- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
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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.
Answer
This scanner will provide an additional 4,000 scans per year for NHS provision. Access to these scans will be on the same basis as all other NHS care, determined by the needs of the patient and available to all in Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
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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.
Answer
The revised draft regulations on the licensing of dealers in puppies and kittens is expected to be laid before the Parliament in November 2008 and are expected to come into force in February 2009.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 July 2008
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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.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2008
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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.
Answer
Information on the number of road traffic accidents that have involved uninsured drivers is not held centrally. However information on the number of injury road accidents is available via the following National Statistics publication, Road Accidents Scotland 2006, a copy which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 44153).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2008
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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.
Answer
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 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 July 2008
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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.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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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.
Answer
The detailed inventory of radioactive wastes is published by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which can be found online at:
http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/The-2007-UK-Radioactive-Waste-Inventory-Main-Report-Final.pdf
Information on the oil industry is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients who have sustained injury as a result of fighting overseas with HM forces have been treated by the NHS in each year since 2002, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
For patients admitted into secondary care, Information and Statistics Division (ISD) of National Services Scotland record the cause of injury. It is therefore possible to indicate the number of hospital admissions by NHS board as a result of “operations of war” since 2002. The data does not consider the location of the injury or occupation of the individual. It is therefore not necessarily a member of the armed forces who is recorded. In Scotland, there were zero hospital admissions as a result of “operations of war” in 2001-02 and 2002-03; and less than five in each year from 2003-04 to 2006-07. Due to the small numbers involved and for reasons of confidentiality and disclosure control, board level statistics are not presented.
It is not possible to identify those who received any other form of NHS treatment, such as physiotherapy in the primary care sector, as a result of operations of war, as this data is currently not collected.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many abortions have been carried out in each year since 2001, broken down by age group and NHS board.
Answer
Data on abortions carried out in Scotland can be found on the Scottish Health Statistics website.
The number of abortions carried out in Scotland since 2001, broken down by age group and NHS board is available in a table on the Information Services Division website at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=mat_aas_table207.xls&pContentDispositionType=inline.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 1 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all current cross-border public authorities and what contact it has had with each of these bodies in the last 3 years.
Answer
The Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Specification) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/1319) sets out the cross-border public authorities as specified under section 88 of the Scotland Act 1998. A copy of this order can be found in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 23320).
Only one such order has ever been made. The statutory framework for the operation of new bodies with devolved and non-devolved functions created since devolution is set out in the relevant establishing statutes.
A list of contacts made between cross-border public authorities and the Scottish Government is not held centrally.
