Scottish Parliament Written answers

Friday, 5 May 2006

  • Architecture

    To ask the Scottish Executive how it will take forward its commitment to publishing a renewed policy statement on architecture, which it announced earlier this year in Scotland’s Culture ,...

  • Benefits

    To ask the Scottish Executive why Working for Families funding was removed at short notice from two projects in north-west Dumfries being undertaken by the Maxwelltown Umbrella Group, namely the...

  • Concessionary Travel

    To ask the Scottish Executive who is entitled to a "companion card" allowing a companion to travel free with them under the national concessionary fare scheme.

  • Concessionary Travel

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been entitled to local authority "companion cards" allowing a companion to travel free with them in each year since 1999, broken down by local...

  • Concessionary Travel

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-23411 by Tavish Scott on 6 March 2006, whether it will now hold discussions with NHS boards regarding extending the nationwide...

  • Concessionary Travel

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-12708 by Nicol Stephen on 20 December 2004, what funding has been allocated to each community transport scheme in the current...

  • Education

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much compensation has been paid to teachers as a result of assaults in the classroom in each year since 1999, shown in table form.

  • Education

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the per capita ratio of educational and child psychologists was to children in each local authority area in each year since 2000.

  • Elections

    To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is being given to the use of e-counting for the 2007 local government elections, in particular to the number and locations of e-counting centres...

  • Elections

    To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the UK Government in respect of the use of e-counting for the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.

  • Employment

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many call centres there were in each year since 2001.

  • Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its draft energy efficiency strategy.

  • Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a microgeneration strategy analogous to that recently published by the Department of Trade and Industry.

  • Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive what support is available for householders wishing to install home micro-renewables.

  • Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking encourage the widespread adoption of micro-renewables, particularly in relation to addressing administrative and financial issues.

  • Fisheries

    To ask the Scottish Executive what practical steps it will take to maximise the opportunities for employees in the aquaculture industry to have rewarding careers.

  • Fisheries

    To ask the Scottish Executive what methods it applies, and will apply in future, to measure the progress of the aquaculture industry.

  • Higher Education

    To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has provided for postgraduate courses in total and how much of this has been for courses in occupational therapy in each year since 2000.

  • Higher Education

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scots have applied to English universities for courses which are not funded in Scotland in each year since 2000.

  • Housing

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-23170 by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 March 2006, whether it is also negotiating to transfer surplus public sector housing to...

  • Income

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the average wage of employees is (a) across Scotland and (b) in each local authority area.

  • Justice

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many custodial sentences were imposed by Edinburgh Sheriff Court in each year from 1998 to 2005.

  • Justice

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many offences involving the (a) use, (b) presentation or (c) possession of imitation firearms there were in the city of Edinburgh in each year since 2001.

  • Justice

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has powers to direct police forces to desist from charging individuals for the possession, use or sale of cannabis as part of a pilot scheme, similar to...

  • Mental Health

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with a known drug-misuse problem also had a diagnosed mental health problem, expressed both in real terms and as a percentage of the total...

  • Non-Departmental Public Bodies

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many people currently serve on more than one non-departmental public body (NDPB) and what NDPBs these are; what remuneration each of these persons receive from...

  • Pensions

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many people working in local government were able to take advantage of the Rule of 85 in order to retire at 55 in each of the last five years.

  • Police

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many Lothian and Borders police officers in the city of Edinburgh area have had less than (a) one year’s and (b) two years’ service in each year...

  • Prison Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees of the Scottish Prison Service are currently absent from work having been medically diagnosed as suffering from (a) stress, (b) work-related...

  • Prison Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees of the Scottish Prison Service are currently absent from work on a long-term basis, broken down by grade and region.

  • Prison Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many inmates of prisons have been diagnosed with depression in each year since 1999.

  • Recycling

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects to meet the 2010 and 2020 household waste recycling targets set out in National Waste Plan 2003.

  • Scottish Enterprise

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Enterprise’s £30 million overspend is the gross amount or net of the impact of other remedial steps that have been taken in 2005-06.

  • Scottish Enterprise

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Enterprise suggested that the twelve local enterprise companies (LECs) should be abolished and, if so, on what basis the Executive decided that the...

  • Scottish Enterprise

    To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of Scottish Enterprise’s reported overspend of £30 million in 2005-06, what economic development projects in the Scottish Borders the Executive...

  • Scottish Executive Records

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-23934 by Nicol Stephen on 31 March 2006, whether file SEP 10/556 was reviewed by Executive officials prior to its opening for...

  • Scottish Executive Records

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-23915 by Nicol Stephen on 31 March 2006, on what basis it considers that file SEP 10/556 is of historical interest.

  • Scottish Executive Records

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-23902 by Nicol Stephen on 31 March 2006, whether its statement that it was "not aware specifically" of the contents of file...

  • State Hospital Carstairs

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were allowed out on (a) escorted and (b) unescorted leave from the State Hospital, Carstairs, in each month since 1999.

  • State Hospital Carstairs

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the criteria are for allowing (a) escorted and (b) unescorted leave for patients at the State Hospital, Carstairs; who is involved in the development of such...

  • State Hospital Carstairs

    To ask the Scottish Executive how leave from the State Hospital, Carstairs, is monitored and on how many occasions since 1999 guidance in respect of the monitoring of leave has not been followed...

  • Telecommunications

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24527 by Johann Lamont on 20 April 2006, whether there are any grounds on which it would consider a moratorium on the...

  • Wildlife

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many licences have been issued for the killing of red-breasted mergansers and goosanders in each of the last three years and to whom were the licences issued.

  • Wildlife

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for licences to control red-breasted mergansers and goosanders have been made in each of the last three years.

  • Wildlife

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many licences to control red-breasted mergansers and goosanders were granted in each of the last three years against the advice of Scottish Natural Heritage...

  • Wildlife

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many inspections were carried out to ascertain the facts prior to the granting of licences to control saw-billed ducks in each of the last three years and...

  • Wildlife

    To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated breeding population is of (a) red-breasted mergansers and (b) goosanders and what information it can provide on how the numbers and distribution...

  • Wildlife

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it issues licences for the killing of red-breasted mergansers and goosanders during the period from the beginning of April to the end of July when the birds...

  • Wildlife

    To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with animal welfare organisations regarding the cull of hedgehogs on Uist.

  • Wildlife

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has reviewed its position on culling hedgehogs on Uist, in light of the recent research by Bristol University, funded by the International Fund for Animal...

  • Correction

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