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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: S3W-09960

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients were deregistered in NHS Tayside in each month from April 2006 to March 2007.

The latest available information is shown in the following table.

NHS general dental service patients whose registration status shows withdrawn^1,2 for NHS Tayside; by month

	2006-07
April	410
May	177
June	248
July	194
August	77
September	130
October	116
November	172
December	259
January	48
February	207
March	112

Source: MIDAS (Management Information & Dental Accounting System).

Notes:

1. Based on patients whose registration status indicated withdrawn between the dates considered. This occurs when there is a request for the registration record to be withdrawn (made usually by the dentist, and subsequently approved by the NHS board). The numbers also include withdrawals carried out where more than one active registration exists for the same patient as part of data cleansing. Some patients whose registration has been withdrawn may register with another NHS dentist elsewhere. There may also be retrospective additions to these data.

2. If a patient has been withdrawn from more than one dental practice, they will be counted each time this happens. It is also possible for a patient to be counted in more than one month if they have moved to a dentist in a different month and have been withdrawn from a practice in a month where they have received NHS general dental services.

Question reference: S3W-09958

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to questions S3W-8587 and S3W-8588 by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008, when it will publish details of the scheme to increase the percentage of all three to five-year-olds who are registered with a dentist to 80% by 2010-11, promised by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 12 December 2007 (Official Report c. 4291).

As part of the local delivery plan each NHS board has been asked to put in place plans to take forward plans to meet this target.

A number of measures have been introduced over the last few years to recruit and retain dentists in the NHS, including recruitment and retention allowances, remote areas and deprived areas allowances, reimbursement of practice rental costs and the general dental practice allowance.

Funding has also been provided under the 2006-07 and 2007-08 Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme to provide new or substantially improved premises to support the delivery of NHS dentistry in areas currently with gaps in service provision. A number of these projects are due to be completed in this financial year.

In November 2006, a dental bursary was introduced in Scotland for dental students at Glasgow and Dundee Dental Schools. The bursary scheme has proved extremely popular. There are over 460 students currently in receipt of the dental bursary which ties the students in to the NHS Scotland for a period of up to five years following graduation.

The number of dental students graduating from the dental schools has increased and the new Aberdeen dental school will also increase the number of dentists available for working in Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-09961

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients were newly registered in NHS Tayside in each month from April 2006 to March 2007.

Question reference: S3W-09963

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been newly registered in NHS Tayside since April 2007 up to the latest date for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-09957

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the revenue allocations to NHS Tayside (a) have been in each financial year since 2004-05 and (b) will be in 2008-09, expressed also at constant prices.

The revenue allocations to NHS Tayside from 2004-05 expressed in constant prices have been:

Year	Initial Allocation (£000)	In-Year Allocations (£000)	Total (£000)	Total at Constant Prices (2006-07) (£000)
2004-05	429,648	118,481	548,129	575,766
2005-06	485,260	91,890	577,150	593,709
2006-07	516,958	85,612	602,570	602,570
2007-08	549,382	84,283	633,665	613,719
2008-09	566,400	-	566,400	533,889

The 2007-08 figure has not yet been finalised and further in year allocations are likely. The 2008-09 total is the baseline allocation and does not include any in-year allocation.

Question reference: S3W-09681

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what timescale it has set towards achieving the full provision of free access to council swimming pools for children.

Question reference: S3W-09685

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has met representatives of (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire councils to discuss the provision of free year-round access to council swimming pools.

Question reference: S3W-09684

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has discussed with individual local authorities the cost of providing lifeguards in association with free year-round access to council swimming pools.

Question reference: S3W-09686

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings it will hold in the next financial year with representatives of (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire councils to discuss the provision of free year-round access to council swimming pools.

Question reference: S3W-09683

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to fully fund the cost of providing children with free year-round access to council swimming pools.