- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the take-up of the MMR vaccine has been in the Forth Valley NHS Board area in each of the last five years.
Answer
Uptake of the MMR vaccine in Forth Valley NHS Board area over the previous five years, to end December each year, is as follows:
| Year | % Uptake |
| 2002 | 90.8 |
| 2001 | 90.6 |
| 2000 | 95.2 |
| 1999 | 93.9 |
| 1998 | 94.2 |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS boards have the authority to make single vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella available to patients.
Answer
There are single component measles, mumps and rubella vaccines licensed in the UK. The licensed measles and mumps vaccines are not currently marketed by their licence-holders in the UK but rubella vaccines are available, and are used mainly for the immunisation of women of child-bearing age who have been found to be non-immune either before or between pregnancies.UK legislation allows a licensed importer to import an unlicensed monocomponent vaccine and supply it in response to a doctor's prescription to meet the "special needs" of an individual patient, on the doctor's direct personal responsibility. Relevant guidance on the current position for all NHS health professionals was provided in a letter from the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Pharmaceutical Officer in December 2000.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual cost would be to the NHS of abolishing dental checks and charges for eye tests.
Answer
Based on the current system, it is estimated that the total cost to the NHS of introducing universally free NHS sight tests would be £20.2 million. This estimate is based on the number of NHS sight tests in the year 2002-03 and an estimate of sight tests undertaken privately in the same year. The cost does not take account of any increase in the number of sight tests as a result of the introduction of free sight tests, or of any future increases in fees.Based on the current system, it is estimated that the total cost to the NHS of introducing universally free dental examinations would be £16.8 million. This is based on the number of NHS dental examinations (provided either free or subject to a patient charge) undertaken in the general and community dental services in 2002-03. No information is held on the number of private dental examinations and it is not possible to estimate the number of patients currently receiving private dental treatment who would wish to receive free NHS dental examinations. It does not take account of any future increases in fees.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for a hearing aid is in (a) the Fife NHS Board area and (b) Scotland.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Information on waiting times for a first out-patient appointment with a consultant, following referral, is collected at specialty level only.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the administrative cost of collecting non-domestic rates was in 2002-03, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not currently available. We are awaiting returns from the local authorities before we could provide this information. However, the table gives the Budget Estimates of Total Expenditure on Collection of Non-Domestic Rate Income for each authority for 2002-03. This is the most up-to-date information that we have for all the councils at present.
| | £000 |
| Aberdeen, City | 309 |
| Aberdeenshire | 193 |
| Angus | 159 |
| Argyll and Bute | 423 |
| Clackmannanshire | 72 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 166 |
| Dundee | 243 |
| East Ayrshire | 22 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 97 |
| East Lothian | 60 |
| East Renfrewshire | 92 |
| Edinburgh, City | 134 |
| Eilean Siar | 115 |
| Falkirk | 214 |
| Fife | 229 |
| Glasgow | 862 |
| Highland | 693 |
| Inverclyde | 197 |
| Midlothian | 166 |
| Moray | 144 |
| North Ayrshire | 107 |
| North Lanarkshire | 181 |
| Orkney | 18 |
| Perth and Kinross | 200 |
| Renfrewshire | 124 |
| Scottish Borders | 110 |
| Shetland | 96 |
| South Ayrshire | 98 |
| South Lanarkshire | 667 |
| Stirling | 169 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 175 |
| West Lothian | 123 |
| Scotland | 6,658 |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much non-domestic rates income it received in 2002-03 from public bodies or organisations that it funds directly or indirectly.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs were of publishing, printing and distributing the final and project summary reports, Building Community Well-being: An Exploration of Themes and Issues
Answer
The cost of printing and publishing the final report was £8,620 and the summary report £2,545. The total cost of distributing both reports was £5,309.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 30 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers (a) it has and (b) local authorities have in respect of the siting of, and granting of planning permission for, wind farms.
Answer
Wind farm proposals with the capacity to generate over 50 megawatts of electricity are dealt with by the Scottish ministers under the Electricity Act 1989. Applications below this threshold are dealt with by planning authorities under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997. All proposals for offshore wind farms within Scottish territorial waters would be for the Scottish ministers to consider.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 20 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what statutory responsibilities utility companies are under to notify local authorities when undertaking work that affects local authority-maintained roads; what national agreed standards of work there are on the reinstatement of such roads following work by utility companies, and whether statutory fines may be levied on such companies that fail to reinstate such roads to a satisfactory condition.
Answer
There is a requirement under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 for utility companies to give roads authorities advance notice of all road works and reinstatements. National standards for reinstatement are contained in the statutory code of practice Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways. Section 130 of the act requires that a utility company carrying out road works shall, in reinstating the road, comply with prescribed requirements for the specification of materials to be used and the standards of workmanship to be observed. Failure to comply with section 130 is an offence which, on summary conviction, is liable to a fine of up to £1,000.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 12 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Transport will next visit the Stirling district.
Answer
I hope to visit the Stirling district, in my capacity as Minister for Transport, soon.
