- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 14 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in the last year to improve patient access to insulin pumps and whether up-to-date figures are available on the numbers of patients using such pumps.
Answer
NHS boards are expected to implementthe NICE guidance on the use of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (NICE TechnologyAppraisal Guidance No.57). The Diabetes Action Plan (June 2006) included a commitmentto publish figures on the extent of insulin pump usage in Scotland and placed arequirement on each NHS Board’s Diabetes Managed Clinical Networks to produce an“insulin strategy” for their area.
The following table, which hasbeen compiled from information supplied by the Diabetes Managed Clinical Networks,sets out the number of people with diabetes using an insulin pump in February 2007in each NHS board area. An earliersurvey undertaken in June 2006 reported a total of 160 people in Scotland usinga pump.
| NHS Board | No. of People with Diabetes using an Insulin Pump |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 2 |
| Borders | 5 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3 |
| Fife | 22 |
| Forth Valley | 10 |
| Grampian | 19 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 24 |
| Highland | 6 |
| Lanarkshire | 7 |
| Lothian | 58 |
| Orkney | 0 |
| Shetland | 0 |
| Tayside | 42 |
| Western Isles | 1 |
| Scotland | 199 |
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 14 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has of the number of undiagnosed people with diabetes, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Figures for estimated numbersof people with undiagnosed diabetes are published on the Scottish Public HealthObservatory website. The estimated number of people with undiagnosed diabetes, byNHS board, is given in the following table.
| NHS Board | Undiagnosed Persons |
| Argyll and Clyde* | 8,343 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 4,274 |
| Borders | 1,618 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 2,191 |
| Fife | 2,742 |
| Forth Valley | 1,985 |
| Grampian | 7,722 |
| Greater Glasgow | 5,712 |
| Highland | 5,007 |
| Lanarkshire | 3,999 |
| Lothian | 7,760 |
| Orkney | 237 |
| Shetland | 234 |
| Tayside | 4,745 |
| Western Isles | 481 |
| Scotland | 60,629 |
Note: *Argyll and Clyde data arefor 2004, as figures for 2005 were low because of IT problems.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 14 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has of the number of people with (a) type 1 and (b) type 2 diabetes, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
| NHS Board | Type 1 | Type 2 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 2,251 | 13,212 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 2,251 | 12,470 |
| Borders | 565 | 3,825 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 916 | 5,380 |
| Fife | 1,782 | 12,563 |
| Forth Valley | 1,460 | 10,114 |
| Grampian | 2,648 | 14,735 |
| Greater Glasgow | 4,011 | 29,458 |
| Highland | 1,136 | 6,703 |
| Lanarkshire | 3,396 | 18,817 |
| Lothian | 3,913 | 23,633 |
| Orkney | 129 | 679 |
| Shetland | 102 | 713 |
| Tayside | 1,570 | 13,792 |
| Western Isles | 164 | 832 |
| Scotland | 26,294 | 166,926 |
The table shows provisional datataken from the Scottish Diabetes Survey 2006. From next year, data for the ScottishDiabetes Survey will be presented in line with the current NHS board structure.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 13 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent action has been taken to meet the aims of the EU Water Framework Directive.
Answer
Our annual report describingthe progress made during 2006 on implementing the EU Water Framework Directive,as transposed into Scots Law, was laid before the Scottish Parliament in March thisyear. A copy is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib.number 42653).
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what actions under the new Scottish Rural Development Plan are aimed at meeting the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Answer
Tackling climate change is one of the key priorities of the new Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007-13. The new programme contains significant support to encourage renewable energy projects to assist in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the programme contains a number of forestry measures that will, amongst other things enhance the role of carbon sinks.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what timescale is envisaged for a decision to be reached on the voluntary modulation rate.
Answer
I announced the rates of voluntarymodulation rates for the period 2007-12 in Parliament on 31 May.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many representations it has received over the last 12 months on the environmental requirements of the Scottish Rural Development Plan.
Answer
I know that there have been manyrepresentations to the Scottish Government on the environmental requirements tobe included in the new Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007-13 (SRDP). That wasevidenced by the responses to the consultations that were held last year on thestrategic plan and the SRDP.
The consultation on the SRDPreceived 259 responses. Of these responses, 50 (19%) were identified as representativeorganisations, including from environmental bodies. The consultation on thestrategic plan produced 107 responses with nine from representative organisations.An analysis of these responses is available on the Scottish Executive website andcopies of the responses are available on request from the Scottish Executive Library.
Both the Minister for the Environmentand I are keen to engage with key stakeholders and met with the SRDP StakeholderGroup on 21 May to hear at first hand members’ views on a range of issues that willaffect the new programme. Since then Michael Russell, Minister for the Environment,has met with Environment Link and we fully intend to keep up this level of dialoguewith our stakeholders.
The draft SRDP prepared underthe previous administration was drawn up in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders,including environmental interests, in a series of technical working groups, consultativemeetings and through on-going dialogue. As you know, we propose to implement thatprogramme as drafted, with the addition of a new measure to help new entrants tofarming.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports it has considered or commissioned on accident rates on the A9 and how these compare with rates on other trunk roads; what plans are in place to upgrade the A9, and what the timescale is for such improvements.
Answer
Transport Scotland withits Operating Companies BEAR Scotland and Scotland TranSERV reviewed the accident rates ofall sections of the A9. These figures were compared with both the average Scottishtrunk road accident rates and those of other individual trunk road routes. A comparisontable is provided below.
A9 AccidentRate Comparison with Scottish Trunk Road Averages
FiguresQuoted are Accidents Per 100 Million Vehicle Kilometres
| Accident Period 2004-06 | A9 Trunk Road (Dunblane to Scrabster) | Dunblane to Perth (Keir Roundabout to Inveralmond Roundabout) | Perth to Inverness (Inveralmond Roundabout to Longman Roundabout) | Inverness to Scrabster (Longman Roundabout to Scrabster Junction) |
| Combined Accident Rate | 11.08 | 9.68 | 8.51 | 17.65 |
| Dual Carriageway Accident Rate | A9 | 8.32 | 9.68 | 7.25 | 9.05 |
| Scottish Trunk Road Average | 9.4 |
| Single Carriageway Accident Rate | A9 | 13.85 | Not Applicable | 9.09 | 19.99 |
| Scottish Trunk Road Average | 20.6 |
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-228 on 11 June 2007. All answers towritten parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.Our aim is to deliver currentlyplanned projects during the period to 2012.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of land required for the dualling of the A9 is currently owned by the roads authority.
Answer
The extent of land requiredfor dualling of the A9, and the percentage of that already in our ownership canonly be established when detailed design work is undertaken.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 6 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans are in place to promote and develop the voluntary sector.
Answer
We recognise that volunteers,voluntary organisations and social enterprises have a major contribution to makeacross our five strategic objectives and we will work closely with the sector toenhance the lives of individuals and communities across Scotland.
