Monday, 13 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to strengthen enforcement measures against anti-social neighbours.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24133 by Dr Elaine Murray on 28 March 2002, whether the annual Scottish Award for the best publicly-funded building will be...
To ask the Scottish Executive when the report of the task force reviewing the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 will be published.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is encouraging people to cycle as an alternative to travelling by car.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has conducted any mapping exercise to determine levels of demand for broadband connection and, if so, what areas have been identified that will not have...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide any subsidy for the delivery of broadband via satellite systems to areas that will not have access to asymetric digital subscriber line...
To ask the Scottish Executive what is being done to address cannabis-induced psychosis.
To ask the Scottish Executive what environmental assessment has been made of the impact of trials being carried out by the Central Science Laboratory with the chemical T3327 at the Dundrennan...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Dumfries and Galloway Council was notified of trials being carried out by the Central Science Laboratory with the chemical T3327 at the Dundrennan range in...
To ask the Scottish Executive who represents Scotland on the Firearms Consultative Committee.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-31980. S1W-31981, S1W-31982 and S1W-31984 by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002, how these answers are consistent with the...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-31980. S1W-31981, S1W-31982 and S1W-31984 by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002, how these answers are consistent with the...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has sought any legal opinion on whether the interpretation of the review clause in EEC Regulation 3760/1992 must be circumscribed by other provisions of...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it, in leading a UK delegation, would have a right of veto on the current Common Fisheries Policy review package should evidence emerge that the European...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to place an order for the construction of a fisheries protection vessel in the near future.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the age profile is of the vessels in the current fisheries protection fleet.
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration has been given to the modernisation and expansion of the fisheries protection fleet to meet changes to the Common Fisheries Policy and its...
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of the maintenance, repair and refit of the fisheries protection fleet in (a) 1999-2000 and (b) 2000-01.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be of the maintenance, repair and refit of the fisheries protection fleet in (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04, (c) 2004-05 and (d) 2005-06.
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of people suffering from impingement syndrome of the shoulder and whether it will make representations to Her Majesty’s...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31958 by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 December 2002, whether £3,689,000 is still the forecast full-year overspend by Argyll and...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any contracts by or on behalf of the NHS have been entered into, or will now be entered into, with Life Resources Incorporated following the purchase of the...
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been set aside for the purchase by the NHS of plasma from foreign countries in (a) each of the last three years, (b) the current year and (c) future...
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations were undertaken with it regarding the purchase of Life Resources Incorporated by the Department of Health and what representations it made in response.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is measuring the impact that the 44 healthy living centres are having on health improvements in areas of poverty and deprivation.
To ask the Scottish Executive why NHS 24, free personal care and the Care Commission are mentioned twice as both targets and achievements on pages 52, 54 and 55 of Recording Our Achievements .
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the establishment of the Health Technology Board for Scotland, as referred to on page 52 of Recording Our Achievements , has achieved the end of "postcode...
To ask the Scottish Executive what recommendations of the (a) expert group on financial and other support for NHS injury and (b) Health and Community Care Committee's Report of Hepatitis C it...
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to increase the number of overseas students studying at universities.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students successfully completed a higher education course solely at a higher education institution in each year since 1990.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32365 by Mr Jim Wallace on 17 December 2002, whether it will be an offence in Scotland under clauses 59 and 69 of the Criminal...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32366 by Mr Jim Wallace on 17 December 2002, whether courts have any power to prevent the importation of a print publication...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32366 by Mr Jim Wallace on 17 December 2002, what is meant by "normal circumstances" in addition to prosecutions under clauses...
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Her Majesty’s Government regarding any replacement of the landfill tax credit scheme and whether it is aware of whether the...
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will reply to my letter of 4 October 2002 regarding my constituent G Banks of Maud, Aberdeenshire.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the reduction in bureaucracy achieved by streamlining NHS boards, as referred to on page 54 of Recording Our Achievements , and what the...
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual budgets have been for each NHS trust within the Argyll and Clyde NHS Board area in each year from 1999-2000 to date.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the local recruitment policy operated by Argyll and Clyde Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in relation to personnel from abroad is in keeping with employment...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all NHS staff will be able to access family-friendly policies, as referred to on page 53 of Recording Our Achievements , as part of their work environment...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-31475 and S1W-31964 by Dr Elaine Murray on 22 November and 9 December 2002 respectively, why the Chief Executive of Historic...
To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the transparency of responses provided in answers to parliamentary questions by Historic Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial assistance or support is available to parents of young disabled people that wish to modify their family home to facilitate the transition process to...
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost to the NHS is of an (a) homeopathic, (b) generic and (c) branded prescription.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the report of the independent consultant on the contracting-out of social work in prisons.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to questions S1W-25983 and S1W-32018 by Mr Jim Wallace on 29 May and 10 December 2002 respectively and with regard to document Bib. number...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25983 by Mr Jim Wallace on 29 May 2002, whether the assault reported in the Metro of 15 May 2002 will be counted towards the...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31487 by Mr Jim Wallace on 22 November 2002 and document Bib. number 25002, what the nature was of the incident of failure to...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31487 and document Bib. number 25002, what the nature was of the incidents of concerted indiscipline in quarter 1 and quarter...
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has received about (a) the estimated value of goods, equipment and property that, in the event of the passenger railway franchise changing, a new...
To ask the Scottish Executive what studies have been undertaken regarding attitudes towards wind farms among those residing closest to such facilities.
To ask the Scottish Executive what study it has made of the use of wind power in Denmark.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30960 by Lewis Macdonald on 6 November 2002 and with regard to the Central Scotland Transport Corridor Studies A80 Corridor...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received representations from Strathdearn Community Council in respect of the Tomatin junction on the A9; if so, what action it intends to take and,...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31495 by Ross Finnie on 25 November 2002, whether it is aware of a letter from it to Mr Daniel Quinn, dated 1 October 2001,...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31496 by Ross Finnie on 25 November 2002, what information it has received about any complaint relating to the eviction of the...
To ask the Scottish Executive how poverty and deprivation in rural communities has been measured and ameliorated by the allocation of funds through the Arbuthnott formula.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on its Learn to Let Go campaign since the campaign began
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the internal organisation of its Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department, detailing the specific roles of divisions within...
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to increase the quality and variety of homes in the most disadvantaged areas of the Renfrewshire Council area since 1997.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether income under section 2(1) of the Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Act 2001 will be treated as additional to money available...
To ask the Presiding Officer when the mechanical and electrical design contract in relation to the construction of the new Parliament building at Holyrood was put out to tender and advertised in...
To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will place the security specifications initially envisaged as being necessary for the new Parliament building at...
To ask the Presiding Officer what aspects of the security specifications initially envisaged as being necessary for the new Parliament building at Holyrood, as published on the website of the...