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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S1W-22458

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration will be given to the recent announcements on police pay and conditions in England and Wales in its discussions with the Scottish Police Negotiation Board on police pay and conditions in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-22454

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of police officers have not yet received protective body armour, broken down by police force area.

Question reference: S1W-22456

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of police officers are currently on (a) core street shifts and (b) other administrative duties, broken down by police force area.

Question reference: S1W-22457

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions it has had with the Scottish Police Negotiation Board regarding police pay and conditions.

The Police Negotiating Board operates on a UK basis. The Scottish Executive, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Police Associations are members of the Police Negotiating Board, along with their equivalents south of the Border and in Northern Ireland. The Police Negotiating Board produced Heads of Agreement on 27 December, which are now subject to consultation. There is no Scottish Police Negotiating Board.

Question reference: S1W-22455

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when police officers who have not yet received protective body armour can expect to receive such protection.

Question reference: S1W-21995

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what contribution it will make to the Convention on the Future of Europe announced in the Laeken Declaration on the future of the European Union.

The Scottish Executive considers it very important that Scotland should contribute to EU thinking on major issues such as the Future of Europe debate and believes that Scotland and legislative regions can play an important part in helping to address the acknowledged gap which exists between individual citizens and the EU institutions. The Executive will therefore pursue all the avenues open to it to feed Scottish views into the work of the convention.

Question reference: S1W-22362

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 8 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is monitoring the use of the euro in the retail and tourism sectors in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-22366

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were treated for hospital-acquired infections at district general hospitals in (a) 1999-2000 and (b) 2000-01.

The information requested is not held centrally.However, collection of core data on the incidence of selected hospital-acquired infections is a key component of the new national surveillance framework announced in July 2001. The framework will ensure regular feedback to NHS boards and trusts from the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health of centrally analysed local and national data about selected hospital infections.

Question reference: S1W-22363

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 8 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what advice about the euro is being given by Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise or Scottish Trade International to exporters to the Euro'one and to those companies which import goods and services.

In the Scottish Enterprise area, responsibility for providing advice to businesses regarding the euro is the responsibility of Scotland Europa. In conjunction with HM Treasury, they have implementing a detailed programme - including workshops, conferences, publications, a website and a telephone hotline - to provide advice and raise awareness of the need to make appropriate preparations for the introduction of the currency. Such advice is continuing to be provided. Within the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) area, awareness raising activity have been undertaken by HIE and the European Information Centre (EIC). They are developing a series of practical workshops for businesses in the area on how they can use the euro. These are being developed in conjunction with banks in the area, private sector business representatives and the EIC. HIE Local Enterprise Companies provide information on the euro to businesses on request, drawing on Scotland Europa, the EIC and other resources.

Question reference: S1W-22356

Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 8 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20749 by Iain Gray on 10 January 2002, whether it has any plans to provide a fast track procedure for applications for free central heating under its Central Heating Installation Programme for those people who have respiratory illness or a similarly heightened need for central heating or who lack a current centralised source of hot water.