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Reference	Item	MSP	Type	Date (desc)
S1W-34374	To ask the Scottish Executive how many in-patient and day case discharges from waiting lists there were in (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03, as shown for previous years on table M6.1 of the ISD Scotland n	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	28 Mar 2003
S1M-04031	Support for Armed Forces 1 linked amendment	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	18 Mar 2003
S1W-32550	To ask the Scottish Executive . further to the answer to question S1W-29930 by Mr Frank McAveety on 9 October 2002, when it intends to complete its consideration of the implications for its policy on	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 Jan 2003
S1M-03678.2	The Future of Europe Convention - The Scottish Dimension	Wallace, Ben	Motion Motion For Debate	05 Dec 2002
S1W-30264	To ask the Scottish Executive what bodies were formally consulted by the First Minister in the preparation of his report to be submitted to the Committee of the Regions for the Convention on the Futu	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	27 Nov 2002
S1M-03585	Armed Forces Personnel and Firefighting Duties	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	14 Nov 2002
S1W-29552	To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) contributions and (b) responses it has received in respect of its national debate on the Future of Europe and, of these, how many have been posted on its we	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	23 Oct 2002
S1W-29930	To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to any implications for its policy on free personal care of the decision by the Competition Commission Appeals Tribunal on 1 August 2002 i	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	09 Oct 2002
S1M-03450.2	Action Against Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke	Wallace, Ben	Motion Motion For Debate	03 Oct 2002
S1W-29551	To ask the Scottish Executive which organisations have submitted applications for grants from its fund for Future of Europe debates, referred to in paragraph 10 of its paper submitted to the European	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	02 Oct 2002
S1W-28238	To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the recommendation at paragraph 106 of the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee's 30th Report, European Scrutiny in the Commons.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 Sep 2002
S1W-28237	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has complied with guidance issued by Her Majesty's Government that comments on European memoranda be with the relevant departments within 10 days of receipt fr	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 Sep 2002
S1W-28236	To ask the Scottish Executive how many times it has commented on European memoranda submitted to it by departments of Her Majesty's Government since May 1999.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 Sep 2002
S1W-28177	To ask the Scottish Executive which ministers will be attending the Britain at the Leading Edge trade convention in Shanghai, China in October.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	30 Aug 2002
S1W-28176	To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its senior civil servants subscribe to the Civil Service Healthcare Society.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	30 Aug 2002
S1M-03279	Sovereignty of Gibraltar	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	15 Jul 2002
S1W-25916	To ask the Scottish Executive how many times since 1999 mobile screening units for breast cancer have visited (a) Dumfries and Galloway, (b) Highland, (c) Lanarkshire, (d) Shetland and (e) Western Is	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	18 Jun 2002
S1W-26421	To ask the Scottish Executive how much Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance funding it intends to draw down for the Scottish fishing sector in the current programme year, expressed in euros.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	13 Jun 2002
S1W-26420	To ask the Scottish Executive how much Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance funding for the Scottish fishing sector has been drawn down from the EU in each year since the beginning of the progr	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	13 Jun 2002
S1W-26014	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce a national framework for epilepsy in the light of the recent revised guidelines on information by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Networ	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	10 Jun 2002
S1W-26154	To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in replacing old linear accelerators and when it expects to see a reduction in the waiting times for radiotherapy treatment of cancer as a res	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Jun 2002
S1W-25915	To ask the Scottish Executive why there has been a decline in the numbers of women being recalled early for breast screening from 1993 to 2001 according to Information and Statistics Division KC62 ret	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	29 May 2002
S1W-25668	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24643 by Mr Jim Wallace on 23 April 2002, in respect of which (a) EU directives and (b) subject matters section 57(1) of the Scotla	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 May 2002
S1W-25667	To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SE5603/2002 of 27 March 2002, whether it will give a breakdown of the #2.75 million investment in liquid-based cytology.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 May 2002
S1W-25346	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24643 by Mr Jim Wallace on 23 April 2002, whether it will detail each of the 17 times it has used section 57(1) of the Scotland Act	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 May 2002
S1W-25054	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24513 by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 April 2002, when guidelines were issued to make opportunistic screenings for oral cancer routine.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	10 May 2002
S1W-25053	To ask the Scottish Executive how many radiographers are currently qualified with mammography accreditation and how many have qualified in each year since 1995.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	10 May 2002
S1W-25052	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to develop a training centre for breast physicians.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	10 May 2002
