- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to paragraph 3.3 of Final Consensus Statement of the Royal College of Physicians' Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C, what measures are being taken to encourage patient involvement, given that half of those referred do not attend clinics.
Answer
This is an issue which is being considered in the context of the action plan to which the answer given to question S2W-9189 on 1 July 2004 refers. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to paragraph 5.1 of Final Consensus Statement of the Royal College of Physicians' Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C, what measures it is taking, and are planned, to reduce non-attendance at hepatitis C virus services (HCV), enhance referral to HCV services, improve data collection and service audit within the framework of managed clinical networks.
Answer
These are issues, which are being considered in the context of the action plan, to which the answer given to question S2W-9189 on 2 July 2004 refers. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the statement in paragraph 5.3 of Final Consensus Statement of the Royal College of Physicians' Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C that “if we do not invest adequately now, we will not be able to afford the consequences of failing to tackle this epidemic”.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-9189 on 1 July 2004. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to paragraph 5.2 of Final Consensus Statement of the Royal College of Physicians' Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C, what economic analysis it has undertaken in order to inform resource allocation decisions in relation to the treatment and prevention of hepatitis C over the next 10 years.
Answer
The Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH) has been commissioned to carry out work to provide robust estimates of the total number of persons living with Hepatitis C – both diagnosed and undiagnosed – in Scotland. This includes estimates of the distribution of cases by region and disease stage. The SCIEH is also undertaking work to estimate the future burden, including cost, of HCV disease over the next two decades. Preliminary output from this work should be available shortly and will inform the development of prevention initiatives, and the assessment of care and treatment needs.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the key messages of Final Consensus Statement of the Royal College of Physicians' Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C, which patient groups currently have access to treatment for hepatitis C infection and which do not and what the reasons are for any difference in such access.
Answer
The guidance available to NHSScotland on which patient groups have access to treatment for Hepatitis C can be found at:
http://www.nhshealthquality.org/nhsqis/qis_Publications3.jsp?pContentID=1187&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-8837 by Cathy Jamieson on 18 June 2004, how many people were convicted of drink-driving in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001-02.
Answer
The information requested, which is available for calendar years, is given in table 19 of statistical bulletin Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts, 2002 published by the Scottish Executive in February 2004. A copy of the bulletin is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 31304).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 May 2004
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Answered by Margaret Curran on 29 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what statistics it has with regard to the shortage of housing in the rental and owner-occupier sectors in rural areas, particularly for local people seeking to purchase or rent property in their area for the first time.
Answer
The Scottish Executive housing statistics branch gathers information from councils on numbers of vacant council houses and lettings; and on numbers on and changes in local authority housing lists. Communities Scotland gathers information from housing associations on vacancies and lettings. Sources of the latest available published information are:
Vacant council houses and lettings: Quarterly Statistical Bulletin HSG/2004/2, available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00320-00.asp.Numbers on and changes in local authority housing lists: Quarterly Statistics Bulletin HSG/2003/4, available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00266-00.asp.
The latest volume of Scottish Registered Social Landlord Statistics 2002-2003, published in April 2004 is available on the CS Website at:
http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/web/FILES/R&IStats200203.pdf.These sources do not distinguish people seeking to rent council or housing association property in their area for the first time. Information from local authorities relates to the council as a whole and does not provide separate information for rural areas within the council area. Similarly, Information gathered from each housing association does not separately identify rural from other areas served by the association.
The Executive does not have statistical information on numbers wishing to purchase or to rent privately.
In preparing local housing strategies councils assess local housing markets to, among other things, identify actual or potential shortages with the aim of developing strategies to address these. The review of affordable housing currently being undertaken by the Executive includes an assessment of shortages based on the available information, which will inform policy proposals.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 29 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive with reference to The State of the Nation 2004 - An assessment of the state of the UK's infrastructure by the Institution of Civil Engineers, what measures are being taken to ensure avoidance of development on flood plains and whether it considers such measures sufficient and, if not, what steps it is taking to remedy the situation.
Answer
In February we published
Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) 7: Planning and Flooding. SPP 7 states that new development should not take place if it would be at significant risk of flooding, or if it would increase the probability of flooding elsewhere. This new policy should be implemented by local authorities in the first instance, as the planning authorities for their areas.
We will publish a Planning Advice Note to supplement SPP 7 later this year.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to The State of the Nation 2004 - An assessment of the state of the UK's infrastructure by the Institution of Civil Engineers, what measures are in place to co-ordinate action between all statutory authorities in responding to flooding incidents.
Answer
Throughout Scotland, local authorities and the emergency services take the issue of flood prevention and flood warning very seriously. In all areas likely to be affected by flooding, generic multi-agency response plans exist to deal with this risk. Furthermore, each area is represented by multi-agency flood liaison/response groups, which can be brought together at the earliest sign of potential risk of flooding. Further details of the multi agency response can be found on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s website (
www.sepa.org.uk).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 28 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to The State of the Nation 2004 - An assessment of the state of the UK's infrastructure by the Institution of Civil Engineers, whether it will complete, as a matter of urgency, an asset management plan for river and sea defences and, if so, what steps it has taken to complete such a plan.
Answer
The Executive has recently commissioned consultants to develop a data-base of all flood defences constructed by local authorities under the provisions of the Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961. This data-base will provide information and condition assessments of these flood defences.
However, management of flood defences is not a matter for the Executive: instead, this is for local authorities or landowners. While the availability of the proposed data-base will help in the management of assets it is not the Executive’s responsibility to draw up asset management plans.
