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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: S1W-21550

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19747 by Susan Deacon on 21 November 2001, what financial resources (a) have been made available to the cancer centres in (i) Aberdeen, (ii) Dundee, (iii) Edinburgh, (iv) Glasgow and (v) Inverness in each of the last five years and (b) will be made available to those centres in each of the next five years.

The information requested is not held centrally. NHS trust chief executives at the acute hospital trusts which host Scotland's cancer centres will be able to provide information locally - Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust, Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust, Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust, North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust and Highland Acute Trust. Contact details are available online at: www.show.scot.nhs.uk.

Question reference: S1W-21549

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19685 by Jackie Baillie on 19 November 2001, what proportion of asylum seekers in Scotland are currently attending further education courses.

Question reference: S1W-20765

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how the number of linear accelerators allocated to the Beatson Oncology Centre has been calculated and what scope there is for increasing their number.

Information about the background to planning cancer services was outlined in the answer given to question S1W-19750.The linear accelerator (and related radiotherapy equipment) modernisation programme has been, and continues to be, developed by the Scottish Executive Health Department in consultation with Cancer Centre Directors and relevant staff drawn from across Scotland.Three new linear accelerators are installed at the Gartnavel Hospital site, giving a total of eight now available. Two further (additional) linear accelerators are to be purchased and installed there during 2002.Beyond that, the plans for further replacement and additional radiotherapy equipment will continue to be brought forward via the modernisation programme and within the context of the business planning process for the development of Phase 2 of the new West of Scotland Regional Cancer Centre at Gartnavel.

Question reference: S1W-20760

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive which cancer specialities are not being provided due to the current vacancies at the Beatson Oncology Centre.

Question reference: S1W-20759

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive who the members of the West of Scotland Regional Cancer Advisory Group are and how many of them are employed by the Beatson Oncology Centre.

The West of Scotland Regional Cancer Advisory Group is chaired by Mr Tom Divers, Chief Executive NHS Greater Glasgow. The Regional Lead Clinician is Dr Harry Burns, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow.There are more than 60 members drawn from across NHS Argyll and Clyde, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Greater Glasgow, NHS Lanarkshire, Managed Clinical Network leads, the voluntary sector, patient representation and representatives of regional services such as breast screening and cancer surveillance.There are three members from the Beatson Oncology Centre,Dr N Reed, Clinical DirectorProfessor J Cassidy, Academic OncologyMs C Hutchison, Consultant Nurse OncologistFull details of the membership of the North, South East and West of Scotland RCAGs will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.Guidance on the role, structure and function of Regional Cancer Advisory Groups is set out in NHS HDL (2001) 71 issued on 13 September 2001. This is available online at www.show.scot.nhs.uk.

Question reference: S1W-21227

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department of Trade and Industry and the receivers for Atlantic Telecom and what progress has been made on whether any action will be taken by any body due to the lack of notice given to customers before the company went into receivership.

Question reference: S1W-21417

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its press release SE5006/2001 on 10 December 2001, (a) whether it will outline a timetable for the creation of a Human Rights Commission for Scotland, (b) how many commissioners will be appointed to the commission, (c) what its relationship will be with the existing bodies (i) the Equal Opportunities Commission, (ii) the Commission for Racial Equality and (iii) the Disability Rights Commission, (d) how many posts are to be created under the new commission and (e) where it will be located.

The Executive has decided in principle to establish a Scottish Human Rights Commission. No decision has yet been taken on the timetable or on the detailed structure and membership of such a body. I intend to put forward proposals on those issues for consultation during the course of this year. No decision has been taken on the location of a commission.The Executive is clear that a Scottish Human Rights Commission should not in any way cut across the remits of the existing statutory equality bodies. The detailed proposals for the establishment of the commission will be drawn up with that firmly in mind. However, we anticipate that a Scottish commission will want to work closely with these bodies on matters of mutual interest, and we envisage that the new body, once established, will wish to draw up a memorandum of understanding to facilitate this working relationship.

Question reference: S1W-21363

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 17 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19977 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 16 November 2001, whether any other student awards are to be transferred from the Students Awards Agency for Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-21362

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 17 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4068 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 15 November 2001, whether there are any plans to bring funding allocated to institutional access and hardship funds back within the control of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-21361

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2001
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19627 by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 November 2001, when it will make an announcement in respect of any impact on the treatment of people with ME in Scotland of the findings of the Chief Medical Officer's Working Group on ME in England.