary Staff

    To ask the Presiding Officer whether any costs were incurred in the employment of the acting Parliamentary Standards Commissioner from 1 April 2003 and, if so, what they were, broken down by...

  • Parliamentary Staff

    To ask the Presiding Officer when Dr Jim Dyer began his appointment as the permanent Parliamentary Standards Commissioner and what costs have been incurred to date in relation to his employment,...

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