- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 May 2015
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 21 May 2015
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 21 May 2015
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 May 2015
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 6 May 2015
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 6 May 2015
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 April 2015
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 30 April 2015
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 30 April 2015
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 March 2015
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 2 April 2015
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 2 April 2015
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 March 2015
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2015
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2015
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2015
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 23 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether the NHS Central Register (NHSCR) Governance Board had the consent of the people concerned when it linked records from the 2011 census and the NHSCR.
Answer
The linkage which was carried out between an extract of the NHSCR and an extract of the 2011 census was carried out under the direction of the Beyond 2011 Programme Board which was chaired by the Registrar General.
The Data Protection Act 1998 does not require consent to allow processing of data provided that any processing of data is fair and legal and that appropriate conditions are met. The processing was fair as it was not possible to identify individuals in the outputs, no decisions were made in respect to individuals and the processing was necessary in the legitimate interests of National Records of Scotland for carrying out statistics and research. The processing was also legal as under section 5 of the Census Act 1920 the Registrar General has a duty to further the supply and better co-ordination of available statistical information with respect to the number and condition of the population in the interval between each census.
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2015
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 19 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government which (a) public bodies, (b) companies or (c) consultants or contractors were involved in the NHS Central Register (NHSCR) Governance Board’s research exercise to link the NHSCR and the 2011 census.
Answer
The linkage which was carried out between an extract of the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) and an extract of the 2011 Census was carried out under the direction of the Beyond 2011 Programme Board which was chaired by the Registrar General.
All staff who worked on the linkage and subsequent analysis between the extract of the NHSCR and the extract of 2011 Census data were National Records of Scotland employees.
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2015
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 19 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether information from the 2011 census has been included in the NHS Central Register.
Answer
No. Linkage work between the 2011 Census and the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) was carried out in 2013 between two very limited subsets extracted from the datasets, by NRS staff on NRS systems in NRS premises. The linkage was a purely statistical exercise – census data has never been attached to the ‘live’ NHSCR.
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2015
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 19 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether the NHS Central Register (NHSCR) Governance Board’s decision to link the 2011 census and NHSCR is consistent with the Scottish Government's identity and management principles.
Answer
The linkage which was carried out between an extract of the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) and an extract of the 2011 Census was carried out under the direction of the Beyond 2011 Programme Board which was chaired by the Registrar General. This work was consistent with the principles and the privacy impact assessment will be published in due course.
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2015
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 19 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether the NHS Central Register (NHSCR) Governance Board conducted a cost/benefit analysis of the research exercise to link the NHSCR and the 2011 census and, if so, what it concluded.
Answer
The linkage which was carried out between an extract of the National Health Service Central Register and an extract of the 2011 Census was carried out under the direction of the Beyond 2011 Programme Board which was chaired by the Registrar General.
The programme contained several work streams and this linkage project was a subset of one work stream. A cost/benefit analysis was not produced for this specific piece of work, which involved minimal costs (see the answer to question S4W-24818 on 19 March 2015)
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