Scottish Parliament Written answers

Tuesday, 14 January 2003

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to deal with alcohol problems in (a) young people and (b) all other age groups.

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it collects statistics on alcohol-related accidents from accident and emergency units.

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to take forward its campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of excess alcohol consumption, How much is too much?.

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will develop guidelines for alcohol education as part of the school curriculum to support the implementation of the Plan for Action on alcohol problems .

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to announce funding to improve service provision consistent with the Plan for Action on alcohol problems .

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that there is an adequate supply of trained alcohol counsellors to support the implementation of the Plan for Action on alcohol problems .

  • Cancer

    To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is giving to the medical director at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow in relation to recruiting at least five clinical oncologists at the centre.

  • Child Protection

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many children abused through prostitution are currently under the care of social work services.

  • Child Protection

    To ask the Scottish Executive when it will establish appropriate accommodation, such as places of safety, for vulnerable children including children abused through prostitution.

  • Child Protection

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers are currently being investigated as a result of Operation Ore regarding the activities of suspected paedophiles.

  • Children in Care

    To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children in private residential care homes have been prescribed Ritalin and similar class drugs in each of the last five years.

  • Environment

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it was notified that the Central Science Laboratory had been given permission by the Advisory Committee on Pesticides to carry out trials with the chemical...

  • Environment

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Environment Protection Agency or Scottish Natural Heritage were notified of trials being carried out by the Central Science Laboratory with the...

  • Environment

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance will require local authorities and consultants to always consider the impact on carbon dioxide emissions and the...

  • Fisheries

    To ask the Scottish Executive for how long the effort limitation measures agreed at the EU Fisheries Council in December will be in place.

  • Fisheries

    To ask the Scottish Executive on what basis it stated in its press release SEen278/2002 that fishermen in cod-related fisheries will be able to fish for 15 days per month, given that Annex XVII...

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive what fee is payable to (a) GPs, (b) hospital doctors, (c) pharmacists, (c) dentists, (d) nurses and (e) veterinary surgeons for carrying out a homeopathic treatment.

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether any market research has been carried out to measure what percentage of the public are in favour of complementary medicine being made widely available on the...

  • Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence exists on the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of complementary medicine.

  • Justice

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32365 by Mr Jim Wallace on 17 December 2002, under what other circumstances prosecuting authorities in Scotland will ignore an...

  • Justice

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many witnesses below 10 years old appeared in (a) sheriff courts and (b) the High Court in 2001.

  • Roads

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-30382, S1W-31275 and S1W-32194 by Lewis Macdonald on 5 November, 2 December and 13 December 2002 respectively, whether it...

  • Roads

    To ask the Scottish Executive when it will introduce a 30 mph speed limit on the A84 through Lochearnhead.

  • Roads

    To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in improving safety on the A84 and A85.

  • School Meals

    To ask the Scottish Executive when it will launch the healthy eating campaign and the national standards for school meals.

  • Sewel Motions

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all Sewel motions that it anticipates lodging with the Parliament before dissolution.

  • Sexual Offences

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31209 by Mr Jim Wallace on 6 December 2002, how many offenders in secure accommodation have taken part in offence-related and...

  • Student Finance

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many students (a) were entitled to and (b) received the minimum available student loan in each year since 1995.

  • Student Finance

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29824 by Iain Gray on 7 October 2002, what the average level of non-commercial debt was for a student completing four years of...

  • Sustainable Development

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether the contribution of lifelong learning to achieving sustainable development will be included in its final lifelong learning strategy to be produced early next...

  • Vaccines

    To ask the Scottish Executive which vaccines available on the NHS contain thimerosal.

  • Vaccines

    To ask the Scottish Executive what research there is on any links between flu vaccines containing thimerosal and Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Water Safety

    To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment was made of the volume and nature of current and future effluent discharges into Lerwick Harbour from Scottish Water and private outfall pipes prior...

  • Holyrood Project

    To ask the Presiding Officer when the landscape design contract in relation to the construction of the new Parliament building at Holyrood was put out to tender and advertised in the European Journal.

  • Holyrood Project

    To ask the Presiding Officer whether, since the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body accepted responsibility for the Holyrood project, any contractors have left the site voluntarily or had their...

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