S1W-25051	To ask the Scottish Executive how many pathologists who qualified in Scotland in each year from 1995 practise in Scotland.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	10 May 2002
S1W-25050	To ask the Scottish Executive what specific plans it has to combat the shortage of breast cancer specialists.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	10 May 2002
S1W-25049	To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of one-stop cancer clinics dealing with cancer provide same day diagnosis.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	10 May 2002
S1W-24644	To ask the Scottish Executive how many times it has turned down proposals for the use of section 57 of the Scotland Act 1998 by ministers and officials of Her Majesty's Government.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	23 Apr 2002
S1W-24643	To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions it has used section 57 of the Scotland Act 1998 to implement European Community obligations in a devolved area on a UK-wide basis.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	23 Apr 2002
S1W-24512	To ask the Scottish Executive when the report of the multi-disciplinary prostate cancer working group on its review of referral, management and treatment of people with prostate cancer, as well as any	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24511	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the results in Scotland of the European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24510	To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has, and over what timescale, to introduce a population based prostate cancer screening programme based on the prostate specific antigen test.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24509	To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made with the pilot screening for colorectal cancer for people between the ages of 50 and 69 in (a) Tayside, (b) Fife and (c) Grampian NHS board ar	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24508	To ask the Scottish Executive how many women over 70 have requested screening for breast cancer since January 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24507	To ask the Scottish Executive how many women over 70 have been screened for breast cancer since January 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24506	To ask the Scottish Executive which geographical areas have a low uptake for breast cancer screening against set targets.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24505	To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards are currently targeting areas of low breast cancer screening uptake.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24504	To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS staff have been trained as cervical smear takers under the new liquid based cytology screening pilot project.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2002
S1W-24513	To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals it has for opportunistic screening to detect oral cancers and when such proposals will be in place.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	09 Apr 2002
S1W-24274	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has set up an expert advisory group to advise its Health Department on the outcomes of research into chemo-prevention of cancer and, if so, how many times it i	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24273	To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in developing a co-ordinated IT system to improve the call/recall arrangements for cervical cancer screening.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24272	To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the Scottish Cancer Group has met since its inception, what its remit is and what advice it has issued to date.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24271	To ask the Scottish Executive what the membership of the National Physical Activity Taskforce is; when it is next scheduled to meet, and what measures it uses to assess how it has raised the levels of	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24270	To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of (a) men and (b) women between the ages of 16 and 64 were (i) moderately active and (ii) vigorously active, as referred to in Cancer in Scotland: Action	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24269	To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated to the National Diet Action Co-ordinator over the next three years and what major initiatives are planned.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24268	To ask the Scottish Executive (a) what progress it is making towards its targets to (i) double the average consumption of fruit and vegetables; (ii) increase by nearly half the intake of bread (mainly	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24267	To ask the Scottish Executive what method it is using to record people's dietary activity.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24266	To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual adult rates of smoking were in each year from 1995 to date.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24265	To ask the Scottish Executive how much it expects to receive from Her Majesty's Government in extra tobacco tax revenues between 2001 and 2004.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24264	To ask the Scottish Executive how the monies from the annual extra tobacco tax revenues have been spent in each year to date and what plans it has for spending these revenues in future.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24263	To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in reaching its target to reduce the standardised mortality rate from all cancers in people under 75 years old by 20%.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2002
S1W-24036	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list each grant paid to (a) Aberdeenshire Council, (b) Aberdeen City Council and (c) Dundee City Council within aggregate external finance, broken down f	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 Apr 2002
S1W-23787	To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the European Commission with regard to negotiations with the World Trade Organisation.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	20 Mar 2002
S1W-23786	To ask the Scottish Executive what current projects (a) receive and (b) are due to receive Interreg funding during the current structural fund programme for 2000-06.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	20 Mar 2002
