- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 9 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities it has been informed are preparing to submit Integrated Transport Fund bids for major cycling infrastructure projects.
Answer
We are not aware of any local authorities preparing to submit Integrated Transport Fund (ITF) bids for such projects. Since substantial resources from the ITF are already committed to the delivery of our Partnership commitments, we would not encourage local authorities to work up detailed proposals for any transport project until these have been first discussed with their usual contacts in the Executive.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the consent process for the proposed Farr wind farm development will be concluded.
Answer
My department is still discussing with the applicant possible measures to avoid, mitigate or compensate for possible adverse impacts on the local environment and on the ecology of the area arising from the development. No decision will be made until these matters are satisfactorily resolved.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any outstanding requirements that may be delaying the consent process for the Farr wind farm development.
Answer
My department is still discussing with the applicant possible measures to avoid, mitigate or compensate for possible adverse impacts on the local environment and on the ecology of the area arising from the development.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories receive full information regarding their treatment.
Answer
Such information is not available to the Scottish Executive. Inveresk is a private company.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, for each clinical trial of non-pharmaceutical substances involving human volunteers approved or reviewed by the Edinburgh Independent Ethics Committee for Medical Research at Inveresk, what substance was involved, how many volunteers participated and what the trial entailed.
Answer
The Edinburgh Independent Ethics Committee is a private committee. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether issues of commercial confidentiality prevent the disclosure to healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories of full information regarding their treatment.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is not in a position to comment on issues of commercial confidentiality in relation to a private company.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what ethical oversight there is of healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories.
Answer
We understand that studies involving healthy volunteers participating in clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories are ethically appraised by the Edinburgh Independent Ethics Committee.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is publicly available about the ethical oversight of healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories give their informed consent for the trials and whether issues of commercial confidentiality prevent disclosure of information to such volunteers and affect their ability to give informed consent.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what regulation there is of healthy volunteers participating in human clinical trials of non-pharmaceutical substances at Inveresk research laboratories.
Answer
Such trials are regulated under UK health and safety law.
