Parliamentary questions
Jenny Marra
379 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
17 May 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the longest number of days is that NHS Tayside has taken since 2004 before conducting a post mortem.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Information on the number of days taken by NHS Tayside to carry out hospital post mortems is not held centrally. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Standards for the Management of Post mortem Examinations (2003) recommend that NHS organisations should have loc…
17 May 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what its target is for the maximum number of days before a post mortem is conducted and how this compares with the average time by each NHS board.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: This information is not held centrally. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) produced standards for the Management of Post mortem Examinations in 2003. The standards recommended that NHS organisations should have local procedures in place to ensure tha…
14 May 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the longest outstanding registration of title is that the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland has.
Answer · Fergus Ewing: The Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 imposes no set time-limits for the processing of applications for registration. The length of time that an application spends awaiting attention and undergoing processing depends largely on its complexity. As a genera…
14 May 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what average time is taken to register a title in the conveyancing of domestic property.
Answer · Fergus Ewing: Registers of Scotland does not maintain a record of the average time taken to complete an application for registration of domestic properties. This method of reporting was used for a limited range of application types previously. In 2007-08, RoS reviewed the …
2 May 2012 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that NHS Tayside meets the nationally agreed targets for day cases.
18 Apr 2012 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what HIV prevention resources are in place in NHS Tayside.
16 Apr 2012 · First Minister's Question
To ask the First Minister what plans the Scottish Government has to deal with an increase in the number of female offenders, in light of the recent report by the Commission on Women Offenders.
21 Mar 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason there is no (a) British Sign Language and (b) easy read version of Your Scotland, Your Referendum.
Answer · Bruce Crawford: The consultation is available in these formats on request, using the contact details provided on page 30 of the consultation document.
20 Mar 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will bring forward plans for the summit on human trafficking that the Cabinet Secretary for Justice referred to in the parliamentary debate on the subject on 29 February 2012 (Official Report, c. 6697).
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: The summit will be held during the course of this calendar year. More detailed arrangements will be announced in due course.
14 Mar 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service ensures that (a) deaf British Sign Language users, (b) deafblind people and (c) people with an acquired profound hearing loss can give informed consent to receiving a blood transfusion.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: I refer the member to the answers to questions S4W-06202 and S4W-06205 on 26 March 2012. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/…
14 Mar 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service ensures that deaf people have the necessary information about (a) giving and (b) receiving blood.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: I refer the member to the answers to questions S4W-06202 and S4W-06205 on 26 March 2012. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk…
14 Mar 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service ensures that everyone with a communication support need has the necessary information about (a) giving and (b) receiving blood.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) is aware of its duties under the Equality Act and the Disability Discrimination Act and will, whenever and wherever reasonable, try to provide facilities for individuals whose first language is not Engli…
14 Mar 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what provisions the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service puts in place for (a) deaf blood donors who use British Sign Language, (b) deafblind people and (c) people with an acquired profound hearing loss.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: As with donors with any type of disability, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) strives to make reasonable adjustments to its services based on individual needs. The Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 state that the UK Blood Service…
14 Mar 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what legal responsibility the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has for (a) blood donors and (b) people receiving blood transfusions.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) is governed by the provisions of the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005, against which the service is inspected by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The standards which are…
27 Feb 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning plans to meet the Scottish Division of Educational Psychology (SDEP) to discuss SDEP's proposals to maintain training courses.
Answer · Michael Russell: The Chair of the SDEP Executive and Training Committees wrote to me in November 2011 regarding the training of educational psychologists and I replied indicating that I fully recognise the importance of educational psychologists in the education system. In li…
22 Feb 2012 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to promote collective bargaining energy schemes as a means of tackling fuel poverty.
9 Feb 2012 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will launch the bidding process for the proposed national football academy.
Answer · Shona Robison: I was pleased to announce on 21 February that Stewart Regan, Chief Executive of the Scottish FA, had agreed to chair a Steering Group to oversee the delivery of the National Performance Centre. The first meeting of the Steering Group will be held on 14 March …
8 Feb 2012 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions it has had with firefighters regarding their pensions.
25 Jan 2012 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have completed an alcohol-related course in the last year.
18 Jan 2012 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that the proposed single fire and rescue service has the capability to effectively coordinate emergency responses across Scotland at a local level.
14 Dec 2011 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of how successful campaigns to combat drink driving and domestic violence over the Christmas period were.
6 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what alternative options it explored before deciding on changes to the funding for educational psychology training.
Answer · Michael Russell: I fully recognise the contribution that Educational Psychologists make in supporting children and young people to achieve their full potential and our long-standing commitment to funding educational psychology training reflects this. However, the funding prov…
6 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will take to ensure that there is no loss of quality in the service provided by educational psychologists as a result of the proposed changes to funding of their training.
Answer · Michael Russell: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-04451 on 14 December 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamenta…
6 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact will be of the proposed changes to funding for educational psychology training.
Answer · Michael Russell: We will continue to support the Educational Psychologist Workforce Planning Group which is chaired by Scottish Government Officials. The group will continue to meet to consider potential future impact.
6 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new cochlear implant procedures were funded in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: In 2007-08, 25 new adult implant procedures (including one bilateral implant) and 32 paediatric implant procedures (including three bilateral implants) were funded. In 2008-09 43 new adult implant procedures and 41 paediatric implant procedures (including eig…
6 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual budget for the cochlear implant programme was in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09, (c) 2009-10 and (d) 2010-11.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The annual budget for the cochlear implant programme was as follows: a) 2007-08 - £3,084,481 (b) 2008-09 - £3,384,582 (c) 2009-10 - £3,783,869 (d) 2010-11 - £5,007,517.
1 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Water Bill will be introduced and what its scope will be.
Answer · Alex Neil: As announced by the First Minister in the Programme for Government in September, a Water Bill is one of the legislative priorities of the government for this parliamentary year. The scope of the bill was set out in September and can be found at the link below…
1 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what Scottish Water has done and how much it has spent on its own land to meet the duty to further the conservation of biodiversity under Part 1 of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004.
Answer · Alex Neil: Scottish Water must manage land in its ownership in accordance with all relevant legislation. The detailed information requested is not held centrally and is a matter for Scottish Water.
1 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what it has done to promote efficient water use by the (a) domestic and (b) industrial sector since the commencement of the water framework directive, and what the resulting per capita reduction in water use has been.
Answer · Alex Neil: Since the commencement of the Water Framework Directive, a range of measures has been introduced to promote efficient water use by the domestic and industrial sectors. These measures include the regulation of all abstractions, the introduction of metering for…
1 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that water-pricing policies provide adequate incentives for users to use water resources efficiently, as required under Article 9 of the water framework directive.
Answer · Alex Neil: In Scotland, water pricing polices have been introduced through the Scotland and the Solway Tweed River Basin Management Plans, as an element of our integrated Water Framework Directive implementation programme. Such policies ensure that our environmental obj…