- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will reassure itself of the accuracy of information from the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service on the infection of haemophiliacs, given the statement by the UK Government in respect of the destruction of documents.
Answer
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has confirmed that all relevant documents were held in Scotland and is not aware of any lost documents. If any Scottish documents held by the Department of Health in London were subsequently destroyed, it would only have been their copies which were destroyed
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received the open letter to the First Minister signed by 25 experts from the medical, psychology, psychiatry, autism, education, social work and associated fields expressing their concern at the proposed Murtle route of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route through Camphill and, in light of the national and international standing of the signatories of this letter, whether the Minister for Transport and Telecommunications will invite them to expand on their concerns for the well-being of the 200 children and adults with special needs who live in the Camphill communities immediately affected.
Answer
The letter was received on 24 October and I will reply to it shortly.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19342 by Tavish Scott on 19 September 2005, what specific information gained “through canvassing opinions and interviewing officials in local authorities who refer children to Camphill Rudolph Steiner Schools and on their policy towards Newton Dee” was referred to in the answer and whether a breakdown of this information is publicly available.
Answer
This information will be contained in reports which will be published when I make the decision on the preferred route for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from pharmaceutical companies in relation to purchasing, procuring and tendering for anti-viral drugs and flu vaccines.
Answer
In pandemic flu planning, Department of Health are the lead UK Department on the purchasing, procuring and tendering for anti-viral drugs and flu vaccines.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19342 by Tavish Scott on 19 September 2005, what specific information from the Camphill Medical Director and staff in written and oral reports was referred to in the answer and whether a breakdown of this information is publicly available.
Answer
This information will be contained in reports which will be published when I make the decision on the preferred route for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on whether the contracts being tendered with pharmaceutical companies for vaccinations against H5N1 will commence before or after the identification of a flu virus strain likely to lead to a pandemic.
Answer
The vaccines being developed are against the H5N1 avian flu virus which has already been identified as is currently circulating in South East Asia.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on whether the tendering process for pandemic flu vaccines is being conducted on the basis of being concluded before any pandemic flu virus strain has been identified.
Answer
The tendering process to procure the capacity to manufacture vaccines has already begun and will be completed as quickly as possible. Because a pandemic flu virus will be different from other recent virus strains, a new vaccine will need to be developed. Until the pandemic strain is identified it will not be possible to produce a vaccine. This may take a minimum of four to six months.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwife-led maternity units there are and how many there have been in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultant-led maternity units are the subject of consultation for closure or conversion to non-consultant-led services.
Answer
This is a matter for individual NHS boards. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 14 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultant-led maternity units there are and how many there have been in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
