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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)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-19154

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 21 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing will meet the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and the National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses to discuss their report, Understanding the value of lung cancer nurse specialists.

I attended a Scottish Parliament event hosted by the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation Committee on 9 January 2014 to raise awareness of the value of lung cancer nurses.

In response to the issues raised by a number of organisations around the role of specialist nurses, the Scottish Government will host regional seminars in early 2014 to explore current provision and the future direction of specialist nurse roles in Scotland. Representatives from The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and the National Lung Cancer Forum for nurses will be invited to participate.

Question reference: S4W-19146

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 16 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what the average case load is for a lung cancer nurse specialist in each NHS board.

Question reference: S4O-02764

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to introduce guaranteed access to wraparound childcare for parents of primary school children.

Question reference: S4W-18993

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many additional trial diets have been set aside at the (a) Glasgow and (b) Edinburgh domestic abuse court; how many sheriffs have been allocated to these, and how many of them have experience in dealing with domestic abuse cases.

Question reference: S4W-18992

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what the current maximum wait is for a case to go to trial at the (a) Glasgow and (b) Edinburgh domestic abuse court.

Question reference: S4W-18991

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases are waiting to go to trial at the (a) Glasgow and (b) Edinburgh domestic abuse court.

Question reference: S4F-01785

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 December 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 December 2013

To ask the First Minister when the Scottish Government will publish the next set of statistics for the Scottish Welfare Fund.

Question reference: S4W-18774

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 06 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-18478 by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 December 2013, whether the risk registers for the home energy efficiency programmes will be published and, if so, when.

Question reference: S4W-18665

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what talking therapy services each NHS board provides.

This information is not held centrally.

While the Scottish Government sets the policy direction for the delivery of and access to psychological therapies, it is for Health Boards to determine the level and nature of the demand in their local areas.

The Scottish Government, with partners, have ensured that support is in place to help NHS boards plan their psychological therapy service provision, including publication of The Matrix: a Guide to Delivering Evidence Based Psychological Therapies in Scotland:

http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/education-and-training/by-discipline/psychology/matrix.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-18664

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many people are accessing talking therapies in each NHS board.

<>Information on how many people have accessed psychological therapies in each NHS board area is published by ISD Scotland in Psychological Therapies Waiting Times in Scotland http://www.isdscotland.org/Publications/index.asp. The latest publication took place on 26 November 2013 and covers the quarter ending 30 September 2013. Data collection systems are still being developed, and the publication contains information on data quality and completeness by NHS board.

The number of people who started treatment in July to September 2013 by NHS board can be found in Table 2.