- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 February 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to encourage trade between Japan and Scotland.
Answer
Scottish Development International (and predecessor organisations) have maintained an office in Japan since the 1980’s. SDI currently fields a staff of four officials, who are active in assisting Scottish companies seeking to establish and develop commercial opportunities and partnerships in Japan; seeking out potential inward investors to Scotland, developing their knowledge of opportunities for trade and partnership with Scottish companies; disseminating information on Scottish industry’s strengths, and assisting the developmentof the globalscot network in Japan.
SDI Japan assist Scottish companies (individually or as part of trade missions) by identifying potential partner/customer companies, arranging meetings and when requested attending meetings in support of company officials. Recent activities have supported Scottish companies from a range of sectors, including textiles, food and drink, energy, computer software, educational provision and aerospace.
I visited Japan in October 2003 and saw at first hand the valuable work being undertaken by SDI there.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients infected with hepatitis C are on waiting lists to be treated with antiviral agents and what the average waiting time is for such treatment is, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
I refer to the question S2W-13558 answered on 31 January 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients infected with hepatitis C have been treated with antiviral agents to date.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The Scottish Executive has funded the establishment of a database, which will hold information on all hepatitis C virus infected persons in clinical care throughout Scotland. It is anticipated that this database will be functioning by late 2005. The database will hold information on numbers of persons in clinical care, eligible for antiviral therapy and being administered antiviral therapy, and on waiting times for antiviral therapy.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many centres are treating patients infected with hepatitis C using antiviral agents.
Answer
I refer to the question S2W-13558 answered on 31 January 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to identify how many prison inmates are infected with hepatitis C and how many inmates are infected in each prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
An anonymous study was carried out by the Scottish Centre for the Infection of Environmental Health (SCIEH) at HM Prison, Shotts in 2001 which indicated a prevalence of 20% of the population being infected with hepatitis C.
The SPS expects these figures broadly represent the prison population. Figures in individual establishments are not known.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions in each local authority area pupils have been sent home from school because of a shortage of teachers in (a) 2002, (b) 2003, (c) 2004 and (d) 2005.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 26 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Deputy Minister for Education and Young People has met Aberdeen City Council to discuss its children's services budget and, if so, what the outcome was.
Answer
No. However, my colleague Tavish Scott, Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business met with them on 1 October 2004. I have also had subsequent correspondence with them and suggested that they explore their concerns about the grant distribution formula with COSLA as any changes to that formula would impact on other authorities.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 26 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the value was of sportscotland awards made in (a) 2000, (b) 2001, (c) 2002, (d) 2003 and (e) 2004, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-13385 on 26 January 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 26 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for sportscotland awards were received in (a) 2000, (b) 2001, (c) 2002, (d) 2003 and (e) 2004, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 26 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sportscotland awards were made in (a) 2000, (b) 2001, (c) 2002, (c) 2003 and (d) 2004, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The nature of a number of programmes operated by
sportscotland means that it is not possible to identify which local authority area has benefited from a particular award. Those awards readily attributable to a particular local authority area are set out in the following table and cover the Sports Facilities programme, Awards for All, Major Events programme, TOP programme, School Sports Co-ordinator programme, social inclusion partnership programme and Talented Athlete programme although information on this programme is not included in year 2003-04 as Governing Bodies now submit group applications for athletes. Information is given by financial year.
| Local Authority | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| No | Value | No | Value | No | Value | No | Value |
| Aberdeen City | 15 | 215,105 | 19 | 183,540 | 22 | 319,815 | 9 | 1,309,696 |
| Aberdeenshire | 27 | 250,961 | 33 | 415,409 | 28 | 384,257 | 18 | 241,827 |
| Angus | 16 | 423,474 | 12 | 58,075 | 15 | 94,324 | 7 | 156,456 |
| Argyll and Bute | 22 | 563,743 | 28 | 260,595 | 35 | 440,787 | 9 | 735,508 |
| City Of Edinburgh | 86 | 578,734 | 100 | 936,132 | 116 | 2,898,187 | 26 | 730,031 |
| Clackmannanshire | 5 | 510,695 | 7 | 52,131 | 4 | 44,501 | 5 | 105,053 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 20 | 745,283 | 36 | 521,379 | 33 | 670,856 | 16 | 608,902 |
| Dundee City | 21 | 122,525 | 24 | 110,009 | 22 | 475,286 | 6 | 92,855 |
| East Ayrshire | 22 | 151,919 | 30 | 1,313,128 | 19 | 484,178 | 8 | 106,600 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 17 | 608,919 | 16 | 71,345 | 18 | 394,191 | 6 | 187,428 |
| East Lothian | 16 | 79,740 | 21 | 388,333 | 18 | 100,992 | 11 | 83,992 |
| East Renfrewshire | 8 | 536,484 | 10 | 243,641 | 16 | 572,182 | 3 | 53,007 |
| Eilean Siar | 8 | 641,086 | 5 | 18,785 | 11 | 1,548,688 | 5 | 73,405 |
| Falkirk | 6 | 21,849 | 15 | 1,194,016 | 19 | 260,784 | 4 | 111,012 |
| Fife | 51 | 1,477,887 | 60 | 1,079,832 | 55 | 657,211 | 16 | 326,429 |
| Glasgow City | 50 | 536,374 | 62 | 7,011,050 | 60 | 979,220 | 43 | 1,866,534 |
| Highland | 40 | 2,003,645 | 50 | 2,103,542 | 41 | 1,198,393 | 23 | 751,463 |
| Inverclyde | 12 | 101,653 | 12 | 65,085 | 15 | 768,582 | 9 | 40,119 |
| Midlothian | 9 | 141,635 | 21 | 1,270,731 | 18 | 128,690 | 5 | 771,730 |
| Moray | 8 | 26,635 | 17 | 134,583 | 10 | 91,332 | 6 | 26,186 |
| North Ayrshire | 16 | 62,371 | 39 | 775,704 | 22 | 106,951 | 13 | 510,794 |
| North Lanarkshire | 57 | 198,437 | 49 | 688,244 | 46 | 667,542 | 33 | 1,765,149 |
| Orkney Isles | 7 | 157,166 | 11 | 171,545 | 6 | 23,840 | 4 | 15,204 |
| Perth & Kinross | 21 | 93,733 | 25 | 964,603 | 30 | 237, 744 | 7 | 96,629 |
| Renfrewshire | 22 | 265,248 | 23 | 1,156,665 | 25 | 278,510 | 13 | 133,432 |
| Scottish Borders | 20 | 273,032 | 30 | 225,665 | 21 | 507,287 | 25 | 289,391 |
| Shetland Isles | 3 | 279,680 | 3 | 11,662 | 1 | 28,603 | 8 | 506,046 |
| South Ayrshire | 17 | 67,053 | 22 | 907,536 | 21 | 193,426 | 6 | 400,615 |
| South Lanarkshire | 51 | 615,782 | 51 | 375,739 | 55 | 1,489,770 | 19 | 244,007 |
| Stirling | 25 | 217,159 | 17 | 324,920 | 19 | 90,698 | 4 | 20,617 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 18 | 338,295 | 7 | 23,839 | 14 | 265,113 | 7 | 353,257 |
| West Lothian | 23 | 1,185,102 | 32 | 674,083 | 27 | 317,154 | 5 | 112,547 |
| Totals | 739 | 13,491,403 | 887 | 23,731,543 | 862 | 16,719,091 | 379 | 12,825,921 |
