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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: S4W-20420

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 April 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many dog wardens there have been in each local authority area in each year since 1999.

The Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 requires that every local authority appoints at least one authorised officer. An authorised officer is required to be skilled in the control of dogs and to have the capacity to instruct and advise others in matters relating to the control of dogs.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-05956 on 8 March 2012 which provides information on the number of authorised officers appointed by each local authority as at 5 March 2012. The Scottish Government will shortly be seeking updated information from local authorities on the use of the 2010 Act, including the number authorised officers each local authority has. We will also be asking local authorities how many dog wardens they have.

The information on how many dog wardens there have been in each local authority area in each year since 1999 is not held centrally.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-20421

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 April 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much the police have spent on kennelling dogs in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S4W-20334

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 April 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19720 by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2014, on what day the summit will be held.

Question reference: S4W-20280

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 3 April 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what the implications are of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill in relation to ensuring an integrated approach to the handling of complaints.

Question reference: S4W-20182

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 26 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will work to ensure that the meningitis B vaccine is made available to all children across the country.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended a meningitis B vaccination programme for infants. I am delighted that the JCVI has identified the importance of introducing this vaccine against meningitis B. This disease can be devastating for children and their families and I am very keen that we take the necessary steps to tackle its effects. We will be working to ensure that this vaccine can be introduced as quickly as possible into Scotland’s routine childhood immunisation schedule.

Question reference: S4W-20180

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 26 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what communication the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing has had with the (a) Department of Health or (b) Secretary of State for Health regarding the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's review of the vaccine for meningitis B.

I am delighted that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has identified the importance of introducing a vaccine against meningitis B and recommended a vaccination programme for infants. This disease can be devastating for children and their families and I am very keen that we take the necessary steps to tackle its effects. We will be working to ensure that this vaccine can be introduced as quickly as possible into Scotland’s routine childhood immunisation schedule. My officials are in regular contact with their counterparts in the Department of Health on a range of immunisation matters including progress on the JCVI recommendation on the meningitis B vaccine.

Question reference: S4W-20184

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 21 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many and which GP surgeries in each NHS board have operated full patient lists in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S4W-20181

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 20 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing has received representations from clinicians regarding the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's pending decision on the vaccine for meningitis B and, if so, whether he has responded.

Question reference: S4W-20021

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 20 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) compromise agreements and (b) mutually-agreed resignation payments each NHS board has made or signed in each year since 1999.

Records are not held by boards for the period requested and are not complete for the years before 2009-10. The following table shows the numbers of agreements from 2007-08 based on the records available. Mutually agreed resignation payments are not recorded in Scotland and the table shows the number of severance or redundancy agreements reached by Boards.

	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14 (to date)	Total
Number of settlement/compromise agreements	19	36	48	46	56	64	49	318
Number of severance or redundancy payments	59	30	147	266	444	208	78	1,232

Question reference: S4W-20040

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 17 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £20 million allocated to the Rare Conditions Medicines Fund has been spent; which medicines have been funded, and by how much.

The Scottish Government expects that the £21.7 million of funding provided through the Rare Conditions Medicines Fund (RCMF) from 1 March 2013 will be utilised by 31 March 2014. I have committed to continuing the RCMF until at least April 2016. Therefore a further sum of up to £20 million will be available in both 2014-15 and 2015-16.

For the current financial year, the fund covers costs of medicines provided though group or individual patient treatment requests for medicines that could potentially be considered by the Scottish Medicines Consortium under their new approach for end of life, orphan and ultra-orphan medicines that has been set out to the Health and Sport Committee.

It is important to note that patients access treatment provided by NHSScotland rather than any particular funding stream.