- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals in receipt of direct payments under section 7 of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002 are required to make a user's contribution and how much has been ingathered from this source in (a) Scotland as a whole and (b) each local authority area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. User contributions may be required for all local authority community care services, apart from free personal care for older people.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities permit recipients of direct payments to purchase services directly from the local authority making such payments and what the cost of services is in each case.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals in each local authority area are employed in the delivery of services to people in receipt of direct payments and how many such individuals are local authority employees.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. However,most of this data will be available from 2005-06 onwards.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on what the (a) total cost and (b) cost to it was of hosting the G8 summit, broken down into costs incurred (i) prior to, (ii) during and (iii) after the summit.
Answer
Final estimates of the costsof the G8 summit are not yet available. Information will be published later in the year.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring of the activity of individual sheriff courts is currently being undertaken by the Judicial Appointments Board and what monitoring has taken place since the board's inception.
Answer
Monitoring the activity of individual sheriff courts does not lie within the remit of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information was given to patients treated with Scottish factor VIII prior to 1987.
Answer
The Report
Hepatitis C and Heat Treatment of Blood Products for Haemophiliacs in the mid 1980’s, published in October 2000, a copy of which is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 36612), discusses the information that was given to patients.
According to the Report, Haemophilia Centre Directors believed that patients and parents were informed of the risk of hepatitis as part of general education on haemophilia and its treatments, including:
use of educational material, including that produced by the UK Haemophilia Society;
education for patients and carers about home treatment with factor concentrates;
hepatitis warning signs and cross-infection precautions, in haemophilia centre treatment areas, and
national and local meetings of the UK Haemophilia Society.
Details on the actual information provided are not held centrally but would be available from the Haemophilia Directors.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what regular contact and communication is maintained by members of the Judicial Appointments Board with sheriff courts.
Answer
The Judicial Appointments Boardfor Scotland includes among its members a serving sheriff and a servingsheriff principal. Several other members of the board have contact and communicationwith sheriffs on a regular basis as part of their professional lives. In addition,representatives of the board have met with representatives of the Sheriff’s Association:on 27 April 2004 and on 25 January 2005. Such contact is maintained as needed ratherthan on a predetermined basis.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what counselling was offered to patients diagnosed with (a) HIV and/or (b) hepatitis C prior to 1987.
Answer
Counselling for patients diagnosedwith hepatitis C was not available prior to 1987 as hepatitis C was not discovereduntil 1989. Testing to diagnose the Hepatitis C Virus infection only became availablein 1991.
For HIV patients, testing forHIV infection became available in late 1985. Most of the cases seen were in injectingdrug users though appreciable numbers where in men who have sex with men and haemophiliacs.Most cases were diagnosed in dedicated counselling clinics attached to the City Hospital in Edinburgh andRuchill Hospital in Glasgow and in the genitor-urinary medicine clinics in thesecities. Counsellors in these clinics, together with clinicians and other healthcare staff, social work staff and voluntary sector staff provided further supportduring this period.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what choice of treatment was available to patients diagnosed with (a) HIV and/or (b) hepatitis C prior to 1987.
Answer
Prior to 1987, there were noeffective anti-retroviral therapies for HIV and Hep C. Hep C was not identifieduntil 1989. It was not until the mid-90's that a licensed antiviral therapy becameavailable.
For HIV, certain treatments forlife-threatening conditions associated with HIV were available. Effective combinationanti-retroviral therapy became available in the UK in 1996.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what programme of visits to sheriff courts has been undertaken by the Judicial Appointments Board since its inception.
Answer
Lay members of the Judicial AppointmentsBoard for Scotland have undertaken familiarisation visits to sheriff courts.The five legal members were already familiar with the courts system.
