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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-07094

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 22 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has provided under the concessionary travel scheme in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S4W-07090

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 17 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is issued to NHS boards on the provision of chiropody and podiatry services for people with diabetes.

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) Guideline 116: The Management of Diabetes, sets out the level of foot care that people with diabetes can expect.

Our Diabetes Action Plan, published in 2010, contains specific actions to improve foot care for people with diabetes and reduce the risk of complications. This is being achieved through the implementation of the nationally agreed Diabetic Foot Risk Stratification and Triage Traffic Light system. This system ensures that people who are at risk of developing a foot ulcer receive the most appropriate treatment when they need it.

The Scottish Diabetes Group (SDG) has also led the development of the Foot Risk Awareness and Management Education (FRAME) online education tool to standardise the foot risk stratification process for NHSScotland staff www.diabetesframe.org/. This tool has been developed specifically to help GPs meet the Quality and Outcomes Framework foot risk screening target and incorporates the recommendations of SIGN Guideline 116.

Question reference: S4O-01054

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the report on the future of public library services by the Carnegie UK Trust.

Question reference: S4W-07091

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions have taken place with South Lanarkshire Council regarding the completion of its schools modernisation programme.

Question reference: S4W-07092

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement the Scottish Futures Trust will have in the completion of South Lanarkshire Council's schools modernisation programme.

The Scottish Futures Trust has no direct involvement in the completion of South Lanarkshire Council’s schools modernisation programme. Their role in the school building process is to assist local authorities in the procurement of schools built under the Scotland’s Schools for the Future programme. Specifically to ensure that they deliver good quality, well designed sustainable schools at a competitive price.

Question reference: S4O-00820

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what retailers will be included in its joint conference with the Scottish Retail Consortium that is scheduled to take place later this year.

Question reference: S4O-00798

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how it advertises vacancies for modern apprenticeships.

Question reference: S4W-04973

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 13 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 21 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 25,000 modern apprenticeship places contracted with Skills Development Scotland in the current financial year have been filled.

Question reference: S4W-04974

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 13 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 10 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 25,000 modern apprenticeship places contracted with Skills Development Scotland in the current financial year have been registered, broken down by (a) sector, (b) age group and (c) provider.

Skills Development Scotland publish statistics on national training programmes, including modern apprenticeships, on their website:

http://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/knowledge/national-reports/national-training-programmes-statistics.aspx

The most recent published statistics offer detail on the Modern Apprenticeship Programme for July-September 2011, and previous quarterly and annual statistics are also available.

SDS will publish statistics for October-December 2011 in February 2012.

Question reference: S4W-05261

Asked by: Margaret McCulloch, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S4W-04673 by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 January 2012, when scoping work on the future of acute mental health services at Hairmyres Hospital will be complete.

The board assures me it remains committed to achieving the strategic aim of delivering two integrated mental health inpatient facilities to cover the north and south of the region.

Whilst the board are continuing to consider how best to enhance local community based provision of mental health services, in line with national policy, NHS Lanarkshire has confirmed that revised plans for the provision of the north integrated mental health inpatient unit will be considered by the board later this year. NHS Lanarkshire intends to consider the plans for the other inpatient unit at Hairmyres Hospital following this.