S1W-23785	To ask the Scottish Executive how much Interreg (a) (b) and (c) funding it has received since 2000 and how much it is due to receive during the current structural fund programme for 2000-06.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	20 Mar 2002
S1W-23784	To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement it had in developing a partnership between the Strathclyde European Partnership and its equivalent in Saxony-Arnhalt, Germany.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	20 Mar 2002
S1W-23783	To ask the Scottish Executive who administers the European Interreg funding programme.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	20 Mar 2002
S1W-23782	To ask the Scottish Executive how many vessels have been decommissioned under the European Union's current scheme.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	20 Mar 2002
S1W-23781	To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has in place to monitor the decommissioning programme for fishing vessels.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	20 Mar 2002
S1W-23780	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has taken steps to promote the European Sixth Framework Research and Technological Development Programme amongst universities.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	20 Mar 2002
S1W-22889	To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of patients were admitted to hospital from the waiting list for treatment within nine months of their initial referral, in the most recent 12-month period	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Feb 2002
S1W-22888	To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients received an angioplasty operation within 24 weeks of having an angiography, also expressed as a percentage of the total number of patients waiting to re	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Feb 2002
S1W-22887	To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients received an angiography within 12 weeks of their initial referral, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of patients waiting to receive an	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Feb 2002
S1W-22886	To ask the Scottish Executive what specialist assistance is available for mental health services to ethnic minorities.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Feb 2002
S1W-22885	To ask the Scottish Executive what current figures are available on the incidence of suicide and attempted suicide in the community.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Feb 2002
S1W-22884	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the publication dates for all up-dated data previously available in Chapter M, Hospital and Clinical Activity, of Scottish Health Statistics 2000.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Feb 2002
S1W-22883	To ask the Scottish Executive what 24 hour acute psychiatric provision is currently available.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Feb 2002
S1W-22592	To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist nursing posts are funded by charities or charitable foundations and where any such nursing posts have been located since 1997.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	14 Feb 2002
S1W-22591	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider producing an Epilepsy Framework similar to its Diabetes Framework.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	14 Feb 2002
S1W-22590	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will compile information centrally on how many epilepsy specialist nurses are employed and which NHS board employs them.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	14 Feb 2002
S1W-22062	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people received treatment for the first time from their local drug treatment service in 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	14 Feb 2002
S1W-22490	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-13512 by Susan Deacon on 2 March 2001, when the Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations in respect of EU Directive 92/46/EE	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Feb 2002
S1W-22489	To ask the Scottish Executive when the January 2002 edition of its statistical bulletin in the Social Work Series on Staffing will be produced.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Feb 2002
S1W-22488	To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it took to confirm that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency defined its proposed nitrate vulnerable 'ones in accordance with the criteria set out by	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Feb 2002
S1W-22487	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the maps drawn up by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to show potential nitrate vulnerable 'ones are satisfactory.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Feb 2002
S1W-22486	To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has received about any previous pollution problems at the proposed waste transfer site in Stonehaven.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Feb 2002
S1W-22485	To ask the Scottish Executive on what grounds it agreed to Aberdeenshire Council's application to develop a waste transfer site in Stonehaven.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Feb 2002
S1W-22055	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people over 65 were screened for breast cancer in 2001 compared to 2000, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of people screened for breast cancer	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2002
S1W-22061	To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff posts have been or will be lost as a result of the establishment of the new NHS boards.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	08 Feb 2002
S1W-22060	To ask the Scottish Executive how it has improved local involvement in the development of health services since January 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	08 Feb 2002
S1W-22063	To ask the Scottish Executive how many toothbrushes have been provided free to children since January 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Feb 2002
S1W-22059	To ask the Scottish Executive how support for families of drug misusers has increased since January 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Feb 2002
S1W-22058	To ask the Scottish Executive how many reforming drug misusers were prepared for training and employment in 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Feb 2002
