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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)
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Question reference: S4W-24658

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government when the responses to its consultation on amendments to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006 will be published online.

Question reference: S4W-24659

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its consultation on amendments to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006 did not include details of the legal instruments that would be used to ensure that any extension of the register complied with data protection legislation.

Data protection legislation requires data to be processed fairly and lawfully. The consultation sets out the detail of the amendments that would be made to the 2006 Regulations to provide the legal basis for sharing at the discretion of the Registrar General. Existing sharing arrangements under the 2006 Regulations are backed up by data sharing arrangements in line with data protection requirements and the consultation makes clear that similar data sharing arrangements are proposed for the amendments.

Question reference: S4W-24661

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-04026 by John Swinney on 19 February 2015 (Official Report, c.6), in light of the concerns raised regarding the proposed amendments to the NHS central register, what lessons it has learned from the decision of the UK Government in 2010 not to proceed with plans for either an ID database or ID cards.

Question reference: S4W-24657

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government how long it would take to implement the changes to the NHS central register, as proposed in its consultation on amendments to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006.

Question reference: S4W-24660

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its consultation on amendments to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006 did not include an assessment of safeguards against abuse that would be introduced if the register was extended.

Privacy impact assessments will be completed for all provisions before regulations are laid. The consultation also makes clear that the Registrar General would only share information if he has put in place data sharing agreements which would provide safeguards. All organisations to which the Registrar General would be allowed to provide information would have to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 which is regulated by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Question reference: S4F-02651

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 09 March 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 March 2015

To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.

Question reference: S4W-24599

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to extending the public consultation on plans for the extension of access to the NHS Central Register until a privacy impact assessment is completed.

Question reference: S4W-24600

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what consultation it carried out with external stakeholders regarding plans for the extension of access to the NHS Central Register ahead of the launch of the public consultation on the issue.

Question reference: S4W-24598

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to carrying out a privacy impact assessment on plans for the extension of access to the NHS Central Register.

The NHS Central Register (NHSCR) is a register managed by National Records of Scotland and was created in the early 1950s. There is no Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for the NHSCR as a whole since it pre-dates this requirement. The Scottish Government and delivery partners have two published PIAs for the policy and operational system relating to myaccount. Organisations using myaccount are also expected to undertake a PIA prior to implementing it. Consultation is an important part of the PIA process and the Scottish Government’s public consultation on the use of the NHSCR will inform the development of PIAs for each of the other proposals that we set out in the consultation that closed on 25 February 2015. PIAs will accompany the final proposals.

Question reference: S4F-02627

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 March 2015

To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.