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BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 222/2012 Friday 30 March 2012 BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 222/2012 Friday 30 March 2012 ANNOUNCEMENTS Business Bulletin during Recess During recess the Business Bulletin will be published weekly, therefore the next Bulletin will be published on Monday 2 April 2012 and, due to the Easter holiday, the subsequent Bulletin will be published on Tuesday 10 April. Daily publication will resume on Monday 16 April. Chamber Desk Arrangements During the Easter Recess Members may wish to note that during the recess the Chamber Desk will be open from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm each day. Normal opening arrangements will resume on Monday 16 April 2012. Motions that members wish to appear in the Business Bulletin on Monday 16 April should be lodged by 2.30 pm on Friday 13 April. 1 Contents The sections which appear in today’s Business Bulletin are in bold Section A: Today’s Business - Meetings of Committees - Meeting of the Parliament Section B: Future Meetings of the Parliament Section C: Future Meetings of Committees Section D: Oral Questions - Questions selected for First Minister’s Question Time - Questions selected for response by Ministers and junior Scottish Ministers at Question Time Section E: Written Questions – new questions for written answer Section F: Motions and Amendments Section G: Bills - New Bills introduced - New amendments to Bills - Members’ Bills proposals Section H: New Documents – new documents laid before the Parliament and committee reports published Section I: Petitions – new public petitions Section J: Progress of Legislation – progress of Bills and subordinate legislation 2 Business Bulletin: Friday 30 March 2012 Section B – Future Meetings of the Parliament Business Programme agreed by the Parliament on 28 March 2012 Wednesday 18 April 2012 2.00 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Scottish Government Debate: Project TransmiT followed by Scottish Government Debate: Legislative Consent Motion: Scotland Bill – UK Legislation followed by Business Motion followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 6.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business – S4M-02419 David Stewart: Devolution of the Crown Estate (for text of motion see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Monday 26 March 2012) Thursday 19 April 2012 9.15 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Scottish Labour Party Business 11.40 am General Question Time (for names of those Members selected for General Questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 29 March 2012) 12.00 pm First Minister’s Question Time 2.15 pm Themed Question Time Culture and External Affairs; Infrastructure and Capital Investment (for names of those Members selected for Themed Questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 29 March 2012) 3 2.55 pm Stage 1 Debate: Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business – S4M-02194 Christine Grahame: Community Radio Coming from a Station Near You (for text of motion see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Monday 5 March 2012) Wednesday 25 April 2012 2.30 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Scottish Government Business followed by Business Motion followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Thursday 26 April 2012 9.15 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Scottish Government Business 11.40 am General Question Time 12.00 pm First Minister’s Question Time 2.15 pm Themed Question Time Education and Lifelong Learning 2.55 pm Scottish Government Business followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business 4 Business Bulletin: Friday 30 March 2012 Section E – Written questions lodged on 29 March 2012 Questions marked with a triangle (∆) 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". S4W-06389 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive what information is held (a) centrally and (b) by each NHS board on the use of (i) bevacizumab, (ii) cetuximab, (iii) lapatinib, (iv) abiraterone, (v) everolimus, (vi) rituximab, (vii) sorafenib, (viii) bendamustine, (ix) fulvestrant and (x) bortezomib in the treatment of cancer. S4W-06392 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been given access to cancer medicines that were approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium under a patient access scheme since 2011, also broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) medicine. S4W-06393 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive how much the Hospital Medicines Utilisation Database recorded as being spent on cancer medicines in 2011, also broken down by NHS board. S4W-06394 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive how much NHS Greater Glasgow’s Chemotherapy Electronic Prescribing and Administration System recorded as being spent on cancer medicines by the board in 2011. S4W-06395 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive how much the NHS spent on (a) proton pump inhibitors, (b) statins and (c) laxatives in 2011. S4W-06396 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it made of the suitability of the cost per quality-adjusted life year ration in evaluating treatments effective in small cohorts of poor prognosis patients when considering petition PE1108 on the availability on the NHS of cancer treatment drugs. S4W-06397 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to ensure that patients with a cancer that has spread will receive equitable access to the same medicines as patients in England. S4W-06398 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the UK Government on the implementation of value-based pricing of medicines. S4W-06399 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish further guidance on management of formulary arrangements by NHS boards. 5 S4W-06400 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will conduct a review of the impact of the guidance that was issued in March 2011 on individual patient treatment requests and, if so, when. S4W-06417 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the recent cessation of coal train services at night on the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine railway line will be extended or made permanent and whether it will (a) increase the tonnage of the daytime trains and (b) introduce a Sunday service in order to reduce night services. S4W-06421 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider introducing (a) an 80 mph speed limit on motorways and (b) a 20 mph speed limit on most sections of urban roads when it has the power to do so and, if so, what it considers the (i) economic and (ii) health impact of such changes will be. S4W-06423 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28614 by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 November 2009, how many of the seven rotas to which the derogation applied up to 31 July 2011 have since been given further derogation, and whether other rotas have been approved for fresh derogation since 2 November 2011. S4W-06474 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive how much the postgraduate tuition fee loan scheme will cost in each of the next three years. S4W-06475 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive how much the postgraduate student allowances scheme has cost in each of the last three years. S4W-06476 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been assisted under the postgraduate student allowances scheme in each of the last three years. S4W-06477 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people will be assisted under the postgraduate tuition fee loan scheme in each of the next three years. S4W-06478 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive what the maximum grant has been under the postgraduate student allowances scheme in each of the last three years. S4W-06509 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive what new funding streams are available to Perth now that it has city status. S4W-06510 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive what role it considers that Perth will have in Scotland’s development now that it has city status. S4W-06511 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to promote Perth across the world now that it has city status. 6 S4W-06515 Ken Macintosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what work has been done to assess the (a) effectiveness and (b) suitability of the individual patient treatment request process. S4W-06517 John Lamont: To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG) 2 appraisals have been carried out since 2007 and, of these, how many have been funded by Transport Scotland. S4W-06519 Annabel Goldie: To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to ensure the retention of the Gourock-Kilcreggan-Helensburgh ferry service. S4W-06520∆ Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received the results of the internal review of NHS Ayrshire and Arran’s compliance with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy following decision notice 036/2012 issued by the Scottish Information Commissioner. S4W-06521 Neil Findlay: To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the decision on whether a new railway station will be built at Winchburgh in West Lothian. 7 Business Bulletin: Friday 30 March 2012 Section F – Motions and Amendments Motions and amendments are normally printed the day after they are lodged. If an amendment is lodged to a motion then the original motion will appear alongside the amendment, along with any support lodged that day, in this section.
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