- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether patients in Scotland suitable for transcatheter aortic valve implantation have been referred to centres in England to undergo the procedure.
Answer
Yes. NHS boards in Scotland, through individual patient treatment requests panels, have referred patients with severe aortic stenosis to centres in England for transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been referred to centres in England to undergo a transcatheter aortic valve implantation, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not available centrally in the format requested.
The UK Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Registry shows that, in 2009, 12 people were referred by NHS boards to a centre in England for transcatheter aortic valve implantation TAVI.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to supporting speed awareness courses in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Government has given a commitment in the Road Safety Framework to consider if the introduction of a speed awareness course would be an appropriate contribution to road safety in Scotland. This is a medium term commitment with a timescale of between two and five years from the publication of the framework which was in June 2009.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scots have been offered places on speed awareness courses in England after being caught speeding in England and unable to attend such a course in Scotland in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many speeding offenders have been detected at speeds that fall within the parameters of eligibility for the Speed Awareness Course in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason Scotland is the only part of the United Kingdom that does not offer drivers speed awareness courses as an alternative to prosecution for low-end speeding offences.
Answer
The Scottish Government has given a commitment in its Road Safety Framework to consider if speed awareness courses would be an appropriate contribution to road safety in Scotland. As part of this process it will consider research which has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of such courses. Notwithstanding this, the decision on whether a speed awareness course would be an appropriate means of case disposal would lie with the Lord Advocate.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an itemised breakdown of how its Marketing Unit budget has been spent in each of the last five years.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-38966 on 3 February 2011. 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.
An itemised breakdown of the Marketing Unit budget by topic is shown in the following table.
List of Campaign details
| Campaigns 2009-10 | Campaigns 2008-09 |
| Active Nation Scottish Cup | Ageism |
| Additional Support for Learners | Alcohol |
| Ageism | Care Information Scotland |
| Alcohol | Cashback |
| Big Freeze | Children''s Hearings |
| Breast Feeding | Climate Change Adaption |
| Care Info Scotland | Climate Challenge Fund |
| Cashback | Community Safety Policy |
| Child Internet Safety | Curriculum for Excellence |
| Children''s Hearings | Diffuse Water Pollution |
| Climate Challenge Fund | Domestic Abuse |
| Climate Change | Drugs |
| Community Safety | Early Years Strategy |
| Curriculum for Excellence | Fire (Domestic and Setting) |
| Domestic Abuse | Firearms |
| Drugs | Flu |
| Early Years (Play, Talk and Read) | Greener |
| Firearms | Hand Hygiene |
| Fire Domestic/Setting | Healthy Living |
| Greener | Hepatitis C |
| Hand Hygiene | Homecoming Scottish Cup |
| Hepatitis C | Home Report |
| Home Report | Mutual NHS |
| JP Recruitment | National Care Standards |
| National Care Standards | Organ Donation |
| Omnibus Survey (New Year Behaviours) | Prescription Charges |
| Organ Donation | Protection Vulnerable Groups |
| Prescription Charges | Race |
| Protection of Vulnerable Groups | Road Safety |
| Race | Science (Choose Life) |
| Road Safety | Sex Offenders |
| Science | Sexual Health |
| Sexual Health | Stakeholder Audit |
| Take Life On | Take Life On |
| Wellbeing | Teacher Recruitment |
| World Skills | Wellbeing |
| Zero Waste | World Skills |
| | Youth Health Project |
| | Zero Waste |
| Campaigns 2007-08 | Campaigns 2006-07 | Campaigns 2005-06 |
| Additional Support for Learning | Air Discount Scheme | Alcohol |
| Ageism | Alcohol | Antisocial behaviour (standing up to) |
| Alcohol | Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) | Career opportunites within NHSScotland for the 25+ |
| Better Health Better Care | Career Opportunities within NHS | Children''s Hearings |
| Broadband | Children''s Hearing | Domestic Abuse |
| Career Opportunities | Choices for Life | Drug Misuse - Know the Score |
| Cash Back | Domestic Abuse | Environment |
| Child Protection Line | Drugs misuse | Fire Safety Domestic (Don''t Give Fire a Home) |
| Children''s Hearing''s | Fire Safety (Domestic) | Flu/pneumococcal (integrated) |
| Domestic Abuse | Fire Safety (Legislation) | Healthy Living |
| Drugs | Flu | Mental Health |
| Fire | Hepatitis C | Organ Donation |
| Flu / pnuemococcal | Healthy Living | Race: One Scotland Many Cultures |
| Greener | Lay Justice Appointments | Smoking |
| Healthy Living | Mental Health | Road Safety |
| Hepatitis C | Older Persons Consultation | Teacher Recruitment |
| Knife Crime | Organ Donation | Violence against Public Sector Workers |
| Licensing Act (2005) | Race | Volunteering |
| National Care Standards | Road Safety | |
| Organ Donation | Salmon Parasite | |
| Older Persons Help Line | Single Transferable Vote | |
| Prescription Charges | Smoking | |
| Race | Social Care | |
| Road Safety | Sustainable Development (environment) | |
| Scottish Science Strengths | Teacher Recruitment | |
| Street Prostitution | Violence Against Public Sector Workers | |
| Teacher Recruitment | Volunteering | |
| Violence | | |
| Vote Scotland | | |
| Well Being (previously Mental Health) | | |
| World Skills Competition Funding | | |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an itemised breakdown of what it has spent on marketing in each of the last five years and of planned spending before the dissolution of the Parliament in March 2011.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39418 on 22 February 2011. 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: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it spent on marketing between April 2010 and 1 February 2011 and how much it plans to spend before the dissolution of the Parliament in March 2011.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39418 on 22 February 2011. 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: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the 2010-11 budget for its Marketing Unit had been spent by 1 February 2011 and how much is budgeted to be spent in the coming months.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39418 on 22 February 2011. 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.
