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To ask the Scottish Executive in how many incidences patients have been given availability status code 9 on a waiting list, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) speciality affected.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 August 2002
On the first anomaly, there is concern that we declare the rent, but do not identify the tenant. The worry is that the receipt of rent could be seen as cause for influence, but what about the privacy of the tenants?
Secondly, regulation 7 authorises the Scottish ministers to issue codes of practice. As those codes of practice appear to have legislative effect, we should ask the Executive to explain the vires of the regulation in light of the prohibition that is contained in paragraph 1(1)(c) of schedule 2 to the European Communi...