Questions · Ross Finnie

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwives have worked at the Vale of Leven maternity unit in each of the last five years.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Number of Midwives Employed “ Vale of Leven CMU (Whole-Time Equivalent): <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <tr > <td width=71 valign=top > Year </td> <td width=55 valign=top >   </td> </tr> <tr > <td wi…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwives have worked at the Inverclyde maternity unit in each of the last five years.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Number of Midwives Employed “ IRH CMU (Whole-Time Equivalent): <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <thead> <tr > <td width=64 valign=top > Year </td> <td width=55 valign=top > &nbs…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies were born at the Vale of Leven maternity unit in the last year.

Answer · Shona Robison: According to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 113 babies were born at the Vale of Leven Hospital Community Maternity Unit in 2009.

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies were born at the Inverclyde maternity unit in the last year.

Answer · Shona Robison: According to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 115 babies were born at the Inverclyde Royal Hospital Community Maternity Unit in 2009.

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) men and (b) women aged (i) 10 to 16, (ii) 17 to 23 and (iii) 24 to 30 have been discharged from a psychiatric hospital with a diagnosis of eating disorder since 2008.

Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested is shown in the following table: Patients Aged 10 to 30 Years with a Diagnosis of Eating Disorder Discharged from Psychiatric Hospitals in Scotland: Years Ending 31 March 2008 and 2009 <table border=1 cellspacing=0 ce…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) men and (b) women aged (i) 10 to 16, (ii) 17 to 23 and (iii) 24 to 30 were discharged from a non-obstetric non-psychiatric acute hospital with a diagnosis of eating disorder since 2008.

Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested is shown in the following table: Patients aged 10 to 30 years with a diagnosis of eating disorder discharged from acute (non-obstetric, non-psychiatric) hospitals in Scotland: years ending 31 March 2008 and 2009 <table…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) men and (b) women aged (i) 10 to 16, (ii) 17 to 23 and (iii) 24 to 30 have had a medical consultation for an eating disorder since 2007.

Answer · Shona Robison: The following table shows the estimated numbers of women in the specified age ranges who consulted either a GP or practice-employed nurse in Scotland for an eating disorder (anorexia, bulimia and other psychological eating disorders) during 2007-08 and 2008-0…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many objections from sportscotland regarding planning applications to build on playing fields have been referred to Scottish ministers in the last five years and how many were upheld in 2009.

Answer · Shona Robison: Objections from sportscotland regarding planning applications to build on playing fields are not notified to Scottish ministers but to the relevant planning authority. The number of planning applications notified to Scottish ministers by planning authorities …

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many objections sportscotland made about planning applications to build on playing fields in 2009.

Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government. I have therefore asked the chief executive of sportscotland to write to the member providing the detailed operational information.

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to encourage more children to walk to school since 2007.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to the answer to questions S3W-34276 and S3W-34279 on 18 June 2010. 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.scot…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many voluntary sports coaches there are, broken down by local authority area.

Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34363 on 23 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search …

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many sports coaches are employed across Scotland.

Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34363 on 23 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements exist for monitoring the prevalence of obesity among pregnant women.

Answer · Shona Robison: Information on a woman''s height and weight at Booking will shortly be mandatory categories in a woman''s Scottish Morbidity Record (SMR02). NHS Quality Improvement Scotland''s Best Practice Statement on Maternal History Taking, which was pub…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children were born to drug addicted parents in 2009, broken down by local authority area.

Answer · Fergus Ewing: This information is not held centrally in the form requested and never has been by previous administrations. However, information on maternities where a diagnosis of drug misuse is recorded, is available for the period 2007-08 in Drug Misuse Statistics Sco…

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children of drug addicted parents are being monitored by the authorities, broken down by local authority area.

Answer · Adam Ingram: This information is not held centrally and is a matter for individual local authorities.

10 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pregnant women received treatment for (a) drug addiction and (b) abuse in 2009.

Answer · Fergus Ewing: Information on the specific number of pregnant women in Scotland who received treatment for drug addiction or drug abuse in 2009 is not held centrally and never has been by previous administrations. The Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) does, how…

10 Jun 2010 · General Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether free school meals, free prescriptions, NHS distinction awards or any other of its policies are protected under the expenditure analysis of the Independent Budget Review.

