- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients will be able to be treated at the new cancer centre at Gartnavel.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22733.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the first patient to be treated at the new cancer centre at Gartnavel.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22733.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff will be employed at the new cancer centre at Gartnavel.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22733.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the replacement of the Beatson Oncology Centre with a new cancer centre at Gartnavel will have on on-going patient care.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22733.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 19 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21665 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 24 January 2002, how many potential learners may be lost in each month during the interim period between the closure of the Individual Learning Accounts scheme and the launch of a replacement scheme.
Answer
It is not possible to quantify this figure on a monthly basis. In total over 215,000 Individual Learning Accounts (ILA) were opened in 2001 and over 108,000 activated. The number of learners taking up learning, with or without an ILA grant, would be expected to vary from year to year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20232 by Nicol Stephen on 17 December 2001, how much money was allocated to making improvements in the school meals system in each year since 1998-99 and how much will be allocated in each of the next five years.
Answer
Resources to support provision of school meals are part of the unhypothecated funding made available to authorities in support of local services including school education. Information in the form requested is, therefore, not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take in order to reduce the circulation of illegal guns, following the report in the Sunday Mail on 27 January 2002 that there was a marked increase in the number of gun-related crimes and deaths in 2001.
Answer
Firearms policy and legislation are reserved matters. However, the Scottish Executive is represented on the Firearms Consultative Committee, the independent statutory body established to keep under review the working of the provisions of the Firearms Acts and to make recommendations to the Home Secretary for improving their working.The latest published statistics for Scotland on gun-related crimes and deaths show a marked downward trend between 1991 and 2000. Final figures for 2001 in respect of crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used will not be published until September 2002. It is difficult to comment substantively in advance of that but any increase would be deplored. As regards the circulation of illegal weapons, the police and other enforcement agencies continue to put significant effort into tackling this.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19754 by Susan Deacon on 26 November 2001, whether it will provide an update of its assessment of any impact the changing situation at the Beatson Oncology Unit and the North Glasgow University Hospitals Trust will have on patient services.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-20764 on 4 February 2002.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the resignation of the four consultant staff at the Beatson Oncology Centre has had or will have on the waiting list for referral to a cancer specialist.
Answer
NHS local management has advised that:all clinics currently serviced by consultants based at the Beatson have been reviewed. Over the next six months, prior to substantive appointments being made, interim arrangements will be put in place so that new patients will be a priority to be seen at outreach clinics taking place within their local NHS board area;there is no formal waiting list for medical oncology and it is not envisaged there will be an impact on this, andradiotherapy waiting times are currently reducing as the new machines funded by the Scottish Executive come on stream. I am pleased to confirm that the radiotherapy equipment modernisation programme continues and it is hoped this downward trend will continue. Two new, additional, linear accelerators are expected to be commissioned during the course of 2002.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 4 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will report the findings of the Review of Cities.
Answer
I expect the review to conclude in the spring of 2002.
