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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-02866

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy will make a decision on the provision of transcatheter aortic valve implantation treatment.

I have asked that NHSScotland continues to review further evidence on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) as it emerges.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is currently consulting on draft Interventional Procedures Programme guidance on the safe and efficacious use of TAVI in the UK. The guidance is expected to be made available in November 2011.

The National Institute for Health Research has also commissioned a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) looking at cost effectiveness. Publication of this HTA in December will trigger a further review by the Scottish Health Technologies Group.

As agreed at the time of the original review of TAVI in February 2011, NHSScotland will take this emerging evidence into account in its future consideration of the provision of TAVI by the end of February 2012.

Question reference: S4W-02597

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures are in place to prevent publicly limited companies avoiding the scrutiny of local authority commissioners' approved provider processes by purchasing companies that are trading or in administration.

Question reference: S4W-02867

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the next meeting of the National Planning Forum will discuss the provision of transcatheter aortic valve implantation treatment.

Question reference: S4W-02477

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-01248 by Michael Mathieson on 18 July 2011, why it has no plans to establish a living wage unit.

Question reference: S4O-00253

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it last wrote to NHS boards about their budget allocations for 2012-13.

Question reference: S4W-02393

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children from Scotland have accessed the paediatric congenital heart service in the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S4W-02418

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will commence section 2 of the Alcohol (Scotland) Act 2010, and the requirement not to sell alcoholic drinks in multiples, where the unit cost is less expensive than purchasing the drinks individually.

Question reference: S4W-02398

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures that cost is not the only factor when procuring social care.

Question reference: S4W-02430

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on East Ayrshire Community Hospital's proposed dental facility and how much was spent on the refurbishment of its (a) Frail Elderly and (b) Elderly Mental Health Wards.

The projected cost of work on the project incurred by NHS Ayrshire and Arran is £758,381.

Within the above cost, £146,727 was spent on permanent improvements to facilities. Of direct benefit to the Frail Elderly and Elderly Mental Health’s Pennelburn and Holmburn Wards were building alterations, including door widening and floor improvements. Also included in the cost of the permanent improvements were additional car parking spaces and changes to the kitchen.

Question reference: S4W-02390

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the possible removal of paediatric congenital heart services from the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, given that some children from Scotland access these services.

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