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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 ��˿�� 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: S1W-32968

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 January 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what biomedical research into medical problems such as hyperkinetic disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia and autism it is funding and where any such research is being conducted.

The Chief Scientist Office (CSO), within the Scottish Executive Health Department, has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health and health care needs in Scotland. CSO is currently funding two biomedical research projects on autism. They are being conducted at the University of Aberdeen and Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. In addition, CSO will be contributing £250,000 to the Medical Research Council's UK-wide programme of research on autism, the strategy for which is currently being developed.

Question reference: S1W-32967

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 January 2003
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 20 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to develop a centralised day or residential patient service for patients of all ages with behavioural or biomedical conditions such as hyperkinetic disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia and autism and, if so, where and in what timescale.

Question reference: S1W-32921

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2003
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of inmates in young offenders institutions are prescribed Ritalin and/or other neuroleptic and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor drugs.

Question reference: S1W-32922

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2003
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of prisoners that have committed suicide in prison in each of the last five years have been on prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and neuroleptic drugs and/or Ritalin.

Question reference: S1W-32919

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what auditing is done of neuroleptic and similar class drugs prescribed to children in private residential care homes.

Prescription data collected centrally are not patient-specific.Care homes for children are now regulated by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (the Care Commission). The commission regulates services by inspecting them against the legislative requirements and the relevant national care standards. The Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services)(Scotland) Regulations 2002 require providers of some care services, including providers of care homes for children (independent and local authority), to keep a record of medicines for the use of service users which are kept on the premises from which the care service is provided.

Question reference: S1W-32923

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2003
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what studies are being conducted in prisons and other custodial and residential centres into the relationship between nutritional deficiencies and biomedical problems and violence and anti-social behaviour.

Question reference: S1W-32920

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children in private residential care homes have been prescribed Ritalin and similar class drugs in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S1W-32669

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 December 2002
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 6 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is the policy of Scottish Enterprise (SE) not to consider giving any assistance to, or hold any discussions about assistance with, any party with which SE is in litigation about matters unrelated to such assistance and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.

Question reference: S1W-32668

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 December 2002
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 6 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is the policy of Scottish Enterprise to attempt, where possible, to resolve disputes by means of mediation, rather than litigation, and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.

Question reference: S1W-32237

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31634 by Lewis Macdonald on 28 November 2002, whether it has any figures for the percentage of commercial vehicles and HGVs using the A9 trunk road between Perth and Inverness and, if so, how these figures compare with the national average for non-dual carriageway trunk roads.

Yes, the Scottish Roads Traffic Database (SRTDb) has two Automatic Traffic Classifier Sites (ATCS) located on the A9 between Perth and Inverness at Birnam and Tomatin. The percentage of HGVs at these locations is 9.5% and 14.26% respectively.These figures are based on data collected for the 12-month period between December 2001 and November 2002.Information on national average HGV percentages for non-dual carriageway trunk roads is not currently published. However, a broad analysis of the information contained in the Scottish Roads Traffic Database suggests that the average figure is around 11% for Scottish Trunk Single Carriageway Roads.