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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S2W-06642

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the ability to pay is taken into account in removing elderly patients from NHS chiropody care lists.

Question reference: S2W-06639

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients in each NHS board area have been removed from NHS chiropody lists in each of the last six years.

Question reference: S2W-06640

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what provision has been made for the foot care of those who have been removed from NHS chiropody lists.

Question reference: S2W-06637

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the difference is between service redesign and rationing in relation to chiropody treatment.

Question reference: S2W-06635

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish proposals regarding the fluoridation of the water supply.

Question reference: S2W-06255

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 12 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a national analysis of the need for, and construction of, affordable housing is being carried out.

Question reference: S2W-06259

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has in respect of the prevention of suicide of NHS patients.

Recommendations on suicideprevention, detailed in Safety First: Five Year Report of theNational Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with MentalIllness, were issued to Health Boards in July 2001. NHS boards are expectedto continue to work within the framework of these recommendations, whilst alsotaking account of the framework provided in Choose Life, the NationalStrategy and Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in Scotland (published December2002).

Question reference: S2W-06260

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what performance targets have been set in respect of the provision of assessments by occupational therapists.

Question reference: S2W-06535

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Euan Robson on 12 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what research data is available to identify difficulties surrounding the retention of social workers by local authorities.

Question reference: S2W-06542

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 12 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to provide access to support services for victims of male rape.

Male victims of sexual violence can access support through a number of avenues. The Executive funds Victim Support Scotland to provide information, advice and support to all victims of crime. It also provides funding to voluntary organisations which specialise in support for victims of sexual abuse, such as Men Against Sexual Abuse and the Moira Anderson Foundation. More generally, the NHS 24 Breathing Space telephone advice line is aimed at young men who are experiencing difficulties, whatever these might be.

A pilot project in Glasgow will soon look at how the immediate response to female and male survivors of sexual violence could be improved.