- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many doses of the influenza A (H1N1) vaccine will be available to GPs for each week until Christmas 2009.
Answer
This information depends on deliveries from the manufacturers.
As announced on 21 October 2009, there will be a phased introduction as vaccine supplies become available from the manufacturers. Supplies are being sent to GP practices on a weekly basis to enable them to vaccinate the majority of the clinical at-risk groups by Christmas 2009.
Based on manufactures'' delivery schedules, we are able to confirm delivery schedules to GP practices on a weekly basis only.
NHS Scotland have now received just under 550,000 doses of Pandemrix vaccine “ around 40% of the total required for the 1.3 million priority groups as announced on 13 August 2009.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what overspends are anticipated for each NHS board in 2009-10.
Answer
All NHS Scotland health boards are anticipating to either break even or underspend in 2009‘10. No board is anticipating an overspend.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will amend the priority categories for the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination programme to include nought to four-year-olds.
Answer
The decision about who should be included in the priority groups was taken on the basis of advice from independent experts, who advised the Scottish Government and other UK administrations on the risk groups who should be offered vaccination first and foremost in order to reduce the rate or possibility of serious illness.
Ministers in all four nations accepted this advice and preparations continue to be made to extend the programme beyond these initial priority groups. This will be considered further based upon independent scientific advice.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the deaths in police custody in the last five years was as a result of suicide and how many of the individuals concerned had been seen by forensic medical examiners.
Answer
Information on cause of death and whether individuals who died in police custody were seen by forensic medical examiners is not held centrally. The responsibility for maintaining such records lies with individual Scottish police forces.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in prison in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those were known problem drug users.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
The following table sets out the number of self-inflicted deaths in the past 10 years within Scottish prisons. Our database does not record whether the individuals were known problem drug users and this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However, it is known that three of these deaths did relate to drug overdose, and addictions prevalence testing in 2007-08 shows that 71% of all prisoners tested on admission to custody produced a positive drug test.
| Year | Number of Deaths |
| 1999-2000 | 17 |
| 2000-01 | 11 |
| 2001-02 | 11 |
| 2002-03 | 8 |
| 2003-04 | 5 |
| 2004-05 | 9 |
| 2005-06 | 10 |
| 2006-07 | 10 |
| 2007-08 | 11 |
| 2008-09 | 3 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in police custody in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those were known problem drug users.
Answer
Information on cause of death and whether those who died in police custody were known problem drug users is not held centrally. The responsibility for maintaining such records lies with individual Scottish police forces.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the use of occupancy conditions in section 75 agreements for housing in national park areas.
Answer
It is a matter for the National Park Authorities in the exercise of their planning functions to determine whether and in what circumstances section 75 agreements should properly include occupancy conditions.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27590 by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 September 2009, whether the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry will be held in Dumbarton or the Vale of Leven and what its reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
It is for the Chair of the Inquiry, Lord MacLean, to decide on an appropriate venue for the public hearings and evidence sessions. Lord MacLean met the Vale of Leven families on 25 September and this was one of the issues discussed. I understand no final decision has yet been made.
Once a suitable venue has been chosen, the decision will be posted on the Inquiry''s website. The website can be accessed at www.valeoflevenhospitalinquiry.org.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 2 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies were (a) born and (b) born between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm at the Vale of Leven Hospital Community Maternity Unit, in each of the last three years.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following tables.
Number of Babies Born in the Vale of Leven Hospital
Number of Babies Born Between the Hours of 9 am and 5 pm in the Vale of Leven Hospital
As in other statistics published by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS), each birth is counted on the basis of the year in which it was registered, which may not be the same as the year in which it occurred.
Provisional figures for 2009 will not be available until March 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 2 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in psychiatric hospitals in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those were known problem drug users.
Answer
This information from 1998 to 2005, which is the most recent published, can be found in the
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness: Lessons for mental health care in Scotland. This report can be viewed at:
http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/suicide/prevention/nci/reports/scotlandfullreport.pdf.
