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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: S3W-18066

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what incidents of (a) hypoglycaemia, (b) hyperglycaemia and (c) diabetic ketoacidosis were recorded in prisons in the last 10 years.

Question reference: S3W-18064

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have (a) type 1 diabetes and (b) type 2 diabetes.

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

Information on the prevalence of diabetes in the prisoner population is contained in Prison Health in Scotland: A Health Care Needs Assessment (Dr Lesley Graham, December 2007). The following is an e-link to the report: http://www.sps.gov.uk/MultimediaGallery/363852d6-79d1-464c-9b65-857721c2a628.pdf.

An audit conducted in summer 2008 indicated there were 57 prisoners held in custody at the time of audit who were type 1 diabetics. Type 2 diabetes was not part of this audit.

Question reference: S3W-17509

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that local authority licensing of animal boarding establishments should require that any animals admitted have a current veterinary certificate of vaccination against diseases such as parvo virus and kennel cough and what legislative steps, if any, would be required to introduce such a mandatory condition.

We have no plans to make it a requirement that animals have a current vaccination certificate again diseases such as parvo virus and kennel cough before being admitted to animal boarding establishments.

Most boarding establishments do require this and we recognise that this is good practice. However, to make it a mandatory condition would remove the discretion which boarding establishments currently have. This allows them to admit unvaccinated animals in exceptional circumstances, for example, where an animal''s owner is unexpectedly admitted to hospital. In such cases, the only option could be the destruction of the animal.

Powers do exist under section 26 of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 which would allow Scottish ministers to make it an offence to admit animals to animal boarding establishments without such a certificate.

Question reference: S3O-04740

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider making representations to the Royal Bank of Scotland, which is providing a £1.6 million CT scanner to NHS Lothian, to ensure equal access for all patients.

Question reference: S3W-16437

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive when revised draft regulations on the licensing of dealers in puppies and kittens (a) will be laid and (b) are expected to come into force.

Question reference: S3W-15062

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 July 2008
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 28 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, if Pringle of Scotland ceases manufacturing in Hawick, it will challenge the right of the company to continue to badge its products with the lion rampant and the Pringle of Scotland trading name by making a referral to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Office of Fair Trading under Statutory Instrument 2008 No.1277 The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations of 2008.

The statutory instrument does not confer a function on Scottish ministers to make referrals to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The question of whether Pringle of Scotland is in breach of the terms of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPRs) is for the Trading Standards Services and the Office of Fair Trading as the enforcement authorities and, ultimately, the Crown Office for the purpose of establishing whether criminal proceedings should be brought.

It will be up to the local authority''s trading standards service to make a decision about investigations into possible breaches of the CPRs.

Question reference: S3W-15271

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 25 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers were charged with driving without (a) valid or (b) any insurance in each year since 2002, broken down by police force area.

The recorded crime data held centrally has the number of crimes recorded by the police and the number recorded as detected, that is, there is sufficient evidence to justify consideration of criminal proceedings. We cannot provide any information on the number of people involved in crimes, since it is possible that individuals may be responsible for more than one of the crimes recorded. The available information is shown in the following table.

Number of Offences Relating to Motor Vehicles for Failure to Insure against Third Party Risks and Insure against Third Party Risks, Other Offences, Detected by Police Forces in Scotland, 2002-03 to 2006-07.

Police Force Area	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Central	1,814	1,399	1,153	1,254	1,202
Dumfries and Galloway	956	795	856	924	1,008
Fife	2,501	2,558	2,290	1,875	1,856
Grampian	3,019	2,480	2,013	2,122	2,172
Lothian and Borders	4,525	4,843	3,980	4,164	4,459
Northern	1,212	1,247	1,049	989	1,160
Strathclyde	13,014	12,953	10,654	10,689	10,440
Tayside	2,997	3,436	2,607	2,487	2,297
Scotland	30,038	29,711	24,602	24,504	24,594

Question reference: S3W-15270

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 25 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road traffic accidents have involved uninsured drivers in each year since 2002, broken down by police force area.

Question reference: S3W-15061

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 July 2008
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 20 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has allocated to cross-border public authorities as listed in Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 1319 The Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Specification) Order 1999 in each year since 2002, broken down by authority.

The Scottish Government has allocated funding to the following cross-border authorities since 2002:

	2002-03 (£000)	2003-04 (£000)	2004-05 (£000)	2005-06 (£000)	2006-07 (£000)	2007-08 (£000)	2008-09 (£000)
British Library Board	6	10	15	30	32	18	-
British Waterways Scotland	11,901	14,740	14,000	13,211	15,704	12,653	2,790
Community Development Foundation	59	41	311	330	353	409	26
Joint Nature Conservation Committee	1,622	1,651	1,731	1,817	1,805	1,738	-
Scottish Consumer Council	1,087	569	753	979	1,732	1,874	827
Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux	82	205	270	356	254	766	-

In addition to the funding detailed above, payments are, and have been, made to a number of the cross-border authorities listed in the Statutory Instrument for services provided.

Question reference: S3W-15044

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 5 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many facilities in Scotland, including oil installations and related sites, have stored nuclear waste and how much waste has been stored at each of these facilities in each year since 1999.