Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Scottish Parliament Written answers

• Alcohol Misuse
  To ask the Scottish Executive what the change in Scotland’s consumption of alcohol has been since 2003 and what has contributed to this change.
• Finance
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers may agree expenditure only where such expenditure is included in the budget approved by the Parliament.
• Fuel
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many petrol stations there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
• Fuel
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many grants have been made under the Rural Petrol Station Grant Scheme since it was established, broken down by local authority area.
• Fuel
  To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to extend the funding available under the Rural Petrol Station Grant Scheme.
• Glasgow Airport Rail Link
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27500 by Stewart Stevenson on 25 September 2009, how much will be saved each year following cancellation of the Glasgow...
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many men over the age of 65 were (a) offered the opportunity to be screened for, (b) screened for, (c) found to have and (d) successfully operated on, following...
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-22472 by Shona Robison on 27 April 2009, what plans it has to ensure that NHS Highland is fully compliant with the report,...
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W–22473 by Shona Robison on 27 April 2009, what plans it has to ensure that NHS Highland has an orthoptist pre-school...
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-22474 by Shona Robison on 27 April 2009, what the timescale is for every NHS board area to have an orthoptist pre-school...
• Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance has been issued to NHS boards regarding working with schools and parents on young people’s health.
• Housing
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question SW3-24517 by Stewart Stevenson on 10 June 2009, for what reason the analysis report on the householder development permitted...
• Housing
  To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason there were no new supply shared equity completions in Argyll and Bute in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09.
• Mental Health
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many beds there have been for (a) children and (b) adolescents in child and adolescent psychiatric wards in each year since 1999.
• Planning
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27553 by Stewart Stevenson on 5 October 2009, whether it will list, in relation to each report, (a) the name of the planning...
• Police
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide police forces with sufficient funding to ensure that they are able to maintain police numbers at current levels until May 2011.
• Public Sector
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed by public sector bodies in each quarter of the last three years, broken down by (a) executive agencies, (b) non-ministerial...
• Schools
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether under its £1.25 billion school building programme only existing primary schools will benefit from investment.
• Scottish Government Funding
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much was allocated to the (a) Third Sector Enterprise Fund, (b) Scottish Investment Fund and (c) Social Entrepreneurs Fund in 2009-10.
• Scottish Government Funding
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much was allocated to the (a) Third Sector Enterprise Fund, (b) Scottish Investment Fund and (c) Social Entrepreneurs Fund in 2010-11, based on the final 2009-10...
• Scottish Government Funding
  To ask the Scottish Executive what organisations have made a successful application to the (a) Third Sector Enterprise Fund, (b) Scottish Investment Fund and (c) Social Entrepreneurs Fund and the...
• Scottish Government Funding
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much was allocated to the (a) Third Sector Enterprise Fund, (b) Scottish Investment Fund and (c) Social Entrepreneurs Fund in 2010-11, based on the 2010-11 draft...
• Scottish Government Ministers
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27349 by Bruce Crawford on 28 September 2009, on what occasion written briefs have been provided by it to SNP MSPs but not to...
• Sectarianism
  To ask the Scottish Executive when it will present its coordinated approach on tackling sectarianism.
• Holyrood Building
  To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will provide a list of upgrades and maintenance work undertaken on the present Scottish Parliament complex since it opened, showing the...