- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 5 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to complete the evaluation of the responses to the consultation document on high hedges, such as leylandii.
Answer
Evaluation of responses to the consultation paper issued on 12 January 2000 is almost complete and I will make an announcement later this year.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how the effectiveness of hip resurfacing treatment will be evaluated and what the timescale is for any such evaluation.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no immediate plans to evaluate formally the effectiveness of hip resurfacing treatment. It remains the responsibility of local clinicians to monitor the effectiveness of all relevant health care, supported by audit and advice from Health Technology Board for Scotland, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and other relevant bodies.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS hospitals currently offer hip resurfacing treatment.
Answer
I refer to the answer given today to question S1W-9477.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which health boards have refused requests for out of area hip resurfacing treatments in the past year and how many such requests have been refused.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which health boards have agreed to fund out of area hip resurfacing treatments in the past year and how many such treatments have taken place.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hip resurfacing treatments have been undertaken by the NHSiS and from which health board areas patients have been referred.
Answer
Between April 1997 and March 2000, the National Acute Hospital Database has recorded 10 hip resurfacing episodes, of which nine were undertaken between April 1999 and March 2000. All 10 episodes took place in hospitals in the Tayside, Lothian and Greater Glasgow Health Board areas. The database does not identify hospitals that are currently offering this treatment.
Information about the area from which patients have been referred for hip resurfacing treatment is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 14 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial assistance it plans to offer to farmers wishing to convert their land to organic production.
Answer
Payments totalling a maximum of £157,900 over five years are available under the Organic Aid Scheme to farmers wishing to convert their land to organic production methods. Total payments under the scheme in 1999-2000 amounted to £1.2 million.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 4 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make any representations with the aim of ensuring that Scottish miners and Scottish mining communities will benefit from surpluses drawn from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme.
Answer
The Mineworker's Pension Scheme is a reserved matter.
The Department for Trade and Industry, as guarantor, receives half of any valuation surplus in the scheme. In return, the DTI guarantees that pensions will always rise in line with inflation and will never fall in cash terms. As a result of the most recent MPS valuation, 27,000 or so members resident in Scotland will enjoy a pension increase of approximately 9% above and beyond inflation.
I understand that the DTI has no statutory powers to hypothecate its coal pension receipts for the purposes of regenerating former mining areas. However, the Scottish Executive is committed to regeneration and in addition to the programmes tackling the problems of deprived areas and to promote social inclusion, the Coalfields Regeneration Trust in Scotland has been allocated £4.5 million over three years.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it intends to take to prevent or combat any occurrence of swine fever in the Scottish pig farming industry.
Answer
Scottish Ministers have wide powers of entry, inspection, control of movement and slaughter with associated compensation - all of which can be used at an early stage to prevent the disease taking a hold in Scotland.
As regards the current outbreak in England, the reassessment by the Standing Veterinary Committee of the situation in the UK is reassuring. Accordingly the danger of spread to Scottish pig producers is now very much contained and we can rely on the existing statutory controls.
These arrangements would of course be reviewed in the event of any further outbreak to protect the Scottish herd from infection.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 24 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines are in place in relation to visits by pre-school groups to farms and farm parks.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given previously to S1W-8848. The answer applies equally to visits by pre-school groups.
