- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-926 by Mr Tom McCabe on 15 July 2003, how many NHS dental examinations were undertaken by the general and community dental services in 2002-03.
Answer
In 2002-03 there were2,213,262 NHS dental examinations undertaken by the general dental service and124,453 NHS dental examinations undertaken by the community dental service.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-926 by Mr Tom McCabe on 15 July 2003, how many sight tests (a) were undertaken on the NHS and (b) were estimated to be undertaken privately in 2002-03.
Answer
In 2002-03 there were 906,600sight tests undertaken on the NHS. It is estimated that around 450,000 sighttests were undertaken privately.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 November 2003
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Health and Community Care will next meet representatives of NHS Forth Valley and what issues will be discussed.
Answer
I have noimmediate plans to do so. Regular discussions take place, however, between the Scottish Executive and representatives of NHS boards,on a variety of issues.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 November 2003
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Answered by George Reid on 3 December 2003
To ask the Presiding Officer on how many occasions heating, plumbing or other similar contractors at the new Parliament building have removed fitting, piping and related fixtures and replaced them as a result of design changes and whether the cost of such work can be quantified.
Answer
The Convener of the HolyroodProgress Group has informed me that the policy of the group and of the HolyroodProject Team is to keep design changes to a minimum. However, it is inevitablethat some changes will be required in any project of this complexity and scale.Detailed information about the number of changes that have been required is notreadily available, and the provision of such information would involve asignificant amount of staff time.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 November 2003
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Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have been admitted to hospital due to complications caused by environmental tobacco smoke in the last three years.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally.
A report by the RoyalCollege of Physicians of London, Smoking and the young: a report of a workingparty of the Royal College of Physicians, in 1992 estimated that as many as 17,000 hospital admissions in asingle year of children under the age of five are due to parental smoking.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Answered by Hugh Henry on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths occurred in each year from 1992 to 1999 as a result of gunshot wounds.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in the following table.
Deaths from Gunshot Wounds in Scotland
| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
| 26 | 33 | 30 | 43 | 41 | 20 | 32 | 25 |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2003
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Answered by George Reid on 21 November 2003
To ask the Presiding Officer when the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body anticipates that Horse Wynd, Edinburgh, next to the new Parliament building, will re-open.
Answer
It is anticipated that HorseWynd will reopen before Christmas. The Holyrood progress group has decided thatasphalt should be used in this area instead of traditional granite setts. Thisis a temporary solution which will allow construction to proceed and the roadto re-open while leaving the option of returning to lay the setts once the councilhas developed a specification which is acceptable to their approved specialistcontractors.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2003
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-3183 by Mr Andy Kerr on 30 October 2003, how the remaining #3.592 million of the “Miscellaneous” section of the Other Enterprise and Lifelong Learning budget in the Draft Budget 2004-05 will be spent and what the corresponding figures are for 2004-05 and 2005-06.
Answer
This is a small reserve(0.15% of total budget) held against emergencies and unforeseen pressures in2003-04. The corresponding figures for 2004-05 and 2005 06 are £2.561 millionand £1.346 million respectively.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2003
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Answered by Tom McCabe on 19 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-926 by Mr Tom McCabe on 15 July 2003, whether the estimated cost of free NHS dental examinations is based on the recommended six-monthly check-up and whether the estimated cost of free NHS sight tests is based on the recommended biennial sight test.
Answer
The method of calculation of the estimated costs for the NHS dental examinations and NHS sight tests was setout in my reply of 15 July 2003.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 October 2003
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Answered by Frank McAveety on 18 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to increase funding to Scottish Opera.
Answer
The budget allocation forScottish Opera for 2003-06 has been set. Scottish Opera must operate within thelevel of resource that has been identified as being available to it.
