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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: S2W-09593

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a register of interests of the members of the Edinburgh Independent Ethics Committee for Medical Research is available and, if not, whether it will be made available.

Question reference: S2W-09587

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories give their informed consent for the trials and whether issues of commercial confidentiality prevent disclosure of information to such volunteers and affect their ability to give informed consent.

Question reference: S2W-09588

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what regulation there is of healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories.

Question reference: S2W-09584

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether issues of commercial confidentiality prevent the disclosure to healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories of full information regarding their treatment.

Question reference: S2W-09590

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what information is publicly available about the ethical oversight of healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories.

Question reference: S2W-09585

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether issues of commercial confidentiality prevent ethical oversight and regulation of healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories.

Question reference: S2W-09599

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether consideration of applications to carry out human clinical trials on healthy volunteers at Inveresk research laboratories should be considered by an ethical committee other than the Edinburgh Independent Ethics Committee for Medical Research.

Question reference: S2W-09591

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what information is publicly available about the regulation of healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories.

Question reference: S2W-09586

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories receive full information regarding their treatment.

Question reference: S2W-09308

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 21 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to make commencement orders in respect of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 and which sections will come into force first.