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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S3W-05071

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has undertaken or will undertake a comparative study of the savings that would have been made to existing PFI/PPP projects by using a Scottish futures trust.

As part of our workon developing the Scottish futures trust (SFT) initiative, we have been comparingthe cost of existing PFI/PPP projects with what we consider may be available throughthe SFT. This has confirmed our view that the “standard form” of PFI is expensive,and it justifies our continuing efforts to introduce an alternative which will deliverbetter value arrangements for major public infrastructure projects.

Question reference: S3W-05066

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 1 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the agreement between Scottish Enterprise (SE) and Westfield Health to encourage SE staff to register for private health care.

Question reference: S3W-05068

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 1 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will address the concerns of Unison that public money is being used to provide private medical care through Scottish Enterprise’s private health care benefits via Westfield Health.

Question reference: S3W-05067

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 1 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the associated costs are of the provision of private health care by Westfield Health to staff of Scottish Enterprise.

Question reference: S3W-05419

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many orders specifying measures to be taken to keep dogs under proper control, whether by muzzling, keeping on a lead, exclusion from specified places or otherwise, have been made in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S3W-05420

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported attacks by dogs on people there have been in each year since 1999.

The available informationis given in the following table. As well as the number of attacks by dogs whichresult in an injury, and are subsequently recorded by the police, the numbers includeoffences connected to destructionand disqualification (for having custody of a dog) orders.

Number ofOffences Recorded by the Police Under Sections 3 and 4 of the Dangerous Dogs Act,1991, 1999-2000 to 2006-07

1999-2000	239
2000-01	257
2001-02	284
2002-03	360
2003-04	433
2004-05	618
2005-06	517
2006-07	623

Question reference: S3W-05417

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many orders for offenders to be disqualified from having custody of a dog for such a period as the court saw fit were made under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S3W-05416

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many orders for destruction were made for dogs in respect of which offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 were committed in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S3W-05405

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether services for young adults with physical disabilites can be differentiated from those for other adults with physical disabilities to ensure that they are accessible and appropriate to their needs.

NHS Scotland is committedto delivering patient-centred services and, as such, a young person diagnosed witha physical disability should be provided with accessible services which are appropriateto their individual needs.

Additionally, theChildren and Young People’s Health Support Group will carry out a review of servicesfor children and young people with physical disabilities in its 2008 work programme.

Question reference: S3W-05404

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what provisions are made to ensure that young people with physical disabilities receive comprehensive information at the point of diagnosis about their condition and the health and social care services available.

In a patient-centredNHS we would expect people diagnosed with a physical disability to receive servicestailored to their individual needs and to receive information about their condition and the health and social careservices available to them whichis accessible and appropriate.

Achieving Fair Access, our nationalguidance on improving access and removing the barriers which disabled people experiencewhen they use NHS services, was published by Fair for All – Disability inApril. It brings together good advicefrom a wide range of sources and gives details of publications and useful organisationswhich staff can follow up when they need to provide patients with more detailedinformation. The guidance will continue to be developed to reflect the growing practicalexperience of staff and when new policies are introduced. The guidance can be accessedat:

http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/4683-Achieving%20Fair%20Access%20guidance.pdf.