- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of stillbirths per 1,000 live births was in 2008, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The rate of stillbirths is normally calculated as the rate per 1,000 live and still births. This will be included in table P2 in the General Register for Scotland''s 2008 Preliminary Return, which was published on 12 March 2009:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/preliminary-return/2008-preliminary-return.html.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of late fetal deaths per 1,000 live births was in 2008, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is currently not available. This will become available when the annual Scottish Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity Report for 2008 is published by Information Services Division (ISD) at the end of November 2009.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is giving to the North Ayrshire economy.
Answer
The Government Economic Strategy sets out an approach to growth which is cohesive across Scotland''s regions, including Ayrshire.
Through the strategy and - more recently - through our six point programme of economic recovery, we have put sustainable economic growth at the heart of everything we do and are focused on raising skills, improving productivity and on safeguarding and creating jobs across Scotland. Our current plans to accelerate nearly £293 million in capital expenditure, will support some 4,700 jobs across Scotland - many of which will be in Ayrshire.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-19746 by Stewart Stevenson on 28 January 2009, whether it will provide a breakdown by project of the funding allocated to improve transport links between North Ayrshire and Glasgow in 2011-12.
Answer
The amounts allocated to improve transport links between North Ayrshire and Glasgow, given in the answer to S3W-19746, can be broken down as follows:
| Rail Schemes | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 |
| (£ Million) | (£ Million) | (£ Million) |
| Ayrshire/Inverclyde train and infrastructure enhancements | 1.19 | 6.10 | 16.11 |
| Road Schemes | | | |
| A737 Head Street Roundabout | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.340 |
| A737 The Den | 0.000 | 0.044 | 2.100 |
| A737 Barrmill Road Roundabout | 0.000 | 0.080 | 3.500 |
| Beith Bypass Widening and Maintenance | 1.250 | 0.065 | 0.000 |
| Totals | 2.44 | 6.29 | 23.05 |
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-19420 by Stewart Stevenson on 26 January 2009, how much of the £100 to £250 million estimate for the delivery of the package of measures within project 22 of the Strategic Transport Projects Review relates to the delivery of the proposed upgrading of the Dalry bypass.
Answer
The costs for the delivery of the package of measures within project 22 reflect the likely range of funding required to deliver this intervention. These costs will be refined as the more detailed design and development work associated with each of these measures moves forward with the aim of reaching a final estimate.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what importance it attaches to improving animal welfare.
Answer
The Scottish Government attaches considerable importance to animal welfare. The passing of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 was a significant step in improving the welfare of animals. The act increased the penalties for animal cruelty, imposed a duty of care on those responsible for animals and allowed animals in danger of suffering to be removed.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation it has undertaken and what further consultation it intends to undertake on the proposed merger of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland with NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20163 on 6 February 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the merging of an independent protective body such as the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (MWCS) with NHS Quality Improvement Scotland would create a conflict of interest in relation to the MWCS’s independence from government.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20151 on 6 February 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with key stakeholders about the proposed merger of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland with NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.
Answer
The proposals supporting the First Minister''s statement to the Scottish Parliament on 30 January 2008 on Delivering More Effective Government indicated that the future of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (MWCS) would be reviewed as part of the consideration of the scrutiny and complaints landscape. The follow-up announcement on 6 November by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth announcing the outcome of this consideration enables discussions on the proposed changes to be undertaken with the bodies and external stakeholders.
Engagement with external stakeholders has already begun and further events are planned.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has produced timescales for any merger of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland with NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.
Answer
Yes. The mechanism for the creation of the new scrutiny bodies will be the legislative provisions included in the Public Services Reform Bill which it is now proposed will be introduced to Parliament in May this year. Implementation work is under way in order to establish the bodies by April 2011.
