- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions there were due to heart disease in each year since 2003, broken down into admissions due to (a) atherosclerosis, (b) angina, (c) myocardial infarction, (d) heart failure and (e) arrhythmia, in each NHS board.
Answer
The table, which isavailable in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43591) showsnumbers of discharges with primary diagnoses of: heart disease, angina, myocardialinfarction, heart failure or arrhythmia by NHS board of residence for the yearsended 31 March 2003 to 31 March 2006.
Atherosclerosis cannotbe show explicitly because it is often the underlying cause of the above conditions,as well as the cause of other conditions such as peripheral vascular disease andthrombotic strokes, and it may not be mentioned specifically in hospital dischargesummaries. Variation in recording of atherosclerosis may result in a misleadingindication of the numbers of such hospitalisations.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost to the NHS of coronary heart disease has been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
These data arenot held centrally.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected trend is for coronary heart disease for (a) the total population and (b) people over 65 for each year up to 2025, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
These data are notheld centrally but information on mortality trends for the under-75s can be accessedat
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/oct06_MC2.xls.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce any further measures to the curriculum to address anti-English racism.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to tackling racism inall its forms and whoever it is directed at. Schools are, of course, at the veryheart of preparing young people to live and play a valuable part in an inclusive,multi-cultural society. A lot of valuable work is already being done in schoolsaround issues of racism and it would be open to schools to include this aspect ofracism in their teaching.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what provisions there are in the curriculum to address anti-English racism.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S2W-3345 on 5 September 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-429 by Kenny MacAskill on 12 June 2007, whether it will reduce the fee associated with lodging small claims, raise the threshold and publish its overall plans for reforming small claims procedure.
Answer
I expect Lord Gill’sReview of the civil court system, in which he is looking at court structures andjurisdictions to consider the issues raised. The Gill Review was set up in February2007 and is planning to report by May 2009.
As I have said previously,I am considering the issue of jurisdiction limits (including that relating to smallclaims) and will make an announcement in due course.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length is of court cases involving bank charges.
Answer
This information isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many court cases involving bank charges there have been in each of the last four years.
Answer
This information isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-2255 by Stewart Maxwell on 1 August 2007, to what extent the Lothians will benefit should Glasgow’s bid to host the Commonwealth Games be successful.
Answer
The whole of Scotland will benefit from a Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.Net economic benefits of £81 million, and 1,200 net new jobs are predicted at aScottish level.
The Scottish Governmentwill work with relevant bodies to ensure that the opportunity to share in thesebenefits is spread throughout Scotland. The extent to which any given region of Scotlandwill benefit will depend on the level of engagement from local authorities, businessesand organisations in that region.
Throughout the bidphase, work to ensure all regions of Scotland are involvedin and benefit from the bid has been taken forward by the Glasgow 2014 All of ScotlandGroup consisting of representatives from local authorities.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has considered introducing an arbitration bill to handle small claims out of court.
Answer
The Scottish Governmentintends to introduce an Arbitration Bill at the first appropriate legislative opportunityin order to reform and modernise the law on arbitration as part of its commitmentto work with Scotland’s legal community to take forward plans tocreate a Scottish International Arbitration Centre.
Arbitration may not,however, be the most appropriate method of dispute resolution for small claims.The essence of arbitration is that it is a private procedure whereby parties agreeto submit a dispute between them to a third-party, who often has special expertiseor knowledge, and who will act as a private tribunal to produce a final and bindingdetermination of the dispute. The parties pay for the services of the arbitrator(unlike a public court where the judge is provided by the state). The cost of arbitrationcan be high and this means that it is most commonly used by commercial concernswho value the speed, flexibility and confidentiality it offers.
The disproportionatecost of litigation, particularly in cases of lower financial value, is one of theissues which Lord Gill’s review of the civil courts will examine. We also expectthat the small claims procedure in the sheriff court and the role of mediation andother methods of dispute resolution in relation to court processes will come underhis scrutiny.
We hope that whenlegislation to reform the law on arbitration in Scotland has been enacted, this may encourage industries and professions to set uptheir own low cost arbitration schemes to resolve disputes. Such schemes have alreadybeen set up by the Association of British Travel Agents, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland.
