- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 1 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S3W-25087 by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2009, whether the Cabinet Secretary for Justice will ask Mr Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to answer the question as lodged.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
Yes we believe the interventions are appropriate.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 1 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether unsuccessful applicants for the first round of the Town Centre Regeneration Fund will be offered advice on where their applications failed and, if so, whether this advice will be available before the deadline for submission of applications for the second round.
Answer
I can confirm that letters were issued to all unsuccessful applicants on 5 August, which offered feedback to candidates on their application. Advice was offered both on areas of relative weakness in applications and on the process by which allocations were decided.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 1 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the same criteria will be used for allocating money in the second round of applications to the Town Centre Regeneration Fund as were used in the first round.
Answer
I can confirm that the same criteria will apply. Further details are available via the attached link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/regeneration/town-centres/tcrf/FeedbackFAQs.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 31 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost to NHS boards was in providing primary care out-of-hours services in (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04, (c) 2004-05, (d) 2005-06, (e) 2006-07, (f) 2007-08 and (g) 2008-09, broken down by board.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collect this information from NHS boards.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 31 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NorthLink Ferries was given an additional grant in 2008-09 due to rising fuel costs and, if so, what additional amount was given.
Answer
Under the terms of the agreement between Scottish ministers and NorthLink Ferries Ltd, the Scottish Government is required to give the ferry company additional grant if the price of fuel increases above the amount budgeted for in the operational year. During the 2008-09 financial year, additional grant payments totalling £1.3 million were paid to NorthLink Ferries to cover the increases in the cost of fuel.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of successful outcomes as a result of radiotherapy treatment is in each NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
Radiotherapy is often delivered as part of a complex treatment regime, which may for example also involve chemotherapy and/or surgery. It is not currently possible to establish or classify the outcomes solely related to radiotherapy treatment.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to give cancer patients access to intensity modulated radiotherapy and proton therapy.
Answer
Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is currently delivered at two Scottish cancer centres (for certain tumours only) with two centres having plans under development to introduce IMRT. Although not all centres currently have machines capable of delivering IMRT, all radiotherapy equipment procured in the future will be IMRT capable.
Proton beam therapy service is currently available to patients in Scotland where this is deemed the most appropriate form of treatment. As for the rest of the UK, this currently involves patients being referred to Europe.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies exist for radiographers in each NHS board area
Answer
This is a matter for NHSScotland boards who have delegated authority over recruitment issues. The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.
NHSScotland advertises all vacancies centrally on the Scotland''s Health on the Web site:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk.
The Information Services Division Scotland also holds information on allied health professions'' vacancies which can be found at this link http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5253.html.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) average and (b) maximum waiting time is for radiotherapy treatment in each NHS board area.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collect, hold or publish validated waiting times statistics for all radiotherapy. NHS boards that provide radiotherapy collect information about radiotherapy waiting times to inform service planning, scheduling and provision locally.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether people with haemophilia who have regularly received blood products are at risk of (a) contracting or (b) carrying variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).
Answer
Blood transfusion remains safe in relation to the risks of other medical and surgical treatments. However, no medical procedure, including blood transfusion, can be entirely free of risk. Haemophilia patients have previously been informed by their doctors of their possible increased risk of exposure to vCJD via clotting factors.
Since the risk of vCJD transmission through blood was first considered, a number of precautionary measures have been introduced to minimise the risk from the UK blood supply. UK plasma has not been used for the manufacture of clotting factors since 1999 and synthetic clotting factors are provided for all patients for whom they are suitable.
