- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the standard definition is of an accident and emergency unit; what minimum level of service constitutes such a unit, and whether it will provide a detailed description of these services.
Answer
Irefer the member to the answer to question S3W-1520 on 16 July 2007. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website; the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish on a weekly basis the cancer waiting times statistics that the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing receives from each NHS board.
Answer
The informationrequested is unvalidated data for the purposes of operational management. There are no plans to publish these data.
NHS board performance is measured by validated datapublished quarterly and available at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/health/cancer/waiting-times.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what minimum level of consultant cover is required for an accident and emergency department.
Answer
Irefer the member to the answer to question S3W-1520 on 16 July 2007. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website; the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional financial costs have been incurred by NHS Ayrshire and Arran in bringing forward its proposals for the new review of services.
Answer
NHSAyrshire and Arran estimate the additional coststo be in the region of £100,000.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what organisations the Minister for Community Safety intends to meet to discuss ongoing and new initiatives to tackle sectarianism.
Answer
The Scottish Governmenthas on-going discussions with a range of stakeholders on work to tacklesectarianism and I have already met with representatives from across Scottishfaith communities and those working in education. It is my intention tocontinue this positive engagement and ensure that all key organisations whichsupport the drive to tackle sectarianism and religious intolerance have accessto government.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to monitor the effectiveness of legislation to tackle sectarianism.
Answer
The Scottish Governmentis committed to tackling all forms of religious discrimination includingsectarianism. We will continue to analyse information on religiously aggravatedcrimes collected under Section 74 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003, and have established a monitoring groupof key partners to assess the effectiveness of Football Banning Orders whichwere introduced as part of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006. In addition, we will gather informationon the new procedures for marches and parades which were also introducedthrough the 2006 act.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will next review the effectiveness of the SPECS speed camera system operating on the A77.
Answer
Transport Scotland is currently collating the accident and speed datafor the first two years operation of the SPECS average speed camera system. Theeffectiveness of the SPECS system will be fully assessed after three years ofoperation in late 2008.
Transport Scotland has operational responsibility for this area and canbe contacted for further information if required.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of accidents on those parts of the A77 currently covered by the SPECS safety camera system have involved motorcycles in each of the last five years.
Answer
The table belowshows the percentage of accidents in the last five years on that section of theA77 trunk road covered by the SPECS system which have involved motorcycles.
| | 1 August 2002 to 31 July 2003 | 1 August 2003 to 31 July 2004 | 1 August 2004 to 31 July 2005 | 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 | 1 August 2006 to 31 July 2007 |
| Percentage of accidents involving motorcycles | 5.3 | 3.6 | 10.5 | 21.9 | 6.4 |
The figuresquoted may differ slightly from those published elsewhere because they wereextracted on a different date and the database may have changed between the twodates, e.g. due to late returns or corrections to earlier returns.
Transport Scotland has operational responsibility for this area and canbe contacted for further information if required.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any future review of the SPECS speed camera system operating on the A77 will consider whether changes need to be made to the system to identify speeding motorcycles.
Answer
The issue ofidentification of speeding motorcyclists will be considered as part of theSPECS review.
Transport Scotland has operational responsibility for this area and canbe contacted for further information if required.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many accidents on those parts of the A77 currently covered by the SPECS safety camera system have involved motorcycles in each of the last five years.
Answer
The table belowshows the number of accidents in the last five years on that section of the A77trunk road covered by the SPECS system which have involved motorcycles.
| | 1 August 2002 to 31 July 2003 | 1 August 2003 to 31 July 2004 | 1 August 2004 to 31 July 2005 | 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 | 1 August 2006 to 31 July 2007 |
| Number of accidents involving motorcycles | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
The figures quotedmay differ slightly from those published elsewhere because they were extractedon a different date and the database may have changed between the two dates,e.g. due to late returns or corrections to earlier returns.
Transport Scotland has operational responsibility for this area and canbe contacted for further information if required.
