- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alasdair Allan on 28 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what training is provided to teachers regarding giving support to children with imprisoned parents.
Answer
The teaching standards set by the General Teaching Council for Scotland require teachers to be able to identify and respond appropriately to pupils with difficulties in or barriers to learning and recognise when to seek advice in relation to their additional support needs. A child with a parent in prison would be likely to fall into this category.
One and four year courses of initial teacher education in each of Scotland's eight teacher education universities address, to differing extents, children's family circumstances and contexts, including those of children whose parents are imprisoned. Beyond that, schools and local authorities are responsible for ensuring that continuing professional development is provided to meet teachers' agreed development needs both during their induction year and throughout their careers.
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2012
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 28 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what reduction there has been in the number of female college students in the west of Scotland since 2006-07.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 28 November 2012
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank Mulholland on 7 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what the Lord Advocate’s interpretation of the Scottish Ministerial Code is in relation to the legal advice provided to ministers on an independent Scotland's membership of the European Union.
Answer
The Ministerial Code reflects the long-standing convention against disclosure of the fact or content of Law Officers’ legal advice. I refer the member to my letter of 30 October 2012 to Ruth Davidson MSP, which was published in SPICe.
As I set out in that letter, it is extremely important that this convention should be maintained for its value to the proper functioning of Government.
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 6 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that NHS boards adhere to the Gender Reassignment Protocol, CEL 26.
Answer
The Scottish Government Health Directorate are in the process of undertaking an Audit of the progress made by NHS boards in implementing the gender reassignment protocol.
This will not only include an audit of the boards implementation plans but will also include patient experience feedback.
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 6 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have attended accident and emergency units because of a mental health issue in each year since 2002 and how many of them were accompanied by a police officer.
Answer
This information is not currently held.
Information Services Division is working with NHS boards to develop Accident and Emergency data so diagnostic information can be provided at a national level.
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 6 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS boards have a consistent approach to dealing with gender reassignment and, if not, what variations there are.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S4W–10429 on 6 November 2012. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 6 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how much it spent on gender reassignment surgery in 2011-12.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 6 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government which NHS boards use private hospitals for gender reassignment surgery.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally held.
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 6 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what guidelines there are regarding the length of time between receiving funding for gender reassignment and having the surgery.
Answer
Patients going through the gender reassignment pathway contained in the protocol should experience no delay due to funding if they go on to full genital surgery.
However, there is currently no clinical expertise in Scotland to undertake this surgery and boards will need to seek treatment in England for patients going on to full genital surgery.
As this surgery would be undertaken in England, patients would not be covered by the legal treatment time guarantee contained in the Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011.
- Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how much it spent on (a) raising awareness of and (b) dealing with obstructive sleep apnoea in 2011-12.
Answer
The Scottish Government provides baseline funding to NHS boards and it is for the boards to determine how best to utilise this funding to meet the healthcare needs of their resident population. No specific funding is ring-fenced for sleep apnoea and it is not therefore possible to identify any spend for this condition in 2011-12.