S1W-22057	To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to improve health education for older people since January 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Feb 2002
S1W-22056	To ask the Scottish Executive what the definition is of "inappropriate settings" as used in section 2.6 of Working together for Scotland: A Programme for Government.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Feb 2002
S1W-22054	To ask the Scottish Executive how many Healthy Living Centres have been established since January 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Feb 2002
S1W-20216	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people will be employed by (a) the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and (b) the Scottish Social Services Council in each of the salary ranges (i) u	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Dec 2001
S1W-20215	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people currently employed by local authority social work departments will be transferred to (a) the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and (b) the Sc	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Dec 2001
S1W-20214	To ask the Scottish Executive what job vacancies have been advertised at the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and the Scottish Social Services Council and where any such vacancies were a	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Dec 2001
S1W-20213	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in total will be employed by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and the Scottish Social Services Council.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Dec 2001
S1W-18721	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give a detailed breakdown of the 2000-01 underspend in the health budget by subject area.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Nov 2001
S1W-17955	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail all targets within the NHS that have been set since 1997 including those for waiting lists, waiting times and reducing the incidence of heart disea	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	06 Nov 2001
S1W-17964	To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost of each public inquiry established since 1995 has been, including salaries, expenses, accommodation, printing and any other items.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 Oct 2001
S1M-02248.1.1	Care Development Group	Wallace, Ben	Motion Motion For Debate	27 Sep 2001
S1W-17954	To ask the Scottish Executive what its current targets are for reducing the incidence of (a) heart disease, (b) cancers, (c) teenage pregnancies, (d) sexually transmitted diseases and (e) strokes.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	19 Sep 2001
S1W-17359	To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to ensure that the export and home markets for venison do not suffer as a result of the restrictions imposed since the outbreak of foot-and-mo	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Sep 2001
S1F-01203	To ask the First Minister what further details on NHS waiting times will become available as a result of the decision to refocus from waiting lists to waiting times.	Wallace, Ben	Question First Minister's Question	06 Sep 2001
S1W-17356	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S1W-14750 by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 May 2001, how many elderly people received long-term care in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 1998-99.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Sep 2001
S1W-17358	To ask the Scottish Executive whether there have been any reports of the foot-and-mouth virus in the deer population since February 2001.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Aug 2001
S1W-17357	To ask the Scottish Executive what testing has been carried out on the deer population since the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Aug 2001
S1W-17164	To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met representatives of the Army Benevolent Fund, the British Legion and SSAFA Forces Help to discuss issues relating to the resettlement of ex-servicemen.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Aug 2001
S1W-17163	To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings it has had with the Ministry of Defence and the Homelessness Task Force regarding the resettlement of former services personnel.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Aug 2001
S1W-17162	To ask the Scottish Executive whether ex-servicemen are, or will be, a priority category for housing by local authorities.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Aug 2001
S1W-17161	To ask the Scottish Executive how many former armed forces personnel are at present homeless in Scotland.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Aug 2001
S1W-17160	To ask the Scottish Executive what studies it has undertaken into homelessness and rough sleeping among armed service veterans.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Aug 2001
S1W-15899	To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS operations have taken place in private hospitals in each year from 1995 to date.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	30 Jul 2001
S1W-13709	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are currently in training to be general practitioners.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	24 Jul 2001
S1W-16542	To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on long-term care for the elderly in (a) Scotland and (b) each local authority area in each year from 1997 to 2001 and what percentage each local autho	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Jul 2001
S1W-16543	To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on caring for young and disabled people in (a) Scotland and (b) each local authority area in each year from 1997 to 2001 and what percentage each local	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Jul 2001
S1W-16441	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the First Minister or the Minister for External Affairs will attend the Conference of Constitutional Regions in Liege on 25 November 2001 and, if so, what related	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Jul 2001
S1M-02030.1	Scotland's Place in the World	Wallace, Ben	Motion Motion For Debate	21 Jun 2001
S1W-15996	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out a survey of the potential costs of the introduction of the euro to (a) each local authority, (b) schools and (c) the NHSiS.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	11 Jun 2001
