- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Fergusson on 5 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body why legal advice to committees or parliamentary officials as part of their deliberations and decision making is not published and whether, in the interests of openness, transparency and accountability, it will review this practice.
Answer
Committees and officials on behalf of the SPCB do commission legal advice. In accordance with accepted practice in the public and private sectors, it is up to those commissioning the advice to decide whether to make that legal advice public in each case. There are no plans at present to review this practice in the Scottish Parliament.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 2 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-4514 by Stewart Maxwell on 1 October 2007, what progress has been made towards the introduction of a tenancy deposit scheme.
Answer
It was agreed with the tenancy deposits working group, which represents a range of stakeholders, that robust evidence of the nature and extent of problems with tenancy deposits was required before deciding what action should be taken. Therefore, the Scottish Government commissioned two complementary tenant surveys, which asked questions about a range of key issues, including the withholding of tenancy deposits. The Scottish Government also commissioned a landlord survey, which included questions on whether landlords follow good practice in deposit management and whether they have experienced any disputes with tenants about the return of a deposit.
These surveys have now been completed and the survey reports are being finalised. The Scottish Government will want to discuss the data with the working group before coming to any conclusions.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners there are with diabetes and what percentage this represents of the total prisoner population.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners inject insulin to control their diabetes.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
An audit conducted in summer 2008 indicated there were 57 prisoners held in custody at the time of audit who were type 1 insulin dependent diabetics.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what provision there is of diabetes specialist nurse-led services and clinics in prisons.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The health care management of prisoners is undertaken on an individual needs basis, informed by the presenting needs of each prisoner. Any prisoner with diabetes would be provided with appropriate care, dependent on their specific need. Establishments have well developed links with community partners to access specialist advice and treatment.
The appropriateness of providing specific diabetes clinics at each establishment is dependent on the number of prisoners requiring such services within each prison at any given time.
An audit undertaken in summer 2008 established that individual prisons held between zero and 12 prisoners with Insulin Dependent Diabetes Melitus at that time.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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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.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were admitted to hospital as a result of their diabetes in the last 10 years.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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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.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many practitioner nurses working in the Scottish Prison Service are diabetes specialists.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
There are no diabetes specialist nurses working in the Scottish Prison Service, although some nurses have developed a special interest and have increased their knowledge and skills through accredited training.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2008
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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.
Answer
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.
