- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Glasgow Royal Infirmary's Orthopaedics Department has been understaffed at any time during the current year.
Answer
It is the responsibility of local NHS management to ensure satisfactory levels of service across all specialties and departments, within the increased resources available to the service.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many orthopaedic consultants were employed at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the financial years (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2001-02 to date and whether the number of orthopaedic consultants employed in these years was adequate for the provision of the orthopaedic service.
Answer
Information on staffing numbers is collected at a local level only, and is therefore not available in the form requested. I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-19400.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 October 2001
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Answered by Allan Wilson on 7 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of funding in the National Library of Scotland was in each of the past five years.
Answer
The information is set out in the following table:
| Grant (£) | Total Grant (£) |
Running Costs | Capital Projects | Purchase Grants |
1997-98 | 8,614,000 | 2,100,000 | 1,103,000 | 11,817,000 |
1998-99 | 8,724,345 | 2,100,000 | 958,000 | 11,782,345 |
1999-2000 | 8,737,000 | 2,100,000 | 958,000 | 11,795,000 |
2000-01 | 8,817,000 | 2,100,000 | 1,058,000 | 11,975,000 |
2001-02 | 9,297,000 | 200,000 | 1,058,000 | 10,555,000 |
Total | 57,924,345 |
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 1 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #7 million allowance to support colleges in financial difficulty announced by the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning on 3 October 2001 will go to North Glasgow College in Springburn.
Answer
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council is responsible for allocating public funding to Scotland's further education colleges. The additional sum of £7 million being made available to the Funding Council by the Scottish Executive is part of an overall package of extra resources amounting to £15 million. This new money is further evidence of the commitment of the Executive to boosting facilities and financial health within the further education sector.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 1 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take to aid any colleges adversely effected by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council's financial recovery plan.
Answer
Financial recovery plans, while requiring the approval of the Scottish Further Education Funding Council, are the property and responsibility of the individual college concerned.The Scottish Executive has recently made available £15 million in additional funding to the Scottish Further Education Funding Council, of which £7 million is intended to support colleges which have shown a determination to take the necessary action to secure their own long-term financial viability. Funding allocations to individual further education colleges are a matter for the Funding Council.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 15 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Historic Scotland has been working with religious groups on the requirements under listed building and planning legislation in relation to the erection of telecommunications equipment, and, if so, whether any anomalies have been uncovered in the legislation in regard to such groups.
Answer
Proposals to repair or adapt listed buildings which may affect their architectural character or quality including the erection of telecommunications equipment are normally subject to listed building control and require the submission of an application for listed building consent to the planning authority. However, places of worship are currently exempt from this control, under section 54 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997. Historic Scotland operates the Ecclesiastical Exemption Pilot Scheme with the agreement of the Scottish Churches Committee for dealing with proposals for works to the external fabric of buildings in ecclesiastical use which, were it not for this exemption, would require listed building consent. The arrangements apply to all such buildings irrespective of whether planning permission would , or would not, also be required.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what constitutes a completed development under Article 3(2) of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Order 2001 (SSI 2001/266).
Answer
The Executive cannot provide authoritative interpretation of statute. That is a matter for the courts.
It is our view, however, that for a mobile phone base station, for example, to be considered complete, no further operations that constitute development (within the meaning set out in section 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997) should remain to be carried out. In other words, for a base station under construction prior to 23 July to continue to benefit from the pre-23 July permitted development regime after that date, all works on the site involving development would have had to be carried out before 7 August.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17046 by Rhona Brankin on 13 August 2001, what plans it has to require information regarding the bathing water and the water quality record to be displayed at every beach that is used for bathing.
Answer
While signage has been put in place at many bathing and recreational waters by organisations such as local authorities and water authorities, the Executive has no plans at present to require information on water quality to be displayed.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 September 2001
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Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17048 by Rhona Brankin on 13 August 2001, how many nominations for identification as bathing waters the Bathing Waters Review Panel examined during 1998-99 and how many nominated sites were not subsequently identified as bathing waters due to (a) an insufficient number of people using the site and (b) a lack of information on the number of people using the site.
Answer
80 nominations were received, but some bathing waters were nominated more than once, so that 66 individual bathing waters were nominated. The independent Bathing Waters Panel made recommendations resulting in 37 new identifications. Of those which were not recommended for identification, in 14 cases no evidence of use was supplied. In the remaining cases, either insufficient evidence was presented, or information which did not convince the panel either of its quality, or that it was representative. The knowledge, either personal or professional, and the considerations of individual members of the panel, which led to the final list of recommendations are not, of course, matters for the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Fiona McLeod, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 September 2001
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Answered by Rhona Brankin on 21 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how recycling is defined for the purpose of measuring the performance of local authorities in relation to the disposal of household waste.
Answer
This is a matter for the Accounts Commission. I understand that the commission is currently reviewing performance indicators including the one for refuse recycling.