- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-25741 by Lewis Macdonald on 22 May 2006, what the series of questions are that a health professional must ask before administering the MMR vaccine and to whom these questions must be posed.
Answer
Health professionals will aska number of questions before administering any vaccine.
In the case of MMR the child’sparent or guardian will be asked a number of questions which will include the following:
Is the child well today and doeshe or she have any fever?
Is the child allergic to anyantibiotics such as neomycin?
Has the child had any other vaccinesover the past four weeks?
Is the child on any medication?(to rule out any chronic immunocompromised conditions).
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it now expects to make an announcement in respect of the report of the local inquiry into the proposed online upgrade of the A80 and what the reasons are for any delay in this announcement and in making the report publicly available.
Answer
It is extremely important thatScottish ministers give careful consideration to the report of the public localinquiry prior to reaching their decision.
This process is at an advancedstage and it is anticipated that a decision will be issued soon. The report of thepublic local inquiry will become publicly available when the parties who made representationson the proposed scheme have been informed of the decision.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it regularly seeks information from Her Majesty’s Government in respect of the quantity of oil, condensate and gas produced from the sector of the North Sea under Scottish jurisdiction.
Answer
Oil and gas production is a matterreserved to the UK government.
The Scottish Executive receivesinformation about oil and gas production from a range of sources, including throughthe DTI’s quarterly Energy Trends publication. This contains data and commentarycovering all major aspects of energy and provides a comprehensive picture of energyproduction and use.
Additional data is also publishedmonthly by the DTI on the indigenous production of primary fuels at UK level. Theseinclude coal, petroleum (including condensates), natural gas, nuclear, wind andnatural-flow hydro.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of railways in Scotland are electrified and what information it has on what the comparable figures are for (a) the United Kingdom as a whole and (b) each European Union member state.
Answer
The proportion of railwayselectrified in Scotland is 29% compared with 40% in Great Britain.This information has been provided by Network Rail and is calculated on thebasis of track kilometres.
The EU Energy and Transportin Figures Statistical Pocketbook 2005 provides information on electrificationin each European Union member state. These data are provided in the following table.
The UK figure inthe following table differs from that provided by Network Rail because itincludes railways in Northern Ireland and has been calculated on the basis of route kilometres.For illustration, 1km of route of double track railway = 2 track km.
| Country | Total length of Railway Line (km) | % Electrified |
| United Kingdom | 17,050 | 31 |
| Belgium | 3,521 | 83 |
| Czech Republic | 9,612 | 31 |
| Denmark | 2,273 | 27 |
| Germany | 36,054 | 55 |
| Estonia | 959 | 14 |
| Greece | 2,414 | 3 |
| Spain | 14,387 | 57 |
| France | 29,269 | 50 |
| Ireland | 1,919 | 3 |
| Italy | 16,287 | 69 |
| Latvia | 2,270 | 11 |
| Lithuania | 1,774 | 7 |
| Luxembourg | 275 | 95 |
| Hungary | 7,950 | 36 |
| The Netherlands | 2,811 | 73 |
| Austria | 5,787 | 58 |
| Poland | 19,900 | 60 |
| Portugal | 2,818 | 38 |
| Slovenia | 1,229 | 41 |
| Slovak Republic | 3,657 | 43 |
| Finland | 5,851 | 41 |
| Sweden | 9,882 | 77 |
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much land has been designated, or has had planning permission granted, for future housing development, broken down by local authority area, and how much of this land is designated as part of a green belt.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot hold this information centrally. It would be for individual planningauthorities to record land allocated for housing in their development plans.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive who has responsibility for monitoring adverse reactions to drugs and vaccines.
Answer
The Medicines and Healthcareproducts Regulatory Agency and the Commission on Human Medicines run the UK’s adversedrug (including vaccines) reaction reporting scheme, the Yellow Card Scheme.
Guidance on the reporting ofsuspected adverse drug reactions is available at:
www.yellowcard.gov.uk.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost was of policing the visit of Bill Clinton to Scotland in May 2006 and who is meeting those costs.
Answer
Information on the cost of policingthis visit is not held centrally and is a matter for Strathclyde Police.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has been responsible for Unison’s legal expenses in any civil action related to the Shirley McKie case and, if so, over what period it was responsible, what legal action was involved, why it undertook to pay the expenses and what the cost to the Executive was of such support.
Answer
For the purposes of the civilcase related to Shirley McKie, in June 2002 Scottish ministers accepted legal responsibilityfor the action of the officers at the Scottish Criminal Record Office named in theproceedings. The cases against those officers and the Strathclyde Joint Police Boardwere subsequently dismissed.
Having accepted legal responsibilityfor the actions of the individual officers in this case, the Scottish ministersagreed to pay the expenses the officers had incurred in defending the action tothat point.
The sum of £ 5,400 was paid tothe Unison solicitors who had been representing the officers.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 2 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of the law officers have attended a political party fundraising event in an official capacity since January 2000 and, if so, in which year, for which political party and for what purpose.
Answer
Neither the current SolicitorGeneral nor I have attended such an event since taking up our current positions.No records are held by the Executive on attendance by previous incumbents.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 2 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact on the Scottish manufacturing and tourism sectors will be of restricting access to the upgraded A80 as proposed.
Answer
Other than the limited accessjunction at Dalshannon (Condorrat), which would be closed on safety grounds allexisting accesses would be maintained or improved. In the future, where required,integral demand management measures targeted at benefiting public transport andeconomically important traffic would be deployed over the whole M80/M876 corridorto maintain a satisfactory level of service on the new section of the route.
Transport Scotland hasthe operational responsibility for this area, and can be contacted for more informationif required.
