- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies were involved in the pilot programme of using helmets to treat benign positional plagiocephaly in Yorkhill Hospital’s orthotic department.
Answer
Yorkhill Hospital has been undertaking initial experimental work to explorewhether it had the technical capability to produce and fit helmets for treatingplagiocephaly. It has not undertaken a properly constituted pilot programme.
Five babies were treated withhelmets as part of this experimental work.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what sleep aids for use by babies with postural plagiocephaly are fully funded by the NHS.
Answer
Sleep aids for use by babieswith postural plagiocephaly are not recommended and are therefore not availableon the NHS.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what sleep aids are recommended for use by babies with postural plagiocephaly.
Answer
Sleep aids are not recommendedfor use by babies with postural plagiocephaly.
The current advice is to place babies on their back to sleep, positioningthe child’s head on different sides each night.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the ruling by the European Commission that British citizens who travel elsewhere in the European Union for health treatment should be recompensed, the same ruling would apply to citizens who travel from Scotland to England.
Answer
The recent European Court ofJustice ruling indicates that reimbursement of a patient’s costs should follow arrangementsalready in force for treatment in the patient’s home country. Currently, patientsrequired to travel within Scotland, or indeed to England, for treatment may receivereimbursement for the expenses incurred under one of two statutory patients’ travellingexpenses schemes: a non-means tested Highlands and Islands scheme, for patientsresident or working in the former Highlands and Islands development area, and ameans-tested scheme for the rest of the country.
Underthe scheme regulations patients, and where considered medically necessary theirescorts, are reimbursed, either fully or partially, their travelling expenses. Inaddition the cost of unavoidable overnight expenses can be reimbursed if the NHSboard is satisfied that an overnight stay is in practice unavoidable.
NHS boards also have discretionto reimburse the travel costs and unavoidable overnight expenses of patients noteligible for assistance under the statutory travel schemes when this is viewed asan extension to patients’ treatment costs and is deemed to be clinically necessary.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 3 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students there are on planning-related courses in Scottish universities.
Answer
In the academic year 2003-04, there were 960 students on planning courses at Scottish higher education institutions. This is the most recent year for which data are available. The following table gives the numbers for each level of study.
Students Studying Planning as a Main Subject at Scottish higher Education Institutions 2003-04
| Total | 960 |
| Postgraduate | 475 |
| First degree | 485 |
| Sub-degree | 0 |
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency.
In this table 0, one, two are rounded to 0. All other numbers are rounded up or down to the nearest five.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 3 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students on planning-related courses in Scottish universities are due to graduate in 2006 and, of these, what percentage it anticipates will find employment in the public sector.
Answer
The number of graduates from Scottish higher education institutions in planning subjects in the academic year 2003-04 is given in the following table. This is the most recent year for which data are currently available.
| Postgraduate | 75 |
| First degree | 130 |
| Total | 205 |
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency; figures have been rounded to the nearest five.
Of the planning students who graduated in 2003-04 and responded to a survey of their activity six months after graduating, 25 per cent stated that they were employed in the public sector.
Forecasts of the number of students in planning-related courses due to graduate in 2006 and of the percentage choosing to work in the public sector are not available.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 2 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planners are employed in local authority planning departments, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 2 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there are for planners in local authority planning departments, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many public inquiries in respect of planning have been held in each of the last five years.
Answer
The number of planning inquiries or hearings in respect of planning held in the last five years is 512. A yearly breakdown of the figures is provided in the following table.
| Year | No of Planning Inquiries/Hearings |
| 2000-01 | 131 |
| 2001-02 | 104 |
| 2002-03 | 97 |
| 2003-04 | 98 |
| 2004-05 | 82 |
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning reporters are employed in the Scottish Executive Inquiry Reporters’ Unit.
Answer
The Scottish Executive Inquiry Reporter’s Unit employs 17 established civil servants as inquiry reporters. In addition, 19 self-employed inquiry reporters are used to accommodate peaks in caseload.
