- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 12 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional railway stations will open as part of the Aberdeen Crossrail project and where they will be located.
Answer
Current feasibility work on theAberdeen Crossrail proposal is assessing the potential for new stations at Kintore,Newtonhill, Aberdeen North and Aberdeen South.
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many traffic police officers have been employed by each police force in each of the last five years, showing year-on-year percentage changes and expressed also per head of population.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30250 on 11 December 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 2 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community projects have received a Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative grant for installation of a micro-renewable energy system, broken down by region, grant amount and system type.
Answer
The information requested isprovided in the following tables.
CommunityGrants Approved (including Grants Paid) by Region to 22 January 2007
| Region | Number of Grants Approved | Value of Grants Approved |
| South West Scotland | 7 | £197,453.41 |
| Strathclyde and Central | 24 | £856,127.84 |
| Aberdeen | 10 | £292,453.96 |
| Tayside | 11 | £390,453.55 |
| Lothian and Edinburgh | 31 | £603,873.69 |
| Argyll and Islands | 25 | £964,690 |
| North Highland | 19 | £327,079 |
| East Highland | 15 | £339,103 |
| Orkney | 21 | £449,160 |
| Shetland | 19 | £633,228 |
| West Highland | 21 | £547,877 |
| Western Isles | 22 | £843,037 |
Community grants approved (includinggrants paid) by technology to 22 January 2007
| Technology | Number of Grants Approved | Value of Grants Approved |
| Solar water | 45 | £635,419.99 |
| Solar air | 5 | £51,797.36 |
| Solar air/solar water | 5 | £78,857.41 |
| Wind | 62 | £1,296,607.39 |
| Hydro | 6 | £76,087 |
| Biomass | 36 | £1,562,842.73 |
| Ground source heat pump | 49 | £1,857,819.76 |
| Solar hot water/wind | 5 | £114,543.12 |
| Hydro/GSHP | 1 | £15,639.25 |
| Solar hot water/GSHP | 4 | £265,810 |
| Multiple | 5 | £339,112.44 |
| Hydrogen | 1 | £100,000 |
| GSHP/Wind | 1 | £50,000 |
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 2 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households have received a Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative grant for installation of a micro-renewable energy system, broken down by region, grant amount and system type.
Answer
The information requested isprovided in the following tables.
Householder Grants Approved (includingGrants Paid) by Geography (to 13 November 2006)
| Region | Number of Grants Approved | Value Approved |
| South West Scotland | 147 | £319,680.04 |
| Strathclyde and Central | 138 | £309,695.69 |
| Aberdeen | 150 | £325,533.75 |
| Tayside | 193 | £421,554.29 |
| Lothian and Edinburgh | 239 | £446,074.71 |
| Argyll and Islands | 60 | £158,680.19 |
| Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty | 95 | £239,448.38 |
| Inverness and Nairn | 82 | £177,649.69 |
| Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey | 28 | £51,142.16 |
| Lochaber and Skye | 31 | £82,635.58 |
| Orkney | 54 | £141,805.84 |
| Shetland | 79 | £115,732.71 |
| Western Isles | 16 | £43,013.62 |
HouseholderGrants Approved (including Grants Paid) by Technology (to 13 November 2006)
| Technology | Number of Grants Approved | Value Approved |
| Solar Water Heating | 643 | £746,651.70 |
| Wind Turbine | 62 | £227,905.15 |
| GSHP | 459 | £1,560,089.23 |
| Hydro | 5 | £18,506.95 |
| Biomass | 74 | £212,033.43 |
| Solar Water Heating/Wind | 1 | £1,236.41 |
| Lerwick District Heating | 62 | £55,003.95 |
| Air Source Heat Pump | 5 | £9,538.11 |
| Solar Space Heating | 2 | £1,681.71 |
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were cared for by home carers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
Copies of a table showing thenumber of home care clients in each year since 1999 have been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41537).
The table shows home care clientsreceiving a service provided or purchased by local authorities.
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) total cost and (b) average cost per resident were of providing residential care in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
Copies of a table showing thetotal net expenditure to local authorities of providing residential care since 1999-2000have been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41537).
It is not possible to providethe average cost per resident.
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) total and (b) average payments were to home carers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
Home Carers may be employed bylocal authorities, private companies, individuals or voluntary organisations. Noinformation is held centrally regarding the total or average payments to home carers.
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were cared for in residential homes in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Answer
Copies of a table showing thenumber of people cared for in care homes in each year since 2000 have been placedin the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41537).
Comparable figures for 1999 arenot held centrally.
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding per capita each fire authority will receive in aggregate external finance in 2007-08.
Answer
Funding for fire authoritiesis included in the block grant given to local authorities as part of the annuallocal government finance settlement and is not separately identified.
- Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many junior doctors have been found to be in breach of New Deal working hour limits in each year since 1999, also broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Information relating to the complianceof junior doctors with the New Deal contract has only been recorded centrally, fromdata provided by NHS boards, since 2004. The information you are seeking prior tothis date may be available from individual health boards.
Under the New Deal contract,rotas for junior doctors are monitored by health boards twice yearly (February toJuly and August to January). The data is collated centrally and is published byspeciality and NHS board on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=1348&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&#JunDr.Section B gives details of medicalposts in NHS Scotland with tables B13 to 17 providing summaries of compliance ratesfor junior doctors with the New Deal. The information is based on rota periods ratherthan on calendar years and records only full compliance with the contract, thatis the 56 hour limit as well as rest and natural break requirements.
