Scottish Parliament Written answers

Monday, 19 February 2007

  • Ambulance Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many times an ambulance has failed to reach a patient within an hour of being summoned in each of the last eight years in (a) Lanarkshire and (b) Ayrshire.

  • Autism

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many children with autism there are in the Fife local authority area; in what types of school they are placed, and how many are home educated.

  • Autism

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many children there are with autism in Scotland and what action is being taken to improve their lives and ensure that they receive education suitable for their needs.

  • Cancer

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS QIS has made any recommendation about the use of Sutent as a treatment for renal cancer and, if so, what recommendation it has made.

  • Digital Technology

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30721 by Nicol Stephen on 21 December 2006, what steps it has taken to allow providers other than BT, such as Tiscali, to...

  • Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether all local authorities are complying with the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004.

  • Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied with the impact that the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 has had on the care of children with additional...

  • Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that it is appropriately funding local authorities to fulfil their obligations under the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland)...

  • Energy

    To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the potential for deep geothermal energy production in Scotland.

  • Housing

    To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the publication in November 2006 of Communities Scotland’s research report 72, "Local housing need and affordability model for Scotland –...

  • Housing

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are plans to introduce new arrangements for the acquisition of housing land by local authorities and, if so, whether such plans include a proposal to...

  • Justice

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it issues guidance to police on the meaning of the term "reasonable grounds" in section 48(1) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995.

  • Justice

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many clerks to the district court spend a sufficient percentage of their time on district court work to entitle them to transfer to employment with the Scottish...

  • Justice

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many clerks to the district court spend an insufficient percentage of their time on district court work to entitle them to transfer to employment with the...

  • NHS Finance

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on NHS reorganisation in each of the last 10 years.

  • Nuclear Power

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management’s final report offers a viable solution for dealing with nuclear waste.

  • Nuclear Power

    To ask the Scottish Executive what position it will take on applications for new nuclear power stations in Scotland.

  • Population

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many births there were in Glasgow in each year since 1999.

  • Prison Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive what prison custody protocols are in place in respect of religion and belief.

  • Prison Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it issues in respect of the practice of religion and belief by those in prison custody and what the status is of such guidance.

  • Prison Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the implementation of prison custody protocols in respect of religion and belief.

  • Prison Service

    To ask the Scottish Executive what denominations are covered by prison custody protocols in respect of religion and belief.

  • Recycling

    To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it will allocate for kerbside recycling in the rural Highlands in 2007-08.

  • Roads

    To ask the Scottish Executive what conditions were attached to the traffic regulation order which closed the A7 in Langholm from 15 January 2007.

  • Skye Bridge

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether the duties of Highland Regional Council as the Secretary of State’s agent for the A87 Skye crossing scheme included ensuring compliance with statutory...

  • Skye Bridge

    To ask the Scottish Executive why over £60 million has been paid to Skye Bridge Ltd when the agreed costs to be collected by the concessionaire as announced on the statutory identification...

  • Skye Bridge

    To ask the Scottish Executive who has been responsible since May 1999 for addressing any financial discrepancies discovered since the 23 May 1997 National Audit Office report on the Skye Bridge.

  • Social Work

    To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it takes to monitor the spending of local authorities in relation to social work Grant Aided Expenditure.

  • Social Work

    To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on the social work inspection of Argyll and Bute Council.

  • Sport

    To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to encourage as many young people as possible from ethnic minority communities to take part in sport.

  • Stone of Destiny

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has passed a copy of the Official Report of the parliamentary debate on the Stone of Destiny on 13 December 2006 to the commissioners of the regalia.

  • Stone of Destiny

    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received a response from the commissioners of the regalia following the parliamentary debate on the Stone of Destiny on 13 December 2006 and, if so,...

  • Stone of Destiny

    To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the relocation of the Stone of Destiny to Scone.

  • Voluntary Sector

    To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs it estimates will be lost in the next 12 months as a direct result of changes it has made to the administration of European structural funds for...

  • Voluntary Sector

    To ask the Scottish Executive how much each of its departments allocated to voluntary bodies, including sums channelled through local authorities, in each year from 1999-2000 to 2005-06.

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