- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure that all teaching staff are aware of, and sensitive to, the needs of young people with a mental illness.
Answer
Measures are already inplace. Probationer teachers must achieve the Standard for Full Registration(SFR) before being fully registered by the General Teaching Council for Scotland andthus becoming eligible to apply for permanent teaching posts. The SFR sets outclearly what is expected of new teachers during their induction period andprovides a professional standard against which decisions are taken on fullregistration. Among the professional skills and abilities listed in the SFR thatregistered teachers are expected to demonstrate is the ability to “identify andrespond appropriately to pupils with difficulties in, or barriers to, learningand seek advice in relation to their special educational needs”.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are plans to reduce the amount of coal produced from opencast mines.
Answer
Coal Industry policy is areserved matter. While the extraction ofcoal in Scotland is regulated by the land use planning system, whichis devolved to the Scottish Executive, this does not seek to predetermine the appropriatelevels of coal to be produced by opencast mining.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources have been allocated to each local authority to reduce the number of suicides.
Answer
In June this year my departmentissued guidance to local authorities on implementation of the Choose LifeNational Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in Scotland.This guidance, which is available through the website of the National Programmefor Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing (www.wellontheweb.net ) , sets outthe resources being allocated to local authorities (to hold on behalf of theircommunity planning partners) for 2003-2006.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance has been issued to local authorities regarding the implementation of Choose Life: A National Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in Scotland, in particular on local co-ordination, training and local community-based initiatives and activities.
Answer
In June this year my departmentissued guidance to local authorities on implementation of the Choose LifeNational Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in Scotland. This guidance, which isavailable through the website of the National Programme for Improving MentalHealth and Wellbeing (www.wellontheweb.net) , sets out what is expected oflocal areas in relation to training, coordination, community infrastructure,local innovative practice, information sharing and other issues which will helptowards the goal of reducing the suicide rate in Scotland by 20% by 2013.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance is offered to parents of children under 14 who have been diagnosed with a mental illness.
Answer
Our National Health (December 2000, Bib.number 10298) and Partnership for Care (February 2003, Bib. number 26689) areexplicit about the need for the NHS to work with patients and their carers toensure that they have the support and information they need to be involved indecisions that affect them.
The Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002, requires NHS boards to draw up Carer Information Strategies, including advice on all available assistance. Guidance to health and social care professionals on implementing measures contained in the act states that the views of a child or young person with support needs, as well as the views of their parent or guardian, should be taken into account, as far as this is reasonable and practicable.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of overseas air travellers have been routed through English airports in each of the last three years.
Answer
The percentage of overseasair travellers to Scotland in 2002 arriving in the United Kingdomthrough airports in England is as follows:
Scheduled businesspassengers: 49%
Scheduled leisure passengers:51%
The figures are given in theCivil Aviation Authority (CAA) passenger survey, Tables 24 and 25, andrepresent 2002* levels only. The search facility for the CAA website can befound at http://www.CAA.co.uk.
No separate figures areavailable for 2000 or 2001.
*Figures are derived fromthe latest run CAA Passenger surveys and then have all been weighted torepresent 2002 levels.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place to review and bring forward plans to upgrade Scotland's motorway and ‘A' road networks.
Answer
We regularly monitorprogress on motorway and trunk road schemes and assess the emerging demands andpressures for improvement across the network.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many flight routes have been established with the assistance of route development funds since June 2003.
Answer
Since June 2003, 7 routeshave started following offers made under the Interim Route Development Fund.Other routes will start in 2004.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on psychological intervention, or other non-drug therapies, in respect of (a) severe and enduring mental illness, (b) attention deficit hyperkinetic disorder, (c) depression and (d) dementia, in each of the last three years.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which drugs have been withdrawn from use for the treatment of people under 18 in each of the last three years.
Answer
The safety of medicines is areserved matter and is the responsibility of the Medicines and Healthcare ProductsRegulatory Agency.
The agency has advised that theCommittee on Safety of Medicines recently issued advice that the antidepressantdrugs paroxetine (Seroxat) and venlafaxine (Efexor) should not be used inchildren and adolescents aged less than 18 years of age with depressiveillness. No drugs have been withdrawn for use specifically within this agegroup in the last three years.
