- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive in which year the Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling will open.
Answer
I will be discussing plans to take forward the institute, including its opening, when I visit Sir Philip Cohen in Dundee next week. My expectation is that the institute will open towards the end of this year.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people have been registered with an NHS dentist in the (a) Dundee City Council and (b) Dundee Community Health Partnership area in each of the last two years, broken down by age group.
Answer
Dundee City Council and Dundee Community Health Partnership (CHP) have the same geographical boundaries. As a result, the number of registrations is the same for both. Latest available information (as at 30 September 2006 and 2007) is presented in the following table.
Dundee City Council/Dundee CHP Registrations1 by Age Group, as at 30 September
| | 2006 | 2007 |
| Number Registered | % of Population Registered | Number Registered | % of Population Registered |
| All Ages | 91,297 | 64.2 | 96,395 | 67.8 |
| 0-2 | 1,949 | 42.8 | 2,097 | 46.0 |
| 3-5 | 3,345 | 81.5 | 3,783 | 92.1 |
| 6-12 | 9,481 | 93.7 | 9,871 | 97.6 |
| 13-17 | 6,897 | 81.3 | 7,342 | 86.5 |
| 18-24 | 7,295 | 41.5 | 7,837 | 44.6 |
| 25-34 | 10,511 | 58.2 | 10,940 | 60.6 |
| 35-44 | 14,965 | 77.7 | 15,108 | 78.4 |
| 45-54 | 13,835 | 75.9 | 14,572 | 80.0 |
| 55-64 | 11,256 | 69.6 | 12,006 | 74.2 |
| 65-74 | 7,370 | 55.3 | 7,812 | 58.6 |
| 75+ | 4,393 | 35.8 | 5,027 | 40.9 |
Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).
Note: 1. Registrations are based on the postcode of the dental practice.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11190 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 April 2008, how much additional finance NHS Tayside has been given to administer the community health nurse pilot in 2008-09.
Answer
Additional finance to support transitional education for the community health nurse pilot will be provided to NHS Tayside in 2008-09 when their training plan has been received.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths there have been from cervical cancer in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years.
Answer
The numbers of deaths from cervical cancer which occurred in the NHS Tayside area were as follows:
2005: 8
2006: 10
2007: 7.
The figure for 2007 is provisional. The final figure will not be published formally until after the appearance of Scotland''s Population 2007 (the Registrar General''s Annual Review of Demographic Trends), which is scheduled for August 2008. However, past experience suggests that the figure is unlikely to change much.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students who received a dental bursary in their final year of study in 2006-07 are now in vocational training in Scotland, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
One hundred and one dental students at the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee who received a dental bursary in their final year of study in 2006-07 are now in vocational training in Scotland. A breakdown, by NHS board, is provided in the following table.
| NHS Board | Number of Vocational Trainees |
| Tayside | 14 |
| Forth Valley | 4 |
| Grampian | 5 |
| Fife | 5 |
| Lothian | 14 |
| Lanarkshire | 20 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 24 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 8 |
| Highland | 4 |
| Dumfries | 1 |
| Orkney | 1 |
| Borders | 1 |
| Total | 101 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11585 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 April 2008, to what year or years the figures quoted in the table for Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland refer.
Answer
The figures for Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland relate to the most recent year of published results, January to December 2006 and are taken from the latest report of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Scheme (EARSS) which can be found at:
http://www.rivm.nl/earss/Images/EARSS%202006%20Def_tcm61-44176.pdf.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether further resources will be made available to NHS Tayside for administration of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination scheme in 2008-09 to take account of the community health nurse pilot currently operating there.
Answer
The Scottish Government has provided additional funding of £119,746 to NHS Board Tayside to assist with implementation of the HPV programme from 1 September 2008. This additional funding was made in recognition of the complexity of the delivery challenge facing NHS boards and the high-priority of this programme.
The Scottish Government has provided additional funding to NHS Tayside separately for the development of the Community Health Nurse pilot, which was announced under the previous administration.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years.
Answer
Data on the number of women diagnosed with cervical cancer are available by NHS board and year (1980 to 2004) on the NHS Information Services Division (ISD) website at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/cancer_cervix_inc.xls.
The latest year for which cancer registration data are complete is 2004.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 17 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be invested in affordable housing for rent in Dundee in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11 and how many such homes will be made available in each year.
Answer
Over the period 2008-11 we will be providing investment of over £1.5 billion for affordable housing across Scotland and aim to deliver at least 21,500 new affordable homes nationally over this three year period.
I will announce the allocation of affordable housing investment programme resources to each area for 2008-09 shortly.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 17 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been budgeted for the independent evaluation of the free school meals pilot for P1 to P3 pupils.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-4073 on 19 September 2007, the original cost of the evaluation of the free school meals trial was approximately £60,000 (including VAT). The revised cost of the evaluation is approximately £76,200 (including VAT) reflecting extensions to the parents'' survey element including a boost to the sample.
