- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have received pneumococcal immunisation since 12 July 2006 under the catch-up campaign referred to in a letter of that date from the Chief Medical Officer and whether there are any outstanding cases.
Answer
Information on immunisation is recorded on the Scottish ImmunisationRecall System (SIRS). Information Services Division (ISD), produce quarterly figuresfor Scotland on immunisation uptake using that information. ISD is still compilingthe information on immunisation uptake under the catch up campaign. This informationwill be published later in 2007.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what figures are available for the number of children who have not received pneumococcal immunisation since 12 July 2006 under the catch-up campaign referred to in a letter of that date from the Chief Medical Officer, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Information on immunisation is recorded on the Scottish ImmunisationRecall System (SIRS). Information Services Division (ISD), produce quarterly figuresfor Scotland on immunisation uptake using that information. ISD is still compilingthe information on immunisation uptake under the catch up campaign. This informationwill be published later in 2007.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review and evaluate the impact of Prevenar on pneumococcal immunisation and, if so, when it will do so.
Answer
Health Protection Scotland is monitoring the incidence of invasivepneumococcal disease in children and adults to detect any reductions in its occurrence.It will then evaluate the impact of the introduction of Prevenar into the routinechildhood immunisation schedule and the current catch-up campaign.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all petitions it has received since 1 January 2007 about the provision of dentistry or dental services, showing (a) the names of the petitioners and (b) the number of signatories.
Answer
No such petitions have been received since 1 January 2007.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive on what basis or data the level of provision of neonatal transport is decided.
Answer
This is a National Service whichis planned and provided on a regional basis. There is a national co-ordinator whooversees provision nationally and each region (North, South East and Tayside, andWest) has a regional director and regional co-ordinator. There is an accurate andcomprehensive date set on current and historical neonatal transfers.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many injuries or fatal road accidents have involved horses in the last five years, broken down by police constabulary.
Answer
Data about injury roadaccidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executiveusing the STATS 19 statistical report form. These returns cover only roadaccidents in which one or more people were injured and which become known to thepolice. The returns do not cover accidents which involved injury only tohorses, “damage only” accidents, or accidents of which the police are unawarebecause they were not reported by the public.
The STATS 19 returns collectinformation about the vehicles involved in each accident, using a code-listwhich has an entry for “ridden horse”. The returns do not have codes whichidentify horses which were involved in other ways, such as those pulling carts,being led, or running free. However, as the type of vehicle code for “othernon-motor vehicles” and the carriageway hazards code for “any animal incarriageway (except ridden horse)” are not used for many of the reportedaccidents, it seems likely that there are few such reported accidents whichinvolve horses.
The following table providesthe information that is available. The police forces are listed in the standardorder which is used in Road Accidents Scotland. Figures for 2006 shouldbecome available in June.
Reported Personal Injury or FatalRoad Accidents which Involved Ridden Horses.
| Police Force Area | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grampian | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tayside | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lothian and Borders | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Central | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Strathclyde | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency is interpreting and enforcing regulations in a proportionate manner.
Answer
The Scottish Environment ProtectionAgency takes individual regulatory decisions independently of the Executive. the Executive is, nevertheless, satisfied that the agency seeks to ensure that it actswithin the requirements of the legislation and its approach to regulation is fair,transparent and proportionate to the risk to the environment and human health.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 26 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give details of any changes to the rates of support for further and higher education students which will apply for the academic year 2007-08.
Answer
I am delighted to announce thenew rates of support for students in further and higher education for academic year2007-08. I am today placing in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib.number 41325) details of the rates of those loans, bursaries and grants, which willbe available to eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students in full-time highereducation.
Ageneral uprating factor of 2.33%, in line with inflation, will be applied to theexisting schemes of support in 2007-08, thus maintaining their value in realterms. This increase is consistent with that announced by the Secretary of Statefor Education and Skills in September 2006 for English and Welsh domiciled students.
The Scottish Funding Council(SFC) has also agreed to maintain the alignment between the further and higher educationsectors by, where appropriate, uprating the support available to further educationstudents by 2.33%.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether local authorities disregard the first £10 of a war pension when assessing income in the context of access to local services.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30979 on 23 January 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any statutory basis for disregarding war pensions or war gratuities or parts thereof when income is being assessed in the context of access to services provided by local authorities, provided either by the local authority alone or in partnership with other agencies.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30979 on 23 January 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
