- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 21 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what grant schemes are in place for the agriculture and fisheries sectors to promote its dietary targets for Scotland.
Answer
The Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation and European Fisheries Fund grant schemes are available to assist the agriculture and fishery sectors meet and contribute to overall Government policies, including those relating to health and nutrition, as set out in Recipe For Success, Scotland''s first Food and Drink Policy.
A number of other initiatives are being assisted that have health/diet elements. Examples include support to Seafood Scotland to promote the health benefits of eating seafood; grant assistance to the Royal Highland Education Trust for their Farm to Plate scheme and other projects; funding for the Childrens'' Orchard to plant apple trees in schools; and assistance to Eco-Schools to develop a food and environment theme for use in schools.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what change there has been in the shortfall between target consumption and production of (a) fresh fruit, (b) non-citrus fresh fruit and (c) vegetables since the publication of the report, A Scottish Diet, in 1993.
Answer
According to the Scottish Dietary Goals the target consumption is for an average intake to more than 400grams of fruit and vegetables per person per day. The 2009 Scottish Health Survey indicates a slight upward trend in personal fruit and vegetables consumption. It is not possible to compare the difference between national consumption and production with personal fruit and vegetables consumption.
The amount of fruit and vegetables produced in Scotland is shown in the following table.
Annual Production of Fruit and Vegetables (1993-2001)
| Tonnes | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
| Vegetable | | 171,122 | 176,780 | 207,088 | 198,088 | 196,766 | 199,653 | 235,928 | 256,436 |
| Potatoes | | | | | 587,893 | 496,617 | 407,697 | 442,897 | 429,229 |
| Fruit | 10,625 | 11,097 | 12,044 | 12,331 | 13,556 | 11,884 | 10,209 | 14,327 | 13,824 |
Annual Production of Fruit and Vegetables (2002- 2010)
| Tonnes | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 20091 | 2010 |
| Vegetable | 227,181 | 245,419 | 256,047 | 248,824 | 292,042 | 284,239 | 285,753 | 365,149 | 358,761 |
| Potatoes | 580,472 | 637,088 | 533,362 | 621,676 | 591,117 | 766,073 | 748,490 | 677,629 | 764,810 |
| Fruit | 11,733 | 15,798 | 16,135 | 22,312 | 20,374 | 24,224 | 26,315 | 26,982 | 26,204 |
Note: 1. From 2009 onwards data on land use (on which these data depend) has been obtained from the Single Application Form (SAF) for holdings claiming Single Farm Payments. Caution should be used when comparing this data with earlier years.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients are attending the National Services Division-sponsored clinic in Glasgow.
Answer
The National Services Division-sponsored clinic in Scotland managing patients with a diagnosis of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is at Monklands Hospital in Airdrie. Over the last 12 months the Monklands clinic has seen 21 different PNH patients in the clinic.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations were held with the (a) board and (b) management of Waterwatch Scotland regarding the proposed consumer forum to replace its function of consulting consumers.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not proposed a consumer forum to replace Waterwatch Scotland''s representative function.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the functions are of Waterwatch Scotland and what organisations will handle them when Waterwatch is closed.
Answer
Waterwatch Scotland is the operating name of the Water Customer Consultation Panels and the convener of those panels. The functions are set out in the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 and can be summarised as representing the views and interest of water customers and investigating any complaint from those customers. The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, on commencement of the relevant sections, dissolves Waterwatch and transfers the representative and complaints-handling functions to the National Consumer Council (whose operating name is Consumer Focus) and the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman respectively.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many accident and emergency units it expects will have consultant doctors available for 24 hours per day by 2015.
Answer
NHS Scotland boards take the decisions on how to staff their accident and emergency units. Consultant support is directly available 24 hours per day, although not necessarily on site. We are aware that several boards are considering the cost-effectiveness of having consultants resident on site 24 hours per day but no decisions have yet been made.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the revised targets are for (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12 for starting hepatitis C treatment.
Answer
Under the Hepatitis C Phase 2 Action Plan, the revised target for 2010-11 is to have 1,000 new initiations of people onto antiviral treatment. We expect NHS boards to exceed this number of treatment initiations this year.
No target has yet been set for treatment initiations in 2011-12.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the budgeted costs are for the functions of Waterwatch Scotland to be dispersed to (a) the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, (b) Consumer Focus Scotland, (c) the proposed new consumer forum and for other functions or duties not yet allocated.
Answer
The budgeted costs for Waterwatch Scotland''s representative and complaints-handling functions that transfer to the National Consumer Council (whose operating name is Consumer Focus) and the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman respectively under the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 were set out in the supplementary Financial Memorandum (at paragraphs 6 to 28) for that act, which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/bills/26-PubSerRef/index.htm.
The Scottish Government has not proposed a consumer forum to replace any of Waterwatch Scotland''s functions I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40409 on 16 March 2011 which sets out the statutory position with regards to the functions of Waterwatch Scotland.
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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how the independence of collating consumer advice will be ensured if the bodies requested to create the alternative body to Waterwatch Scotland are Scottish Water, the Water Industry Commissioner for Scotland and Consumer Focus Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not requested Scottish Water, the Water Industry Commissioner for Scotland and Consumer Focus Scotland to create an alternative body to Waterwatch Scotland. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40409 on 16 March 2011 which sets out the statutory position with regards to the functions of Waterwatch Scotland.
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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-38040, S3W-38041, S3W-38607 and S3W-39444 by Keith Brown on 15 and 16 December 2010, 3 February and 3 March 2011 respectively, at what point the part of the iterative process for defining the timeline of the transport plan for the 2014 Ryder Cup that will involve infrastructure work at either Gleneagles or Blackford stations and associated roadworks will be (a) available for public comment, (b) concluded and (c) published.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers to questions S3W-38041 and S3W-39444 answered on 16 December 2010 and 3 March 2011 respectively. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
