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Reference	Item	MSP	Type	Date (desc)
S2W-25621	To ask the Scottish Executive whether progress has been made towards piloting sight-screening for pupils on entry to secondary school, since the Stage 3 debate on the Smoking, Health and Social Care (	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	18 May 2006
S2M-04104	Tesco	Maclean, Kate	Motion Standard Motion	14 Mar 2006
S2W-19851	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will reconsider its position on NHS provision of photodynamic therapy for sufferers of non-classic wet age-related macular degeneration.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	02 Nov 2005
S2W-19850	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-11713 by Mr Andy Kerr on 9 November 2004, what action it is taking to ensure that photodynamic therapy is available to all those wh	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	02 Nov 2005
S2W-19849	To ask the Scottish Executive why it has taken over 18 months to implement the regional service for treating wet age-related macular degeneration, referred to by the former Deputy Minister for Health	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	02 Nov 2005
S2W-19848	To ask the Scottish Executive when the informal clinical network and clinical patient pathway for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration will be fully implemented.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	02 Nov 2005
S2W-19847	To ask the Scottish Executive why an estimated 50% of patients suffering from wet age-related macular degeneration, who in accordance with NHS QIS guidance could benefit from photo-dynamic therapy, ar	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	02 Nov 2005
S2M-03378	Guide Dogs for the Blind Re-think Rehab	Maclean, Kate	Motion Standard Motion	03 Oct 2005
S2W-12987	To ask the Scottish Executive why funding for its Quality of Life initiative has been cut by £20 million.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	24 Dec 2004
S2W-12986	To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the fact that Dundee City Council, Glasgow City Council and West Dunbartonshire Council received a minimum grant increase in AEF this year and have the highe	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	24 Dec 2004
S2W-12985	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects local authorities with minimum grant increases in AEF to fund existing services and new service improvements without an increase in council tax revenue	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	24 Dec 2004
S2W-12984	To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations took place with local authorities prior to the setting of this year's minimum grant "floor", which ensures that all local authorities receive a	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	24 Dec 2004
S2W-12983	To ask the Scottish Executive why the minimum grant "floor", which ensures that all local authorities receive a minimum guaranteed increase in AEF in each year, has been set at a lower level t	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	24 Dec 2004
S2W-11714	To ask the Scottish Executive what regional arrangements are in place to ensure that all patients diagnosed with wet age-related macular degeneration receive treatment when the NHS board in which the	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Nov 2004
S2W-11713	To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated to treat individuals diagnosed with wet age-related macular degeneration with photodynamic therapy in each of the next three years, broken	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Nov 2004
S2W-11712	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-8003 by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004, what procedures have been put in place in the last 12 months to ensure that patients with	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Nov 2004
S2W-11711	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-8003 by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004, what monitoring processes have been put in place to ensure fair and equitable service prov	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Nov 2004
S2W-11710	To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals have been diagnosed with treatable wet age-related macular degeneration but have not received photodynamic therapy in each year since 1999 and what t	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Nov 2004
S2W-11709	To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients with wet age-related macular degeneration have been treated with photodynamic therapy since the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and NHS Quali	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Nov 2004
S2O-03173	To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to reduce congestion and develop public transport in Dundee.	Maclean, Kate	Question General Question	16 Sep 2004
S2M-00667	Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)	Maclean, Kate	Motion Members' Business Motion	04 Feb 2004
S2O-00992	To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to promote youth football.	Maclean, Kate	Question General Question	19 Dec 2003
S2W-01177	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the location of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and what plans it has to take forward the charity law agenda.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	27 Jun 2003
S1W-34752	To ask the Scottish Executive when further detailed results from the 2001 Census will be published.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	25 Mar 2003
S1W-33993	To ask the Scottish Executive when additional results from the 2001 Census will be published.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	13 Feb 2003
S1O-06197	To ask the Scottish Executive what recent action it has taken to tackle racism.	Maclean, Kate	Question General Question	09 Jan 2003
S1W-32134	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is planning to undertake research to consider the impact and performance of new duties on public sector authorities to promote race equality, in line with its	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	12 Dec 2002
S1O-06079	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30396 by Cathy Jamieson on 5 November 2002, whether its Education Department is aware of research conducted by RNIB Scotland and Vi	Maclean, Kate	Question General Question	12 Dec 2002
S1W-32135	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its Race Equality Scheme.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	02 Dec 2002
S1M-03664	Race Equality Training	Maclean, Kate	Motion Members' Business Motion	28 Nov 2002
S1W-30400	To ask the Scottish Executive why long-term funding for Visual Impairment Scotland has not been confirmed, given the Executive's aim of developing joined-up working across health, social and education	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	05 Nov 2002
S1W-30399	To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on how children with a visual impairment and their families will be supported if it ceases to fund Visual Impairment Scotland.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	05 Nov 2002
S1W-30398	To ask the Scottish Executive how accurate information on the number and characteristics of children with visual impairment will be acquired if it ceases to fund Visual Impairment Scotland.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	05 Nov 2002
S1W-30397	To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans services for children who have significant visual impairment in the light of any evidence that Visual Impairment Scotland has that the blind and partial-sigh	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	05 Nov 2002
S1W-30396	To ask the Scottish Executive how many children there are with significant visual impairment affecting their developmental and educational progress.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	05 Nov 2002
S1M-03510	Royal National Institute for the Blind Campaign on Photodynamic Therapy Treatment	Maclean, Kate	Motion Standard Motion	28 Oct 2002
S1W-29991	To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available to help deaf, deafened, hard of hearing and deafblind victims of domestic abuse in each year since 1999-2000.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	16 Oct 2002
