Friday, 10 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, with regard to the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill and the absolute right to buy, it is making budgetary provision to cover any costs which might...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30980 by Mrs Mary Mulligan on 7 November 2002, when it will have fully considered the recommendations of the audiology review...
To ask the Scottish Executive how long patients are expected to wait for their first appointment with a specialist after an urgent referral by their general practitioner for suspected breast cancer.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many court-mandated perpetrator programmes for domestic abuse offenders there are and how many such programmes have parallel partner-support workers.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many social work departments have received training from CHANGE in respect of developing court-mandated perpetrator programmes.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32029 by Mr Jack McConnell on 10 December 2002, what each of the functions are for which the First Minister is solely...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32029 by Mr Jack McConnell on 10 December 2002, what each of the functions are for which the First Minister is solely...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the jobs of staff involved in the transfer of housing stock in Glasgow will be guaranteed in the Glasgow Housing Association Ltd, given revisions to the...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many properties have been demolished under the Glasgow housing stock transfer process to date and how many are expected to be demolished in total.
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the proposed sale of Clett Island, off Skye, in plots each of one foot square.
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date it plans to bring the provisions of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill into force.
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has allocated to each local authority in respect of work on core path networks in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03 and (c) 2003-04.
To ask the Scottish Executive what entitlements Scottish Prison Service employees have to sick pay and sick leave.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) staff have been employed by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), (b) sick days have been lost whilst sick pay is paid to SPS employees and (c) SPS staff...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Prison Service staff retired due to ill health in each year from 1997 to 2001.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Prison Service (SPS) staff have initiated grievance procedures in each year since 1997 and how many such procedures were (a) concluded to the...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30372 by Mr Jim Wallace on 12 November 2002 and given that the Scottish Prison Service does not monitor the number of...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-2393 by Mr Jim Wallace on 19 January 2000, whether it will provide up-to-date percentage staff turnover figures since April...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32017 by Mr Jim Wallace on 10 December 2002, what projections it has of the number of unfit places in the prisons estate in...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31637 by Mr Jim Wallace on 2 December 2002, whether there is any difference in the fixed fees, as defined in Ga and Gb in...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many passenger rail journeys are undertaken each year.
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of passenger rail journeys undertaken do not exceed 10 minutes.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many passenger rail journeys involved passengers standing for more than 10 minutes in each year since 1997.
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of passenger rail journeys undertaken in Scotland is on services provided by companies other than ScotRail.
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has received from the Strategic Rail Authority about any proposed cuts in funding for the passenger railway franchise; whether it has taken over...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27368 by Lewis Macdonald on 2 August 2002, whether it will make representations to Her Majesty’s Government in support...
To ask the Scottish Executive what benchmarking data it holds, or is planning to obtain, on the commercialisation of research in universities and research institutions.
To ask the Scottish Executive when the A90 between Perth and Aberdeen was last not subject to speed and carriageway restrictions caused by roadworks.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31827 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 December 2002, what outstanding matters from previous inspections of the Scottish Criminal...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will direct HM Inspectorate of Constabulary to ensure that its previous recommendations and those of the Change Management Review Team established by the...
To ask the Scottish Executive what response it made, or advice it gave, to the Public Petitions Committee with regard to petition PE544 on the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO); whether any...
To ask the Scottish Executive what expenditure the Scottish Criminal Records Office has incurred with regard to the (a) salaries, (b) pension contributions and (c) other work-related expenses...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO), or any other public body, made any financial contribution to the legal costs of the fingerprint experts involved...
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the prosecution of Shirley McKie, what costs were incurred by (a) it, (b) the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO) and (c) any other public...
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects revised guidance on cryptosporidium in water supplies to be issued.
To ask the Presiding Officer whether EMBT/RMJM Ltd provided evidence of its professional indemnity insurance as described in the original European Journal advertisement for architectural services...