- 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 Michael Russell on 13 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-verbal children there are in schools, broken down by age.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.
However, as part of the annual pupil census the Scottish Government collects information on the reasons for the provision of additional support. This can be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PubPupilCensus.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 30 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 40 to 74 will be entitled to universal health checks.
Answer
The total number of people who would be eligible will depend on the precise form a universal health check would take. The research currently being commissioned to support the piloting of the universal health checks will help establish the numbers likely to be entitled.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 29 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will instigate an audit of all of its directorates charged with delivering government funding for renewable energy technologies in light of the National Audit Office’s report, Government funding for developing renewable energy technologies.
Answer
There is no need for an audit of the Scottish Government''s funding for renewable energy technologies as renewables is a high priority policy area, with funding already being coordinated strategically under our plans for moving to a low carbon economy.
In policy terms, we are joined up across the Scottish Government on cross cutting issues affecting renewables, such as on community benefits.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 29 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department of Energy and Climate Change in relation to the National Audit Office’s report, Government funding for developing renewable energy technologies.
Answer
The Scottish Government has had no such discussions with the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the cost of providing Life Begins at 40 health checks.
Answer
An assessment of the costs of the Life Begins at 40 checks will be made towards the end of the pilot phase later this year.
The budget allocated to NHS 24 for piloting the Life Begins at 40 project was set for 2009-10 at £224,742 and for 2010-11 at £444,558.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the cost of providing universal health checks for 40 to 74-year-olds.
Answer
An assessment of the costs of providing universal health checks to 40 to 70 year olds will be one of the outputs from the research on the health checks pilots from 2011.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with what regularity Keep Well health checks will take place.
Answer
Currently Keep Well health checks are not repeated.
There is an option in the current mainstreaming primary prevention consultation paper for these checks to be five yearly.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have taken place with the British Medical Association regarding the introduction of universal health checks for 40 to 74-year-olds.
Answer
The BMA have been invited to join a new steering group led by Scottish Government overseeing the implementation of primary prevention.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the cost of providing Keep Well health checks.
Answer
The current consultation paper on mainstreaming the Keep Well primary prevention programme from April 2012 indicates a budget of £8.5 million for NHS board checks plus further support for the whole Keep Well programme.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with what regularity universal health checks for 40 to 74-year-olds will take place.
Answer
The pilot of universal health checks will explore the potential benefits of checks conducted at five yearly intervals.