S1W-29995	To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available in an accessible form for deafblind victims of domestic abuse.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	10 Oct 2002
S1W-29994	To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available in Braille for blind and visually-impaired victims of domestic abuse.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	10 Oct 2002
S1W-29993	To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available to help blind and visually-impaired victims of domestic abuse in each year since 1999-2000.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	10 Oct 2002
S1W-29992	To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available in British Sign Language for deaf and deafened victims of domestic abuse.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	10 Oct 2002
S1W-30056	To ask the Scottish Executive when the first results of the 2001 Census will be published.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	30 Sep 2002
S1O-05646	To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is offering to vulnerable young people and those from deprived backgrounds and their families in the early years of education.	Maclean, Kate	Question General Question	26 Sep 2002
S1W-28754	To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland in implementation of the recommenda	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	02 Sep 2002
S1W-26970	To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to lay a report on grants made under Section 70 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 during the financial year 2001-02.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	28 Jun 2002
S1O-05001	To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to ensure that its domestic abuse campaign messages are accessible to hearing impaired people.	Maclean, Kate	Question General Question	18 Apr 2002
S1M-02439	Inquiry into Gypsy Travellers and Public Sector Policies	Maclean, Kate	Motion Committee Motion	05 Dec 2001
S1O-03941	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is taking any action to reduce the stigma of suffering from mental health illnesses.	Maclean, Kate	Question General Question	25 Oct 2001
S1W-19149	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the Preliminary Report on the Equality Strategy.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	18 Oct 2001
S1W-19026	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will receive the report of the Race Equality Advisory Forum.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	12 Oct 2001
S1W-18789	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will respond to the Equal Opportunities Committee's 1st Report 2001, Inquiry into Gypsy Travellers and Public Sector Policies.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	04 Oct 2001
S1M-02263	Guide Dog Week, 1-7 October 2001	Maclean, Kate	Motion Standard Motion	27 Sep 2001
S1W-17623	To ask the Scottish Executive when and how it plans to respond to the report of the Certification and Registration Working Group.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	04 Sep 2001
S1W-16409	To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to introduce for Scottish local authority elections, including by-elections, measures to assist disabled voters similar to those provided for in the Repre	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	03 Jul 2001
S1O-04331	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce a programme of eyesight screening for all schoolchildren when they start their primary and secondary education.	Maclean, Kate	Question General Question	28 Jun 2001
S1W-13527	To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place to provide one-to-one assistance with the completion of the census forms to visually impaired and deafblind people.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Mar 2001
S1W-13526	To ask the Scottish Executive whether census returns from blind, partially sighted and deafblind people will be accepted if they are returned in alternative formats, with particular reference to (a) l	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Mar 2001
S1W-13525	To ask the Scottish Executive what provision has been made for census forms and accompanying information to be made available to blind, partially sighted and deafblind people in accessible formats, wi	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Mar 2001
S1W-13524	To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation was carried out regarding the accessibility of the census forms to visually impaired and deafblind people.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Mar 2001
S1W-13523	To ask the Scottish Executive what provision has been made for census enumerators to receive visual impairment and deafblind awareness training.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	09 Mar 2001
S1W-12893	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce its intentions following the review of the air quality strategy objective for particles (PM10).	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	30 Jan 2001
S1W-11585	To ask the Scottish Executive when the report by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services for Scotland on his investigation of the actions of Tayside Fire Brigade in connection with the fire at	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	29 Nov 2000
S1W-08547	To ask the Scottish Executive what further measures it intends to take, in addition to the implementation of the task force recommendations, to ensure efficient running of Tayside Health Board, Taysid	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	08 Sep 2000
S1W-07297	To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for further investigation of the actions of Tayside Fire Brigade in connection with the fire at 13 Cardean, Dundee on 26 November 1997.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	31 May 2000
S1W-04151	To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications have been made to the Scottish Legal Aid Board for assistance in pursuing a non-harassment order; how many such applicants have been granted a full	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	24 Feb 2000
S1M-00519	Draft Census (Scotland) Order 2000	Maclean, Kate	Motion Standard Motion	16 Feb 2000
S1W-04152	To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria the Scottish Legal Aid Board use in reaching decisions on applications where a non-harassment order is being sought.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	16 Feb 2000
S1W-04150	To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for non-harassment orders have been lodged in the courts and how many of these resulted in an order being made.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	16 Feb 2000
S1M-00487	Draft Census (Scotland) Order 2000	Maclean, Kate	Motion Standard Motion	01 Feb 2000
S1W-02573	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is committed to an inclusive consultation process which equally involves all of the people of Scotland.	Maclean, Kate	Question Written Question	19 Jan 2000

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Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether progress has been made towards piloting sight-screening for pupils on entry to secondary school, since the Stage 3 debate on the Smoking, Health and Social Care (

S2W-25621 · Written Question · lodged by Maclean, Kate

Lodged on

04 May 2006

Heard / answered on

18 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether progress has been made towards piloting sight-screening for pupils on entry to secondary school, since the Stage 3 debate on the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Bill.

The answer

Officials of the HealthDepartment have sought advice from the UK National Screening Committee (NSC) inrelation to vision screening. The NSC advises UK Ministers on screeningpolicy based on the latest research evidence and the advice of speciallyconvened multi-disciplinary expert groups. Officials are being updated by theNSC on any research being considered and commissioned through the NSC HealthTechnology Assessment process that is relevant to vision screening.</p><p>The Scottish Executive is committed to research to investigate whether sight testing of schoolchildren identifies previously undetected significant sight problems. Possibleoptions for this research are being explored.</p>

Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 18 May 2006.