- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the additional resources available from the Domestic Abuse Service Development Fund will be allocated to local authorities and their partners by means of a formula used to apportion shares or on a first come, first served basis.
Answer
All bids will be considered in accordance with the bidding guidance and grants will be made for those projects which best fulfil the aim of developing multi-agency working to improve local service provision.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be a maximum limit on the amount allocated to any project funded from the Domestic Abuse Service Development Fund.
Answer
Bidding guidance has yet to be developed but it is likely that there will be a maximum grant
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when local authorities and their partners can expect to be given a decision on their proposals and begin to receive funding from the Domestic Abuse Service Development Fund.
Answer
Funding will be available from 1 April 2000. Decisions on specific applications are expected to be announced in March 2000.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 11 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the current guidance relating to school exclusion to ensure that all children and young people are given the opportunity to appeal against exclusion.
Answer
The current guidance makes clear that children or young people should have their views taken into account and represented in appeals against exclusion. We have no plans to review it further.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 11 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the current guidance relating to school exclusion to ensure that all children and young people are given the opportunity to appeal against exclusion.
Answer
The current guidance makes clear that children or young people should have their views taken into account and represented in appeals against exclusion. We have no plans to review it further.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Andrew Hardie on 10 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive further to the answer to question S1W-1794 by Lord Hardie on 26 October 1999, whether, where there is a statutory requirement to publish a statutory instrument, failure to do so provides a reasonable excuse in defence of any person accused of non-compliance with any such statutory instrument.
Answer
Section 3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 provides for a defence as detailed in my answer to question S1W-1794. If however a defence of reasonable excuse were to be advanced it would be a question of law for the Courts to determine as to whether or not such a "reasonable excuse" could be imported into any specific enactment.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 9 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost is of the review of acute services currently being undertaken by Tayside Health Board in the light of the announcement by the Board to commission FRMC Management Solutions and System 3 to establish 12 focus groups as part of this review and whether the establishment of these focus groups will delay the conclusion of the review.
Answer
The review process is currently underway and Tayside Health Board indicates it is not, therefore, in a position to give a total cost of the review of acute services.We expect Tayside Health Board to ensure the public is engaged meaningfully in the review process. In addition to the steps already taken I understand focus groups have been set up to enable the Health Board to seek the views of the communities it serves about the future design and structure of acute services. It is not anticipated that establishing these groups will delay the timetable of the review.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Andrew Hardie on 26 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1350 by Lord Hardie on 17 September, whether the statutory defence afforded by section 3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 is available to defendants in cases brought under statutory instruments which have been classified as 'local non-prints' and are listed in the Register of Statutory Instruments for the year concerned as such.
Answer
Section 3(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 provides
inter alia "Regulations made for the purposes of this Act shall make provision for the publication by Her Majesty's Stationery Office of lists showing the date upon which every statutory instrument
printed and sold by the Queen's printer . . . was first issued:"
Section 3(2) of the Act provides that "In any proceedings for an offence consisting of a contravention of any such statutory instrument, it shall be a defence to prove that the instrument had not been issued by Her Majesty's Stationery Office at the date of the alleged contravention unless it is proved that at that date reasonable steps had been taken for the purpose of bringing the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public, or of persons likely to be affected by it, or the person charged."The limited defence set out in section 3(2) of the Act therefore applies only to statutory instruments printed or sold in terms of subsection (1).
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to re-open the railway station at Laurencekirk and resume commuter services to and from Aberdeen and Dundee.
Answer
I understand that ScotRail and Railtrack are at present with Aberdeenshire Council, considering the operational and financial implications of having the Aberdeen-Glasgow/Edinburgh services stop at Laurencekirk. I await the results with interest.
- Asked by: Irene McGugan, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline its strategy to facilitate improvements in rail infrastructure in non-urban areas.
Answer
Within the overall framework of the Partnership Agreement, The Scottish Executive will seek to ensure the provision of suitable transport infrastructure and services to rural and island communities in order to sustain and develop their social and economic well-being.