S1W-14889	To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent by local authorities on personal social services, net of any income received from charges made for such services, in (a) 1995-96, (b) 1996-97, (c) 199	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	11 Jun 2001
S1W-15995	To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the powers of prison governors as a result of the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights legislation into Scottish law.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	08 Jun 2001
S1W-15900	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to increase the number of people on NHS waiting lists who are sent for treatment in the private sector.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Jun 2001
S1W-15879	To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been raised from April 1999 to date from insurance companies for the treatment of road accident patients (a) in accident and emergency departments and (b) wh	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Jun 2001
S1W-15878	To ask the Scottish Executive how many invoices have been raised against insurance companies for the treatment road traffic accidents under the centralised cost recovery arrangements announced in Apri	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Jun 2001
S1W-15877	To ask the Scottish Executive how much money the NHSiS has recovered from April 1999 to date from insurance companies for the treatment of casualties of road traffic accidents.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Jun 2001
S1W-14207	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will seek urgent discussions with Aberdeen City Council on the reinstatement of the City's tourist office.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	23 May 2001
S1W-13508	To ask the Scottish Executive what the NHSiS spend was as a percentage of Scottish Gross Domestic Product for the years 1995 to 2000.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	14 May 2001
S1M-01912.2	Impact of the European Union on Scotland	Wallace, Ben	Motion Motion For Debate	09 May 2001
S1W-14750	To ask the Scottish Executive how many elderly people in Scotland are currently receiving long-term care.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 May 2001
S1W-14910	To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines it issues to health boards and NHS Trusts on the collection of data on hospital and clinical activity and, in particular, whether any such guidelines cov	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	26 Apr 2001
S1W-14909	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to collect centrally details of the number of operations which are cancelled for non-medical reasons in the NHSiS.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	26 Apr 2001
S1W-13783	To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients there were on the deferred waiting list as at December 2000.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	25 Apr 2001
S1W-13507	To ask the Scottish Executive what the definition is of "NHS deferred waiting lists" as used by the Information Statistics Division in its document Scottish Health Statistics.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	25 Apr 2001
S1W-13505	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the first half year statistics of NHSiS waiting times and lists for 2000-01.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2001
S1W-14206	To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the Ministry of Defence regarding contingency plans for the containment of the foot and mouth disease outbreak.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	09 Apr 2001
S1W-14205	To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners ceased to practice as principals in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000, broken down by health board.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	09 Apr 2001
S1W-14169	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7656 by Angus MacKay on 1 December 2000, how many contracts let to external consultants and advisors in (a) 1999-2000 and (b) to da	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	28 Mar 2001
S1W-13782	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list by name the 200 one-stop clinics referred to on page 46 of Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	28 Mar 2001
S1W-13710	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11191 by Susan Deacon on 30 November 2000, how many general practitioners were recruited in 2000.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	23 Mar 2001
S1W-13708	To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners it anticipates will be recruited in each year to 2004.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	23 Mar 2001
S1W-13510	To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authority run nursing homes there are.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	23 Mar 2001
S1W-13506	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the NHSiS waiting times and lists for first outpatient appointments in the year 2000.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	23 Mar 2001
S1W-13707	To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners were employed in each year since 1996.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	13 Mar 2001
S1W-13706	To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners retired in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	13 Mar 2001
S1W-13512	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-6120 by Susan Deacon on 5 May 2000, when the Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 will come before the Parliament f	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	02 Mar 2001
S1W-13511	To ask the Scottish Executive what the total amount of resources transfer from health boards to local authorities was in 1998, 1999 and 2000.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	02 Mar 2001
S1W-13509	To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authority staff are currently employed in community care services for the elderly.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	02 Mar 2001
S1M-01682	Councillors' Code of Conduct 1 linked amendment	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	20 Feb 2001
S1W-11521	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will implement the British Medical Association's recommendation that the smoking cessation drug Zyban be issued, with appropriate guidance for both doctors and	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Jan 2001
S1W-11291	To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the Acute Services Review Body has met since its inception.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	09 Jan 2001
