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Section E – Written questions lodged on 3 February 2011 Questions marked with a triangle (Δ) are initiated by the Scottish Executive in order to facilitate the provision of information to the Parliament. Questions in which a member has indicated a declarable interest are marked with an "R". S3W-39340 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to reduce waiting times for the Scottish Driving Assessment Service. S3W-39341 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what additional measures were put in place to minimise the impact of the recent severe weather on ambulance crews’ response times. S3W-39342 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions have been attributed to weather-related falls since 1 December 2010. S3W-39344 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether information on the capital budget requirements for each community health partnership is held centrally. S3W-39345 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to expedite the discharge of older patients with complex needs from acute hospitals. S3W-39346 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been detained under the Mental Health Act (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 since April 2010. S3W-39347 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions were attributed to adverse weather conditions in December 2010. S3W-39348 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the calls from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Society for Public Health for a ban on industrial trans fats, whether it will review its position on this matter. S3W-39349 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to promote good bone health. S3W-39350 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Executive which of the recommendations in The Road Ahead for Scotland: Final Report of the Inquiry into Future Support for Agriculture in Scotland it (a) supports and (b) does not support and what the reason is for its position in each case. S3W-39351 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish a formal response to The Road Ahead for Scotland: Final Report of the Inquiry into Future Support for Agriculture in Scotland. S3W-39352 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Executive, following publication of The Road Ahead for Scotland: Final Report of the Inquiry into Future Support for Agriculture in Scotland, what the status is of the group that prepared it; whether the Scottish Government retains the services of the group’s members, and, if so, on what basis. S3W-39353 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS buildings have been reported to it as containing asbestos. S3W-39354 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have reported on the cost implications of buildings containing asbestos. S3W-39355 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has requested each community health partnership to prepare a report of capital expenditure required in its area and rank the priorities. S3W-39356 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards provide nursery or crèche facilities for its employees wishing to return to work following maternity leave. S3W-39357 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation; when these discussions took place, and whether it plans to continue the provision of the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination to young children. S3W-39358 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what its plans are for prioritising rheumatology and musculoskeletal services in the NHS. S3W-39359 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have received IVF treatment in each of the last three years and what progress has been made in reducing waiting times for treatment. S3W-39360 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS board has made the most progress in reducing the number of patients who did not attend for hospital appointments. S3W-39361 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual staff turnover through natural wastage has been in each NHS board in each of the last four years. S3W-39362 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of how the recent increase in VAT will impact on the NHS budget in 2011-12. S3W-39363 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what the NHS strategy is for the recruitment of accident and emergency consultants. S3W-39364 Sarah Boyack: To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools have had renewable energy devices installed, broken down by (a) type of device and (b) local authority area, in each year since 2007. S3W-39365 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what the implications have been of the increase in Minor Ailments Service prescriptions in the last four years. S3W-39366 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what treatment and support services are available to people with (a) progressive supranuclear palsy, (b) corticobasal degeneration; and (c) multiple system atrophy, broken down by NHS board. S3W-39367 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what backlog of X-rays waiting to be carried out by hospitals has been reported to it. S3W-39368 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what capital investment projects there have been in the NHS, including the level of investment, since 2007. S3W-39369 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive, following the introduction of Agenda for Change, how many auxiliary nurses have outstanding grievances. S3W-39370 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether its directorate general for health owns (a) land and (b) property that is deemed surplus to requirements and, if so, where the location of this is and whether there are plans for its disposal S3W-39371 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many posts are currently filled on a temporary basis in each NHS board and how many have been so for more than (a) two, (b) five and (c) eight years. S3W-39372 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual running cost is of the communications office in (a) its directorate general for health and (b) each NHS board and how many employees there are in each. S3W-39373 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the NHS has a role in reducing inequality and poverty in areas of multiple deprivation S3W-39374 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many written complaints each NHS board has received in each of the last three years, broken down by category of complaint, and what percentage of these has resulted in corrective action. S3W-39375 James Kelly: To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) cost and (b) start date of work on phase 2 of the Scottish Crime Campus at Gartcosh will be. S3W-39376 David McLetchie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many secure tenancies it estimates fall under the (a) modernised and (b) preserved right-to-buy scheme and what changes it estimates have occurred in these numbers since the coming into force of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001. S3W-39377 Dr Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has an agreement with child and adolescent