- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to monitor standards of hygiene and infection control in primary care.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19831 on 23 January 2009. 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.
In addition, NHS Quality improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) is developing an assessment tool and plans to review all NHS boards against the Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Standards in 2009-10. As an interim measure, NHS boards were directed by the Chief Executive of NHS Scotland on 27 June 2008 to carry out self assessments against the standards.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to require primary care practices to meet the same standards of hygiene and infection control as those required in secondary care.
Answer
The revised NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Standards are applied to all health care settings to assess both organisational structures and practical delivery of HAI policies.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new farmers have entered the farming industry under the new entrants scheme.
Answer
The New Entrants measure (known formally as the Setting up of Young Farmers‘Interest Rate Relief option) is one of a range of measures under the Scotland Rural Development Programme aimed at supporting new and young farmers. It is still early days in the life of these measures, but 33 applications for New and Young Farmers support, including eight for the Setting up of Young Farmers option, have so far been approved.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 22 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive , following the end of the public inquiry into the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, when ministers will report on the final decision.
Answer
The last sitting day of the Public Local Inquiry was 10 December 2008. It is anticipated at this stage that it will be the end of January before all the closing submissions have been received by the reporters.
On receipt of the reporters'' report, careful consideration will be given by the Scottish ministers to its conclusions and recommendations, and a decision will be announced as soon as possible thereafter.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for flood prevention funding are in progress, broken down by local authority.
Answer
None. Flood prevention funding was included in the local government finance settlement for 2008-11.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 8 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to develop cultural exchanges and visits for young people abroad from Scotland and vice versa.
Answer
This PQ was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0108-01.htm
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many halls have received grant aid from the Local Capital Grants Scheme in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The Local Capital Grants Scheme (LCGS) was one element of the Scottish Rural Partnership Fund (SRPF). The Scheme closed to new applications in 2005. Details of the final round of SRPF, including £1.5 million for LCGS, can be viewed at the Scottish Government website
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Rural/rural-policy/16780/6512/Q/ViewArchived/On Previous years'' awards were announced but it is not now readily possible to provide the breakdown requested. However, funding of around £1 million per year was committed, for a wide range of community facilities across Scotland, for the duration of the scheme.
Currently funding for community facilities and services including village halls “ up to £30 million over seven years - is available through the Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP) 2007-13. Additional funding can also be accessed via the LEADER component of that programme.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many halls have received grant aid from the Local Capital Grants Scheme in each year since 1999, broken down by parliamentary constituency.
Answer
The Local Capital Grants Scheme (LCGS) was one element of the Scottish Rural Partnership Fund (SRPF). The scheme closed to new applications in 2005. It is not now readily possible to provide the detailed breakdown requested. However, funding of around £1 million per year was committed to, for a wide range of community facilities across Scotland, for the duration of the scheme.
Currently funding for community facilities and services including village halls “ up to £30 million over seven years - is available through the Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP) 2007-13. Additional funding can be accessed via the LEADER component of that programme.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to address the number of people breaching community service orders.
Answer
We are taking further steps to reduce breach by more pro-active sentence management. The proposals we announced yesterday in response to the Prisons Commission set out our plans for regular sentence review. Our aim is to speed up and simplify how breaches are handled.
We can never eliminate breach but we must send strong signals to offenders that it will not be tolerated.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an update on progress in relation to the creation of Creative Scotland.
Answer
We recently announced the appointment of Ewan Brown as chair designate of the new limited company to be established to manage the practicalities of the transition process towards Creative Scotland. The company will be set up by the turn of the year and a small board of directors will be appointed thereafter.