S1W-11522	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will undertake a review of the collection of national statistics in order to ensure that a wider range of figures is held centrally with particular regard to h	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	07 Dec 2000
S1W-11461	To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been spent by the NHSiS in anticipation of possible entry to a single European currency.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	06 Dec 2000
S1W-11460	To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will introduce to facilitate health boards' adaptation to operating within a single European currency.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	06 Dec 2000
S1W-11459	To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding for NHSiS preparations for possible entry to a single European currency will be expected to come from existing health board budgets.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	06 Dec 2000
S1W-07656	To ask the Scottish Executive how many contracts let to external consultants and advisors in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 1998-99 were (i) put out to competitive tender; (ii) not put out to competitive tender,	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Dec 2000
S1W-08068	To ask the Scottish Executive what the present plans are for the development of the European Community Initiatives INTERREG II and EQUAL.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	29 Nov 2000
S1M-01186	Orderly Conduct of Fuel Protestors	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	14 Sep 2000
S1W-06851	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all current spending commitments under the Innovation Fund for children's health services announced in November 1998.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	08 Sep 2000
S1W-07014	To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was allocated in 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-01 and what is the projected allocation for 2001-02 to health boards, the Clinical Standards Board for Scotlan	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	28 Aug 2000
S1W-08064	To ask the Scottish Executive why a meeting was cancelled on 14 July 2000 between its task force leader, Professor Frank Clark, and hospital staff from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust and Taysi	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	22 Aug 2000
S1W-08952	To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners are forecast to retire in 2000-01 and 2001-02.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	18 Aug 2000
S1W-08318	To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS managers have received discretionary bonuses and what the total value of these awards has been, in the current financial year and last year.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	07 Aug 2000
S1W-08069	To ask the Scottish Executive what action it intends to take in the light of the view of the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (Cases C-376/98 and C-74/99) that the European Directive	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	26 Jul 2000
S1W-06852	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to publish the final report by Professor Clark, head of the Tayside health task force, on the circumstances leading to the current health situation in	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	25 Jul 2000
S1W-07696	To ask the Scottish Executive how many unfilled Lord Lieutenant posts there are in Scotland and when these are expected to be filled.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Jul 2000
S1W-08366	To ask the Scottish Executive how many unfilled medical and clinical oncology posts there are at each medical grade in each NHS Trust.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	13 Jul 2000
S1W-08355	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the timescale for the appointment of the additional NHS staff in each of the categories announced in Scottish Executive News Release SE 1900/2000	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	13 Jul 2000
S1W-08317	To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior nurses have received the discretionary bonus for work beyond their normal duties, and what the total value of these awards has been, in the current financ	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Jul 2000
S1W-08316	To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many nursing practitioners are presently in post and (b) how many it is proposed be appointed and over what period, in which specialities and in which NHS Trusts.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Jul 2000
S1W-07500	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3317 by Mr Jack McConnell on 28 December 1999, to specify the figures for any Objective 3 funding received by Glasgow, Dundee and A	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Jul 2000
S1W-07499	To ask the Scottish Executive what the total sum was of structural funds, listed by programme headings, allocated to Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen in the year 1998-99.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Jul 2000
S1W-08102	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed by local authorities in each of the last five years, broken down by each local authority.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 Jul 2000
S1W-08067	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a consultation document in relation to the LEADER+ programme and, if so, when it will be issued and when responses will have to be made.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	30 Jun 2000
S1W-08066	To ask the Scottish Executive how Scotland's plans for the development of LEADER + proposals compare to the rest of the UK.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	30 Jun 2000
S1W-08065	To ask the Scottish Executive what its priorities are for the LEADER+ programme, what criteria will be used to define eligible projects and what specific themes, if any, will be promoted in the progra	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	30 Jun 2000
S1W-06901	To ask the Scottish Executive what total health spending in Scotland was in each year from 1997-98 to 1999-2000 and what total health spending is forecast to be in 2000-01 and 2002-03, taking into acc	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	26 Jun 2000
S1W-07489	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the #17 million announced on 1 June 2000 for the modernisation of GP surgeries and health centres is from the same modernisation fund referred to on 24 April 2000	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	15 Jun 2000
