- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19685 by Jackie Baillie on 19 November 2001, what proportion of asylum seekers in Scotland are currently attending further education courses.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19478 by Susan Deacon on 21 November 2001, what plans there are to increase the number of linear accelerators per million of population at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow.
Answer
During 2002-03, two additional linear accelerators will be purchased and installed at the Beatson Oncology Centre, funded by the Scottish Executive's radiotherapy equipment modernisation programme. This will bring the total number of linear accelerators to 10, which is 3.9 per million population.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4262 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 6 December 2001, what representations it has received over any difficulties in contacting the Student Loans Company Ltd.
Answer
I have not received any representations concerning difficulties in contacting the Student Loans Company. The company has specific performance targets on answering telephone calls and acknowledging and responding to complaints, its performance against which is recorded in the company's annual report. I am aware that callers to the Student Awards Agency for Scotland may sometimes refer to difficulties in contacting the company by telephone.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20018 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 29 November 2001, what consultation with MSPs will be undertaken before publication of the Clyde Shipbuilding Task Force report.
Answer
The Clyde Shipyards Task Force included Gordon Jackson MSP as chair of the Scottish Parliamentary Shipbuilding Group. The task force do not plan individual consultations in advance of publication of the report in the next few weeks.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4262 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 6 December 2001, what guidance is given to the Student Loans Company Ltd on the use of tracing companies dealing with debt.
Answer
No specific guidance is given to the Student Loans Company on the use of tracing companies. The company is responsible for following established procedures on inviting tenders for the subcontracting of its debt recovery function.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the occurrence of cancer as a percentage of the population was in each cancer centre area in each of the last five years.
Answer
The following table shows, by NHS board areas for the years 1994-98, the number of patients diagnosed with cancer and percentage of the population served by Scotland's five cancer centres. However, it should be noted that oncology services are provided through regional managed clinical networks which transcend NHS board boundaries.
Cancer centre area | Period of diagnosis | Number of cases | Percentage of population |
Aberdeen (Grampian, Orkney and Shetland) | 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 | 2,607 | 0.45 |
2,678 | 0.47 |
2,579 | 0.45 |
2,594 | 0.45 |
2,668 | 0.47 |
Dundee (Tayside) | 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 | 2,028 | 0.51 |
2,125 | 0.54 |
2,231 | 0.57 |
2,100 | 0.54 |
2,140 | 0.55 |
Edinburgh (Lothian, Fife, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway) | 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 | 6,906 | 0.51 |
6,990 | 0.51 |
7,461 | 0.54 |
7,037 | 0.51 |
6,632 | 0.48 |
Glasgow (Argyll & Clyde, Ayrshire & Arran, Forth Valley, Glasgow and Lanarkshire) | 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 | 12,637 | 0.49 |
12,522 | 0.49 |
13,411 | 0.53 |
12,983 12,550 | 0.51 0.49 |
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Inverness (Highland, Orkney and Shetland) | 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 | 1,189 | 0.50 |
1,141 | 0.48 |
1,192 | 0.50 |
1,312 | 0.55 |
1,422 | 0.60 |
Notes: 1. 1998 is the most recent year for which complete cancer registration information is available.2. There are likely to be cross-boundary flows (for example of Dumfries & Galloway patients seen in Glasgow; Fife residents seen in Dundee) which have not been accounted for in these calculations.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4262 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 6 December 2001, how many times it met the Student Loans Company Ltd in (a) 1999-2000 and (b) 2000-01.
Answer
Officials from the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department and the Student Awards Agency for Scotland meet regularly with officials at the Student Loans Company. Complete details of all meetings held between the department and the company over any particular two-year period could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19747 by Susan Deacon on 21 November 2001, what financial resources (a) have been made available to the cancer centres in (i) Aberdeen, (ii) Dundee, (iii) Edinburgh, (iv) Glasgow and (v) Inverness in each of the last five years and (b) will be made available to those centres in each of the next five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. NHS trust chief executives at the acute hospital trusts which host Scotland's cancer centres will be able to provide information locally - Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust, Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust, Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust, North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust and Highland Acute Trust. Contact details are available online at:
www.show.scot.nhs.uk.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what its short-, medium-and long-term plans are for resourcing (a) the Beatson Oncology Unit and (b) the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer
Cancer is one of three clinical priorities for the Scottish Executive and for NHSScotland. The Executive is committed to year-on-year increases in the unified budget allocations made to NHS boards. From within these allocations, local NHS management are responsible for planning service provision to meet the needs of their resident populations, including provision for tertiary services from specialist centres such as the Beatson Oncology Centre. Greater Glasgow NHS Board was allocated an initial unified budget of more than £846 million for this year with indicative unified budget allocations of £907.9 million for 2002-03 and £982.3 million for 2003-04.In addition, an additional £40 million is being invested across Scotland over this and the next two years specifically for cancer services. Plans designed to secure improvements in these services, for example, through more rapid diagnosis and shorter waiting times, were announced on 6 November 2001. Of more than £10 million being invested this financial year, more than £5 million will secure improvements in Glasgow and the West of Scotland cancer services.Plans to build a new cancer centre in Glasgow are also being progressed, for which £44 million investment has also been set aside.Implementation/investment plans are available on
www.scotland.gov.uk and
www.show.scot.nhs.uk and copies have been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive who the members of the West of Scotland Regional Cancer Advisory Group are and how many of them are employed by the Beatson Oncology Centre.
Answer
The West of Scotland Regional Cancer Advisory Group is chaired by Mr Tom Divers, Chief Executive NHS Greater Glasgow. The Regional Lead Clinician is Dr Harry Burns, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow.There are more than 60 members drawn from across NHS Argyll and Clyde, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Greater Glasgow, NHS Lanarkshire, Managed Clinical Network leads, the voluntary sector, patient representation and representatives of regional services such as breast screening and cancer surveillance.There are three members from the Beatson Oncology Centre,Dr N Reed, Clinical DirectorProfessor J Cassidy, Academic OncologyMs C Hutchison, Consultant Nurse OncologistFull details of the membership of the North, South East and West of Scotland RCAGs will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.Guidance on the role, structure and function of Regional Cancer Advisory Groups is set out in NHS HDL (2001) 71 issued on 13 September 2001. This is available online at
www.show.scot.nhs.uk.