- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what instructions it has issued to Audit Scotland with regard to resolution S1M-3375 on the acute services review, passed by the Parliament on 12 September 2002.
Answer
Greater Glasgow NHS Board has engaged the services of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) who will provide external commentary on the governance arrangements and processes for the development and implementation of the Acute Services Strategy. The reports produced by PwC will be submitted to Audit Scotland and will be subject to independent review. They may also form the basis of any reports to the Scottish Parliament that the Auditor General for Scotland may prepare.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many homes in the Strathkelvin and Bearsden parliamentary constituency are eligible for free central heating for the elderly under its central heating installation programme and, of these, how many have applied.
Answer
I have been considering how best to provide information on progress under the central heating programme. Eaga have set up a website on that programme and the Warm Deal. The address is www.eaga.co.uk. The website gives detail of surveys and installations of central heating by main postcode area. Information is not collected on any other geographical basis. Information not shown is not collected regularly. This information will be updated monthly. Please consult the website for information on progress.A copy of each month's report will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre. We will also provide details of progress under the central heating programme by those local authorities and housing associations which are taking part. This information will be made available as they claim grant. No claims have yet been made in 2002-03. A detailed report on the outcomes of the two programmes in 2001-02 will be presented to Parliament shortly.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many eligible applications for free central heating for the elderly under its central heating installation programme received from the Strathkelvin and Bearsden parliamentary constituency (a) have been completed and (b) are still being processed.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30388 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 10 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which ministers and officials have met the Health and Safety Commission since May 1999; what issues were discussed at any such meetings; what the results of any such meetings have been; what future meetings have been arranged, and what issues are to be discussed at these meetings.
Answer
The then Minister for Health and Community Care participated in the Scottish launch of the Health and Safety Commission's (HSC) Securing Health Together strategy. The Scottish Executive's Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Public Health is a member of the partnership board, which is taking forward the strategy. The Chair of HSC chairs the board. The Scottish Executive has agreed a concordat with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the body which advises HSC on health and safety policy and is its operational arm. Scottish Executive officials are in regular contact with HSE officials on a wide range of issues.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 2 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress there has been in establishing Water Customer Consultation Panels in accordance with the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002.
Answer
The Water Customer Consultation Panels were established under the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 with the convener to be appointed by ministers and the panel members appointed by the convener.The Executive has recently advertised the post of convenor and is considering a number of applications. The appointment of panel members will be made as soon as practicable following the appointment of the convener.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28951 by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 September 2002, for what specific reasons the applications for funding from Facilitate (Scotland) were unsuccessful.
Answer
The Executive has already explained to Facilitate (Scotland) why their grant applications were unsuccessful.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27399 by Cathy Jamieson on 2 August 2002, whether it will consider fully funding the Scottish European Resource Centre when it has established the reasons for the proposed withdrawal of funding by the European Commission office in London.
Answer
The Scottish Executive will meet the shortfall in funding for the Scottish European Resource Centre created by the withdrawal of funding from 1 January 2003 by the European Commission's Representation in London.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 26 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is in relation to making responses to its consultation papers available for public inspection where respondents have not indicated that their response is to be treated as confidential and when such responses are made available in relation to the closing date of a consultation.
Answer
It is Scottish Executive policy to make all responses to consultations (unless confidentiality has been requested) available to the public by placing them in the Scottish Exceutive Library, or on request. Responses are made publicly available as soon as is practicable after they have been received, taking into account the need to balance transparency and openness with responsibility as a publisher of third party material.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 24 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive under what circumstances Scottish Natural Heritage would be expected to undertake environmental impact studies in respect of planning applications in sensitive areas.
Answer
There are statutory requirements for planning authorities or developers to consult Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) on proposals in, or affecting, certain areas designated for their natural heritage interest, when such proposals are the subject of planning applications, or in some cases as a pre-requisite of exercising permitted development rights. It is for SNH to decide in the circumstances of each case what work they require to carry out in order to respond to such consultations.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 23 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive (a) to whom and (b) when non-GM crops grown 50 m from the GM crop trial at Munlochy were sold.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not hold this information since this is not a matter for regulation. The farmer is at liberty to market, or use as he wishes, any conventional crop beyond the 50 m separation distance. Our advisers are confident that such a crop poses absolutely no threat to human or animal health.
