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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-03529

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many teeth were extracted in an NHS general dental service setting in 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-03531

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths there were in 2010 where obesity was mentioned on the death certificate.

Question reference: S4W-03530

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged (a) under five, (b) five to 18 and (c) over 18 had teeth extracted in an (i) NHS general and (ii) hospital dental service setting in 2010-11.

The information you requested in provided in the following tables.

Table 1 shows the number of patients who had teeth extracted in the NHS General Dental Service (GDS) setting in 2010-11.

Patient age

0 - 4 years	5 -18 years	Over 18
620	54,349	257,109

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).

Table 2 shows the number of patients who had a Tooth Extraction procedure carried out in the NHS Hospital Dental Service (HDS) setting in 2010-11.

Patient age

0 - 4 years	5 - 18 years	Over 18
1,810	5,763	4,764

Source: Information Sources Division SMR01.

Question reference: S4W-03702

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of Community Payback Orders issued since 1 February 2011 has started within seven days of sentencing, also broken down by local authority area.

That information is not yet held by the Scottish Government. Information in relation to the number of Community Payback Orders issued in the whole of the 2011-12 financial year, including details of when any unpaid work requirements were started, will be collected from local authorities and published in late 2012 / early 2013.

Information from the Scottish Court Service, showing the number of Community Payback Orders issued since 1 February 2011, is being collected by the Scottish Government and the most recently available data is available on our website here:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/CPOs.

Question reference: S4O-00329

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to improve road safety among young drivers.

Question reference: S4W-03078

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 25 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Independent Review of Police Officers’ and Staff Remuneration and Conditions in England and Wales will have an impact on pay and conditions in Scotland and, if so, what discussions the Scottish Government has had with the UK Government on this matter.

The remit of Tom Winsor’s Independent Review of Police Officers’ and Staff Remuneration and Conditions in England and Wales does not extend to Scotland. The review’s recommendations represent a package which - as I made clear to Mr Winsor during our meeting on 27 September - will not be implemented in Scotland.

The Scottish Government is represented on the Official Side of the Police Negotiating Board, as is the Home Office. This forum has been the only source of discussion of the Winsor Review with the UK Government.

Question reference: S4O-00290

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to tackle overcrowding on peak train services between Inverurie, Dyce and Aberdeen.

Question reference: S4W-03064

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 19 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the BBC report on 24 September 2011 that the Scottish Government is seeking backing for the establishment of an internet domain for Scotland, (a) what action it has taken and (b) how much it has spent to support the Dot Scot Registry.

(a) The Scottish Government set up the Scottish Internet Domain Working Group (SIDWG) in August 2008 in response to a petition asking if it would support the creation of a generic Top Level Domain (gTLD).

The SIDWG proposed the setting up of an independent, not-for-profit limited company to pursue any bid and the Dot Scot Registry (DSR) was formally incorporated in September 2009.

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced that bids for new domains will be accepted over a three month period from 12 January 2012. The directors of DSR are currently preparing the bid and the Scottish Government has restated its support for the company and for the dotSCOT domain.

(b) The Scottish Government has provided £250 for DSR’s bank account. Otherwise, since its formation, DSR has received support “in kind” in the form of accommodation for meetings and general administrative assistance.

Question reference: S4W-02898

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of its proposals to create a single national police force and a single national fire and rescue service, what consideration it has given to the conclusions of the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee’s report, The failure of the FiReControl project.

At the request of Fergus Ewing, the former Minister for Community Safety, Stephen Hunter, Chief Officer of Tayside Fire and Rescue chaired a stakeholder working group to review the development and implementation of the FiReControl project to ensure that relevant lessons are taken into account during Scotland’s fire and rescue service reform programme. The report of the Working Group will be discussed at the meeting on 3 October of the Ministerial Advisory Group on fire matters to ensure that its recommendations are taken account of in the reform programme. A copy of the report is available on the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/public-safety/fire-and-rescue-services/fire-reform/FiReControl.

Question reference: S4W-02729

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will carry out a cancer patient experience survey similar to that undertaken by the Department of Health in 2010.

There are currently no plans to carry out a national cancer patient experience survey in Scotland similar to the one undertaken by the Department of Health. Currently two national surveys the Better Together GP and Inpatient Patient Experience Surveys are carried out in Scotland. From these surveys it is not always possible to identify patients that are being treated for cancer, although cancer patients are likely to have participated. However there is one oncology centre in Scotland for which there is a Better Together inpatient patient experience report – the Beatson Oncology Unit in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

The Scottish Government provided three years funding in 2009 to NHS Lothian, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with Lanarkshire and Ayrshire and Arran, and NHS Grampian to pilot patient experience based service improvement approaches in their cancer services. The approaches used to gather the experience of cancer patients range from patient surveys to more qualitative work. The learning from these pilots will be used to make recommendations for future patient experience work across Scottish cancer services.