- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 17 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review legislation in order to require commercial and local authority-contracted bus operators to accept all operators’ tickets.
Answer
The Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 already contains the necessary powers, although as yet they have not been used by any local authority.
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 7 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental vocational training places were filled this year and, of those places, how many were funded.
Answer
From 1 August 2004, 114 new vocational dental practitioners were recruited to join schemes in Scotland. Adding the eight individuals who started in 2003, and who are undertaking vocational training over two years, there are 122 trainees in post.
All places are fully-funded.
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 28 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to monitor the displacement effect on inshore fishing in the south west of Scotland following the proposed extension of the Isle of Man's exclusion 'one to 12 miles.
Answer
The Isle of Man government’s proposals for revised fisheries management arrangements in the Isle of Man territorial sea will be presented to UK government and devolved administrations on July 29,for further discussion between fishery departments.
Scottish Executive will consider appropriate monitoring only after the new management arrangements are confirmed.
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 26 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are subject to child protection orders in each region.
Answer
This information is not centrally held. However, the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration have provided the following information for the month of May 2004. Child Protection Orders can last up to eight days and the number of children subject to an order can change on a daily basis.
| Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration | No. of children subject to Child Protection Orders in May 2004 |
| North | 6 |
| West | 6 |
| Central West | 16 |
| East | 24 |
| Scotland total | 52 |
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 26 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to monitor the effect and effectiveness of the exclusion 'ones covering Luce and Wigtown bays to be introduced under the Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/276).
Answer
A length limit on vessels fishing with creels came into force on 5 July in Luce Bay and Wigtown Bay. The purpose of the restriction was to support thoselocal fishing communities who are dependent on the stocks in the area. The Galloway Static Gear Fishermen’s Association provided information on landings, effort and fishing activity to assist the decision-making process, and we intend to continue working with local fishermen to monitor whether the restrictionenables them to continue to make a sustainable return from the fishery. We alsointend to continue working with nomadic fishermen to identify any displacementof effort elsewhere in Scottish waters arising from the new restriction.
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff working in the NHS are funded through (a) lottery funding and (b) charitable donations.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 29 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is committed to a national envelope for the specialist beef sector within common agricultural policy reform.
Answer
The Scottish Executive announced its intention to make use of a national envelope for the beefsector in February. We are currently working with stakeholders to design a schemethat addresses both market and environmental issues.
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 25 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions Scottish Natural Heritage has surveyed the raised bog at Aucheninnes Moss; what the nature and purpose of each site survey was; whether any survey contained a quantitative assessment of the extent of active bog vegetation, and whether such surveys contained a detailed assessment of the populations of Coenonympha tullia (Large Heath Butterfly), Matrioptera brachyptera (Bog Bush-Cricket) and Enteucha acetosae (Sorrel Pygmy Moth).
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 23 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to assess and monitor the number of viable populations and sites of Coenonympha tullia (large heath butterfly), Metrioptera brachyptera (bog bush-cricket), Enteucha acetosae (sorrel pygmy moth), either as a specific project or as part of a wider programme of biological recording, and when this work will be completed.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Alex Fergusson, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 23 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers (a) it, (b) Scottish Natural Heritage, (c) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and (d) Dumfries and Galloway Council have to intervene if monitoring shows that measures aimed at preserving populations of Coenonympha tullia (large heath butterfly), Metrioptera brachyptera (bog bush-cricket) and Enteucha acetosae (sorrel pygmy moth) at Aucheninnes Moss are falling.
Answer
The Executive is not awareof any powers relating to those species held by the bodies mentioned.
