Parliamentary questions
Miles Briggs
4,209 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
9 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether non-consensual electroconvulsive therapy was administered for any reason other than to treat severe depression in the last year for which information is available.
Answer · Maureen Watt: Information on patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is available from the Scottish ECT Accreditation Network (SEAN) database. The SEAN annual report for 2015: http://www.sean.org.uk/docs/SEAN-Report-2015-web.pdf includes Figure 3.1 which shows,…
9 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people were given electroconvulsive therapy against their will in the last year for which information is available.
Answer · Maureen Watt: Data on people who have been given electroconvulsive treatment against their will in the last year is available in the Mental Welfare Commission Annual Monitoring Report 2014-15. The report can be accessed here: http://www.mwcscot.org.uk/media/240677/mha_mon…
9 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people were detained on the basis of an emergency detention certificate issued by a GP in the last year for which information is available.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested however the Mental Welfare Commission is an independent organisation, which reports to Scottish Ministers and was set up to find out whether individual care and treatment is in line with the law …
9 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients were placed on a compulsory treatment order without the agreement of a tribunal in the last year for which information is available.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 specifies that a Compulsory Treatment Order (CTO) can only be granted by the Mental Health Tribunal Scotland (MHTS) and once an application has been received by a Mental Health Officer. A CTO will expi…
9 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people were detained on mental health grounds in hospital and at what cost in the last year for which information is available.
Answer · Maureen Watt: http://www.mwcscot.org.uk/publications/
9 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government in how many cases a mental health tribunal's decision was contrary to the views of the patient's responsible medical officer in the last year for which information is available.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Scottish Government does not hold this information. The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland is an independent organisation which reports to Scottish Ministers and whose aim is to provide a responsive, accessible, independent and impartial service when ma…
9 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings of mental health tribunals there were in the last year for which information is available.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Scottish Government does not hold this information. The Mental Health Tribunal Scotland is an independent organisation which reports to Scottish Ministers and whose aim is to provide a responsive, accessible, independent and impartial service when making…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the number of children under the age of two registered with a dentist.
Answer · Shona Robison: Health visitors support families and act as a gateway to other services, including dentistry. The Universal Health Visiting Pathway for Scotland was published in October 2015: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/10/9697 which presents a core home visiting p…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its consultation, Mental Health in Scotland – a 10 year vision.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Scottish Government is currently seeking views on the new Mental Health Strategy. We published a paper on Friday 29 July 2016 which summarises our proposed priorities for the new Mental Health Strategy which will cover a 10 year period. The paper can b…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many extractions of deciduous teeth there have been on children (a) under one, (b) between one and two, (c) between two and three, (c) between three and four and (d) between four and five years of age in each year since 2000, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Shona Robison: Information on the number of teeth extracted is not collated. Information on the number of children undergoing tooth extraction is collated. The information has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICE), under Bib number 58127. The tab…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government to what projects or initiatives funding has been committed from the £150 million mental health improvement fund, showing the amount in each case.
Answer · Maureen Watt: Commitments to date from the additional £150 million investment to improve mental health include:£54.1 million to support delivery of the Local Delivery Plan (LDP) access standards for both Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and psychological…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have received cataract operations in (a) an NHS and (b) a private hospital in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer · Shona Robison: The following tables show the number of patients who have received cataract operations in (a) an NHS and (b) a private hospital in each calendar year since 1999 broken down by NHS board of residence. NHS boards have taken steps to improve the completeness of …
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have not been registered with a GP in each year since 1999.
Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested is not held centrally. Information Services Division of National Services Scotland produce practice population size reports every quarter. These can be accessed at the following web site:http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Gene…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much the NHS has spent on agency nurses in each year since 1999.
Answer · Shona Robison: The use of nursing agency staff in Scotland is very low and represents 0.4 per cent of the total Nursing and Midwifery workforce in 2015-16, representing 276.7 whole time equivalent (WTE) out of a total capacity of 66,143.9 WTE nursing establishment. 99.6% of…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many households received grants from the flooding fund last year, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The unprecedented scale of flooding that took place over the winter required substantive and immediate action to support those communities affected. In January 2016 the First Minister announced that the Scottish Government would provide funding to local autho…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) goods and (b) information will be included in the baby box.
