Section E – Written questions lodged on 23 September 2009

Questions marked with a triangle (Δ) are initiated by the Scottish Executive 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".

S3W-27608 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive how many licences have been issued under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009.

S3W-27609 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive how many licensing applications have been rejected under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009, also expressed as a percentage.

S3W-27610 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive on what grounds licensing applications have been rejected under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009.

S3W-27611 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive how many licences have been variated, suspended or revoked under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009, broken down by group.

S3W-27612 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive how many appeals have been lodged under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and how many have been successful in part or in whole.

S3W-27613 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive how many warrants have been issued under regulation 17(3) of the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009.

S3W-27614 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17458 by Jim Mather on 19 November 2008, whether £10 million for the Saltire Prize is included in the budget for 2010-11.

S3W-27615 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the comments by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in the news release of 26 August 2009 that "marine energy will be key to Scotland’s future energy mix and that’s why we changed our support mechanisms to give greater assistance to wave and tidal energy in Scotland than anywhere else in the UK.", what mechanisms are open to wave and tidal energy developers seeking support for new marine energy developments.

S3W-27616 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Executive how many notes of interest it has received for the Saltire Prize competition.

S3W-27617 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the information published on its website, in which month of 2009 it will publish the final guidelines for the Saltire Prize.

S3W-27618 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Executive how long on average it takes from initial request to the Energy Savings Trust to the installation of a new central heating system and how this compares with previous schemes.

S3W-27619 Dr Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for dermatology services regarding (a) consultant posts, (b) non-consultant posts and (c) centres in the next five years.

S3W-27620 Claire Baker: To ask the Scottish Executive what the legislative consequence would be of replacing discretionary childcare funds with a centralised, demand-led childcare fund for (a) higher education students, (b) further education students and (c) further and higher education students.

S3W-27621 Claire Baker: To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish students have not yet received their student loan.

S3W-27622 Claire Baker: To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are delays at either the Student Awards Agency for Scotland or the Student Loans Company in processing Scottish students’ student loans.

S3W-27623 Claire Baker: To ask the Scottish Executive how many university places it has funded in each of the last three years and how many it will fund in each of the next three years.

S3W-27624 Jamie Stone: To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation took place with ScotRail before the decision was taken to end the food and drink trolley service on the 6.20 am rail service from Wick to Inverness.

S3W-27625 Jamie Stone: To ask the Scottish Executive what the recommendations are regarding the provision of foodstuffs on long rail journeys.

S3W-27626 Jamie Stone: To ask the Scottish Executive how many tourists use the early morning rail service from Wick to Inverness.

S3W-27627 Jamie Stone: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it subsidises food and drink trolley services on rail journeys running north and west out of Inverness

S3W-27628 Jamie Stone: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it subsidises food and drink trolley services on rail services.

S3W-27629 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive what the capacity is for the provision of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for (a) adults and (b) children.

S3W-27630 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines there are, broken down by NHS board area.

S3W-27631 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many beds there are for patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, broken down by NHS board.

S3W-27632 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to increase the number of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines and, if so, (a) by how many machines and (b) where they will be locateed.

S3W-27633 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to increasing the NHS’s capacity to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ahead of the winter and the anticipated increase in cases of influenza A (H1N1).

S3W-27634 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the UK Department of Health regarding the number of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines in the United Kingdom and the capacity to provide ECMO during a peak in cases of influenza A (H1N1).

S3W-27635 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been transferred to the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation unit in Leicester for treatment in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

S3W-27636 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been transferred to other European countries for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) country.

S3W-27637 Nicol Stephen: To ask the Scottish Executive how much extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines cost and what the associated staffing costs are.

S3W-27638 Dr Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many residents along the route of the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine railway line had a noise and vibration impact assessment carried out at their property before the line was operational. 

S3W-27639 Dr Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many residents along the route of the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine railway line have made requests for a follow-up noise and vibration assessment since the line was operational and how many of those requests have been met.

S3W-27640 Ken Macintosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned to understand why stillbirth rates in Scotland are among the highest in Europe.

S3W-27641 Ken Macintosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what work has been carried out to understand why rates of stillbirth in Scotland have remained unchanged for the last 20 years.

S3W-27642 Ken Macintosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what efforts are being made to prevent more than 300 families every year experiencing the death of a baby.

S3W-27643 Ken Macintosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what work has been carried out to understand why Scotland’s intrapartum stillbirth rates have remained unchanged for the last 20 years.

S3W-27644 Ken Macintosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what is being done to ensure that parents do not experience the death of a healthy baby in the days immediately following birth.

S3W-27645 Ken Macintosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what is being done to understand what is behind the slight but steady increase in the rate of stillbirths in babies who are near the point of delivery.

S3W-27647 Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive how many suicides have been recorded over the last five years, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency and expressed as a percentage of the Scottish average.

S3W-27648 Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s listed events review.

S3W-27649 Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has written in support of the BBC Trust submission to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport listed events review, which recommended the inclusion of the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Scotland’s international football matches as part the BBC’s free-to-air events.