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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: S4W-13477

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the age limit is for IVF treatment in each NHS board.

The age limit for IVF treatment in each NHS Board is currently as follows:

NHS Ayrshire and Arran – 39 years inclusive

NHS Borders - 39 years inclusive

NHS Dumfries and Galloway – 39 years inclusive

NHS Fife – up to 38th birthday

NHS Forth Valley – 39 years inclusive

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – 39 years inclusive

NHS Grampian – 39 years inclusive

NHS Highland – 39 years inclusive

NHS Lanarkshire – 39 years inclusive

NHS Lothian – 39 years inclusive

NHS Orkney – 39 years inclusive

NHS Shetland – 39 years inclusive

NHS Tayside – 39 years inclusive

NHS Western Isles – 39 years inclusive.

Question reference: S4W-13479

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will review the age limit for IVF treatment in light of the announcement that England and Wales will raise the age limit to 42.

Question reference: S4W-13414

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12690 by Michael Matheson on 26 February 2013, who invites healthcare officials and stakeholders to join the Scottish Chronic Pain Steering Group.

Question reference: S4W-13415

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12687 by Michael Matheson on 26 February 2013, to whom did it reimburse the £58,000 funding of Health Improvement Scotland’s budget for chronic pain.

Question reference: S4W-12967

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the take-up of basic bank accounts.

Question reference: S4W-12966

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people do not have bank accounts.

Question reference: S4W-13103

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time has been for someone to be provided with a wheelchair in each year since 2007-08, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S4W-13106

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the names of the members of the project board that monitored the implementation of the Wheelchair and seating services modernisation: Action Plan; and when the project board last met.

The Wheelchair and Seating Services Project Board (WSSPB) oversaw the modernisation project and last met on 10 December 2010.

Wheelchair Seating Services Modernisation Project Board: Membership

Chair: Richard Carey	Chief Executive Officer, NHS Grampian
Geoff Bardsley	Senior Rehabilitation Engineer, NHS Tayside
Gordon Birnie	Medical Director, NHS Fife
John Colvin	Head of Service, WestMARC, NHS GG&C
Andrew Daly	Head of Financial Planning and Allocations, NHS GG&C
Hazel Dykes	Associate Director AHP, NHS Dumfries & Galloway
Anne Harkness	Director, Rehabilitation Directorate, NHS GG&C
Roger Kincaid	Parent of Wheelchair User
Jill Pritchard	Fife Council
Liz Rowlett	Policy, Information and Parliamentary Officer
Ron Skinner	Wheelchair User
Roseanne Urquhart	Chair, ReTSAG
Janet Garcia	National Project Manager, Scottish Government
Graham Wood	Project Support Officer, Scottish Government

Question reference: S4W-13104

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what changes there have been to the eligibility criteria for wheelchair services since 2007-08.

Question reference: S4W-13105

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what changes there have been to the eligibility criteria for powered wheelchairs since 2007-08.

The Standards and Eligibility Working Group (SEWG), a sub group of the Wheelchair and Seating Services Project Board, produced clarification of clinical criteria for the provision of attendant controlled and dual controlled powered wheelchairs.

Clarification was added to eligibility criteria for Indoor/Outdoor Occupant Controlled wheelchairs (EPIOC) and Attendant Controlled Outdoor Powered wheelchairs (EPAC).

New criteria were added in 2009 for Indoor/Outdoor Dual Controlled Powered wheelchairs (EPOIC Dual).

These eligibility criteria are available from:

http://www.retis.scot.nhs.uk/groups/scotretwc.php.