Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the cost of the new network of roadside camera sensor stations in Scotland.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive to provide details of the locations of each of the new roadside camera sensor stations which are proposed, operational or under construction in Scotland.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive under the terms of the European Directive on road bridges (96/53), what is the number of bridges still to be assessed, still to be upgraded and currently restricted below 40 tonnes, and what its proposals and timescale are to implement the directive.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question SW1-292 by Susan Deacon on 29 July 1999, to specify the projected income from charges under the Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Act 1999 and to which budget such income will be allocated.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the volume of green-house gas emissions that have been produced in Scotland (a) as a whole and (b) from each economic sector, in each of the last 10 years.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the targets that have been set for Scotland to reduce greenhouse gases, and how progress towards these targets will be monitored in relation to Scotland’s contribution to UK targets.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the amount of public money made available for capital expenditure to each of the airports in Scotland for each financial year since 1994/1995.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals it has to introduce a statutory obligation on local authorities to fund providers of free independent consumer advice.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates will be the reduction in the number of car journeys in Scotland as a result of its proposed road tolling.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question SW1-292 by Susan Deacon on 29 July 1999, whether any discussions took place with representatives of motoring and insurance organisations in regard to the increase in charges under the Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Act 1999 and, if so, to provide details of those discussions.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive, in the light of its power to give grants for rail services, what representations it intends to make to Her Majesty’s Government in order to ensure that Scotland has adequate independent representation on the Strategic Rail Authority.
Kenny MacAskill: Mr Reid's case was first dealt with in the Scottish sheriff courts in around 1994. It then went through appeals before finally reaching the House of Lords in 1998. The MacLean committee was instructed shortly afterwards. Therefore, there were four years during which the case was considered. It took four years for the previous Administration, and now this Administration, to get their act...
Kenny MacAskill: I wish to make it quite clear to Cathy Jamieson that the debate on the law is the next debate-the Presiding Officer made that clear. This debate examines how we got into this mess, and why we need emergency legislation. It is perfectly legitimate for members to run through the Ruddle case in particular, and to analyse what happened and who is at fault. Listening to this debate, everyone is...
Kenny MacAskill: I will not take any interventions. This is a winding-up speech, and Mr Robson will have to remain wound up, if that is how he is feeling. How did we get into this mess? Let us run through some of the facts. As Lord Hardie will wind up for the Executive, I produce what I will call Opposition production No 1-the sheriff's decision from Lanark. The report clarifies that Mr Ruddle was of...
Kenny MacAskill: As I said before, the problem has been on-going in jurisprudence and psychiatry for 40 years. The tragedy is that, through the incompetence and delay of the Executive and the previous Administration, we have to rush this legislation through. As Margaret Ewing said, piecemeal and hastily drafted legislation is a recipe for disaster. We are left with no option but to support the bill but we...
Kenny MacAskill: The tragedy with legislation that is introduced in haste is that things are left out. I was appalled by the letter from the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland to the Deputy First Minister, dated 6 September. Twenty years of being a lawyer taught me that if you do not know the answer yourself, you know where to find the answer, or you know a man or woman who might know the answer. If...
Kenny MacAskill: One of the drawbacks of being called towards the end of a debate is that everyone has said what you were going to say. However, the benefit is that you can work out the terms of the debate. I listened to the minister, to Mr McLetchie and to Mr Jackson, and there appears to be much unanimity and consensus on many areas-and on two areas in particular. First, everyone accepts that we are...
Kenny MacAskill: I can assure John McAllion that I am not going to target the Liberal Democrats with what I will say—I will stick completely to the Labour party, which runs the Executive. Mr McAllion's problem is that he fails to address the fact that this programme proposes nothing of substance and is almost wholly spin. I believe that when an Executive presents its proposals, it has two clear duties:...
Kenny MacAskill: We are calling now for what we called for before—abandonment of the fuel price escalator. It is causing and compounding problems. The price of a barrel of oil has doubled through tariffs. The Government is—as it did last year and the year before—adding 6 per cent to that. We in Scotland have seen no tangible benefit to our public transport infrastructure. The Government has taken our...
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to develop the electrification of Scotland's railways. (S1O-252)