- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to support the transfer of freight from road to rail in Ayrshire.
Answer
My officials are in regular discussion with all the main rail operators about rail freight opportunities throughout Scotland, including Ayrshire. We operate three rail freight mode shift grant schemes which encourage the transfer of freight from road to rail.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether awards to local authorities from the Zero Waste Fund are intended to be used only to make progress toward meeting the 2013 Landfill Directive.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-31042 on 4 February 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the operation of the trunk road maintenance contracts in light of the recent severe weather and whether it plans to take any action as a result.
Answer
The performance of trunk road operating companies is monitored continually by the independent Performance Audit Group (PAG). During the recent severe weather PAG has been monitoring the delivery of winter service operations across the trunk road network. This monitoring will continue until the end of the winter season in May 2010. The results of this monitoring will be discussed with the operating companies and any recommendations regarding improvements to the delivery of winter service operations will be implemented in the operating companies'' winter service plans for next year.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities place an age restriction on vehicles used for school transport.
Answer
This information is not collected centrally. There is no age restriction on vehicles provided they are roadworthy. All buses are checked annually by the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and, in between these annual checks, operators are legally obliged to regularly check their vehicles to ensure their roadworthiness.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost would be of providing free prescriptions for cancer patients in 2010-11, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information required to answer this question is not held centrally. Actual costs would depend on the definition and criteria used to determine eligibility as well as uptake of the exemption following any change to the list of eligible conditions.
However, this government believes that patients suffering any conditions not currently exempt from paying for prescriptions should benefit in the same way at the same time. For this reason, as well as many others, the government''s view remains that the fairest policy is to abolish charges for all patients “ no matter what condition they suffer from - on 1 April 2011. Cuts so far of over 60% in the price of PPCs and over 40% in the price of single prescriptions are delivering very real benefit to all patients who pay for their prescriptions including all those with long-term conditions, including cancer.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost would have been of providing free prescriptions for cancer patients in 2009-10, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-30968 on 4 February 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of secondary school pupils has access to a school-based credit union savings scheme.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 3 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special schools have a dedicated librarian, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The following table sets out the number of primary, secondary and special schools that had a dedicated librarian as collected in the 2009 teacher census. This therefore represents the position as of September 2009. Librarians in through-schools are counted in both primary and secondary sector.
Number of Schools
| | Primary | Secondary | Special |
| Aberdeen City | - | 12 | - |
| Aberdeenshire | - | 16 | - |
| Angus | - | 8 | - |
| Argyll and Bute | 3 | 10 | - |
| Clackmannanshire | - | 3 | - |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | 15 | - |
| Dundee City | - | 9 | - |
| East Ayrshire | - | 8 | - |
| East Dunbartonshire | - | 8 | - |
| East Lothian | - | 6 | - |
| East Renfrewshire | - | 5 | - |
| Edinburgh City | - | 23 | - |
| Eilean Siar | 1 | 2 | - |
| Falkirk | - | 7 | 1 |
| Fife | - | 18 | - |
| Glasgow City | - | 27 | - |
| Highland | 1 | 19 | - |
| Inverclyde | - | 7 | - |
| Midlothian | - | 5 | - |
| Moray | 1 | 8 | - |
| North Ayrshire | - | 9 | - |
| North Lanarkshire | - | 22 | - |
| Orkney Islands | - | 2 | - |
| Perth and Kinross | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| Renfrewshire | - | 10 | - |
| Scottish Borders | - | 9 | - |
| Shetland Islands | 5 | 6 | - |
| South Ayrshire | - | 7 | - |
| South Lanarkshire | - | 8 | - |
| Stirling | - | 5 | - |
| West Dunbartonshire | - | 5 | - |
| West Lothian | - | 11 | - |
| All local authorities | 16 | 320 | 2 |
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 3 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of schools have a dedicated librarian, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The following table sets out the percentage of primary, secondary and special schools that had a dedicated librarian as collected in the 2009 teacher census. This therefore represents the position as of September 2009. Librarians in through-schools are counted in both primary and secondary sector.
Percentage of Schools with Dedicated Librarian
| | Primary | Secondary | Special | Total |
| Aberdeen City | - | 100 | - | 17 |
| Aberdeenshire | - | 94 | - | 9 |
| Angus | - | 100 | - | 13 |
| Argyll and Bute | 4 | 100 | - | 13 |
| Clackmannanshire | - | 100 | - | 12 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | 94 | - | 13 |
| Dundee City | - | 90 | - | 19 |
| East Ayrshire | - | 89 | - | 13 |
| East Dunbartonshire | - | 100 | - | 16 |
| East Lothian | - | 100 | - | 14 |
| East Renfrewshire | - | 71 | - | 16 |
| Edinburgh City | - | 100 | - | 18 |
| Eilean Siar | 3 | 20 | - | 7 |
| Falkirk | - | 88 | 20 | 13 |
| Fife | - | 95 | - | 10 |
| Glasgow City | - | 90 | - | 11 |
| Highland | 1 | 63 | - | 9 |
| Inverclyde | - | 100 | - | 20 |
| Midlothian | - | 83 | - | 13 |
| Moray | 2 | 100 | - | 17 |
| North Ayrshire | - | 100 | - | 13 |
| North Lanarkshire | - | 92 | - | 14 |
| Orkney Islands | - | 33 | - | 7 |
| Perth and Kinross | 5 | 100 | 100 | 17 |
| Renfrewshire | - | 91 | - | 16 |
| Scottish Borders | - | 100 | - | 12 |
| Shetland Islands | 16 | 67 | - | 27 |
| South Ayrshire | - | 88 | - | 13 |
| South Lanarkshire | - | 47 | - | 5 |
| Stirling | - | 71 | - | 10 |
| West Dunbartonshire | - | 100 | - | 12 |
| West Lothian | - | 100 | - | 13 |
| All local authorities | 1 | 86 | 1 | 13 |
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 2 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases involving domestic violence in (a) East Ayrshire and (b) South Ayrshire a custodial sentence of six months or less has been given in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table.
Persons Convicted for an Offence1 with a Domestic Aggravator2,3 who Received a Custodial Sentence of Six Months or Less, by Approximate Local Authority4, 2005-06 to 2007-08
| Local Authority | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| East Ayrshire | 31 | 42 | 44 |
| South Ayrshire | 37 | 41 | 47 |
| Total | 68 | 83 | 91 |
Notes:
1. Where main offence.
2. The recording of aggravators has improved over time therefore caution is needed when comparing changes over time. 2005-06 is the first year where it has been considered that the use and recording of domestic abuse aggravator codes from the Scottish Government Court Proceedings Database has been of sufficient coverage to be used.
3. The data recording codes for aggravators changed on 10 March 2008. The new codes will be reconciled against the existing codes when the 2008-09 data is available in March 2010.
4. Incorporates an approximate mapping of sheriff courts into local authority areas. Some sheriff courts will deal with cases from more than one local authority area.
