- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how the £2 million for Life Sciences in 2008-09, as shown on page 114 of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007, will be spent.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-8405 on 21 January 2008. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
Once these discussions have beenconcluded, we will be in a position to determine how the first year’s expenditurewill be spent.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive in which financial year it intends to establish a Scottish National Institute for Life Sciences in Dundee.
Answer
My officials have been in activediscussion with the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Enterprise over the lastfew months to clarify the best way of delivering the institute. Once this is clarified,we should have a better idea of the timescale for delivery, but I expect that fundingsupport will be introduced from 2008-09 in line with the Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are tables other than table 22.06 on page 114 of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007 that refer to expenditure associated with the proposed Scottish National Institute for Life Sciences in Dundee.
Answer
There are no other tables inthe Scottish Budget that refer to expenditure directly associated with the proposedinstitute.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 21 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the draft budget expenditure for Life Sciences, as shown on page 114 of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007, of (a) £2 million in 2008-09, (b) £3 million in 2009-10 and (c) £5 million in 2010-11 represents expenditure associated solely with the proposed Scottish National Institute for Life Sciences in Dundee.
Answer
The funding of £2 million/£3million/£5 million represents expenditure which is intended to be associated solelywith the proposed life sciences institute.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 20 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to expand the provision of NHS dentistry in north-east Scotland.
Answer
NHS Grampian has a number ofdevelopments underway to provide increased access to NHS dental services.
A four surgery dental facilityopened in Banff in October 2007.
Building work has commenced inrespect of new dental facilities in Buckie and Keith and a further development inElgin is underway.
A two surgery dental facilityis scheduled to open in Lossiemouth in March 2008.
Good progress is also being madetowards the establishment of a third dental school in Aberdeen.
NHS Tayside were allocated £3.4million under the Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme forthe redevelopment of the Kings Cross site in Dundee. The Dundee Primary Care DentalAccess Centre at Kings Cross will have 10 chairs in total and is due to open inearly 2008.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to encourage teleworking.
Answer
The Scottish Governmentencourages teleworking in several ways. This includes the provision of laptops,Blackberry mobile devices and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) connected to the Scottish Government network. In addition, flexible working has formed a key partof the Diversity Strategy,
Positive About You, since its launch in November2000 and its aim is to ensure that staff are able to enjoy a satisfactory work-lifebalance. Teleworking can also play an important role in mitigating the impacts oftransport.
The Scottish Governmentis working with a number of organisations to promote, develop and implementtravel plans to deliver measures, including teleworking where appropriate, whichhelp to reduce the environmental, social and economic impacts associated with travel,both the commute to work as well as business trips. We are funding the RegionalTransport Partnerships and Energy Saving Trust to work with public and private organisationsto promote and deliver travel plans.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 12 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding has been provided to organisations addressing bullying among school pupils in each of the last three years and what level was projected at the beginning of each year.
Answer
Organisations addressingbullying among school pupils have been provided with £384,491 in 2005-06, £451,164 in2006-07 and £502,420 in 2007-08 against budgets of £445,197 in 2005-06, £433,000 in 2006-07 and £510,000 in 2007-08.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 11 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated number of teleworkers was in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
Teleworkers aredefined as people who work at home and require the use of both a telephone andcomputer to carry out their work. Table 1 shows the estimates of the number ofteleworkers in Scotland in each of the last 3 years.
The estimates aretaken from a statistical survey and may be subject to a degree of samplingvariation.
Table 1Teleworkers in Scotland, 2005-07
| Year | Number of Teleworkers |
| 2005 | 97,000 |
| 2006 | 130,000 |
| 2007 | 141,000 |
Source: LabourForce Survey, April to June quarters.
Note: 1. Data arerounded to the nearest thousand and are not seasonally adjusted.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 11 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated number of teleworkers was in (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
Teleworkers aredefined as people who work at home and require the use of both a telephone andcomputer to carry out their work. Estimates of teleworkers are taken from theLabour Force Survey. However, the estimates of the number of teleworkers inDundee, Angus and Aberdeenshire are below reliability thresholds.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 3 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated annual cost is of domestic violence under the categories (a) the criminal justice system, (b) health care, (c) social services, (d) housing and (e) economic output.
Answer
I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-6608 on 29 November 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
