- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 December 2002
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) registered foster carers there have been and (b) children have been in foster care in each year for which such information is available since 1995.
Answer
Figures on the number of registered foster carers are not held centrally. Figures on the number of children in foster care are not available for 1995 and 1996. Figures on the number of children in foster care since 1997 are available in the following publications: Children Looked After in the year to 31 March 1999 (Bib. number 25692), Children Looked After in the year to 31 March 2000 (Bib. number 12385), Children Looked After in the year to 31 March 2001 (Bib. number 21259) and Looked After Children in the year to 31 March 2002 (Bib. number 25693).
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Answered by David Steel on 23 December 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer what efforts are being made to publicise the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body's language policy and ensure that it is complied with.
Answer
The language policy is available on the Parliament's Intranet for staff and members to consult. A SPICe Briefing Paper is in preparation, which will include the language policy as an appendix. A press release will be issued when the briefing is published on the website, which is likely to be towards the end of January.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 December 2002
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Answered by Mike Watson on 18 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what support is being offered by (a) it and (b) sportscotland to help bring the badminton world team championship to Scotland in 2005.
Answer
As the event is one of UK significance, an application has been made by Badminton Scotland to UK Sport for funding assistance from its UK Major Events budget to bid to stage the badminton world team championships in 2005. A decision by UK Sport is expected early in the New Year. Sportscotland have provided Badminton Scotland with a letter outlining their "support in principle" to present to UK Sport.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 December 2002
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Answered by Mike Watson on 18 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Eventscotland will play a role in helping to bring the badminton world team championship to Scotland in 2005.
Answer
We expect to set up EventScotland in spring 2003. It would be for EventScotland to decide at that point whether the Badminton World Championships in 2005 would fall within its priorities for support.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2002
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Answered by Frank McAveety on 16 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26612 by Mr Frank McAveety on 24 June 2002, what funding mechanism is now in place to ensure that carers' services, including respite services, developed and funded through the carers' strategy allocation in 2000, will be able to continue beyond 2003.
Answer
The resources allocated by the Executive to local authorities to support carers, including resources to develop respite services, will have risen from £5 million in 1999-2000 to £21 million in the period 2003-04. The local government allocations for the next three years maintain these resources at the 2003-04 levels, augmented by the general uplift for pay and inflation.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2002
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Answered by Frank McAveety on 16 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27645 by Mr Frank McAveety on 13 August 2002, whether local outcome agreements with local authorities in respect of respite care provision are now in place and what provision each local authority has made.
Answer
As we are still in the process of developing local outcome agreements with local authorities it is not possible to say what provision each local authority has made for respite care.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive under what criteria it releases information under embargo to the press without first releasing it to the Parliament.
Answer
Under the terms of paragraph 8.5 of the Scottish Ministerial Code there is no regular procedure whereby final proof versions of policy documents can be made available under embargo to the media before publication. Such use of embargoes is normally limited to the publication of complex statistical and research reports. Any such decision to issue statistical reports under embargo is taken on a case-by-case basis in line with the National Statistics Protocol on Release Practices and it is expected that the vast majority of statistical releases from the Executive will not be subject to embargo.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-30879 and S1W-30880 by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 November 2002, what action has been taken to put in place the tumour-specific multi-disciplinary managed clinical networks for neuro-oncology.
Answer
There are three multi-disciplinary neuro-oncology centres in Scotland - one in each Regional Cancer Advisory Group Area - situated in Glasgow (West of Scotland), Edinburgh (South East of Scotland) and Aberdeen (North of Scotland).
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2002
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration will be given to the allocation of additional funding outwith the public private partnership initiative to local authorities to assist in the schools rebuilding and refurbishment programme.
Answer
Local authorities already have access to substantial resources outwith the public private partnership arrangements which they can apply to rebuilding and refurbishing schools. These include the general resources available to them under the capital allocation arrangements, and capital grant under the School Buildings Improvement Fund totalling £26.7 million in the current year.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 October 2002
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the figures on vacancies in local authority social work services in Statistical Bulletin SWK/S/2002/24, what the figures are for vacancies and percentage vacancies specifically for social workers in each local authority area.
Answer
This information is available in the recently published Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Social Work Services for Scotland at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/socialwork/swsi/annualreports.asp.
