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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-03382

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 14 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what allowance is made for supported learning in individual budget allocations for colleges.

Question reference: S4W-03377

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 14 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when colleges will be provided with an indicative offer of grant.

Question reference: S4W-03374

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 14 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 November 2011

Question reference: S4W-03380

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 14 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be a reduction in the number of student places at Clydebank College as a result of the proposed budget settlement and, if so, what this will be.

Question reference: S4W-03381

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 14 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what account is taken of levels of deprivation when deciding individual budget allocations for colleges.

Question reference: S4W-03379

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 14 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be a reduction in the number of courses at Clydebank College as a result of the proposed budget settlement and, if so, what this will be.

Question reference: S4W-03453

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of radiographers undertakes plain film reporting, broken down by NHS board.

The following table sets out the number of Radiographers that are undertaking plain film reporting, broken down by NHS boards:

NHS Board	Number of Radiographers at appropriate banding level	Number of Radiographers at appropriate banding level qualified to undertake plain film reporting	Number of Radiographers undertaking plain film reporting
Fife	71	6	2
Lothian	276	9	5
Tayside	151	4	4
Borders	22	4	4
Ayrshire and Arran	111	5	5
Dumfries and Galloway	27	2	2
Forth Valley	52	1	1
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	535	6	3
Lanarkshire	131	3	3

Question reference: S4W-03455

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of radiographers is qualified to undertake plain film reporting, broken down by NHS board.

The following table sets out the number of Radiographers qualified to undertake plain film reporting, broken down by NHS boards:

NHS Board	Number of Radiographers at appropriate banding level	Number of Radiographers at appropriate banding level qualified to undertake plain film reporting
Fife	71	6
Lothian	276	9
Tayside	151	4
Borders	22	4
Ayrshire and Arran	111	5
Dumfries and Galloway	27	2
Forth Valley	52	1
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	535	6
Lanarkshire	131	3

Question reference: S4W-03507

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on Sir Ian Kennedy’s recommendation for paediatric cardiac surgery that a minimum of four surgeons carrying out 400-500 operations per year is required to ensure safety and sustainability.

The quality of service and outcomes achieved by the paediatric cardiac surgery service in Glasgow are carefully monitored and benchmarked against other UK centres and are already well recognised as being good.

While it is desirable to demonstrate this in the context of the Safe and Sustainable Programme standards for designating cardiac centres in England and Wales (by the planned external review by Sir Ian Kennedy), it is with the understanding that standards relating to numbers of staff and activity levels should be interpreted within the context of the differing population and geography and the criticality of retaining a paediatric cardiac surgical and interventional cardiology service in Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-03505

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review paediatric cardiac surgery at Yorkhill Hospital and, if so, when this will be carried out and by whom.