Friday, 23 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any representations to (a) the Home Office or (b) HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales that (i) the Social Work Services...
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SEen088/2002, whether it will make the Capercaillie Biodiversity Action Plan guidance on snare setting statutory.
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SEen088/2002, whether it will prohibit the use of snares in capercaillie habitats.
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SEen088/2002, whether it will undertake an investigation into the problems of all types of snaring carried out in capercaillie...
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SEen088/2002, whether it will keep a central record of snaring in capercaillie habitats.
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SEen088/2002, whether it will outline what other protective measures it will undertake as part of the integrated national strategy...
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SEen088/2002, whether it is considering the release of captive-bred capercaillie in order to augment the wild population.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27092 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 July 2002, who the experts are on the Throughcare and Aftercare Working Group and how they were...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27095 by Cathy Jamieson on 10 July 2002, whether the amount of resources available to local authorities to develop throughcare...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27104 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 July 2002, by what means the quality of pre-school education will be improved; what aspects of...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27105 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 July 2002, in what ways reducing the role of nursery teachers will contribute to providing a...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27105 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 July 2002, what the targets and aims of pre-school education are.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27106 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 July 2002, who the members were of the working group of practitioners involved in drawing up the...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27106 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 July 2002, whether it will provide specific details of the research that formed the basis for...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27107 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 July 2002, on what basis it is stated that overall standards in the private and voluntary...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27108 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 July 2002, whether children's development and learning will be measured in future inspections of...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether qualifications improve the quality of the learning experience and whether providers performing less well in the HM Inspectorate report, Standards and Quality...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17355 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 1 October 2001, what information it has on which areas and exchanges have now been equipped...
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of its preparedness for dealing with any risk of contamination from nuclear accidents or incidents.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has ensured an adequate supply of iodine pills for use in any case of nuclear accident or incident and what constitutes an adequate supply of such pills.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it would distribute medication in the aftermath of any nuclear accident or incident.
To ask the Scottish Executive what size of area around any nuclear accident or incident would become a priority area for the distribution of medication.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will be inviting NHS staff organisations to participate in discussions on hospital-acquired infections; if so, which staff organisations will be invited,...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of (a) the membership of the Hospital-Acquired Infection Surveillance Steering Group and (b) the full remit of the group.
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to amend legislation governing right-to-buy for tenants of local authorities and housing associations.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22671 by Mrs Elish Angiolini on 7 May 2002, what the average time taken to bring a case to trial was in (a) sheriff courts and...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27061 by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 July 2002, whether it will collect and hold centrally information on performance against local...
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will give a substantive answer to question S1W-25635, lodged on 7 May 2002.
To ask the Scottish Executive what scope there is to increase the proportion of electricity generated from renewable sources.
To ask the Scottish Executive when local authorities were instructed by it to set up registers of interest for the board members of social inclusion partnerships.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its policy on first-time connections to the waste water system.
To ask the Scottish Executive with regard to its news release SEen088/2002, how much funding will be provided to captive breeding programmes as part of the integrated national strategy to protect...