- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what projected size of increase in container capacity was used to justify the proposal for a new port.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers to questions S3W-20109 and S3W-20711 on 2 March 2009. 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 Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what alternative locations for additional container capacity were considered in formulating the National Planning Framework for Scotland 2 Strategic Environmental Assessment.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20715 on 2 March 2009. 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 Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive why alternative locations for additional container capacity were not identified in the National Planning Framework for Scotland 2 Strategic Environmental Assessment.
Answer
The candidate national developments considered in the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the National Planning Framework 2 were proposals put forward by stakeholders which were sufficiently specified to allow a meaningful assessment to be undertaken. Elements of several of these proposals addressed the provision of additional container capacity. Guidance on SEA states that artificially constructed alternatives are unlikely to be reasonable for the purposes of assessment, as in most cases there would be no prospect of delivery.
The National Planning Framework 2 Environmental Report and associated annexes are available on the Scottish Government''s website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/planning/National-Planning-Policy/themes/npf.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will prioritise the infrastructure projects required to enable the national developments, in particular the upgrading of road and rail connections serving Grangemouth and Rosyth, as proposed in the Strategic Transport Projects Review.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-18930 on 8 January 2009. 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 Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken toward setting out the mechanisms for ensuring public engagement in meeting its objectives in relation to adaptation to climate change.
Answer
Section 91 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act commits the Scottish Government to preparing and publishing a public engagement strategy by 31 December 2010. Preparatory work has commenced and is ongoing. The Scottish Government is considering whether to broaden the focus of this strategy beyond the targets set in subsection (1)(a) of the act to include adaptation to the impacts of climate change.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the use of Ethos FR and other fuel additives in the public sector and more widely and what tests or reviews of tests it has undertaken on these products.
Answer
We are supportive of any sustainable technology that can demonstrate reduced emissions from transport and increase fuel efficiency. Ethos FR is one of a number of commercial products that claims to offer these benefits. However, Scottish ministers cannot endorse specific products, nor can we promote their use to the wider public sector. Fleet management is an operational matter for each organisation concerned.
Fuel policy and legislation are matters reserved to the UK Government. Assessment of products such as fuel additives is required to be carried out by the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA), an executive agency of the UK Department for Transport. Arrangements for testing such products can be made with the VCA.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the laptop computer stolen from the audiology unit at Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary contained patient information and, if so, why it was being stored on a laptop and not retained only on the NHS server, and whether the information was both password protected and encrypted and, if so, what type of password system and what sort of encryption was used.
Answer
NHS Forth Valley have advised that the stolen laptop contained names, addresses and audiology details of 89 patients and that the details were held on the laptop for home visit purposes only. The laptop was kept in a locked cupboard behind locked doors and was double password-protected, though not encrypted.
NHS Forth Valley worked closely with Central Scotland Police and undertook a full internal investigation however the laptop has not been recovered. The board has undertaken an information governance overview of patient details to ensure controls are in place and storage, as far as possible, is on the network service.
The Scottish Government are developing an updated mobile data protection standard in conjunction with all NHS boards to improve the security of electronic patient information. When implemented, it will provide increased confidence of the secure storage of patient information including that on USB memory sticks and laptops. Also being developed are NHS Scotland standards for the encryption of mobile devices, including laptops.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-4664 by Kenny MacAskill on 17 October 2007, how many police officers there have been in each year since 1996-97, broken down by police force.
Answer
Figures on the number of police officers employed by each force from 1979 to 2006 were given in the answer to question S3W-4664.
For 2007-08, figures on the number of police officers employed by each force are available in the Quarterly Strength Return, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43307). This is updated on a quarterly basis to reflect returns for 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December each year.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what contact it has had with the UK Government regarding the Royal Mail Group or its subsidiaries since May 2007 and what issues were raised through that contact.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretary for Finance & Sustainable Growth met the independent regulator for the postal market, Postcomm, the Postal Services Commission, in September 2007, when he invited Postcomm to adopt a more robust, long-term stance in opposition to zonal pricing.
- Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to ensure that, following the European Court of Justice's judgment in the Coleman case, the laws which protect disabled people against discrimination are applied also to their carers and whether it will support the extension of such rights to all carers
Answer
As the member will be aware, matters relating to equality legislation are reserved to the UK Government. I welcome the European Court of Justice''s ruling in the Coleman case and hope that this will lead to increased awareness among employers of the need to ensure that carers receive the fair treatment they deserve.
Equalities legislation is reserved and the UK Government is considering the implications of the Coleman ruling. We are working closely with the UK Government on those aspects of equalities legislation which have devolved implications.
