- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to take forward an initiative similar to that announced by the UK Government of a cancer drugs fund aimed at giving patients access to new medicines.
Answer
The Scottish Government is aware that the Department of Health plans to publish later in the year, a consultation on establishing a cancer drugs fund from April 2011 and that interim funding will be made available for cancer drugs via clinically led panels in October 2010. The Scottish Government will give due consideration to the consultation and its proposals when further details are made available following the Comprehensive Spending Review.
However, the extant guidance on the introduction and availability of newly licensed medicines published on 17 May 2010 provides a robust, equitable and transparent framework for NHS boards to make decisions about all newly licensed medicines and not just those to treat cancer. The guidance includes specific advice in relation to making such decisions for individual patients. These arrangements are intended to ensure that, where there are demonstrable benefits, NHS patients in all parts of Scotland are able to access newly licensed medicines in accordance with their particular needs.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 10 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that the views of the local community are taken into account when reaching a decision on the Muthill Conservation Area Rationalisation Scheme.
Answer
SSE submitted the Muthill rationalisation scheme to Scottish Ministers on 29 April 2010. Since then it has been subject to consultation with Perth and Kinross Council, and their response to me also reflects the views of all community councils in those areas relevant to the rationalisation scheme.
I will consider the consultation responses before I take a final decision.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 6 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make a decision on the Muthill Conservation Area Rationalisation Scheme relating to the Beauly to Denny power line.
Answer
Views from consultees on the various Beauly to Denny rationalisation schemes have been sought and received. A decision on the Muthill Conservation Area Rationalisation Scheme will follow shortly.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the absence of birds of prey from a development site as a result of ill-treatment would be a material consideration in determining applications for development consent and what the reason is for its position on this matter.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers to questions S3W-35624 and S3W-35625 on 26 August 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether evidence that disturbance to birds had taken place, thereby reducing the apparent importance of a site for birds, would be a material consideration in assessing applications for development consent and what the reason is for its position on this matter.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers to questions S3W-35624 and S3W-35625 on 26 August 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how it considers the effects of ill-treatment of birds of prey when assessing applications for (a) wind farm developments and (b) any other types of development and what the reason is for its position on this matter.
Answer
Applications for planning and other development consent which come before ministers must be considered on their own merit, and are therefore considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has provided, or intends to provide, advice to planning authorities on how they should take into account the effects of ill-treatment of birds of prey in assessing applications for (a) wind farm development and (b) any other type of development and what the reason is for its position on this matter.
Answer
The Scottish Government is unaware of any evidence of widespread or significant links between the systematic ill-treatment of birds of prey and applications for wind farm or other developments. Consequently, the government has no plans to issue such advice.ªªª
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether impact on the natural environment, including on birds of prey, is a material consideration when assessing applications for planning consent
Answer
Planning legislation requires decisions on planning applications to be made in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise. It is in the first instance for the decision maker, and ultimately for the courts, to decide if a consideration is material to a particular application.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, when considering applications for development consent, how it considers the possible implications of the development on birds of prey when their numbers are artificially low as a result of ill-treatment and what the reason is for its position on this matter.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35625 on 26 August 2010 All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 16 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-verbal adults there are, broken down by age.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold data on non-verbal adults by age, as this is not a recognised term used in current data collection. The Office for Disability Issues and the Office of National Statistics are currently considering whether a communication difficulty category might be included in future data collections, however this would be a wider category than non-verbal.
