Scottish Parliament Written answers

Scottish Parliament

Some recent written answers

Crime (11 November 2009)

Richard Baker:

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the finding in the 2008/09 Scottish Crime and Justice Survey: First Findings that in 32% of violent crime where the offender had a weapon the victim reported that it was a knife and what action it will take.

Diabetes (12 November 2009)

Michael Matheson:

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the note to Table 10 on page 15 of the Scottish Diabetes Survey 2008 that some NHS boards may be reporting some cases of insulin-treated type 2 diabetes as type 1, whether it will estimate the current number of such cases in each NHS board.

Public Sector Staff (18 November 2009)

Jeremy Purvis:

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28176 by Jim Mather on 6 November 2009, on what date the chairs of public bodies were contacted regarding a waiver of bonuses by chief executives.

Roads (12 November 2009)

Lewis Macdonald:

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with NESTRANS regarding the creation of a high-occupancy-vehicle lane on the A90 between Stonehaven and Cairngorm Road in Aberdeen.

Licensing (16 November 2009)

Kenneth Macintosh:

To ask the Scottish Executive how many fees for public entertainment licences were waived for free events and how many fees for market-operating licences were waived for non-commercial organisations in the last year.

Roads (16 November 2009)

Elaine Murray:

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28095 by Stewart Stevenson on 4 November 2009, whether it intends to declare properties and smallholdings purchased by the Scottish Office prior to the upgrade of the M74 in Dumfries and Galloway and now owned by the Scottish Ministers as surplus to requirements and, if so, (a) which properties and smallholdings will be so declared and (b) when they will become surplus to requirements.

National Health Service (13 November 2009)

Jackson Carlaw:

To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors satisfaction levels among patients who have made a complaint against the NHS and whether it will publish the results of any statistical analysis of satisfaction levels undertaken in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Justice (18 November 2009)

Robert Brown:

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering proposing amendments to the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill to bring Scots law into line with clause 14 of the Policing and Crime Bill for England and Wales, which is directed in particular at the problem of trafficking and will make it a strict liability offence to pay for sex with someone who is subjected to force.

Justice (12 November 2009)

Richard Baker:

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact of test purchasing on the sale of knives to young people.

Influenza (16 November 2009)

Kenneth Macintosh:

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the software required by GP surgeries to help identify priority patients for the influenza A (H1N1) vaccine was not in place sooner.

Bees (12 November 2009)

Peter Peacock:

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it regards wild bees as having homing instincts.

Employment (11 November 2009)

Elaine Murray:

To ask the Scottish Executive what the financial value of all contracts is for (a) skillseekers and (b) modern apprentices allocated to Dumfries and Galloway for 2009-10.

Mental Health (16 November 2009)

Jackson Carlaw:

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were on waiting lists and what the waiting times were for child and adolescent mental health services in each year since 1999, also broken down by NHS board.

Housing (11 November 2009)

Marlyn Glen:

To ask the Scottish Executive how much Housing Association Grant was awarded to each registered social landlord in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in each of the last three financial years, expressed in real terms.

Roads (16 November 2009)

Elaine Murray:

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28094 by Stewart Stevenson on 4 November 2009, which properties and smallholdings purchased by the Scottish Office prior to the upgrade of the M74 in Dumfries and Galloway and now owned by the Scottish Ministers are tenanted.

Special Areas of Conservation (12 November 2009)

Peter Peacock:

To ask the Scottish Executive whether sites to be designated for conservation purposes under provisions in Scots or EU law are selected by the European Commission or by Scottish Natural Heritage.

Prison Service (18 November 2009)

Robert Brown:

To ask the Scottish Executive what the population of sentenced female prisoners was as of 30 June 2008 and how many of them were incarcerated for (a) non-violent and (b) violent offences.

Planning (16 November 2009)

Johann Lamont:

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent research there has been on the effectiveness of community planning partnerships.

Bees (12 November 2009)

Peter Peacock:

To ask the Scottish Executive in what circumstances it recommends the use of (a) antibiotics and (b) other treatments for (i) American and (ii) European foulbrood and in what circumstances it considers the destruction of affected bees the optimal form of intervention.

Flooding (11 November 2009)

Liam McArthur:

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken in the last two years to address the causes and effects of external flooding.