Section E – Written questions lodged on 21 May 2015
Questions marked with a triangle (Δ) are initiated by the Scottish Government in order to facilitate the provision of information to the Parliament.
Questions in which a member has indicated a declarable interest are marked with an "R".
S4W-25605 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Government what is being done to gather information on pupils with a (a) visual and (b) visual and other impairment.
S4W-25606 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the guidance for universal newborn health screening that was introduced in 2005 has not been published.
S4W-25607 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Government when it will take forward plans to support the provision of lessons in BSL to parents of newborn deaf children, as set out in the 2011 SNP manifesto.
S4W-25608 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Government what is being done in nurseries to (a) identify and (b) support children with both a hearing and visual impairment and their families.
S4W-25631 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Government how the £40 million of additional funding for general practice that was announced in 2015 has been allocated and which (a) practices and (b) primary care teams have received support.
S4W-25657 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Government, in light of clinicians being part of a region-wide managed care network, for what reason they cannot access the clinical details of patients at the Scottish Care Information Store in cases where electronic records are held in different NHS board areas.
S4W-25658 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S3W-34514 by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 June 2010, what role it had in the procurement of the TrakCare contract for each of the NHS boards.
S4W-25659 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S3W-34514 by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 June 2010, what (a) role it had in the procurement of and (b) guidance it issued regarding the TrakCare contract for NHS (i) Lothian, (ii) Grampian, (iii) Highland, (iv) Orkney and (v) Shetland.
S4W-25660 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Government for what reason NHS contracts with TrakCare do not (a) ensure full continuity of access and (b) prevent possible interuption for up to several hours to access to clinically-important services when the contractor is carrying out updates.
S4W-25661 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the closure of the TrakCare system in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area for a 20-hour period in November 2014 for upgrade work, whether it (a) took steps to ensure this could not be repeated and, if so, what, (b) advised the other NHS boards that use the system that the contractor could take such action and (c) has taken action to ensure that contracts for such services specify that such interruptions should not take place.
S4W-25663 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the patient management information systems used by each NHS board.
S4W-25664 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Government whether clinicians dealing with patients who have been referred by NHS Fife to services in NHS Tayside or Lothian can access the patient’s (a) electronic clinical record other than by using the EMC or KIS systems and (b) laboratory results for tests carried out in NHS Fife.
S4W-25665 John Finnie: To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it provides to its (a) directorates and (b) agencies regarding when it would be appropriate to (i) examine and (ii) comment on views that staff members have expressed online or through other types of media.
S4W-25666 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the current National Grid contract with Peterhead Power Station ending in 2017, whether it anticipates that Scotland will have a functioning thermal generating plant with ongoing contracts to supply the grid beyond that date.
S4W-25667 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the current National Grid contract with Peterhead Power Station ending in 2017, whether it anticipates that Scotland will remain a net exporter of power beyond that date.
S4W-25668 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to investigate the potential capability of solar photovoltaics (PV) as a renewable energy source.
S4W-25669 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to assess the potential for deployment of solar panels on the Scottish Government estate.
S4W-25670 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the responsibility of licensing the (a) onshore and (b) offshore aspects of underground coal gasification projects in Scotland.
S4W-25671 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Government which government directorate, agency or public body will have responsibility for licensing the (a) onshore and (b) offshore aspects of underground coal gasification projects in Scotland.
S4W-25672 Claudia Beamish: To ask the Scottish Government how the final version of the Low Emission Strategy will ensure that Scotland complies with the legal requirements laid out in the Supreme Court’s judgment on air pollution.
S4W-25673 Claudia Beamish: To ask the Scottish Government how its Low Emission Strategy will feed into the preparation of the new UK air quality plans required following the Supreme Court’s mandatory order as part of its judgment of 29 April 2015 on air pollution.
S4W-25674 Claudia Beamish: To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that adequate funding is allocated to (a) develop and (b) deploy effective transport measures to tackle air pollution.
S4W-25679 Liz Smith: To ask the Scottish Government how many public sector (a) jobs and (b) bodies have been relocated to Perth in each year since 1999.
S4W-25681 Liz Smith: To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the location of public sector bodies.
S4W-25682 Graeme Pearson: To ask the Scottish Government when the (a) chair, (b) panel and (c) remit of the national public inquiry into historical abuse of children in institutional care will be announced and what the reasons are for the further delay.
S4W-25683 Mary Fee: To ask the Scottish Government how much each local authority in the West Scotland region will receive from the Attainment Scotland Fund.
S4W-25685 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government what steps it (a) has taken and (b) will take to improve mobile phone coverage in rural and island areas.
S4W-25686 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the use of mobile repeaters to help extend mobile phone coverage in rural and island areas and with what conclusions.
S4W-25687 Gavin Brown: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-04363 by John Swinney on 21 May 2015, whether it will provide an update on the Scottish business development bank before the beginning of the summer recess.
S4W-25688 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Government what redress is available to a councillor who is refused access to papers regarding the local authority’s budget and the development of financial plans.
S4W-25689 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Government whether the power of general competence available to a local authority allows it to establish committees that (a) take no minutes, (b) do not permit their papers to be distributed to councillors who are not members of the committee, (c) forbid councillors who are not members of the committee to attend and (d) meet in private and exclude the public at all times.
S4W-25690 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the establishment of a local authority committee that (a) met in private and excluded the public at all times, (b) took no minutes, (c) refused councillors who are not members of the committee access to its papers, (d) refused councillors who are not members of the committee to attend and (e) gave no indication of the means by which its recommendations would be published or issued for final decision by the local authority would be consistent with best practice in local authorities in the development of budgets and financial plans.
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