Thursday, 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to highlight to young women over 12 the dangers of drinking and the risk of foetal alcohol syndrome.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-1997 by Allan Wilson on 22 April 2004, what further discussions it has had with the Environment Agency with regard to new...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many burials were carried out by environmental health departments in (a) 1999, (b) 2000, (c) 2001, (d) 2002, (e) 2003 and (f) 2004, broken down by local authority.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has issued any guidance with regard to switching between opioid analgesics in pain relief for cancer patients.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cancer patients use complementary medicines.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many men (a) were diagnosed with and (b) died from prostate cancer in each year since 1996-97, broken down by NHS board area.
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in relation to the introduction of the national concessionary travel scheme for older and disabled people.
To ask the Scottish Executive what requirement there is for local authorities to provide policy statements and parents’ guidelines on provision for pupils with dyslexia.
To ask the Scottish Executive what recourse exists for parents of children with dyslexia who consider that provision for their child is not appropriate.
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has issued to education authorities since March 2003 regarding the safe use of the internet in schools.
To ask the Scottish Executive when updates and reports will be made available on the betterbehaviourscotland webpage.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the levels of pupil truancy are for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools, broken down by local authority area.
To ask the Scottish Executive why it is under investigation by the European Commission for allegedly breaching environmental law in 32 cases.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many annual reports of the Environment Agency have been received by Scottish ministers since 1999 to date, pursuant to clause 10(1) of the Scotland Act 1998...
To ask the Scottish Executive why data on the Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory is only available up to 2002.
To ask the Scottish Executive what further action it is taking to support the installation of new generation artificial football pitches in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the viability of Heriot-Watt University maintaining its campus in Galashiels and on the consequences for Borders College should the shared...
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it can take to assist the G8’s aims of supporting reform in the middle east.
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is in respect of the implications for health of living near high voltage transmission lines.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a shortage of supply of diamorphine within the NHS and how many weeks of supply is in stock.
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has issued to prescribers with regard to any shortage of diamorphine.
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to acquire sufficient supplies of diamorphine for use in the NHS.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has taken action to avoid any shortage in supply of morphine within the NHS.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there have been any trials to reduce the use of co-proxamol.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has issued any guidance regarding initiating the prescription of co-proxamol.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will introduce legislation to give local authorities the power to cut high hedges.
To ask the Scottish Executive what role local authorities have in the provision by registered social landlords of new build housing and housing regeneration in their areas following the...
To ask the Scottish Executive how frequently local housing strategies should be updated.
To ask the Scottish Executive what directions it has given to Communities Scotland regarding supporting sustainable housing.
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on whether there will be any flexibility within the new points system for economic immigrants entering Britain, as announced in the Home...
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact it expects that the new four-tier points system for economic immigration, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making...
To ask the Scottish Executive what Scottish representation there will be on the skills advisory body, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making migration work for...
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is, with regard to the situation in Scotland, on the Home Office view that following EU enlargement it is unlikely that there will continue to be a...
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had, or plans to have, with the UK Government with regard to the impact of the potential increase in the use of Dungavel House immigration...
To ask the Scottish Executive how it measures the number of immigrants who enter Scotland originating from the EU accession states.
To ask the Scottish Executive what specific methods it uses to attract economic migrants entering the United Kingdom from the EU accession states to Scotland and what funding has been allocated...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to develop specific policies to attract economic migrants from the EU accession states and, if so, what these plans are.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the right of householders to defend their property from intruders.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-12959 by Tavish Scott on 28 January 2005, what its policy is in relation to the undertaking of criminal prosecutions by...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the approximately £9 billion of debt owed by local authorities has an impact on the delivery of core services, such as care for elderly people and...
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Glasgow City Council regarding the cost of servicing its £1.27 billion debt and whether the £121 million a year repayments...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a detailed breakdown of each stage of its process for dealing with correspondence from MSPs.
To ask the Scottish Executive what its target response times are in respect of ministerial correspondence from MSPs and how it is performing in relation to these targets.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the occupancy rate for acute beds has been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time has been over the last five years between patients being referred by their GP for oxygen concentrator services and assessments being...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any representations about delays in providing assessments in relation to the provision of oxygen concentrator services.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13977 by Rhona Brankin on 23 February 2005, whether it will provide a full answer to the question and, in particular, who has...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14157 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005, what payments have been made, or may be made, to any of the organisations referred...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14160 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005, whether it will give the explicit reasons why the new Scottish Health Council was...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-14158 and S2W-14156 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005, why new advice and support systems are unlikely to be in place on 1...
To ask the Scottish Executive which Executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies and other public bodies have been created since 1997.
To ask the Scottish Executive what professional development opportunities currently exist for nurses wishing to specialise in ophthalmology.
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to extend opportunities to enter the workforce to people with disabilities.
To ask the Scottish Executive what its total spending on Private Finance Initiative (PFI) consultants was in each year since 1999; how many full-time equivalent PFI consultants were employed over...
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will reform planning guidelines to ensure that new housing includes provision for kerbside collection of recyclable material.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met BEAR Scotland to discuss the Route Accident Reduction Plan for trunk roads in Fife.
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to improve road safety on the trunk road network.
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has given to Scottish Enterprise about the level of fees paid to celebrities for appearances at events organised by the Scottish Enterprise Network.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14155 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005, whether it will list all the members of the Scottish Health Council, their areas of...
To ask the Scottish Executive how decisions of the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) are monitored for implementation at NHS board level.
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to set up a pharmacy Chlamydia screening pathfinder in the independent community pharmacy sector, similar to that proposed by the Department of Health.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the guidelines for the siting of speed cameras.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of any changes to the rates of student support for further and higher education students which will apply for the academic year 2005-06.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the status is of the (a) Clean Up, (b) Autogas+ and (c) Powershift programmes aimed at promoting fuel-efficient cars; what future plans it has for each of the...