- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2005
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 February 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact centralisation of cardiothoracic services at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital will have on NHS Greater Glasgow's acute services review.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and NHS Lanarkshire today commenced a three month consultation exercise on this proposal. I am informed by NHS Greater Glasgow that the Golden Jubilee National Hospital proposal enables them to accelerate the siting of Cardiothoracic surgery on a single site as proposed in the Acute Services Review. This proposal will bring this forward by around five years.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2005
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Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria will be used to determine the provision of accident and emergency services in Glasgow.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow that the NHS board will consider a report on the review of the assumptions that underpinned the decision on accident and emergency services in the near future.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 January 2005
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Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to encourage the recycling of Christmas cards, trees and packaging.
Answer
The Executive is encouraging the public to participate in the Woodland Trust Christmas Card Recycling Scheme 2005 and collection bins are available in WH Smith and Tesco stores.
Many local authorities have organised special arrangements for Christmas trees or will accept these and cards, wrapping paper and packaging as part of kerbside recycling schemes.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2004
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 17 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to invest any savings made from the erection of ticket barriers at railway stations as part of the ScotRail franchise.
Answer
The savings made from the erection of ticket barriers will reduce the subsidy required by the franchisee. As part of the franchise agreement there are significant proposals to improve Scotland’s railway stations.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 2004
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish-domiciled applicants were accepted to study medicine in 2004 from Scottish (a) state and (b) independent schools.
Answer
The data requested is not available centrally to this level of detail.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 2004
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is given to medical schools on admissions procedures.
Answer
Acting on behalf of the Scottish Executive, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council sets the number of funded student places available to each medical school in Scotland. Within this allocation our universities are, as autonomous bodies, responsible for determining their own admissions criteria.
Our medical schools are considering the implications of the recommendations on university admission and selection set out in Sir Kenneth Calman’s Review of Basic Medical Education in Scotland. I will respond to Sir Kenneth’s Report in due course.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 November 2004
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Answered by Hugh Henry on 6 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Expert Group on Prostitution will report.
Answer
I expect to receive the Expert Group on Prostitution’s report before the end of this year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 October 2004
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Housing Improvement Task Force’s proposed shared equity home ownership scheme will be put in place.
Answer
The Housing Improvement Task Force made recommendations about the ways in which local authorities should be able to assist people who have difficulty in carrying out necessary repairs and improvements to their homes. One option proposed was that where a person had a low income and a high level of equity in a property, an equity loan could fund such works. We are currently considering, in the light of the response to the consultation paper
Maintaining Houses, Preserving Homes, whether and how to make provision in the forthcoming Housing Bill include powers for local authorities to make such loans. We are also examining the scope for making this type of lending available through other means.
In relation to home ownership, a discussion paper outlining the Scottish Executive's proposals for introducing a range of shared equity tenure models was published by Communities Scotland on 23 November. A copy is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 34524).
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2004
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Answered by Hugh Henry on 25 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applicants making challenges under the European Convention on Human Rights have been funded through legal aid.
Answer
A recently published research report showed that the number of cases in Scottish Courts involving the European Convention on Human Rights has dropped in recent years. No comprehensive figures are available on the number of such cases where the applicant is legally aided.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 May 2004
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Common Service Agency's National Services Division is satisfied that plans for the reconfiguration of maternity services in Greater Glasgow will result in higher quality provision of transport of critically ill children.
Answer
The announcement by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 Sept 2004 that paediatric, maternity and adult acute services should be located on a single site in Glasgow means that the transport of critically ill children will continue to be available to the current high standard.
National Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland will be fully involved in the detailed planning and implementation of the proposal for the triple co-location of services in Glasgow.