S1M-00950	Dunkirk 60th Anniversary	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	02 Jun 2000
S1W-06120	To ask the Scottish Executive what its timetable is for the Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations 1999 to come before the Parliament for consideration.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 May 2000
S1W-06192	To ask the Scottish Executive what are the areas that are eligible to receive transitional European Structural Funding as a result of losing Objective 2 status in the 2000-06 funding round.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 May 2000
S1W-06119	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-5496 by Susan Deacon on 4 April 2000, whether Scotland's share of the #2 billion extra for the NHS in the UK is new and additional	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 May 2000
S1W-05723	To ask the Scottish Executive to detail the number of operations cancelled for non-medical reasons by year, and by health board, since 1996.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 May 2000
S1W-05569	To ask the Scottish Executive when the Review Group's report regarding charging for criminal record checks under Part V of the Police Act 1977 will be published.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 May 2000
S1W-06158	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4569 by Mr Jack McConnell on 6 April 2000, on what specific years since 1990 Treasury funding was reduced as a result of the operat	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 May 2000
S1W-06157	To ask the Presiding Officer what the total cost is of the refurbishment of the fifth floor in the Parliament Headquarters Building and what the reasons are for it.	Wallace, Ben	Question SPCB Written Question	02 May 2000
S1W-05722	To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the plans for the new round of European Structural Funds (2000-06) to be approved by the European Commission.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	28 Apr 2000
S1M-00764	Korean War 50th Anniversary	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	14 Apr 2000
S1M-00762	RUC Award	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	12 Apr 2000
S1W-05498	To ask the Scottish Executive how much extra funding, earmarked for health and generated by the increase in tobacco duty announced in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's 2000-01 budget, it will receive	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Apr 2000
S1W-04843	To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was received from the Department for Education and Employment to act as public expenditure cover for Objective 3 in each year since 1990.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Apr 2000
S1W-04569	To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions since 1990 the ceiling on the Barnett Formula settlement reduced Treasury funding when taking European Structural Fund grants into account.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	06 Apr 2000
S1W-04281	To ask the Scottish Executive how much it spent on external consultants in 1999.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	06 Apr 2000
S1W-05514	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will receive any of the extra revenue generated by the increase in fuel duty announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his 2000-01 budget to spend direct	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	05 Apr 2000
S1W-05496	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the monies allocated to the NHS in Scotland as a result of the increased tobacco duty announced in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's 2000-01 budget will be in add	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2000
S1W-05495	To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to receive the extra monies allocated to the NHS in Scotland as a result of the increased tobacco duty announced in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's 2000	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Apr 2000
S1M-00723	NHS Provision of Equipment for Disabled People	Wallace, Ben	Motion Standard Motion	30 Mar 2000
S1W-04834	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the current structure of the delivery of dental treatment.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	15 Mar 2000
S1W-04622	To ask the Scottish Executive to provide a breakdown of the (a) Objective 1; (b) Objective 2 and (c) Objective 5b Scottish structural fund payments received from Her Majesty's Treasury in each year fr	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	07 Mar 2000
S1W-04599	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4167 by Mr Jack McConnell on 16 February 2000, what legal status and terms of articles of association organisations must have and w	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	07 Mar 2000
S1W-04422	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-2420 by Mr Jack McConnell on 7 December 1999, when it expects to have available a more comprehensive assessment of the costs of ans	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Mar 2000
S1W-04421	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review current provisions for dental care in Scotland.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Mar 2000
S1W-04420	To ask the Scottish Executive whether all funds from the last European Structural Funds round have been allocated.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	01 Mar 2000
S1O-01226	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has plans to exempt Scottish students on specialist courses in England which are unavailable at Scottish institutions from paying tuition fees.	Wallace, Ben	Question General Question	24 Feb 2000
S1W-04167	To ask the Scottish Executive whether organisations such as Care and Repair will be eligible to apply for European funding under the new structural funds plan.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	16 Feb 2000
S1O-00924	To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines were issued to health boards before Christmas in relation to epidemics or winter emergencies.	Wallace, Ben	Question General Question	20 Jan 2000
S1W-03317	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will be monitoring centrally the distribution of Objective 3 funding by geography and grant si'e.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	28 Dec 1999
