- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many carers aged 18 or over have received an assessment of their ability to care, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to S2W-11758, on 9 November 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4826 by Mr Tom McCabe on 8 January 2004, how many of the young carers have received an assessment of their ability to care, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
From January 2005 local authorities are being requested for the first time to report on the number of carers’ assessments being carried out annually. This will include the number carried out for young carers.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 8 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the age-standardised death rate was per 100,000 head of population for homicide and intentional injury for people (a) aged 0 to 64, (b) aged 65 or over and (c) of all ages in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.
Answer
The information requested is available in the annual statistical bulletin on homicide a copy of which is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 30081).
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to support the initiative to reduce salt intake.
Answer
We are actively working in partnership with the Food Standards Agency to reduce salt intake. Scotland has a dietary target for salt that aims to reduce salt intake by more than a third by 2005.
Nutritional standards for school meals set salt levels in line with advice from the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition. Guidelines have been produced for the improvement of nutritional standards in schools, hospitals and catering establishments which encourage the adoption of healthier practices into all aspects of catering, including reductions in salt.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the haemophilius influenza type B invasive disease incidence was per 100,000 head of population in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-10305 answered on 22 September 2004. All answers to written PQs are available on the Parliament’s website,the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total number of cigarettes consumed was in million pieces per year in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-10305 answered on 22 September 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9953 by Ms Margaret Curran on 8 September 2004, what plans it has to inform patients diagnosed with terminal cancer of their entitlement to benefits and other financial support.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-9760 answered on 16 August 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2M-10305 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 September 2004, when the work was commissioned to publish the Scottish figures contained in the United Kingdom’s return for the World Health Organization’s European health for all database; which of the figures listed in the database will be published, and when and where these figures will be published.
Answer
The Scottish Executive commissioned the work to identify and publish the Scottish information contained within the WHO European Health for All Database in September 2004. The information on which figures will be produced, where and when they will be published, will not be available until the first stage of this work is completed. I expect this first stage of the work to be completed by the middle of October 2004, and I shall write to Mr Maxwell as soon as possible thereafter to inform him of the implications for the availability of Scottish information from the WHO European Health for All database. A copy of my letter will be placed in the Parliaments’ Reference Centre in due course.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the number of deaths due to work-related accidents was per 100,000 head of population in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.
Answer
I refer the member to question S2W-10305 answered on 22 September 2004. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the number of deaths due to work-related accidents was in each year since 1999, calculated on the same basis as the World Health Organization’s European health for all database.
Answer
I refer the member to question S2W-10305 answered on 22 September 2004. 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/webapp/search_wa.
