Parliamentary questions

Marlyn Glen

917 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.

12 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost is of an ambulance incident.

Answer · Shona Robison: The average cost of an accident and emergency incident for the roadside ambulance service in 2006-07 was £221.51. Source: Scottish Health Service Costs.

12 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many ambulance incidents there were in NHS Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answer · Shona Robison: The number of emergency ambulance incidents in Tayside for the last three years for which information is available is shown in table 1: Table 1: Number of Emergency Ambulance Incidents: NHS Tayside, 2004-05 to 2006-07 <table border=1 cellspaci…

12 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many outpatient attendances, excluding psychiatric, obstetric and learning disability categories, there were in NHS Tayside in each of the last two years for which information is available.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Information on the number of out-patient attendances in NHS Tayside is available from the ISD website at: <a href="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Annual_trends_in_outpatient_activity_hbtnum_Feb2008.xls&pContentDisposi…

12 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost is of an attendance at an accident and emergency unit.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The average cost of an attendance at a hospital providing accident and emergency out-patient care is £82 for financial year 2006-07. Source: ISD, Scottish Health Service Costs.

12 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances there were at accident and emergency units in NHS Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Information on the number of attendances at accident and emergency units in NHS Tayside is available from the ISD website at: <a href="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Annual_trends_in_outpatient_activity_hbtnum_Feb2008.xls…

12 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost is of an acute occupied bed day.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The average cost of an acute occupied bed day during financial year 2006-07 was £442. Source: ISD, Scottish Health Service Costs.

12 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Tayside were directly connected with alcohol-related conditions in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Table 1 provides the total length of stay of patients treated in acute hospitals in NHS Tayside for alcohol-related conditions in 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07; the most recent years for which information is available. The 2006-07 figure is provisional and may…

1 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated to NHS Tayside for smoking cessation services in each year since 2006-07, also expressed in real terms.

Answer · Shona Robison: The Government will spend £33 million this spending review period on NHS smoking cessation services in comparison to £27 million spent over the previous spending review period. In addition to its share of funding available from NHS boards'' general …

1 May 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11585 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 April 2008, to which years the figures for Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland refer.

21 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the funding allocation to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator was in 2007-08 and what it will be in 2008-09.

Answer · Fergus Ewing: The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has been allocated operating expenditure of £3.6 million for the year 2007-08 and £3.6 million for the year 2008-09. The OSCR, as an independent non-ministerial department, is responsible for determining the…

21 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive in which year the Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling will open.

Answer · Fiona Hyslop: I will be discussing plans to take forward the institute, including its opening, when I visit Sir Philip Cohen in Dundee next week. My expectation is that the institute will open towards the end of this year.

18 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11585 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 April 2008, to what year or years the figures quoted in the table for Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland refer.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The figures for Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland relate to the most recent year of published results, January to December 2006 and are taken from the latest report of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Scheme (EARSS) which can be …

17 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11190 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 April 2008, how much additional finance NHS Tayside has been given to administer the community health nurse pilot in 2008-09.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Additional finance to support transitional education for the community health nurse pilot will be provided to NHS Tayside in 2008-09 when their training plan has been received.

15 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students who received a dental bursary in their final year of study in 2006-07 are now in vocational training in Scotland, broken down by NHS board.

Answer · Shona Robison: One hundred and one dental students at the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee who received a dental bursary in their final year of study in 2006-07 are now in vocational training in Scotland. A breakdown, by NHS board, is provided in the following table. …

11 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Data on the number of women diagnosed with cervical cancer are available by NHS board and year (1980 to 2004) on the NHS Information Services Division (ISD) website at: <a href="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/cancer_cervix_inc.xls">http://www.…

11 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths there have been from cervical cancer in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The numbers of deaths from cervical cancer which occurred in the NHS Tayside area were as follows: 2005: 8 2006: 10 2007: 7. The figure for 2007 is provisional. The final figure will not be published formally until after th…

11 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether further resources will be made available to NHS Tayside for administration of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination scheme in 2008-09 to take account of the community health nurse pilot currently operating there.

