- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to motion S3M-4797.1 as agreed by the Parliament on 9 September 2009, when it expects the Scottish Dementia Strategy to be published.
Answer
The National Dementia Strategy will be published by early June.
The Convener of the Health and Sport Committee has already been informed of an extension from the initial end-April deadline. The extension is in order to finalise details of the strategy and to ensure that all key partners, notably COSLA, have ample time to consider and endorse it.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 April 2010
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Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the findings of the appraisal of the clipper ship, HMS Carrick or City of Adelaide carried out by DTZ, to be published.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33483 on 11 May 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what timetable it has in place for its evaluation of the future of the clipper ship, HMS Carrick or City of Adelaide.
Answer
The Scottish Maritime Museum has made it clear that it needs a solution to the problem of removing the City of Adelaide from its current location within this calendar year. That is the key timeframe within which we are working. The consultants appointed by Historic Scotland to investigate all the available options are working to the agreed deadline of 31 May 2010 for delivery of their report to Historic Scotland. I therefore hope to announce the outcome of this work in the summer.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering introducing a grant similar to the Home Access Grant available in England.
Answer
The Scottish Government is adopting a comprehensive approach to the delivery of sustainable educational benefits and change for those most in need. This includes provision of the national education platform known as Glow, serving a potential user base of 1.5 million; development of national and user generated digital content; a collaborative national procurement framework to enable local authorities to purchase ICT equipment at competitive prices and a review of Scotland''s previous digital inclusion strategy. There are no plans to introduce a Home Access Grant.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it was represented at the European Tourism Stakeholders Conference on 14-15 April 2010.
Answer
The Scottish and UK Governments were not represented at the recent European Stakeholders Conference. We are not aware of the Scottish Government being invited to attend the conference. We understand that the UK Minister for Tourism, Margaret Hodge MP, was not able to attend due to the UK General Election. The conference coincided with an informal ministerial meeting on tourism that was hosted by the Spanish Presidency and the UK was represented at that meeting by the British Embassy in Madrid.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 6 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is undertaking to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to apply for funding for eco-innovation projects under the 2010 Competitiveness and Innovation Programme.
Answer
The Scottish Government, through Scotland Europa, has raised awareness of the call for application for funding for eco-innovation projects under the 2010 Competitiveness and Innovation Programme with Scotland Europa members, which include companies, business associations, Universities, local authorities and agencies “ Scottish Natural Heritage and, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA).
Information has been circulated to Scottish Enterprise account managers and innovation specialists for discussion with client companies.
Enterprise Europe Scotland has been carrying out general awareness raising activity and responding to company inquiries with briefings on the eligibility criteria, what is funded, mechanics of the programme etc. and are considering further joint promotion with SEPA.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2010
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Answered by Richard Lochhead on 5 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with stakeholders regarding the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2006 and the fees levied to companies involved in electronics recycling.
Answer
Extensive consultation was carried out with stakeholders on the introduction of the regulations, including the establishment of a separate Scottish stakeholders group. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has had subsequent engagement with stakeholders on the implementation of the regulations.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 5 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the application fee and subsequent annual fee for companies wishing to set up a battery compliance scheme for recycling batteries.
Answer
Officials have had a number of discussions with their UK Government counterparts in order to enable extensive consultation to take place in 2007 and again in 2008 on implementation of the EC Directive on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators.
The level and structure of the relevant fees are intended to enable the environment agencies to recover the costs of the activity needed to monitor compliance with the directive.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds are available to social care providers to develop telecare technologies.
Answer
£4 million is being made available through the Scottish Government''s eHealth programme to further expand telehealthcare services across the country over 2010-11. All 32 local health and social care partnerships are being offered £120,000, subject to committing match funding of an equal or greater amount. This takes the Scottish Government''s total investment in the programme since its inception in 2006 to £20 million.
The additional funding will enable Scotland to further build on the achievements to date in developing technology-enabled services which support a shift in the balance of care from institutional to community settings; improve outcomes for service users and carers, and help deliver key health and care performance targets.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with stakeholders in Scotland regarding the promotion of the European Year of Volunteering 2011.
Answer
We are in discussions with the other administrations in the UK about the implementation and financing of the European Year of Voluntary Activities Promoting Active Citizenship 2011. We fully expect to engage with Scottish stakeholders as soon as the basic elements are settled.