mental health services on the target number of inpatient beds for children and adolescents. S3W-39378 Dr Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Royal College of Psychiatry or child and adolescent mental health services staff have made a recommendation on the appropriate number of inpatient beds for child and adolescent patients. R S3W-39379 Dr Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the European average is, per 1 million of population, of beds for mental health admissions for children up to 16 years old. S3W-39380 Dr Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many children under 16 years old were admitted to adult psychiatric wards and how many of these admissions were deemed inappropriate, in each of the last three years. S3W-39381 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how much (a) NHSScotland and (b) its agencies have paid for legal services in each of the last five years and what firms provided the services. S3W-39382 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how much each (a) NHS board and (b) community health partnership has spent on legal fees in each of the last five years. S3W-39383 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints each (a) NHS board and (b) local authority has received in relation to the removal of or increase in charges for home-help services and how many people have had their services reinstated. S3W-39384 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior managers there are in each NHS board and how many there have been in each of the last four years. S3W-39385 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff from (a) its directorate general for health, (b) NHS agencies and (c) each NHS board have been on work-related trips abroad in the last three years and to what countries. S3W-39386 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how much each NHS board spent on locum doctors in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10. S3W-39387 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure on external management consultants in the NHS in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10, broken down by company and showing the purpose for which they were contracted. S3W-39388 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has cost the NHS to treat and care for patients who have experienced fractures due to bad weather in each of the last three years. S3W-39389 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS boards have placed a ban on hiring agency staff and, if so, how this is affecting service delivery. S3W-39390 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual salary of a staff nurse is and what pay grades are applicable to nursing staff in the NHS. S3W-39391 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000. S3W-39392 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in the Scottish Ambulance Service have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000. S3W-39393 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in NHS24 have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000. S3W-39394 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in NHS Health Scotland have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000. S3W-39395 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in NHS Education for Scotland have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000. S3W-39396 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in NHS Quality Improvement Scotland have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000. S3W-39397 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by NHS (a) nursing and (b) midwifery staff have an annual salary (i) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (ii) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (iii) in excess of £150,000. S3W-39398 Trish Godman: To ask the Scottish Executive what effects Scotland continues to experience as a result of the Chernobyl incident in 1986. S3W-39399 Karen Whitefield: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38080 by Keith Brown on 15 December 2010, whether there is a recommended set-back distance for the construction of wind turbines from individual properties. S3W-39400 Nanette Milne: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been employed in the fishing industry in each year since 2007. S3W-39401 Nanette Milne: To ask the Scottish Executive what the fishing industry’s contribution to the Scottish economy has been in each year since 2007. S3W-39402 Nanette Milne: To ask the Scottish Executive how many processing jobs have been directly associated with the fishing industry in each year since 2007. S3W-39403 Karen Whitefield: To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms are in place to monitor the success of the actions set out in the Diabetes Action Plan 2010 to increase insulin pump provision. S3W-39404 Karen Whitefield: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with type 1 diabetes use a continuous glucose monitor. S3W-39405 Karen Whitefield: To ask the Scottish Executive how much it invests each year in research into type 1 diabetes. S3W-39406 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason transcatheter aortic valve implantation is not routinely available to patients in Scotland. S3W-39407 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it gives to NHS boards on the treatment and care of patients who are suitable for transcatheter aortic valve implantation. S3W-39408 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive whether patients in Scotland suitable for transcatheter aortic valve implantation have been referred to centres in England to undergo the procedure. S3W-39409 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been referred to centres in England to undergo a transcatheter aortic valve implantation, broken down by NHS board. S3W-39410 Jim Tolson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of cable theft from the railway network have been reported in each of the last five years, broken down by region. S3W-39411 Jim Tolson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported incidents of cable theft from the railway network in each of the last five years have resulted in prosecution, broken down by region. S3W-39412 Jim Tolson: To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are being taken to prevent cable theft from the railway network and at what cost. S3W-39413 Jim Tolson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many journeys have been (a) cancelled or (b) delayed due to cable theft from the railway network in each of the last five years, broken down by region. S3W-39414 Jim Tolson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost to the economy is of cable theft from the railway network in the last five years. S3W-39415 Jim Tolson: To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on (a) repair and (b) replacement following incidents of cable theft from the railway network in each of the last five years, broken down by region. S3W-39416 John Wilson: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38973 by Keith Brown on 3 February 2011, whether ScotRail has given a timetable for delivery of new Class 380 trains by Siemens.
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