- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are hepatitis C antibody positive, broken down by (a) age group, (b) socioeconomic group, (c) risk group and (d) gender in (i) Scotland and (ii) each NHS board in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer
The number of people who are hepatitis C antibody positive for the past five years is available in
Hepatitis C infection rates and treatment data by age, deprivation, risk group and gender by NHS Board area, 2005 to June 2010 a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52196). The information broken down by age group can be found in table number 1a. Information by socioeconomic group can be seen in graph 1b, information by risk group is contained in table 1c and information by gender is contained in 1d. Each table contains information by NHS health board and totals for Scotland.
The Scottish Government has invested significant resources in to tackling hepatitis C via the hepatitis C action plan. This is shown by the increases in numbers of people diagnosed over the last three years and the significant increases in numbers of people commencing treatment. The number of people initiating treatment almost doubled from 591 in 2008 to 904 in 2009.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people who received treatment for hepatitis C achieved sustained viral response to treatment broken down by (a) age group, (b) socioeconomic group, (c) risk group and (d) gender in (i) Scotland and (ii) each NHS board in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer
Information on sustained viral response (SVR) for those patients commencing treatment in the last five years is currently not available at national level in a validated and comparable format.
The Scottish Government has invested significant resources in to tackling
hepatitis C via the hepatitis C action plan. This is shown by the increases in numbers of people diagnosed over the last three years and the significant increases in numbers of people commencing treatment. The number of people initiating treatment almost doubled from 591 in 2008 to 904 in 2009.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been diagnosed with hepatitis C, broken down by (a) age group, (b) socioeconomic group, (c) risk group and (d) gender in (i) Scotland and (ii) each NHS board in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer
The number of people diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C infection for the past five years is available in
Hepatitis C infection rates and treatment data by age, deprivation, risk group and gender by NHS Board area, 2005 to June 2010, a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52196). The information broken down by age group can be found in table number 2a, information by risk group is contained in table 2c and information by gender is contained in 2d. Each table contains information by NHS health board and totals for Scotland. Information by socioeconomic group is not available.
The Scottish Government has invested significant resources in to tackling hepatitis C via the hepatitis C action plan. This is shown by the increases in numbers of people diagnosed over the last three years and the significant increases in numbers of people commencing treatment. The number of people initiating treatment almost doubled from 591 in 2008 to 904 in 2009.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people received active treatment for hepatitis C, broken down by (a) age group, (b) socioeconomic group, (c) risk group and (d) gender in (i) Scotland and (ii) each NHS board in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer
The number of people who received active treatment for Hepatitis C for the past five years is available in
Hepatitis C infection rates and treatment data by age, deprivation, risk group and gender by NHS Board area, 2005 to June 2010 a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52196). The information broken down by age group can be found in table number 3a. Information by risk group is contained in table 3c and information by gender is contained in 3d. Each table contains information by NHS health board and totals for Scotland. Information by socioeconomic group is not currently available.
The Scottish Government has invested significant resources in to tackling hepatitis C via the hepatitis C action plan. This is shown by the increases in numbers of people diagnosed over the last three years and the significant increases in numbers of people commencing treatment. The number of people initiating treatment almost doubled from 591 in 2008 to 904 in 2009.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date it will publish the public engagement strategy required under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
The public engagement strategy required under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 will be published by 31 December 2010.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 27 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sites listed in the Scottish Water Register of Assets contain private water pumps owned by domestic customers; how many pumps are on each site; how many pumps are shared and how many customers can access each pump.
Answer
This information is not held centrally and I have asked the Chief Executive of Scottish Water to reply to the member.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 27 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sites listed in the Scottish Water Register of Assets containing private water pumps owned by domestic customers have been declared surplus to requirements and sold off by public auction in each of the last 10 years; how many pumps were on each site; how many pumps were shared and how many customers had access to each pump.
Answer
This information is not held centrally and I have asked the Chief Executive of Scottish Water to reply to the member.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when a commencement order will be made for section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010
Answer
A commencement order has been made which will bring section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 into force on 6 October 2010.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support has been provided to the operators of the Rosyth-Zeebrugge ferry.
Answer
Waterborne freight grant of £520,000 was paid to Superfast Ferries in 2005. Direct marketing assistance was provided from Scottish Enterprise totalling £2,852,054, and approximately £3.9 million
in marketing support for inbound passengers was contributed by VisitScotland.
Norfolkline/DFDS was awarded ‚¬2,000,000 in waterborne freight grant, of which ‚¬1,000,000 has been paid to date. The company has also benefited from £333,300 in marketing support from VisitScotland.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 15 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sea passenger movements on the Rosyth-Zeebrugge route were recorded in each month since January 2008.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Rosyth-Zeebrugge Ferry Service-Passenger Traffic Volumes
| Month | 2008 | No. of Arrivals | 2009 | No. of Arrivals | 2010 | No. of Arrivals |
| January | 3,095 | 13 | - | | 1,189 | 13 |
| February | 3,161 | 12 | - | | 1,237 | 12 |
| March | 5,594 | 11 | - | | 1,871 | 13 |
| April | 8,431 | 13 | - | | 5,076 | 13 |
| May | 10,592 | 14 | 2,078 | 6 | 4,683 | 13 |
| June | 9,945 | 12 | 4,246 | 13 | 5,654 | 13 |
| July | 14,137 | 14 | 6,856 | 13 | 8,867 | 14 |
| August | 12,808 | 13 | 6,366 | 13 | 7,565* | 13 |
| September | 4,909 | 6 | 4,039 | 13 | | |
| October | - | | 3,397 | 14 | | |
| November | - | | 1,382 | 12 | | |
| December | - | | 2,202 | 13 | | |
Notes: *Latest date for which data are available.
