- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, following recent comments by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice that “our prisons are going to burst”, what steps it has taken to ensure the security of HM Prison Shotts.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
There are no plans to increase prisoner numbers or to do anything which might impact adversely on the level of security there.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, following recent comments by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice that “our prisons are going to burst”, what steps it has taken to ensure that there is sufficient capacity within the Scottish Prison Service.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS is maximising the use of its accommodation to manage the high numbers. HM Prison Addiewell is planned to open in December 2008 and there will be new halls opened in HM Prison Edinburgh and HMYOI Polmont during 2009. Two further prisons at Bishopbriggs and in the north east of Scotland are in the planning stages. SPS is also utilising the home detention curfew regulations to allow carefully selected prisoners to spend part of their sentence in the community.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 16 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9803 by Michael Russell on 29 February 2008, what steps it will take to support communities in the immediate vicinity of quarries who are affected by the impact of aggregates extraction.
Answer
As I said in my previous answer, the government''s plan for spending on Sustainable Development and Climate Change includes a new Climate Challenge Fund, which will launch later this year. Through this Climate Challenge Fund, the government will support all communities across Scotland to take positive action to tackle climate change.
This new fund provides a higher level of resources for community initiatives compared to the Aggregates Levy Community Environmental Renewal Scheme from 2002 to 2008.
Over six years the Scottish Government supported 332 environmental projects in communities across Scotland in the vicinity of existing or disused quarries. Many of these projects had funding from additional sources.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients it anticipates will be treated annually by the planned percutaneous coronary intervention unit at Hairmyres Hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10634 on 12 March 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the criteria will be for referral to the planned percutaneous coronary intervention unit at Hairmyres Hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10634 on 12 March 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive who will be responsible for deciding whether a patient should be sent to their local accident and emergency department or to the planned percutaneous coronary intervention unit at Hairmyres Hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10634 on 12 March 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of patients who were treated for myocardial infarction in each accident and emergency department in Lanarkshire in 2006-07 would have been suitable for referral to the planned percutaneous coronary intervention unit at Hairmyres Hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10634 on 12 March 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were treated for myocardial infarction in each accident and emergency department in Lanarkshire in 2006-07.
Answer
These are matters for NHS Lanarkshire and neighbouring NHS boards because specialist services are being planned and developed on a regional basis.
I have given in principle approval for further work to be carried out on providing specialist primary angioplasty services at Hairmyres. This is consistent with the service model provided in Glasgow where patients requiring this treatment go the Golden Jubilee Hospital and not the accident and emergency units at the Southern General Hospital or the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Robust evidence shows that for a minority of patients who suffer a heart attack as a consequence of a blocked coronary artery, this is the most appropriate treatment for them and will deliver the best outcomes.
For this group of patients, the evidence is also clear that the sooner the intervention is carried out, the better the clinical result. Patients in North Lanarkshire who suffer a heart attack of this kind do not, at present, have immediate access to these specialist services. These proposals will provide fast access to such a service at Hairmyres Hospital to patients from all over Lanarkshire, and also Ayrshire. These proposals will affect those patients who require primary angioplasty only “ the majority of heart attack victims will continue to be treated locally.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what modelling it has carried out in relation to the numbers of patients who will be treated by the planned percutaneous coronary intervention unit at Hairmyres Hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10634 on 12 March 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage Scottish teachers employed outside Scotland to return to teach in Scottish schools.
Answer
We have no such plans.
