- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 11 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers and interpreters for deaf people there are at present in Scotland.
Answer
As at September 1998, there were an estimated 164 full-time equivalent teachers who had a hearing impairment teaching qualification in publicly-funded schools in Scotland. There are currently 31 registered interpreters for the deaf and 12 trainees.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports it has received from its representatives on the chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis working group.
Answer
Scottish observers on the main Working Group and the Children's Group have been present at most of the meetings of the two Groups and at the one meeting so far of the wider Reference Group. They have been consulted about and fully advised of the outcome of the few meetings they could not attend. They have reported informally that encouraging progress is being made, and that they are satisfied that the concerns of all interests in the CFS/ME community are being heard.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it proposes to take to address the problems of sufferers of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
Answer
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is a complex condition, which unfortunately is not fully understood, and has, as yet, no definitive diagnostic test to identify it. The difficulties surrounding diagnosis and treatment of ME were recognised in the establishment in 1999 of a Working Group on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) by the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health in England. The Working Group has a remit to review current management and clinical practice of CFS/ME with the aim of providing best practice guidance for professionals, patients and carers to improve both the recognition and the quality of care and treatment. The Scottish Executive Health Department has observer representation on the Group and is closely monitoring its progress.The Scottish Executive will give full and careful consideration to the Report of the Working Group when it becomes available to determine what changes/guidance might be appropriate to current clinical practice and treatment of those with ME in Scotland.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 13 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to reduce the drop out rate in higher education institutions from the current 20% and what assessment it has made of the return of full maintenance grant as a way of reducing this figure.
Answer
They are currently being scrutinised by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. I want to see an improvement on the position and we will seek an early meeting with the Council.Reasons for leaving higher education are varied and finance normally comes 7th or 8th in the reasons given by students.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools for deaf people there are in Scotland.
Answer
There are six special schools where the majority of pupils have hearing impairment as their main difficulty in learning. Otherwise, the majority of hearing impaired pupils are educated either in the 91 Special Units attached to mainstream schools or full-time in mainstream classes.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cochlea implants have been carried out in the years 1997-98 and 1998-99 broken down by age.
Answer
The information available on numbers of cochlear implantation is shown in below.
Number of cochlear implant discharges from hospitals in Scotland; by age of patient | Extracochlear prosthesis | Intracochlear prosthesis |
| 1997/98 | 1998/99 | | 1997/98 | 1998/99 |
| Under 10 | 1 | 1 | | 19 | 18 |
| 10-19 | 0 | 1 | | 3 | 3 |
| 20-29 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 4 |
| 30-39 | 2 | 1 | | 2 | 4 |
| 40-49 | 1 | 0 | | 3 | 6 |
| 50-59 | 1 | 6 | | 4 | 4 |
| 60-69 | 1 | 1 | | 7 | 3 |
| 70-79 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 7 | 10 | | 42 | 44 |
Source: ISD: SMR01[data provisional at November 1999]
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 9 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it intends to introduce to improve economic and social conditions in the City of Glasgow.
Answer
The Executive has made available in the excess of £1.8 billion for the city this year. We have more than doubled the number of Social Inclusion Partnerships in the city to introduce Drumchapel, Gorbals, Greater Govan, Greater Pollok, Milton and Spingburn. Yesterday, Jack McConnell committed the Executive to a review of deprivation indicators used in the allocation of local government resources and we welcome the new education plans, including 10 new secondaries for the city.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 9 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it intends to introduce to improve economic and social conditions in the City of Glasgow.
Answer
The Executive has made available in the excess of £1.8 billion for the city this year. We have more than doubled the number of Social Inclusion Partnerships in the city to introduce Drumchapel, Gorbals, Greater Govan, Greater Pollok, Milton and Spingburn.Yesterday, Jack McConnell committed the Executive to a review of deprivation indicators used in the allocation of local government resources and we welcome the new education plans, including 10 new secondaries for the city.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 2 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children living within the Glasgow City Council boundary have been placed by their parents in schools outwith that boundary in each of the years in the period 1988-89 to 1998-99 taking account of local government reorganisation.
Answer
The information requested is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 17 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level is of public funding being provided to support Scottish gymnastics by local authority area.
Answer
The detailed breakdown of expenditure by local authority area can only be supplied by individual local authorities. Scottish Executive funding for sport is generally channelled through sportscotland which, in turn, gives grant assistance to governing bodies and works with local authorities on a range of initiatives. During the financial year ended 31 March 1999 sportscotland gave Scottish Gymnastics grant assistance of £100,000 from Exchequer funding.Support for gymnastics from the Lottery Sports Fund has included one award of £50,000 through the Junior Groups Programme, 21 awards totalling £61,433 through the Awards for All Programme, 37 awards totalling £135,184 through the Talented Athlete Programme and 4 awards totalling £108,348 through the Capital Awards Programme.
