- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what aftercare treatment is available for breast cancer patients.
Answer
Depending on the type of treatment received, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or a combination of these, a patient will be supported by oncologists, clinical nurse specialists, surgical teams or other members of the multi-disciplinary team (physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists) according to their individual need(s). After discharge from hospital, patients can still have access to breast care nurses, can be referred back to clinic and can also access community based care via their GP.
Aftercare and support to patients is also provided by a by a number of breast cancer charities.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of secondary cancer has been in (a) Scotland and (b) NHS Lanarkshire in each year since 2000, also broken down by type of original cancer.
Answer
This information is not routinely collected. Scotland is in a similar position to many other countries in that the Scottish Cancer Registry collects information on primary tumours or secondary tumours only when the origin of the primary tumour is unknown. Collecting complete information on all instances of secondary cancer would require active and regular follow-up of every patient living with cancer, a population which is growing in size every year.
Data within linked acute hospital discharge (SMR01) records and death records does provide some information regarding secondary tumours. However, data accuracy relies on a number of factors such as the accuracy and completeness of coding of metastatic disease on hospital discharge and death records; the acknowledgement that figures do not include patients diagnosed and managed with secondary cancer entirely in an outpatient setting (centrally held outpatient records do not record diagnosis) and an awareness that among patients with multiple primary cancers, it may not be clear from which anatomical site their secondary cancer has originated.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 8 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many ministerial engagements have been held in the Coatbridge and Chryston parliamentary constituency since 1 January 2010, broken down by (a) ministerial portfolio, (b) date and (c) location.
Answer
The Information requested is not routinely recorded and therefore not held in the format requested. Systems were put in place on 8 March 2010 to collect this information more easily and we have provided this below.
| Minister | Date | Location |
| Alex Salmond MSP First Minister | 4 June 2010 | Moodiesburn |
| Nicola Sturgeon MSP Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing | 24 May 2010 | Coatbridge |
| Shona Robison MSP Minister for Public Health and Sport | 1 June 2010 | Coatbridge |
| 7 June 2010 | Bellshill |
| Alex Neil MSP Minister for Housing and Communities | 24 May 2010 | Coatbridge |
| 21 September 2010 | Coatbridge |
| Adam Ingram MSP Minister for Children and Early Years | 15 June 2010 | Coatbridge |
| 4 August 2010 | Coatbridge |
| Kenny MacAskill MSP Cabinet Secretary for Justice | 22 March 2010 | Coatbridge |
| 7 July 2010 | Gartcosh |
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is European legislation that prevents an arm’s length publicly owned company from directly and permanently operating ScotRail services once the current franchise expires and, if so, what that legislation is.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35775 on 13 September 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is Scottish legislation that prevents an arm’s length publicly owned company from directly and permanently operating ScotRail services once the current franchise expires and, if so what that legislation is.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35775 on 13 September 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is Scottish legislation that prevents it or Transport Scotland directly and permanently operating ScotRail services once the current franchise expires and, if so, what that legislation is.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35775 on 13 September 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is European legislation that prevents it or Transport Scotland directly and permanently operating ScotRail services once the current franchise expires and, if so, what that legislation is.
Answer
The provision of rail passenger services in Scotland is regulated by UK and European legislation. A primary aim of the legislation is to ensure that the right to provide such services is open to competition. Scottish Ministers as franchising authority must therefore invite tenders under the UK Railways Act 1993.
That Act prevents a range of public bodies, including Scottish Ministers and their Executive Agency Transport Scotland, from being the franchisee and also prevents such bodies operating the franchise through a company controlled by them.
Section 30 of the Railways Act makes Scottish Ministers responsible for securing ScotRail services in the absence of a franchisee, until a replacement can be secured.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is UK legislation that prevents it or Transport Scotland directly and permanently operating ScotRail services once the current franchise expires and, if so, what that legislation is.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35775 on 13 September 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is UK legislation that prevents an arm’s length publicly owned company from directly and permanently operating ScotRail services once the current franchise expires and, if so, what that legislation is.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35775 on 13 September 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 23 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has agreed payment to First ScotRail to meet some or all of the costs incurred by the company to train staff to replace First ScotRail conductors taking industrial action.
Answer
No agreement has been made to pay such costs.
