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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)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-03837

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 November 2011

Question reference: S4W-03838

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 November 2011

Question reference: S4W-03852

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what Skills Development Scotland funding was for the (a) Get Ready for Work and (b) Lifeskills programme in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-03850

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people were in training on the Lifeskills programme at the end of September 2010.

Question reference: S4W-03847

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people were in training on the Get Ready for Work programme at the end of September 2010.

Question reference: S4W-03851

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been allocated to Skills Development Scotland for the (a) Get Ready for Work and (b) Lifeskills programme.

Question reference: S4W-03767

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to reduce the number of deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning.

I refer the member to the answers to questions S4W-03768 on 16 November 2011 and S4W-03769 and S4W-03770 on 15 November 2011. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

The Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer For Scotland will be writing out shortly to health professionals to raise awareness of the risks associated with Carbon Monoxide and ask for increased vigilance of the signs and symptoms of exposure in their patients.

The Health Protection Agency Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will once again be supporting the UK wide Carbon Monoxide Awareness week, commencing 21 November, by issuing press releases with supporting safety advice. Their web-sites contain useful information for householders and landlords on Carbon Monoxide safety. In addition Health Protection Scotland produced a Carbon Monoxide fact sheet which can be viewed at:

http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/enviro/nonhpspublicationsdetail.aspx?id=39585.

Question reference: S4W-03849

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people were in training on the Lifeskills programme at the end of September 2009.

Question reference: S4W-03620

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that Reshaping Care Change Fund monies are spent exclusively as preventative spend.

Scottish Government guidance on the Reshaping Care Change Fund for 2012-13, to be issued later this year, makes clear the expectation on Partnerships to increase the proportion of funding allocated to preventative and anticipatory care and proactive care and support at home.

Partnerships will be required to record this information, using Integrated Resource Framework mechanisms for analysing spend, activity and variation, in their Change Plans. Progress will be monitored over the whole course of the Change Fund lifecycle.

Question reference: S4W-03848

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people were supported by the Lifeskills programme in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.