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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-08883

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of all deaths were in the age groups (a) 65-75 and (b) over 75 in the winter periods of 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99

The following table gives information on deaths registered in Scotland of persons aged between 65 and 75 years and persons aged over 75 years in each winter month over the period January 1995 to March 2000 as a percentage of all deaths registered in that month. Figures for deaths in 2000 are provisional.

	Persons aged between 65 and 75 years							Persons aged over 75 years
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	1995		1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
January	28	27	25	26	24	24	51		55	57	54	58	59
February	27	28	27	27	24	25	53		52	53	54	59	54
March	28	27	26	26	25	25	52		52	53	55	55	54
December	28	27	27	26	24		53		53	53	55	57

Question reference: S1W-08864

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any proposals there are for further private prisons.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:-

"The Scottish Prison Service is currently conducting a review of the Estate with a view to meeting operational requirements over the next ten years. This is a fundamental review in which nothing is ruled in and nothing ruled out and a full range of options is being considered. Detailed work on the review is continuing and no formal recommendations have yet been made".

Question reference: S1W-08862

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Prison Service is intending to make changes to the terms and conditions of employment of serving prison officers and, if so, what are the changes and what is their purpose.

I have asked Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond, his response is as follows:

The Scottish Prison Service are introducing new employee related policies on:

Staff attendance patterns, to ensure that staff attend when the business requires it, and to improve efficiency;

Sickness absence management, to improve consistency and effectiveness, and to reduce overall sickness absence;

The filling of vacancies, to improve efficiency; and

Conduct and equal opportunities, to clarify what behaviour is acceptable and what is not, and to guide staff on dealing with unacceptable behaviour from colleagues.

Question reference: S1W-08814

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide funding for the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital at Gartnavel so that complementary treatment for cancer sufferers can continue and cancer sufferers do not have to travel to Bristol, where the hospital's Senior Registrar has taken up a new post, in order to continue their treatment.

I am assured by the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, of which the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital is a part, that complementary treatment for cancer sufferers will not be affected as a result of the move of the Senior Registrar to take up a new post with the United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust. The Senior Registrar provided one session a week at the hospital and the clinic which she held has continued to be run since her departure.

Question reference: S1W-08764

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 9 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8271 by Iain Gray on 10 July 2000, what specific work is in progress to implement the various strands of the Scottish Advisory on Alcohol Misuse Action Plan.

Question reference: S1W-08762

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 9 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8272 by Susan Deacon on 10 July 2000, how national strategic developments to control alcohol misuse are identified, how the allocation of the #2.5 million to specified national developments will be made, whether any of the allocation has yet been determined and, if it has, to which national strategy developments the additional resources will be allocated over the next three years.

The Scottish Advisory Committee on Alcohol Misuse (SACAM) was specifically set up to advice the Scottish Executive on the development and implementation of a coherent national strategy, and the most appropriate targeting of available resources.

SACAM identified, within its first Action Plan, the range of developments necessary to lay firm foundations for effective implementation of a robust and sustainable strategy. The work currently in progress will help us to determine the most appropriate targeting of available resources in the longer term. At this stage, available funding is being used to support initial implementation of the Action Plan. Specific work in this respect includes the undertaking of a scoping review of alcohol misuse information; research into costs associated with alcohol misuse and cost-effectiveness of measures to reduce alcohol misuse which will shortly be commissioned; the preparation of an inventory of alcohol services; increased funding to Alcohol Misuse Co-ordinating Committees in recognition of their vital role in alcohol misuse at both local and national level, and to inform prevention and health promotion aspects of a national strategy, SACAM is planning to hold an event later this year to examine evidence and perspectives of alcohol misuse.

Question reference: S1W-08763

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 9 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8272 by Susan Deacon on 10 July 2000, how the effectiveness of the #2.5 million will be appraised and monitored, over what period(s) and whether any such appraisal will be placed in the public domain.

Question reference: S1W-08757

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8354 by Susan Deacon on 13 July 2000, what criteria were applied to arrive at the 60% target for immunisation of the over 65 age group from the flu virus this year.

Question reference: S1W-08759

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8354 by Susan Deacon on 13 July 2000, how the target of 60% for immunisation of the over 65 age group this year against influen'a compares with targets in comparable nations such as Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Ireland and Swit'erland.

Question reference: S1W-08756

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8351 by Susan Deacon on 13 July 2000, when it last received advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation with regard to the flu vaccination program for the over 65 age group this winter, and whether that body endorsed the 60% target.