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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)
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Question reference: S2W-01341

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 July 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 July 2003

All information on cause of death collected when a death is registered is held on public registers. The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) collates this information and codes the cause of death data using the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases (ICD). There is not at present a specific ICD code for MRSA. It is therefore not possible to identify the numbers of deaths to which MRSA may have contributed.

Question reference: S2W-01340

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 July 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been (a) reported and (b) recorded in (i) 2000, (ii) 2001, (iii) 2002 and (iv) 2003, broken down by hospital; how many patients have had their stay in hospital extended owing to MRSA infection, and how much has been incurred by the NHS in extra costs arising from MRSA.

Data are available on the rates of episodes of MRSA bacteraemia (blood poisoning) by NHS trusts to allow monitoring of trends in infection. The data were not collected before 2001 and the latest published results are set out in the table. Information for individual hospitals can be unreliable and misleading, or may be combined though use of a joint laboratory.MRSA Bacteraemia Rates by Acute Trust : Jan 2001 to Dec 2001 and Jan 2002 to Dec 2002

Trust Name	Category	MRSA per 1000 bed days2001	MRSA per 1000 bed days2002
Trust Name	Category		MRSA per 1000 bed days2002
Shetland	Island	0.0000	0.0000
Western Isles	Island	0.0309	0.0159
Orkney	Island	0.0426	0.0405
West Lothian	General Acute	0.0703	0.0537
Yorkhill	Specialist	0.0000	0.0613
Argyll & Clyde	General Acute	0.0566	0.0888
South Glasgow	Teaching	0.0902	0.0961
Grampian	Teaching	0.1060	0.1114
Ayrshire & Arran	General Acute	0.1147	0.1143
Highland Acute	General Acute	0.0750	0.1219
Forth Valley	General Acute	0.1267	0.1504
Dumfries & Galloway	General Acute	0.1127	0.1551
Lanarkshire	General Acute	0.1880	0.1730
North Glasgow	Teaching	0.1321	0.1816
Borders	General Acute	0.1765	0.1999
Tayside	Teaching	0.2217	0.2191
Fife	General Acute	0.2503	0.2592
Lothian	Teaching	0.3358	0.3712

There is no routinely collected information for the effects of MRSA on costs or length of stay.

Question reference: S2W-01294

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2003
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will hold an investigation into any disparity between Edinburgh and Glasgow airports in respect of the award of airport routes.

Question reference: S2W-01290

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2003
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been any bias against Glasgow in respect of plans for new routes for Scottish airports.

Question reference: S2W-01293

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2003
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether an independent adjudicator should be present at discussions about new routes for Scottish airports.

Question reference: S2W-01291

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2003
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to consult British Airways on the new routes for Scottish airports.

Question reference: S2W-01289

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2003
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the new routes proposed for Scottish airports are for Glasgow airport.

Question reference: S2W-01292

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2003
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it can influence any decision by British Airways in respect of awarding new routes for Scottish airports.

Question reference: S2W-00352

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 4 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how much land was transferred as part of the Glasgow housing stock transfer.

Question reference: S2W-00326

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 4 July 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made with Glasgow Housing Association Ltd's application for charitable status.