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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: S1W-01587

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any assessment of the animal welfare regime for pigs in other European countries as compared with the position in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-02822

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 10 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the number of students making a contribution towards their tuition fees who will pay (i) #994; (ii) #995; (iii) #996; (iv) #997; (v) #998; (vi) #999 and (vii) #1,000.

The information requested is shown in the table below. Figures quoted are for academic year 1998-1999, the last full year for which data is available.

Amount of contribution towards tuition fees £	Number of New Scheme Students¹
994	7
995	5
996	3
997	7
998	3
999	4
1000²	8,045

¹ New scheme students are those students entering a full time course of higher education in 1998-99, or later, who are liable to contribute to a means tested tuition fee.² Shows those students who have been means tested and are required to pay full tuition fees themselves.

Question reference: S1W-02659

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 18 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation took place between itself and the Department for Education and Employment in relation to the submission of evidence to the Independent Committee of Inquiry into Student Finance.

Question reference: S1O-00627

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 18 November 1999

Question reference: S1W-02301

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 16 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the number and percentage of students making a contribution towards their tuition fees who will pay more than (i) #994; (ii) #989; (iii) #949; (iv) #899; (v) #849; (vi) #799; (vii) #749; (viii) #699; (viiii) #649; (x) #599; (xi) #549 and (xii) #499.

The information requested is shown in the table below. Figures quoted are for 1998-99 the last full year for which data is available.

£ - £	New Scheme Students ⁽¹⁾ Contributing to Tuition Fees	% of New Scheme Students ⁽¹⁾ (35,158)
1-499	4,477	12.73
500-549	359	1.02
550-599	361	1.03
600-649	313	0.89
650-699	346	0.98
700-749	306	0.87
750-799	300	0.85
800-849	298	0.85
850-899	271	0.77
900-950	272	0.77
950-989	209	0.59
990-994	23	0.07
>994 ⁽²⁾	8,080	22.98
Total	15,615	44.41

Note ⁽¹⁾ New Scheme students are those students entering a full time course of higher education in 1998-99 or later who are liable to contribute to a means tested tuition fee.Note ⁽²⁾ Includes those students who have been means tested and are required to pay the full tuition fee themselves.

Question reference: S1W-02302

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 16 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the total number of students in higher education in Scotland dealt with by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland and list (a) how many of those students will pay a contribution towards their tuition fees in the academic year 1999-2000 and (b) how many of those students will pay no contribution towards their tuition fees in the academic year 1999-2000

As at 7 November the number of cases received and calculated by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland is 97,429 of which: -

(a) 20, 944 relate to SAAS students who make a contribution towards their tuition fees.

(b) 71,501 relate to SAAS students not making a contribution towards their tuition fees.

The number of cases received and calculated for academic year 1999-2000 will be further increased when applications are received from those students starting their course of study in January. Students not making a contribution towards their tuition fees in academic year 1999-2000 include continuing students who retain the right to have their full fees paid, in full, by SAAS and some other categories who are not liable to make a contribution. The proportion of these students will decline over time as continuing students complete their courses of study.

Question reference: S1W-00840

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 2 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what clinical indicators among Scottish haemophilia sufferers led to the introduction of work on heat treatment of blood products with a view to sterilising the hepatitis C virus.

Question reference: S1W-00841

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 2 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether blood products carrying the risk of hepatitis C virus transmission were still in use in Scotland in 1987, when the use of such products was discontinued in England and Wales in 1985.

Question reference: S1W-00839

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 2 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive when heat treatment procedures were introduced in Scotland to eliminate the hepatitis C virus in blood products.

The question is among a number of points which I have asked my Department to look at in relation to the safety of blood products from Hepatitis C. I also met with the Haemophilia Society to hear their concerns at first hand.I have noted the question and the points also raised in S1W-840, S1W-841 and S1W-842, and these will be taken into account in the Department's enquiries. I will keep you informed of the outcome of these enquiries as soon as they are completed.

Question reference: S1W-00842

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 2 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive how many haemophilia sufferers have been infected with the hepatitis C virus after receiving contaminated blood products: (a) manufactured in Scotland, and (b) imported from abroad.