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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: S3W-40369

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the number needed to treat (NNT) value for treatment with eculizumab is one.

Question reference: S3W-40414

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what reduction in complaints about Scottish Water and other water companies there has been in each year since the establishment of Waterwatch Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-40370

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the patients who contracted Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital were assessed for discharge and recorded on the delayed discharge database before they were diagnosed with the infection.

Question reference: S3W-40366

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the prevalence is of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria.

Question reference: S3W-40417

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs were created in Clackmannanshire by the establishment of Waterwatch Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-40415

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of satisfaction of consumers consulting Waterwatch Scotland has been in each year since it was established.

Question reference: S3W-40412

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of Waterwatch Scotland as audited was in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10 and what the estimated costs are for 2010-11.

Question reference: S3W-40368

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether eculizumab is part of the national medication reinsurance scheme in Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-40248

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of NHS board decisions on the funding of orphan and ultra-orphan medicines not recommended by the Scottish Medicines Consortium.

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) operates independently from the Scottish Government and NHS boards are expected to follow SMC advice.

Decisions regarding the provision of NHS services are a matter for NHS boards. Where a medicine has not been recommended for use within the NHS in Scotland by the SMC, NHS boards are not expected to make it routinely available.

However, NHS boards have arrangements for clinically-led consideration of SMC not recommended medicines, including orphan medicines, for individual patients. Clinicians are responsible for clinical decisions regarding the care of individual patients.

Recent figures provided by NHS boards following freedom of information requests indicate that overall, the majority of individual patient treatment requests are approved.

Question reference: S3W-40091

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2011
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.