S1W-02784	To ask the Presiding Officer under what statutory authority the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body can meet an MSP's legal expenses.	Wallace, Ben	Question SPCB Written Question	08 Dec 1999
S1W-02284	To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was allocated in 1994-95 and 1997-98 to Health Boards, the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland, the Health Education Board for Scotland, the National Boa	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	29 Nov 1999
S1W-02662	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any further plans to promote its Scotland in Europe campaign.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	18 Nov 1999
S1O-00611	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any further plans to promote its Scotland in Europe campaign.	Wallace, Ben	Question General Question	18 Nov 1999
S1W-00760	To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was allocated in 1995-1996 and 1996-1997 to the following bodies: Health Boards, Clinical Standards Board for Scotland, Health Education Board for Scotland	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	12 Oct 1999
S1W-01014	To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the total spend by local authorities on transporting excluded pupils to alternative schools.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Sep 1999
S1W-00963	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will re-examine the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 in order to re-define the Water Authorities' duty towards clearing up pollution caused by deteriorating draina	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Sep 1999
S1W-00962	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will, in line with proposed legislation on transport, seek the re-opening of Laurencekirk Station to assist commuters taking the train into Aberdeen.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	17 Sep 1999
S1W-00961	To ask the Scottish Executive how many junior Doctors are presently contracted to work 72 or more hours per week.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	03 Sep 1999
S1O-00224	To ask the Scottish Executive what plans the Scottish Executive has for the future funding of Tourist Boards.	Wallace, Ben	Question General Question	03 Sep 1999
S1W-01344	To ask the Scottish Executive what plans the Scottish Executive has for the future funding of Tourist Boards.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	02 Sep 1999
S1W-00960	To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual budgeted cost of Scotland House in Brussels is and whether this cost is met from its block grant.	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	02 Sep 1999
S1W-00993	To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it can take to alleviate the high costs many households are being required to incur in order to repair failures in old septic tank soakaways, given that man	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	31 Aug 1999
S1W-00644	To ask the Scottish Executive in the light of the increasing number of incidents involving harmful internet material on school computers, what measures, further to the use of software guards, it inten	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	04 Aug 1999
S1W-00645	To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will take to ensure that labelling of meat or agricultural produce is more detailed in order to draw the consumer's attention to additives such as hormon	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	02 Aug 1999
S1W-00026	To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it intends to take to safeguard the long-term future of Stracathro Hospital and to indicate its intended strategy for the retention of rural hospitals acros	Wallace, Ben	Question Written Question	15 Jun 1999

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Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many in-patient and day case discharges from waiting lists there were in (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03, as shown for previous years on table M6.1 of the ISD Scotland n

S1W-34374 · Written Question · lodged by Wallace, Ben

Lodged on

28 Feb 2003

Heard / answered on

28 Mar 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how many in-patient and day case discharges from waiting lists there were in (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03, as shown for previous years on table M6.1 of the ISD Scotland national statistics release on waiting times.

The answer

Table M6.1 is no longer published. Information on in-patient and day case activity in each of the last five years for which information is available is given in the table. Information for 2001-02 is provisional.<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=609><TR><TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="TOP">Year</TD><TD WIDTH="22%" VALIGN="TOP">Number of Elective In-patient/Day Case Discharges </TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">Of Which Admissions from In-Patient/Day Case Waiting List</TD><TD WIDTH="15%" VALIGN="TOP">Emergency In-Patients</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP"> Total Emergency In-patients and Elective Discharges</TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="TOP">1997-98</TD><TD WIDTH="22%" VALIGN="TOP">622,198</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">487,627</TD><TD WIDTH="15%" VALIGN="TOP">459,303</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">1,081,501</TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="TOP">1998-99</TD><TD WIDTH="22%" VALIGN="TOP">649,188</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">495,219</TD><TD WIDTH="15%" VALIGN="TOP">463,720</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">1,112,908</TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="TOP">1999-2000</TD><TD WIDTH="22%" VALIGN="TOP">629,832</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">461,550</TD><TD WIDTH="15%" VALIGN="TOP">468,458</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">1,098,290</TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="TOP">2000-01</TD><TD WIDTH="22%" VALIGN="TOP">633,009</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">454,646</TD><TD WIDTH="15%" VALIGN="TOP">471,756</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">1,104,765</TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="TOP">2001-02P</TD><TD WIDTH="22%" VALIGN="TOP">600,206</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">426,881</TD><TD WIDTH="15%" VALIGN="TOP">480,006</TD><TD WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP">1,080,212</TD></TR></TABLE>PProvisional.

Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 Mar 2003.