Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Scottish Parliament Written answers

• 2014 Commonwealth Games
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will spend on transport projects associated with the 2014 Commonwealth Games bid document, broken down by project and expenditure.
• Autism
  To ask the Scottish Executive when it will produce a national strategy for autism.
• Construction Industry
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it made a detailed representation to the Office of Fair Trading’s investigation into the construction industry.
• Council Tax
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27179 by John Swinney on 23 September 2009, whether it is aware that, under the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland)...
• Drug Misuse
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on needle-exchange programmes in pharmacies since 2007.
• Economy
  To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost (a) was to build and (b) is to maintain its Scotland Performs website.
• Finance
  To ask the Scottish Executive what written representations it made to the UK Government on (a) financial services regulations and (b) bankers’ bonuses between 15 September 2008 and 20...
• Glasgow Airport Rail Link
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3F-1909 by Alex Salmond on 24 September 2009 ( Official Report , c. 19971), whether it wishes to clarify the statement that...
• Local Government
  To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms are in place to monitor the registers of interests of elected members in local government.
• Prison Service
  To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions interpreters without specific interpreting qualifications have been provided by (a) the Scottish Prison Service or (b) its contractors.
• Procurement
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the annual budget and running costs of Procurement Scotland in each of the last five years.
• Rail Services
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it subsidises food and drink trolley services on rail journeys running north and west out of Inverness
• Scottish Government Communications
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-21592 by John Swinney on 20 March 2009, on what occasions it has been described as the SNP Government in official publications...
• Volunteering
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many volunteer groups there have been in each year since 1999.