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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-11001

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 November 2012
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 20 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to pilot the use of social impact bonds as an approach to prison rehabilitation and reducing reoffending.

The Scottish Government is engaging with a range of partners and stakeholders including funders, investors, third sector providers and service commissioners to explore options for developing and testing innovative social investment models. This collaborative approach is looking at how resources, including funding, might be better aligned and targeted towards supporting preventative measures that deliver positive and long-term changes to people’s lives.

We have already committed £7.5million to the Reducing Reoffending Change Fund which is supporting innovative approaches to planning, designing and delivering effective services to offenders improving their lives, and reducing offending.

Question reference: S4O-01379

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 October 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it issues to local authorities on the provision of education services for children in hospital.

Question reference: S4W-09222

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 13 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out modelling on how many people would benefit from (a) the introduction of a lifetime care costs cap of £35,000 and (b) an increase in the upper capital limit for means tested support.

The Scottish Government has not modelled the effects of the recommendations of the Commission on Funding Care and Support in detail.

The commission’s recommendations were made for England, and in the context of the English system for care and support, where Free Personal and Nursing Care is not applicable.

We are therefore considering the proposals, and will decide whether any are desirable in a Scottish context.

Question reference: S4W-09221

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 13 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on introducing a lifetime cap on a person's care costs.

Question reference: S4W-09220

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 13 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what the means testing support cap for help with care home costs is set at; what its position is on whether this is sufficient, and whether it plans to consult on changing this.

Question reference: S4W-08691

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 13 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how many clinical negligence claims were made against the NHS regarding pressure ulcers or sores in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.

Question reference: S4W-08690

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 13 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how much the NHS spent on clinical negligence claims in 2011-12.

Question reference: S4W-08692

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 13 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis there have been in each of the last three years and how it compared with the number of new cases of tuberculosis.

The following table provides the number of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases there have been in each of the last three years, compared with the number of new cases of tuberculosis:

Year

2009

2010*

2011*

Number of cases reported to ESMI	486	503	455
Number of cases cultured	325	329	302
Number of cultured cases with antibiotic resistance profile	317	323	293
Number of cases resistant to at least one of the four first line antibiotics**	22	16	27

Notes:

*Data is still provisional.

**Excludes cases of M bovis only resistant to pyrazinamide.

The 2011 figures are currently provisional, and there is ongoing work with the validation of data for the year which will be required before comparisons to previous years are analysed further.

Question reference: S4W-08689

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 13 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how many clinical negligence payments each NHS board made in 2011-12.

The following table details the total number of clinical negligence payments that NHS boards made in 2011-12:

Clinical Negligence Payments in 2011-12

Health Board
Ayrshire and Arran	22
Borders	5
Dumfries and Galloway	3
Fife	19
Forth Valley	15
Grampian	25
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	72
Highland	7
Lanarkshire	16
Lothian	27
Orkney	-
Shetland	2
Tayside	16
Western Isles	1
NHS 24	-
NHS National Services Scotland	1
National Waiting Times Board	10
Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates	-
Scottish Ambulance Service	3
Total	244

Source: Central Legal Office, NHS National Services Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-08552

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what happens to prescription medicines returned unused to pharmacies.