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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.

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Question reference: S2W-15787

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many adults and children who receive renal replacement therapy live within the standard of 30 minutes travel time from hospital dialysis set by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency.

While the full information requested is not held centrally, the latest figures from the Scottish Renal Registry suggest that 90% of patients live within 30 minutes travel time of their dialysis unit.

The statement in the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland standards comes into the “desirable” category, and was included to ensure that renal units were considering the possibility of satellite units, where appropriate, to minimise travelling times for patients. NHS boards are working to expand the number of Satellite Units in Scotland to bring services closer to patients.

Question reference: S2W-15783

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many adults and children receive hospital dialysis, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency.

On 31 December 2004there were 1,510 adults, young people and children registered on the ScottishRenal Registry (SRR) as using hospital haemodialysis as treatment for establishedrenal failure. The distribution by Scottish Parliament constituency is shown inthe following table. Due to the small numbers of children involved, the data hasnot been split by age.

Scottish Parliament Constituency	Hospital Haemodialysis Patients
Aberdeen Central	18
Aberdeen North	36
Aberdeen South	20
Airdrie and Shotts	26
Angus	17
Argyll and Bute	13
Ayr	18
Banff and Buchan	19
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	23
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	18
Central Fife	22
Clydebank and Milngavie	10
Clydesdale	30
Coatbridge and Chryston	19
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	15
Cunninghame North	25
Cunninghame South	15
Dumbarton	23
Dumfries	29
Dundee East	28
Dundee West	27
Dunfermline East	16
Dunfermline West	23
East Kilbride	21
East Lothian	17
Eastwood	21
Edinburgh Central	20
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	32
Edinburgh North and Leith	19
Edinburgh Pentlands	19
Edinburgh South	21
Edinburgh West	23
Falkirk East	15
Falkirk West	24
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale	14
Glasgow Anniesland	17
Glasgow Baillieston	25
Glasgow Cathcart	22
Glasgow Govan	28
Glasgow Kelvin	18
Glasgow Maryhill	21
Glasgow Pollok	20
Glasgow Rutherglen	21
Glasgow Shettleston	25
Glasgow Springburn	26
Gordon	20
Greenock and Inverclyde	27
Hamilton North and Bellshill	23
Hamilton South	14
Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber	28
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	19
Kirkcaldy	24
Linlithgow	10
Livingston	17
Midlothian	27
Moray	17
Motherwell and Wishaw	31
North East Fife	12
North Tayside	24
Ochil	19
Paisley North	24
Paisley South	19
Perth	23
Ross, Skye and Inverness West	20
Roxburgh and Berwickshire	14
Stirling	17
Strathkelvin and Bearsden	25
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	16
West Renfrewshire	13
Other Constiuencies²	6
Not Known¹	49
Scotland	1,510

Source: Scottish RenalRegistry.

Notes:

1. Parliamentaryconstituency is derived from the patient’s postcode. It is not possible todetermine the parliamentary constituency of these patients.

2. To preserve patientconfidentiality some parliamentary constituencies (Orkney Islands,Shetland Islands, Eilean Siar) with a small number of patients havebeen grouped together.

Question reference: S2W-15785

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many adults and children have received a kidney transplant, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency.

On 31 December 2004 there were 1,704 adults, young people and children registered on the Scottish Renal Registry with afunctioning kidney transplant. The distribution by Scottish Parliament constituency is shown in the following table. Due to the small numbers of children involved, the data has not been split by age.

Scottish Parliament Constituency	People with a Functioning Kidney Transplant
Aberdeen Central	28
Aberdeen North	19
Aberdeen South	16
Airdrie and Shotts	25
Angus	43
Argyll and Bute	16
Ayr	26
Banff and Buchan	20
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	17
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	21
Central Fife	11
Clydebank and Milngavie	18
Clydesdale	31
Coatbridge and Chryston	29
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	18
Cunninghame North	26
Cunninghame South	21
Dumbarton	24
Dumfries	21
Dundee East	32
Dundee West	24
Dunfermline East	29
Dunfermline West	18
East Kilbride	24
East Lothian	25
Eastwood	37
Edinburgh Central	17
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	26
Edinburgh North and Leith	22
Edinburgh Pentlands	25
Edinburgh South	27
Edinburgh West	21
Falkirk East	17
Falkirk West	26
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale	22
Glasgow Anniesland	31
Glasgow Baillieston	25
Glasgow Cathcart	30
Glasgow Govan	19
Glasgow Kelvin	26
Glasgow Maryhill	15
Glasgow Pollok	19
Glasgow Rutherglen	26
Glasgow Shettleston	23
Glasgow Springburn	22
Gordon	18
Greenock and Inverclyde	23
Hamilton North and Bellshill	16
Hamilton South	27
Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber	26
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	20
Kirkcaldy	21
Linlithgow	21
Livingston	30
Midlothian	21
Moray	24
Motherwell and Wishaw	20
North East Fife	16
North Tayside	19
Ochil	19
Paisley North	17
Paisley South	20
Perth	27
Ross, Skye and Inverness West	19
Roxburgh and Berwickshire	15
Stirling	16
Strathkelvin and Bearsden	33
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale	10
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	29
West Renfrewshire	28
Other Constiuencies²	23
Not Known¹	88
Scotland	1,704

Source: Scottish Renal Registry and UK Transplant.

Notes:

1. Parliamentary constituency is derived from the patient’s postcode. It is not possible to determine the parliamentary constituency of these patients.

2. To preserve patient confidentiality some parliamentary constituencies (Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Eilean Siar) with a small number of patients have been grouped together.

Question reference: S2W-15784

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many adults and children receive home dialysis, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency.

Question reference: S2W-15788

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the percentage increase in the number of adults requiring renal replacement therapy by 2010.

Extrapolating from Scottish Renal Registry data, the Acute Services Review (June 1998) predicted a rate of 720 patients per million population (pmp) requiring renal replacement therapy by 2010.

In considering such predictions, several factors need to be taken into account, including the number of renal transplants and the outcomes following them, and the possible impact of new approaches to the identification and management of chronic kidney disease.

Question reference: S2W-15786

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many adults and children are waiting for a kidney transplant, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency.

Question reference: S2W-16120

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 3 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it gives to planning appeals where the applicant has ignored the notices of the local authority planning department.

Appeals against the refusal of planning permission are dealt with on their individual planning merits. It would be normal for the planning authority to advise the appointed inquiry reporter of any enforcement notices as part of their representations.

Where it is the case that, in respect of a particular development, there is an appeal against an enforcement notice at the same time as a planning appeal a single reporter would normally be appointed to deal with both cases.

Question reference: S2W-16119

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 3 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is planning to make it a criminal offence to disobey enforcement notices, stop notices and interim interdicts issued, or taken out, in the name of local authority planning departments.

The Scottish Executive is committed, under the Partnership Agreement, to consider improving the planning system in Scotland. In order to meet its commitments under the agreement, the Executive is reviewing the planning process, including planning enforcement.

It is our aim to publish a white paper before the parliamentary summer recess, setting out in detail proposed reforms, including any proposals for planning enforcement.

Question reference: S2W-15041

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 29 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider providing an additional platform at each of Stewarton and Dunlop stations and reinstating double track on the single line between the two stations to enable capacity on the Kilmarnock to Glasgow service to be increased to half-hourly.

Question reference: S2W-15040

Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 29 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide funding to reactivate the Strategic Rail Authority's suspended study into the provision of a half-hourly service between Kilmarnock and Glasgow.