Answer · John Swinney: The remit for the Independent Budget Review, which has been published, makes clear the scope of the work to be undertaken by the review.

9 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many surgical errors occurred in 2009, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) type of error.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: This information is not held centrally. Patient safety is a key priority for the Scottish Government. It is vital for patients to have confidence that when they access any part of the healthcare system, they will receive the best available treatment without f…

9 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients underwent an inappropriate operation in 2009, broken down by NHS board.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: This information is not held centrally. Patient safety is a key priority for the Scottish Government. It is vital for patients to have confidence that when they access any part of the healthcare system, they will receive the best available treatment without f…

9 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients had a foreign body accidentally left in a body cavity during a surgical procedure in 2009, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) type of foreign body.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: This information is not held centrally. Patient safety is a key priority for the Scottish Government. It is vital for patients to have confidence that when they access any part of the healthcare system, they will receive the best available treatment without f…

9 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients had organs accidentally punctured or cut during surgery in 2009, broken down by NHS board.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: This information is not held centrally. Patient safety is a key priority for the Scottish Government. It is vital for patients to have confidence that when they access any part of the healthcare system, they will receive the best available treatment without f…

4 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the 2010-11 student intake numbers are for (a) nursing and (b) midwifery.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Higher education institutions have been asked to recruit 2,876 student nurses and 184 student midwives in 2010-11. Exact intake numbers will not be known until after the second intake in March 2011.

4 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the potential impact on the job prospects of student nurses and midwives of the estimated 1,523 reduction in whole-time equivalent nursing and midwifery posts contained in the NHS workforce projections.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: We are liaising with all NHS boards who have been asked to provide information on the recruitment of newly qualified Nurses and Midwives to vacant posts created through staff turnover. We have in place a national One Year Job Guarantee Scheme, which …

4 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many student (a) nurses and (b) midwives are due to qualify at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Higher education institutions are currently being asked to provide estimates of the number of students likely to qualify at the end of the 2010-11 academic year. That information is not yet available.

4 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many student (a) nurses and (b) midwives are due to qualify in 2010.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Higher education institutions are currently being asked to provide estimates of the number of students likely to qualify in 2010. That information is not yet available.

26 May 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what opportunities local individuals, communities and other interested parties will have to comment on the application to construct and operate a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston.

Answer · Jim Mather: Ayrshire Power will place copies of the Environmental Statement in various prominent local locations (the local libraries in Fairlie, Largs, West Kilbride, Ardrossan, Dalry, Kilbirnie, Rothesay, Skelmorie, Milport and Saltcoats as well as North Ayrshire Counc…

26 May 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many objections and expressions of support have been received regarding the application to construct and operate a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston.

Answer · Jim Mather: Over 1,000 public representations opposing the proposal have already been received by the Scottish Government prior to the application itself being formally lodged. These representations will be considered alongside any further public representations subseque…

26 May 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the inclusion of National Development 9 in the National Planning Framework establishes the national need for a maritime decommissioning yard that could include the decommissioning of nuclear submarines and other vessels and, if so, what consultation was carried out on this with lo…

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The references to maritime construction and decommissioning in the statement of need for National Development 9 relate to the needs of the offshore energy industries. The National Planning Framework makes no reference to a need for decommissioning capacity in…

26 May 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the wider carbon implications of coal for energy production, including from (a) mechanised extraction, (b) disturbance to carbon-rich soils, (c) deforestation and (d) transportation.

Answer · Jim Mather: Estimates of emissions in Scotland resulting from a - d will be incorporated in the Scottish net emission account. Where emissions occur overseas, in so far as reasonably practicable, estimates of such emissions will be incorporated in the Reports on emission…

26 May 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27218 by Jim Mather on 24 September 2009, whether it plans to gather information on the amount of coal (a) produced, (b) imported to or (c) exported from Scotland and whether it will provide an explanation for its position on this matter.

Answer · Jim Mather: Information on coal movements throughout the UK or Scotland are not held centrally. However, Information on the production of coal in Scotland can be found on the Coal Authority website at <a href="http://www.coal.gov.uk/publications/miningtechnology/index.cf…