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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S3W-30306

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects all people with type 1 diabetes to have received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination.

Question reference: S3W-30301

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people in at-risk groups had not received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination before Christmas day, broken down by NHS board area.

Question reference: S3W-30307

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects all people with heart conditions to have received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination.

Question reference: S3W-30305

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects all people in at-risk categories to have received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination, broken down by NHS board area.

Question reference: S3W-30303

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with type 1 diabetes had not received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination before Christmas day.

All health boards have indicated that vaccination has been offered to all those in the initial priority groups and a mop up exercise will continue to take place to the end of January 2010, to ensure that everyone in the initial priority groups has been invited for vaccination has the opportunity to accept that offer.

Whilst we know that people have been invited, data is not collected on how many people do not turn up or refuse vaccination.

As at 17 January, the estimated overall uptake rate for the clinical at-risk groups was 49.1%.

Question reference: S3W-30300

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in at-risk groups had not received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination before Christmas day, broken down by NHS board area.

All health boards have indicated that vaccination has been offered to all those in the initial priority groups and a mop up exercise will continue to take place to the end of January, to ensure that everyone in the initial priority groups has been invited for vaccination and has the opportunity to accept that offer.

Whilst we know that people have been invited, data is not collected on how many people do not turn up or refuse vaccination.

As at 17 January, the estimated overall uptake rate for the clinical at-risk groups was 49.1%.

The second phase of the vaccination programme, for children over six months and under five years of age, has commenced and will continue over the next few weeks. We anticipate most of the second phase to be completed by mid February, with some mop up activity to the end of February.

Question reference: S3W-30302

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in at-risk groups had not received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination before Christmas day, broken down by at-risk category.

Question reference: S3W-30308

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people identified as having more than one at-risk condition had not received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination before Christmas day, broken down by NHS board area.

Question reference: S3W-30304

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with heart conditions had not received the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination before Christmas day.

Question reference: S3W-30752

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 January 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 22 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources are available to teachers who wish to include the co-operative business model as an option in enterprise education.

The Scottish Government, through its Determined to Succeed (DtS) strategy, has provided £60,000 funding for Co-operative Education Trust Scotland (CETS) during its two-year pilot stage (July 2005-07) to support the work and future development of educational resources under its Co-operate to Succeed banner.

Teachers can access available resources through the Learning and Teaching Scotland website.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/resources/e/genericresource_tcm4561191.asp?strReferringChannel=eie.