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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)
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Question reference: S4O-02314

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its strategy for measuring wellbeing, in light of the publication of Shifting the Dial in Scotland, by the Carnegie UK Trust.

Question reference: S4O-02134

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what impact the Save the Children report, State of the World’s Mothers, 2013, will have on its early years strategy.

Question reference: S4O-02037

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the Electoral Commission regarding campaign funding and donations in relation to the independence referendum.

Question reference: S4O-01910

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the European Union regarding the labelling of products since the discovery of horsemeat in other meat products.

Question reference: S4O-01876

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 6 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many years are included in local authority financial planning.

The number of years included in local authority financial planning is a matter for individual councils, but the Scottish Government would encourage all public bodies to engage in long term financial planning as part of the management of their business.

The Scottish Government aims to provide local authorities with three year funding allocations in order to give them certainty in longer term financial planning. However, this is dependent on the Scottish Government receiving three year funding allocations from the UK Government.

Question reference: S4W-12797

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many consultants specialising in geriatrics were employed by the NHS in September (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008, (d) 2009, (e) 2010, (f) 2011 and (g) 2012 and what the annual change was, expressed as a percentage.

The information requested on how many consultants specialising in geriatrics were employed by the NHS as at 30 September for each of the last seven years can be found in the following tables.

Table 1 shows the total headcount of consultants specialising in geriatrics and the percentage change each year.

Geriatrics	Headcount	% change from the previous year
Sep-06	128	x
Sep-07	137	7.0%
Sep-08	144	5.1%
Sep-09	149	3.5%
Sep-10	155	4.0%
Sep-11	157	1.3%
Sep-12	159	1.3%

Source: ISD Scotland.

Table 2 shows the total whole time equivalent (WTE) of consultants specialising in geriatrics and the percentage change each year.

Geriatrics	WTE	% change from the previous year
Sep-06	118.9	x
Sep-07	126.7	6.6%
Sep-08	133.6	5.4%
Sep-09	137.4	2.9%
Sep-10	140.5	2.3%
Sep-11	141.5	0.7%
Sep-12	144.6	2.2%

Source: ISD Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-01832

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 February 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made by the Early Years Collaborative.

Question reference: S4O-01792

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 February 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government about devolving consumer-related powers in light of the UK Government’s plans to abolish Consumer Focus.

Question reference: S4O-01690

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government who is involved in helping widen access to colleges for disabled people.

Question reference: S4W-11377

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 3 December 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the implementation of the Canadian guidelines on the clinical, symptomatic definition of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), as recommended in the Scottish Public Health Network report, Health Care Needs Assessment of Services for people living with ME-CFS.

Since the needs assessment was published, a synthesis of the best available evidence, including evidence drawn from people’s experience, to assist with the differential diagnosis and clinical management in primary care of adults with ME-CFS has been presented in the Scottish Good Practice Statement on ME-CFS, our key document on the management of ME-CFS in primary care.

The Good Practice Statement sets out Scottish Government’s position on diagnostic criteria for ME-CFS. The statement recognises that a number of definitions have been proposed for ME-CFS, including the Oxford (1991), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC – Fukuda 1994) the Canadian Consensus Document (2003) and NICE Guideline (2007) and as yet, no one set has been universally agreed.