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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S1W-01865

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive who drew up the specification for the tender for the E coli work currently done by the Aberdeen reference laboratory and on whose advice.

Question reference: S1W-01827

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive when the user survey which it conducted with the Aberdeen reference laboratory on the usefulness of typing campylobacters was conducted, when the results of the survey will be published and whether the reference laboratories working group discussed the results of the survey before coming to a decision that there was no current justification for the continuation of a reference laboratory service for campylobacter in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-01828

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what is the turnaround time for specimens in the E coli laboratory at Foresterhill in the current financial year and how this compares with the target turnaround time.

Question reference: S1W-01825

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reference laboratories working group consulted formally with the advisory committee on the microbiological safety of food before coming to a decision that there was no current justification for the continuation of a reference laboratory service for campylobacter in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-01856

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reference laboratories working group sought any clarification of the seven reasons given in the Aberdeen reference laboratory's annual report for E coli 157 response times exceeding targets from the reference laboratory in Aberdeen prior to reaching its decision that it did not accept these reasons as justification for response times exceeding targets.

Question reference: S1W-01864

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive which laboratories have been invited to tender for the E coli work currently done by the Aberdeen reference laboratory.

Question reference: S1W-01858

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reference laboratories working group sought any clarification on statistical difficulties in the Aberdeen reference laboratory's annual report from the reference laboratory in Aberdeen between receipt of the report and the National Services Division of the Common Services Agency of the Scottish Health Service (NSD) statement to the director of reference services in Aberdeen on 1 September that "the standards of presentation of information in the annual report was such that the working group found it impossible to quantify the laboratory output in terms of the NSD contract".

Question reference: S1W-01863

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whose advice it will seek in assessing any tenders received for the E coli work currently done by the Aberdeen reference laboratory in relation to the experience of bidders and the capacity of any bids to cope with major outbreaks.

Question reference: S1W-01859

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive when concerns over quality in the E coli laboratory at Foresterhill were drawn to the attention of Grampian University Hospitals Trust.

Question reference: S1W-01857

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reference laboratories working group sought further information about the samples listed in the Aberdeen reference laboratory's annual report as falling outwith the eight day turnaround time from the reference laboratory in Aberdeen prior to reaching its decision that it did not accept the reasons given in the annual report as justification for E coli 157 response times exceeding targets.