- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans the First Minister has to visit East Ayrshire.
Answer
The First Minister currentlyhas plans to visit East Ayrshire on 23 January 2008.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans the First Minister has to visit the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley parliamentary constituency.
Answer
The First Minister currentlyhas no plans to visit Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley parliamentaryconstituency.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it would prefer to see an export trade in carcases rather than live animals.
Answer
Yes, we would prefer to see atrade in meat rather than live exports. This avoids long distance travel of liveanimals whilst ensuring better returns across the industry from added value product.However, we cannot place a unilateral ban on the export of live animals as thiswould be illegal under EU law.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring will be in place to measure hospital delayed discharges in 2008-09.
Answer
Information on delayed dischargesis collected as a snapshot census on a quarterly basis by the Information ServicesDivision (ISD) of NHS Scotland. The census dates are on or around the 15 of January,April, July and October. The information is validated by ISD and published on thelast Tuesday of the month following the census date.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of the operation and management of the juror pool will be completed.
Answer
The Scottish Government is preparinga consultation paper on a range of juror issues which I hope to publish in latespring.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-7310 by Kenny MacAskill on 12 December 2007, how much funding has been allocated to each local authority under section 27(1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
Answer
Under section 3(5) (e) of theManagement of Offenders etc (Scotland) Act 2005, Community Justice Authorities (CJAs)it is the responsibility of the individual CJAs to determine how section 27(A) 1grant is distributed to constituent local authorities to support area plans andpriorities.
The following breakdown includesthe indicative allocations issued by the Scottish Executive for the financial year2007-08 to support the specific programmes listed in the answer to question 12 December2007, S3W-7310. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search. | Community Justice Authority | £ |
| Tayside (includes Angus) | 29,563 |
| Glasgow | 32,623 |
| Lothian and Borders (includes Edinburgh and Midlothian) | 208,220 |
| Lanarkshire (includes North and South) | 104,393 |
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-7041 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 December 2007, how much funding has been drawn down by each local authority to cover the cost of providing support to victims of human trafficking.
Answer
No funding has so far been drawndown by any local authority to cover the cost of providing support to victims ofhuman trafficking.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 18 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce any financial disincentives, as part of overall local authority funding, for any local authority that proposes to close small rural schools.
Answer
Funding arrangements forlocal authorities over the next three years have been set out in the LocalGovernment Settlement announced last month in the context of the concordat signedwith COSLA on 14 November.
The government has alreadysignalled an intention to consult on introducing a legislative presumptionagainst the closure of rural schools. A consultation paper containing specificproposal will be published this spring.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects that an intensive support and monitoring service will be available in every local authority area.
Answer
We propose to revise the regulationsIntensive Support and Monitoring (Scotland) Regulations 2006 to allow all local authorities to useMovement Restriction Conditions with an electronic tag through the Children’s Hearingssystem for young people under 16-year-olds from April 2008.
Where and when a Movement RestrictionCondition with an electronic tag is to be used, the appropriate support must bein place to support the young person, in line with regulations. In many cases itis the view of many of those working with youngsters that it is the intensive supportthat is the cause of changed behaviour.
To be eligible for a MovementRestriction Condition, young people will still have to meet the conditions set outin section 70 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, the same criteria that must be met for a youngperson to be authorised for secure accommodation. In effect, a Movement RestrictionCondition would only be used where other interventions have not succeeded.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 18 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to introduce a mechanism of local authority finance which will provide authorities with an incentive to maintain small rural schools.
Answer
Funding arrangements forlocal authorities over the next three years have been set out in the LocalGovernment Settlement announced last month in the context of the concordat signedwith COSLA on 14 November.
The government has alreadysignalled an intention to consult on introducing a legislative presumptionagainst the closure of rural schools. A consultation paper containing specificproposal will be published this spring.
