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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: S2W-25790

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many maternity units are achieving NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS) standards on ultrasound scanning; how many units met those standards last year, and how many units which previously met the standard are no longer doing so, broken down by NHS board.

The information requested isnot held centrally.

The clinical standards onmaternity services and pregnancy and newborn screening which include ultrasoundscanning have not yet been fully reviewed by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. Thereview of maternity services standards is due to be complete during 2006. Thereview of pregnancy and newborn screening standards is due to be completed during2007-08. The information requested will be available from NHS QualityImprovement Scotland shortly after their review process.

Question reference: S2W-25789

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is now in a position to publish a target date for the implementation of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS) standards in relation to ultrasound scanning.

Question reference: S2W-25783

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has regarding the arrangement between the Care Commission and BUPA in relation to the secondment of staff.

Question reference: S2W-25784

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 22 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the staff of public bodies have been seconded to private and independent organisations in each year since 1999.

The number of staff secondedby the Scottish Executive to private and independent organisations in the period1 April 1999 to 31 March 2006 is 485. The following table shows a breakdown by financialyear and shows the number seconded to the private sector separately.

Financial Year	Total Number of New Secondments	Number to Private Sector
1999-2000	84	4
2000-01	65	4
2001-02	60	6
2002-03	58	3
2003-04	67	1
2004-05	84	1
2005-06	67	3
Total	485	22

For the purposes of answeringthis question the response is based on the position in the Scottish Executive only.The Scottish Executive does not hold information relating to other public bodies.

Question reference: S2W-25785

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 22 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been to the public purse of secondment arrangements between public bodies and private and independent organisations in each year since 1999, also broken down by public body entering such arrangements.

The cost of the arrangementsfor secondments between the Scottish Executive and private and independent organisations,including the wider public and voluntary sectors, since 1999 has been £6,818,427.

Year	Total
1999-2000	£383,414
2000-01	£720,592
2001-02	£831,446
2002-03	£1,395,900
2003-04	£1,255,020
2004-05	£959,517
2005-06	£1,272,538
Total	£6,818,427

For the purposes of answeringthis question the response is based on the position in the Scottish Executive only.The Scottish Executive does not hold information relating to other public bodies.

Question reference: S2W-25639

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued since implementation of the legislation and how many have been issued to people with diagnosed emotional or behavioural problems and learning difficulties.

The requested information isgiven in the following table.

Number of Crimes Cleared upEach Year as a Percentage of Crimes Recorded, by Police Force Area, 1999-2000To 2004-05

Force	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Central	57.0	55.1	57.8	65.2	64.2	66.7	61.2
Dumfries and Galloway	58.8	56.0	50.7	50.1	51.0	55.2	61.2
Fife	51.5	42.6	44.6	45.5	47.6	46.1	44.2
Grampian	38.0	36.3	33.3	37.2	40.1	36.3	32.6
Lothian and Borders	37.4	41.5	46.4	45.7	43.7	41.6	42.1
Northern	62.4	55.9	58.4	65.0	64.3	66.1	60.3
Strathclyde	43.1	43.4	44.1	43.9	45.6	47.3	42.7
Tayside	38.5	41.1	42.0	36.5	42.3	55.6	55.1
Scotland	43.1	43.1	44.3	44.8	46.2	47.4	44.6

Question reference: S2W-25584

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people contracted hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis in each year from 1978 to1992.

Question reference: S2W-25548

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been infected with blood-borne viruses during or following participation in clinical research, broken down by time and location and specifying the nature of the research, since 1978.

Question reference: S2W-25583

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many blood donors contributed to the donor pool in each year from 1978 to 1992.

Scottish National Blood Transfusionrecords show the number of donor attendances was as follows:

1981-82	322,312
1982-83	328,086
1983-84	336,802
1984-85	338,287
1985-86	333,112
1986-87	331,039
1987-88	314,657
1988-89	324,382
1989-90	332,615
1990-91	352,314
1991-92	347,602

On average each donor will attend1.6 times during a year.

Question reference: S2W-25585

Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many units of donated blood were identified as containing the hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis virus (a) prospectively and (b) retrospectively, in each year from 1978 to 1992.