Answer · Shona Robison: The Scottish Government has provided additional funding of £119,746 to NHS Board Tayside to assist with implementation of the HPV programme from 1 September 2008. This additional funding was made in recognition of the complexity of the delivery challenge faci…

11 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people have been registered with an NHS dentist in the (a) Dundee City Council and (b) Dundee Community Health Partnership area in each of the last two years, broken down by age group.

Answer · Shona Robison: Dundee City Council and Dundee Community Health Partnership (CHP) have the same geographical boundaries. As a result, the number of registrations is the same for both. Latest available information (as at 30 September 2006 and 2007) is presented in the followi…

3 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the quarterly rates have been of clostridium difficile per 1,000 total occupied bed days for those aged 65 and over in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last four available quarters.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested: Rates of CDAD per 1,000 Total Occupied Bed Days <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <tr > <td valign=top > e </td> <td valign=top > January-…

3 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate was of MRSA bloodstream infections as a proportion of all staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in the most recent year for which figures are available and what comparative information it has for (a) Norway, (b) Denmark, (c) Sweden and (d) Finland.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested: Proportion of Antibiotic Non-Susceptible Staphylococcus Aureus Isolates <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <tr > <td width=61 valign=top > Country …

2 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many whole-time equivalent infection control nurses were employed in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested: <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <tr > <td width=37 valign=top > Year </td> <td width=227 valign=top > Whole-Time Equivalent Infecti…

2 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of clostridium difficile there were per 1,000 acute occupied bed days in people aged 65 and over in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last four quarters for which information is available.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested: Rates of CDAD per 1,000 Acute Occupied Bed Days <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=592 > <tr > <td width=150 valign=top >   </td> <td width=111 valign…

2 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of clostridium difficile were reported in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last four quarters for which information is available.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested: Total Number of Cases of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease: (CDAD) Reported <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <thead> <tr > <td valign=top >  …

2 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children in care in (a) Dundee and (b) Scotland achieved qualifications at or above SCQF Level 3 in both English and mathematics in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answer · Maureen Watt: The available information, based on pupils in S4 in publicly funded secondary schools identified as being looked after in the pupil census, is given in the following table. Percentage of Looked-After Children with Qualifications in both English and M…

2 Apr 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children in care in (a) Dundee and (b) Scotland achieved at least one qualification at or above SCQF Level 3 in each of the last three years for which information is available.

27 Mar 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was invested in affordable housing for rent in Dundee in each year from 2004-05 to 2007-08 and how many such homes were made available in each year.

Answer · Stewart Maxwell: Funding for the provision of affordable housing for rent and the number of rented homes approved for development in the Dundee City Council area in each year since 2004-05 is detailed: <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <tr > <td valign=t…

27 Mar 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be invested in affordable housing for rent in Dundee in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11 and how many such homes will be made available in each year.

Answer · Stewart Maxwell: Over the period 2008-11 we will be providing investment of over £1.5 billion for affordable housing across Scotland and aim to deliver at least 21,500 new affordable homes nationally over this three year period. I will announce the allocation of affo…

25 Mar 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide (a) Dundee City Council and (b) Angus Council with additional funding in 2009 to pay for an extension of the entitlement to free school meals to pupils from families receiving maximum child or working families tax credit.

Answer · Adam Ingram: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-11245 on 16 April 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp…

25 Mar 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the cost of extending the entitlement to free school meals in 2009 to pupils from families in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus receiving maximum child or working families tax credit.

Answer · Adam Ingram: We will be providing local government with record levels of funding over the period covered by the spending review 2008-11. The vast majority of the funding will be provided by means of a block grant. It is the responsibility of each local authority to alloca…

25 Mar 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to receive the results of the independent evaluation of the free school meals pilot for P1 to P3 pupils.

Answer · Adam Ingram: We expect to receive the final report on the findings of the independent evaluation of the free school lunch trial at the end of July 2008.