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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: S4W-17732

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 4 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many fire service training courses have been cancelled at each training site as a result of inclement weather in the last five years.

Question reference: S4W-17729

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 4 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service will receive the proceeds of the proposed sale of the Scottish Fire Service College at Gullane.

Question reference: S4W-17730

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 4 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Board considered the cost of delivering training at each of its training sites before proposing the rationalisation of its training facilities.

Question reference: S4W-17726

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government where fire service training will be delivered for the east of Scotland if the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service closes its facilities at Gullane, Thornton and Maddiston.

Question reference: S4W-17727

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Board has given to the provision of residential accommodation at fire service training facilities following closure of the Scottish Fire Service College at Gullane and what assessment it has made of the potential cost.

Question reference: S4W-17728

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Board has given to the provision of residential accommodation and catering facilities at its proposed new national training centre in Cambuslang and what assessment it has made of the potential cost.

Question reference: S4O-02527

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the costs and processes involved in renationalising the Royal Mail in an independent Scotland and with whom it has consulted.

Question reference: S4O-02501

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service regarding proposals to close the Fire Service College at Gullane.

Question reference: S4W-17391

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have received deep brain stimulation surgery in (a) Dundee, (b) Edinburgh and (c) Glasgow in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S4W-17385

Asked by: Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how NHS Lothian provides follow-up support to people who have received deep brain stimulation surgery.

The Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) service in NHS Lothian is currently in transition following the retirement of the neurosurgeon DBS Specialist.

NHS Lothian are planning to support those patients, who have previously received DBS surgery, with follow up neurosurgical specialist support in NHS Tayside. In addition there is ongoing clinical support provided locally through the board’s network of Clinical Nurse Specialists.

The Managed Service Network for Neurosurgery is aware of the current transitional arrangements in place in NHS Lothian and is working with services to explore future arrangement for DBS services across Scotland.