- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-4451 by Adam Ingram on 2 October 2007, on which future date it will consider establishing a review into the operation and implementation of mainstreaming policy.
Answer
A date has not yetbeen decided for considering establishing a review into the operation and implementationof mainstreaming policy.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what specialist support is available in Ayrshire and Arran for people with brain injuries.
Answer
The early managementof patients with head injury is covered by SIGN Guideline 46, which is currentlyunder revision. NHS boards are expected to implement these guidelines through localprotocols.
People in NHS Ayrshireand Arran who require specialist brain injury rehabilitation on an in-patient basisare referred either to the Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh, or to MurdostounCastle, near Wishaw. If discharged with rehabilitation needs, they would be seenon an out-patient basis at the Douglas Grant Rehabilitation Centre, Irvine.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what specialist support is available in Ayrshire and Arran for the carers of people with brain injuries.
Answer
We acknowledge theimportant role which carers can play, especially in cases of more severe brain injuries.Where patients have been admitted to hospital because of their brain injury, SIGNGuideline 46 stresses the importance of providing clear information, at the pointof discharge from hospital, to both the patient and the responsible adult takingthe patient home.
The Eglinton DisabilityResource Centre at Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine, can act as a further source of advice in cases of disabilities associatedwith severe head injury.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change last held discussions with officials from Transport Scotland regarding the progress of the STAG appraisal into a Maybole bypass.
Answer
I have not had specificdiscussions on the progress of the Maybole Bypass. It is being considered as partof the Strategic Transport Projects Review which will report in summer 2008.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cumulative financial cost is of making every school building in (a) East Ayrshire and (b) South Ayrshire wind-tight and watertight.
Answer
The maintenance oftheir school buildings is a local authority responsibility. Detailed informationof the kind requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional financial support it has provided for animal disease surveillance and diagnostic services in Ayrshire following the recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth and bluetongue disease.
Answer
The recent outbreakof foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey has highlighted the importance of continuedvigilance for signs of disease and surveillance. Given the level of resource currentlyin place the Scottish Government does not believe that additional financial supportis necessary.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what investment it has planned to improve the system of animal disease surveillance and diagnostic services.
Answer
The Scottish Government’sanimal disease surveillance arrangements are kept under review to ensure that theyare appropriate to Scotland’s needs.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to develop and improve animal disease surveillance and diagnostic services in Ayrshire.
Answer
The Scottish Government’sanimal disease surveillance programme is kept under continual review to ensure itprovides maximum protection and benefit to Scotland’s livestock industry.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any windfarm applications have ever been refused permission by a planning authority due to the cumulative impact on the area in which they were proposed.
Answer
The Scottish Governmentdoes not hold centrally information on the reasons for refusals of planning permissionby planning authorities, other than those which are subject to an appeal to Scottishministers. Each planning authority is required to include the reasons for a refusalin the relevant decision notice.
Scottishministers have received 37 appeals against refusal or non-determination of a planningapplication by planning authorities of wind farm or wind turbine applications. Ofthese 37 appeals 17 were dismissed and of these, four cited the cumulative impactof the proposal as a factor in reaching the decision.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what applications for windfarm developments located in the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley parliamentary constituency are currently subject to a public inquiry.
Answer
A reporter from theDirectorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals (DPEA) held a public local inquiryinto an application for the proposed Kyle windfarm, near Dalmellington. The inquiryended in June 2007 and the Reporter will shortly be submitting his report to Scottishministers, who will make the final decision on this application.
