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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.

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Question reference: S3W-34134

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will seek a parliamentary debate on the draft carers strategy.

Question reference: S3W-34138

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-33490 by Alex Neil on 12 May 2010, what the actual budget is for the Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12 and how many applications were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful.

The budget for the Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme in 2010-11 is £3.6 million. Although the Affordable Housing Investment Programme budget for next financial year has not yet been set, it is intended to provide the balance of funding amounting to £1.3 million during 2011-12.

Full details of the pilot scheme, including applications received and those projects being supported, have been published on the Scottish Government''s website at:

www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-environment/Housing/investment/grants/ruralhomesforrent/ruralhomesforrent.

Question reference: S3W-34137

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-31800 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2010, what it means by near future and whether it considers that there has been an unacceptable delay in the publication of the findings of the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation (TAGRA).

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33780 on 1 June 2010, which provides an update of the work of Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation (TAGRA) relating to its remote and rural review. All answers to written parliamentary questions can be found on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

The Scottish Government does not consider there to have been an unacceptable delay in the publishing of TAGRA''s findings. TAGRA has not yet completed its report, and its findings will be published once it has done so. The evidence that has been viewed by TAGRA as part of its research is published on its website at http://www.tagra.scot.nhs.uk/meetingpapers.html, alongside the minutes from its meetings, as part of its commitment to having a fair and transparent formula.

Question reference: S3W-33979

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Orkney were directly connected to a diagnosis of assault by sharp object in each of the last five years for which information is available.

In order to minimise the risk of disclosure due to small numbers it is not possible to provide the number of occupied bed days for NHS Orkney.

The aggregate number of occupied bed days for all island boards (NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isles) where a diagnosis of assault by sharp object is available in the answer to question S3W-33978 on 10 June 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

Question reference: S3W-33980

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Shetland were directly connected to a diagnosis of assault by sharp object in each of the last five years for which information is available.

In order to minimise the risk of disclosure due to small numbers it is not possible to provide the number of occupied bed days for NHS Shetland.

The aggregate number of occupied bed days in for all island boards (NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isles) where a diagnosis of assault by sharp object is available in the answer to question S3W-33978 on 10 June 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.

Question reference: S3W-33978

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Western Isles were directly connected to a diagnosis of assault by sharp object in each of the last five years for which information is available.

In order to minimise the risk of patient disclosure due to small numbers it is not possible to provide the number of occupied bed days for NHS Western Isles.

The aggregate number of occupied bed days for all island boards (NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isles) where a diagnosis of assault by sharp object is recorded is presented in the following table.

Aggregate number of acute occupied bed days^1,2 in the island boards (NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isles) connected with an assault by sharp object³, patient discharged during year ending 31 March 2005-09:

Financial Years	Total Number of Bed Days⁴
2004-05	1
2005-06	0
2006-07	0
2007-08	7
2008-09	7

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01

Notes:

1. Hospital admission data are derived from linked records on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

2. Bed Days are calculated using the length of stay variable.

3. Assault by sharp object connected incidents are defined as ICD-10 code X99 in any secondary diagnosis positions.

4. The number of bed days can be influenced by the severity of the injury received and hence total bed day figures do not necessarily reflect the underlying number of admissions.

For information; the numbers of admissions connected to assault by a sharp object in the island boards provided in the answer to question S3W-32124 on 15 March 2010, however, the figures were suppressed to minimise the risk of disclosure due to small numbers. 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.

Additional data and commentary on assault by a sharp object is published as part of ISD''s Unintentional Injuries publication http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5327.html.

Question reference: S3W-34136

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 10 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take action to ensure that further education students receive an acceptable minimum amount of student support throughout their studies and how the additional money for 2010-11 announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will assist further education students.

Question reference: S3O-10846

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 10 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in cutting journey times by rail from Inverness to Edinburgh.

Question reference: S3W-33780

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 June 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-31800 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2010, whether the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation has reported its findings on the assessment of the impact of the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee formula on remote and rural areas and, if so, when these findings will be published.

Question reference: S3W-33589

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 May 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 May 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Highland were directly connected to a diagnosis of assault by sharp object in each of the last five years for which information is available.

The number of occupied bed days in NHS Highland where a diagnosis of assault by sharp object is recorded is presented in the following table.

Number of acute occupied bed days^1,2 in NHS Highland connected with an assault by sharp object³, patient discharged during year ending 31 March 2005-09:

Financial Years	Total Number of Bed Days⁴
2004-05	153
2005-06	21
2006-07	16
2007-08	36
2008-09	34

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01.