- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 July 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 7 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether tourists travelling with bicycles on trains are provided with appropriate paperwork to confirm travel arrangements.
Answer
This is an operational matter for the train operating companies.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 July 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 7 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a national system for booking bicycles onto trains as part of the tourism strategy and, if so, whether the system is well co-ordinated with any local systems.
Answer
I understand that there is no national system for booking bicycles onto trains as part of the tourism strategy. However, in Scotland ScotRail operate a booking system for bicycles through a telesales subsidiary of its parent company National Express Group.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 July 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 30 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff, and staff of the former Scottish Office, worked on early education and childcare policy issues in (a) 1997, (b) 1999, (c) 2001, (d) 2002 and (e) 2003 to date.
Answer
Exact numbers of staff who have worked on early education and childcare policy issues are not available. It is, however, possible to provide the number of staff who have worked in the division of that name since its inception in 2000.The information is given in the table:Number of staff working in Early Education and Childcare Division as at 1 April
| Year | No. of Staff |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 14 |
| 2003 | 12 |
Early Education and Childcare Division was formed in January 2000. Prior to that date, responsibility for this area of policy was dispersed among a number of policy areas, all having a number of other additional responsibilities. Therefore, precise staffing numbers for 1999 and 1997 are not available.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many after-school care clubs have been established in the (a) Fife Council area and (b) (i) Dunfermline East, (ii) Dunfermline West, (iii) North East Fife, (iv) Kirkcaldy and (v) Central Fife constituency under the New Opportunities Fund.
Answer
The New Opportunities Fund does not hold this information, as its Out of School Hours Childcare programme was aimed specifically at the creation of new child care places and not the creation of new child care clubs. The total number of places created to date in Fife from the Out of School Hours Childcare programme is 4,361.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what strategic planning is taking place on co-ordinating public transport access to hospitals.
Answer
This is primarily a matter for the National Health Service, along with local authorities and local public transport operators. The Scottish Executive expects NHS boards and local authorities in Scotland to take account of national frameworks on green transport, planning considerations etc in deciding on the site of hospitals and planning public transport access to them.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 12 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make an announcement on the proposal to build a 400-megawatt natural gas-fired generating station at Westfield in Fife.
Answer
I can announce that the Scottish ministers have granted consent on this proposal in terms of section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989. Additionally this consent carries deemed planning permission in terms of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 17 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements have been made to promote the rail service from Glasgow Queen Street Station to stations in Fife.
Answer
This is an operational matter for ScotRail.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 17 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any special promotional rail fares are available for the service from Glasgow Queen Street Station to stations in Fife.
Answer
Special promotional rail fares are a commercial issue for ScotRail.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 17 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether passengers travelling on the rail service from Glasgow Queen Street to stations in Fife may purchase tickets on the train and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.
Answer
The sale of tickets on trains is an operational matter for ScotRail.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 17 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether books of advance tickets may be purchased for the rail service from Glasgow Queen Street Station to stations in Fife.
Answer
The sale of advance tickets is a commercial matter for ScotRail.