Answer · Mark McDonald: The Scottish Government is working with a variety of stakeholders, including parents’ groups, to agree which items will be included in the boxes. The Scottish baby boxes will be based on the model first developed in Finland, and will provide a range of baby c…
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to make it compulsory to register children with a dentist.
Answer · Shona Robison: The Scottish Government has no plans to make it compulsory to register children with a dentist. We have put in place a series of arrangements, via Health visitors and Childsmile dental health support workers, to encourage the registration of children with an …
2 Aug 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been paid to patients in clinical negligence payments in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Shona Robison: The amounts paid out in respect of clinical negligence claims since 1999, broken down by NHS board, are as follows: NHS Health Board 1999-00 (£M) 2000-01 (£M) 2001-02 (£M) 2002-03 (£M) 2003-04 (£M) Argyll & Clyde 0.1 0.1 0.3 1.6 0.3 Ayrshire…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-30300 by Maureen Watt on 17 March 2016, whether it plans to vaccinate older children against meningitis B.
Answer · Aileen Campbell: The Scottish Government is committed to protecting youngsters against Meningitis B (Men B) and this is why Scotland is one of the first countries in the world to have introduced a national Men B vaccination programme. On vaccination policy, the Scottish Gov…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many under 18s requiring mental health services have been admitted to adult wards in each year since 1999.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland began publishing standardised data on the admission of young people to adult wards on the implementation of the 2003 Act in October 2005. The data has been published annually since then and is publicly available at h…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of food poisoning have been recorded in each year since 1999.
Answer · Aileen Campbell: The following table shows the data Health Protection Scotland (HPS) collated on food poisoning from 1999-2009. Year Number of Notifications 1999 8517 2000 9263 2001 8640 2002 7693 2003 6892 2004 6804 2005 6918 2006 7335 2007 7186 2008 76…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many cancer patients have been offered cryopreservation of (a) eggs, (b) sperm and (c) embryos in each year since 1999, and whether it plans to extend this.
Answer · Aileen Campbell: Information on how many cancer patients have been offered cryopreservation of (a) eggs, (b) sperm and (c) embryos in each year since 1999 is not held centrally. An expert Gametes Group will shortly begin work to look at protocols for patients who require fert…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how much it costs Edinburgh City Council to host events linked to its capital city status.
Answer · Kevin Stewart: The costs associated with hosting events is a matter for Edinburgh City Council, however, I can confirm that the Scottish Government is providing Edinburgh City Council with total funding in 2016-17 amounting to £786.3 million, which includes £11 million addi…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been raised from hospital car parking charges in each year since 1999.
Answer · Shona Robison: At the point when car parking charges were abolished from December 2008, NHS Scotland hospitals (with the exception of three private finance initiative (PFI) run car parks) were estimated to collect £3.6 million of income each year from car parking charges. F…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many mental health organisations it has provided funding to in each year since 1999.
Answer · Maureen Watt: While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. This is because we file our information according to the subject m…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to expand the ‘tell me once’ service for bereaved families in Scotland.
Answer · Fiona Hyslop: Tell Us Once is a UK-wide programme administered by the Department for Work and Pensions, designed to save bereaved families work and stress during a difficult time by sharing data on a person’s death with a range of public sector bodies. In Scotland, it is s…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has raised from the sale of (a) land and (b) property in each year since 1999.
Answer · Shona Robison: The net book value of properties and land disposed of by NHS Boards since 2004-05 is detailed in the following table: 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 NHS Board £000s £000s £000s £000s £000s £000s NHS Argyll and Clyde 407 81…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training to all public sector employees.
Answer · Shona Robison: The Scottish Government recognises the importance of early bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as part of the ‘chain of survival’ to improve outcomes from Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA). The Minister for Public Health launched “Out of Hospita…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many prescriptions for (a) paracetamol, (b) ibuprofen, (c) aspirin, (d) sun cream and (e) eye drops have been issued in each year since 1999, and what the average cost was to the NHS to issue these.
Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested for the years 2000-01 to 2015-16 is available in the annual Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) Reports. The annual PCA report, published by National Services Scotland Information Services Division, can be found on their website at www.…
26 Jul 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many phone calls have been received each year by Breathing Space.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Breathing Space telephone and web service for people experiencing low mood, depression and anxiety is run by NHS24. NHS24 hold the information requested; the question should therefore be addressed to NHS24.