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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)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-05633

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what pancreatic cancer survival rates are in Scotland and what information it has on how this compares with the rest of the (a) UK and (b) world.

<>Information on survival rates from pancreatic cancer in Scotland can be found on the Information Services Division cancer statistics website: http://www.isdscotland.scot.nhs.uk/Health-Topics/Cancer/Cancer-Statistics/Pancreatic/.

Survival rate estimates for Scotland and the UK as a whole can be seen on the Cancer e-Atlas provided by the National Cancer Intelligence Network at: http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_information_tools/eatlas/network/atlas.html?select=Eav&indicator=i0.

Due to the differences in data collection between countries, it is difficult to make true comparisons between countries. However, survival rates from cancers which can be compared amongst countries are often estimated as part of international studies. Some studies have attempted to compare survival estimates from a number of countries including Scotland, for example, EUROCARE (www.eurocare.it ).

Question reference: S4O-00749

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider establishing closer working relationships with the emerging democracies in Europe in order to share best practice.

Question reference: S4O-00559

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in developing the cities strategy and what role towns and villages can play in this.

Question reference: S4O-00333

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in improving the accountability of factors to the residents of housing estates in relation to landscape maintenance.

Question reference: S4W-03113

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 27 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has invested in hockey in the last four years and what proportion has been invested in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley.

Question reference: S4W-03112

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what it has done to (a) promote and (b) support hockey in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley in the last four years and with what result.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.

Sportscotland, as the national agency for sport and the lead agency for the development of sport in Scotland, provides financial investment to Scottish Hockey in order to deliver ministerial priorities and delivering the objectives of Reaching Higher, the national strategy for sport.

I have therefore asked the Chief Executive of sportscotland to write to you separately with details of the promotion and support the organisation has made in the Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley constituency for the years in question.

Question reference: S4O-00164

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what change there has been in the number of students taking computer science as their main subject at university over the last four years.

Question reference: S4O-00115

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has taken to enhance economic growth in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley.

Question reference: S4W-01234

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the funding provided to (a) sportscotland and (b) sport governing bodies in each year since 1999 was awarded (i) without competition and (ii) following a competitive bid process.

Question reference: S4W-01232

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has provided to (a) sportscotland and (b) sport governing bodies in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Government has provided the following amounts of Grant-in-Aid to sportscotland for the financial years noted (as published by sportscotland in their annual reports):

Year	Amount (£m)
1999-00	£10.011m
2000-01	£10.182m
2001-02	£13.031m
2002-03	£16.375m
2003-04	£13.108m
2004-05	£21.345m
2005-06	£25.427m
2006-07	£29.689m
2007-08	£46.257m
2008-09	£41.477m
2009-10	£49.312m*
2010-11	£41.600m

The Scottish Government does not provide direct funding to sport governing bodies as such funding is provided by sportscotland. I have asked the Chief Executive of sportscotland to write to you separately with that information.

*The increase in sportscotland’s baseline for 2009-10 was predominately to fund relocation and redundancy following the decision in 2008 to relocate to Glasgow. This avoided diverting funds away from sporting governing bodies. Re-profiling of the elite athlete funding also led to a one off increase in funding.