- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 23 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-956 by Sarah Boyack on 1 September 1999, when it intends to make the study of fast ferry links on routes between Granton, Rosyth and Burntisland available.
Answer
Copies of the Phase 1 and 2 reports of the Cross-Forth Passenger Ferry Study produced by Napier University were placed in the Parliament's Information Centre on 10 May.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2000
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Answered by Henry McLeish on 18 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will next meet the management and workforce of Kvaerner Methil to discuss the future of the yard.
Answer
I am due to meet Kvaerner's Executive Vice President, Jan Jorgensen soon to discuss the future of the Methil fabrication yard. In the meantime the Executive is working closely with the fabrication sector throughout Scotland, including Kvaerner at Methil, as it responds to the dramatic changes in the market for large offshore structures.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 1999
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what effect the absence of the Lord Justice Clerk will have on criminal appeals, and, in particular, on the timescale for such appeals.
Answer
An additional Judge was appointed to compensate for the absence of Lord Cullen on other business. This has enabled the regular pattern of Appeal Court sittings to continue.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2000
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Answered by Sam Galbraith on 10 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the current legislation on adoption.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2000
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Answered by Sam Galbraith on 9 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to bring forward legislation or amend existing legislation to allow continuing contact with natural parents and relatives after adoption.
Answer
No. Current adoption legislation does not preclude contact with natural parents and relatives after adoption. Guidance on the legislation issued in 1996 includes the nature and management of such continuing contact.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 9 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any studies which have been carried out which examine the continuing of links with natural parents after adoption.
Answer
Adoption Now - Messages from Research which the Department of Health published in September 1999, brings together in a single volume the most recent studies on adoption. Chapter 5 of the report deals with issues surrounding contact with birth families and relatives.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 9 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to provide guidance to local authorities about the maintaining of contact with natural parents and relatives after adoption.
Answer
No. Current adoption legislation does not preclude contact with natural parents and relatives after adoption. Guidance on the legislation issued in 1996 includes the nature and management of such continuing contact.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2000
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Answered by Jackie Baillie on 9 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the budget is of its Equalities Unit for 2000-01 and what its proposed budget is for 2001-02.
Answer
The programme budget for the Equality Unit for 2000-01 is £500,000. The Executive's spending plans for 2001-02 are outlined in the recently published document Investing in You: Annual Expenditure Plans of the Scottish Executive. In that publication an aggregate figure of £6.4 million for Voluntary Issues and Equality is indicated. Ministers have not yet taken decisions on any detailed breakdown.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 April 2000
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Answered by Peter Peacock on 4 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools have had CCTV installed as a result of the Dunblane tragedy and how many have not.
Answer
The installation of CCTV equipment is one of a range of measures which education authorities and schools may consider as a means of improving school security. Information on the security measures in place at individual schools is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2000
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve the rights of private rented sector tenants in the forthcoming housing bill and to give local authorities the power to prosecute private landlords in cases of alleged illegal eviction.
Answer
Where private sector tenants are unlawfully evicted, legal remedies are available to them through civil action, arising from breach of contract by the landlord. In addition, the Procurator Fiscal can prosecute the private landlord for the summary offence of unlawful eviction.
I have therefore not published any new proposals to use the Housing Bill for change in this area. However, the Homelessness Task Force is engaged in detailed consideration of the nature and causes of homelessness in Scotland, including homelessness arising from the private rented sector.
