- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to undertake a review of the geographic provision of in-patient services across Scotland in the light of A Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland.
Answer
NHS boards have conducted local maternity service reviews, which take account of the various geographical and demographic features of their particular area. The Scottish Executive is currently auditing NHS board strategies against the principles laid out in A Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland. A short life Expert Group on Acute Maternity Services, chaired by Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care, Mrs Mary Mulligan, will convene in February 2002 to develop recommendations on models of acute and intra-partum maternity care to assist boards to configure their services appropriately.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2002
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Answered by Iain Gray on 8 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pensioners in each parliamentary constituency have (a) taken up their entitlement and (b) received free central heating under its Central Heating Installation Programme.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. We will be publishing an annual report on the Central Heating Installation Programme which will give details of take-up across Scotland.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to encourage healthy eating amongst pregnant mothers.
Answer
As stated in Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change, pregnancy is a significant life event and this should be reflected in the way that women are cared for and look after themselves during pregnancy, childbirth and after the baby is born. The Scottish Diet Action Plan "Eating for Health" provides the framework to improve diet across all population groups in Scotland, including pregnant women.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15753 by Mr Jim Wallace on 11 July 2001, what action it plans to take in respect of holders of legal title concerning boundary division subjects which are based on the Principles of the Law of Scotland, (10th Edition 1899, section 1078) which confirmed the subjects as being held as common or mutual property "pro indiviso" if such holders' rights and value in their property are affected in adverse manner by an alleged change in the law to ownership only to the mid-point of the subject and how it will address any confusion and inequality amongst such 'pro-indiviso' holders.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-21639.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15753 by Mr Jim Wallace on 11 July 2001, whether it supports the use by the Scottish Law Commission in its report on Boundary Division Walls (Report No. 163, paragraph 1.4, footnote 6) of the case of Robertson v Scott 1886 (13R 1127) as being central to its opinion that that case changed the law on march fence type divisions when it concerned a common or mutual gable and when the only question which was put before the court in that case, and the only decision given by the court, was that as a predecessor of a later builder had paid the cost of half the wall, that later builder was entitled to get back a payment he had made by mistake on beginning to use the gable, and what recognition it has given to this decision which established that the wall in question was legally held as common or mutual property "pro indiviso", as confirmed by Professor Bell in Principles of the Law of Scotland, (10th Edition 1899, section 1078).
Answer
The Executive considers reports of the commission as a whole. The commission concluded that the existing law as decided by the case of Thom v Hetherington 1988 SLT 724 was satisfactory and that there was no need for legislation to restate or reform it. The Executive continues to support that recommendation and does not plan to take any action in this area.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15753 by Mr Jim Wallace on 11 July 2001, what recognition it has given to those legal titles concerning boundary division subjects which are extant and which conform to, and are based on, the legal standing of the subject as set out in Principles of the Law of Scotland, (10th Edition 1899, section 1078).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-21639.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2002
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 31 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to promote the learning of foreign languages in Scotland's schools.
Answer
The Scottish Executive response to the Action Group on Languages report Citizens of a Multilingual World, published on 26 September 2001, highlighted a wide range of proposals to promote the learning of foreign languages in Scotland's schools. Key recommendations include an entitlement to language education for every child which the Scottish Executive will support through an allocation of additional ring fenced funding for local authorities to invest in foreign language learning.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to exempt officials of the Parliament from jury duty.
Answer
We have no plans to make the Parliament's officials ineligible for, or give them an automatic right of excusal from, jury service. Like all those cited for jury service, officials of the Parliament may apply to the clerk of court to be excused and the clerk may excuse them if there is good reason to do so. The judge may also excuse a juror.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact on devolved matters of the outcome of the Laeken European Council of December 2001 and, in particular, the Laeken Declaration on the future of the European Union.
Answer
As a matter of course, policy divisions within the Scottish Executive assess the implications for devolved matters of the outcomes of all EU summits. The Executive very much welcomes the declaration on the Future of Europe which maps out the process for the next stage of the debate. Building a more efficient EU which focuses on the issues concerning ordinary people and starts to close the gap between EU Institutions and European citizens is of great importance to Scotland and that is why the Scottish Executive will continue to contribute to this debate.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made on reducing the numbers of young women suffering from depression.
Answer
The latest figures, based on a sample of GP practices in Scotland, indicate that an estimated 24,000 young women between 15 and 24 were seen for depression by general practitioners in 2000, an increase of 2,000 over the previous year.The Scottish Executive is committed to developing a range of services to meet their needs, including psychological interventions which were added to the Framework for Mental Health Services in October of last year.
