- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what weekly payment is made to 16 to18 year olds who are living independently, are not in full time education and not entitled to job-seekers allowance, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Executive considered ingeneral that Scottish Water’s delivery plan for 2006-10 was too provisional innature and identified potential obstacles to Scottish Water being able toachieve the Executive’s objectives for it without identifying how suchobstacles might be overcome. It considered in particular that the planenvisaged a significant delay in taking forward a number of important strategicissues, including the alleviation of development constraints, that it did notprovide for Scottish Water to out-perform the Water Industry Commission’sdetermination of water charges, and that it lacked a clear means by which the Executive could measure Scottish Water’s progress towards achievement of theobjectives.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 16 to 18 remained with foster carers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The position in respect of the
ex-gratia payment made to Professor Alexander was set out in theExecutive’s answer to question S2W-23460 on 8 March 2006.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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding was allocated to social work departments to provide allowances for 16 to 18 year olds in each year since 1999 and broken down by local authority.
Answer
Professor Alan Alexanderresigned as Chair of Scottish Water because he did not agree with the ScottishExecutive, the Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland and the otherregulators that Scottish Water’s 2006-10 delivery plan fell short of theirrequirements for it in a number of material respects.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 16 to 18 were living independently having left foster care in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The search consultantsOdgers are acting on behalf of the Scottish Executive to identify potentialcandidates for appointment as interim Chair of Scottish Water.
The Executive first madecontact with Odgers in respect of this matter on 2 February 2006 as aprecautionary measure when it had become clear to the Executive that there wereproblems with Scottish Water’s delivery plan that might lead to the departureof Professor Alan Alexander as Chair of Scottish Water. On the same date itapproached the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotlandabout the possibility of an interim chair being appointed in line with herguidance on public appointments, but without the appointment being subject toan open competition.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-23721 by Lewis Macdonald on 18 March 2002, which local authorities have concessionary travel schemes for (a) children aged under 16, (b) 16 to 18 year olds in full time education courses and (c) 16 to 18 year olds who are not on full time education courses and who are not in receipt of jobseekers allowance, who are living independently and receive living allowance from social work, broken down by (i) year and (ii) local authority.
Answer
Professor Alan Alexanderresigned as Chair of Scottish Water because he did not agree with the ScottishExecutive, the Water Industry Commission for Scotland and the other regulators thatScottish Water‘s 2006-10 delivery plan fell short of their requirements for itin a number of material respects.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what supported accommodation is currently available for 16 to 18 year olds who are not entitled to jobseekers allowance but who are living independently, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Professor Alan Alexanderresigned as Chair of Scottish Water because he disagreed with the view of the Scottish Executive that Scottish Water’s 2006-10 delivery plan did not providea clear and convincing basis upon which Scottish Water would, as a minimum,achieve in full the Executive’s objectives for Scottish Water in the period,including those in relation to development constraints, within the limits setby the Water Industry Commission for Scotland’s determination of charges for2006-10.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pregnancies there were amongst (a) 12, (b) 13, (c) 14, (d) 15 and (c) 16 year olds in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Copies of ProfessorAlexander’s letters of appointment as Chair of Scottish Water can be viewed onthe Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Water/17583/resignation.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how long Monaghan Middlebrook Mushrooms at Drem in East Lothian sourced labour from gangmasters and when it claims that it ceased to do so.
Answer
The specific information requestedis not available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what legal basis there is for any Executive involvement in whether prisoners were transported via Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd operated airports to a third country.
Answer
Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL), as the licensedoperator of its 10 airports, is responsible for meeting UK Civil AviationAuthority and Department for Transport regulatory, and all statutory,requirements relating to its duties as the licensee of these airports. HIAL isalso accountable via its Board of Directors to the Scottish ministers for theoperation and management of its business.The Scottish Executiverequested information from HIAL regarding any flights operated on behalf of theUS Government and its agencies. As S2W-22577 answered on 10 February 2006makes clear, HIAL has no information that such flights have operated to or fromits airports. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available onthe Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information must be provided in support of requests for flights by aircraft chartered by the CIA, or by agencies to whom the CIA has outsourced services, to land at airports operated by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd and, specifically, whether a list of passenger names is required.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer question S2W-21090 on 20 December 2005. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.In addition to theinformation contained in S2W-21090, an aircraft operator using any airportoperated by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) must also obtain orprovide: prior permission to land, and a flight plan.
There is no requirement toprovide HIAL with a list of passengers’ names.
