- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has provided for the establishment of lip-reading classes in the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency area to assist those with hearing difficulties in each of the last three years and what the reasons are for its position on the provision of such classes in this area.
Answer
Scottish Executive support for lip-reading skills is focussed on the training of tutors in lip-reading, rather than the support of classes in particular areas of the country. Grants are made under section 9 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968. In 2000-01 a pump-priming grant of £20,000 was made to the Scottish Course to Train Tutors in Lip Reading. Grant for 2001-02 has been set at £30,000 and for 2002-03 it has been set at £35,000. These funds will contribute towards the training of up to 15 tutors each year.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 21 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons within the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency area have been assessed as requiring a digital hearing aid and how many persons were provided with such a hearing aid in each of the last three years, broken down by how many were supplied free of charge by the NHS and how many were provided by the NHS at a monetary cost to the patient.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22850.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 21 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons within the Lanarkshire Health Board area have been assessed as requiring two digital hearing aids and how many persons were provided with two such hearing aids in each of the last three years, broken down by how many were supplied free of charge by the NHS and how many were provided by the NHS at a monetary cost to the patient
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22850.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many lip-reading tutors were employed in the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency area to assist those with hearing difficulties in each of the last three years and what the reasons are for the position on the employment of such tutors in this area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 21 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons within the Lanarkshire Health Board area have been assessed as requiring a digital hearing aid and how many persons were provided with such a hearing aid in each of the past three years, broken down by how many were supplied free of charge by the NHS and how many were provided by the NHS at a monetary cost to the patient.
Answer
Digital hearing aids provided by NHSScotland are provided free of charge. Each individual case must be a matter for the clinical judgement of the clinicians concerned as is the question of whether a person requiring two digital aids will have both provided at the same time.The additional information requested in this question and questions S1W-22851, S1W-22852, S1W-22853 and S1W-22854 is not held centrally. The questions should be directed to the appropriate NHS boards and NHS trusts.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive (a) which questions it answered substantively by referring to the response it provided to inspired question S1W-20533 lodged on its behalf by Des McNulty and answered by Lewis Macdonald on 29 November 2001, (b) how much the processing of each question answered in this manner cost in total and (c) what its reasons were for answering each individual question in this manner.
Answer
(a) This information is not available in the format requested. However, all answers to parliamentary questions are published on the Parliament's website. (b) The information requested is not held centrally.(c) It is standard practice to refer a member to a previous answer given to a parliamentary question if this reply provides the appropriate information.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 14 February 2002
To ask the First Minister what plans the Scottish Executive has to change the focus of enterprise development from inward investment to other growth contributors.
Answer
Ms Wendy Alexander this week announced a shift in our priorities which will target home grown companies so we have less reliance on enterprise from overseas. This is good news for Scotland.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 14 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent representations it has made to Her Majesty's Treasury regarding policies for economic growth.
Answer
Officials in the Executive are in regular contact with the Treasury on a range of issues. Ministers also exchange regular correspondence and have private conversations with Treasury Ministers from time to time.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 11 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many items of official correspondence it has received from MSPs in each six-month period since its inception and what information it holds on the length of time it has taken to respond to such correspondence.
Answer
The available information is shown in the following table. Between July 1999 and June 2000, information was gathered from each Scottish Executive Department's own database and the information for MPs and MSPs was not disaggregated. Since July 2000 all information is obtained from the electronic ministerial correspondence system. The introduction of an electronic system, operative across the Executive since July 2000, has improved delivery and monitoring of performance.Correspondence from MSPs and MPs:
Period | Correspondent | Number of letters | % replies issued within 17 working days | % replies issued within 25 working days |
1 Jul 1999-31 Dec 1999 | MSPs and MPs | 3,141 | 35% | N/A |
1 Jan 2000-30 Jun 2000 | MSPs and MPs | 3,420 | 35% | N/A |
1 Jul 2000-31 Dec 2000 | MSPs only | 3,223 | 38% | N/A |
1 Jan 2001-30 Jun 2001 | MSPs only | 3,700 | 59% | 80% |
1 Jul 2001-31 Dec 2001 | MSPs only | 3,624 | 62% | 82% |
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21388 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 18 January 2002, what difficulties would arise in terms of the potential identification of individuals and whether it will detail how the Data Protection Act 1998 would impact on, or prevent any collation of, information on students with disabilities.
Answer
In the Data Protection Act 1998, stricter conditions apply to the processing of sensitive data, which includes information relating to health. The Executive's current policy is that figures should not be disclosed where the relevant population is less than or equal to five and greater than or equal to one, due to the potential for identification of individuals.The tables requested in the original question (S1W-21388) were at such a detailed level that disclosing a number of the figures would have breached this policy.Officials from the department would be happy to meet with you to discuss data collection and the information that is available.
