- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 15 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures have to be followed to change a site from a quarry to a landfill site, and how many and which former quarries in Scotland have now become landfill sites.
Answer
In order to effect a change of use from a quarry to a landfill site requires an application for planning permission from the local council. A waste management licence would also then need to be obtained from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to operate a landfill at the site. There are no centrally held records of which former quarries in Scotland have become landfills.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any trainee nurse at Monklands Hospital has been in sole charge of any ward in the past year for more than 30 minutes without senior supervision.
Answer
I am advised by Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust that no trainee nurse has been left in charge of a ward at Monklands Hospital in the past year without the supervision of a trained nurse.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 10 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list each announcement it has made with financial implications since 6 May and the amount of expenditure associated, detailed by item.
Answer
Information relating to all significant announcements made by the Scottish Executive since 6 May 1999 can be found on the Scottish Executive web site.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 10 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the next edition of Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland.
Answer
No firm date has been set for the next publication.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 10 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what its detailed plans are for the allocation of the unallocated capital modernisation fund.
Answer
I am considering the options available to allocate the unallocated capital modernisation fund, no decisions have yet been made.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 10 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what is the cumulative reduction, if any, in enterprise and lifelong learning expenditure over the period 1997-98 to 2001-02 compared to spending if it were fro'en in real terms at 1996-97 levels.
Answer
I refer the member to the tables I gave MSPs after my statement of 6 October, which are available in SPICe.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 10 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive Scottish Executive what specific expenditure accounts for the estimated increases in Scottish Executive administration costs in the year 1999-2000 compared to those previously announced, and which reductions, if any, will be made to this budget in each of the future years for which information is available.
Answer
The principal change to the Scottish Executive Administration vote reflects take up of end year flexibility - underspending from 1998-99 provision - amounting to £6,556,000. There have also been a range of technical accounting changes and transfer to and from other votes. The baseline provision for administration - net of end year flexibility - has been reduced from the original plans. Some reductions will be made in forward years to reflect the Executive's decision to scale back planned work by the Inland Revenue and the Department of Social Security on preparing for implementation of the Scottish Variable Rate. Some savings are also being made from the capital budget.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive in which years there was a recorded reduction in real terms spending on the health service in Scotland in each year for which information is available.
Answer
I refer the member to the tables issued to MSPs on 6 October following the Minister for Finance's announcement to Parliament of the Executive's proposed spending revisions. Figures for real terms spending on the health service were included in those tables.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 9 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive which items of expenditure, if any, in the Scottish budget will be cut in real terms in 2000-01.
Answer
I refer the member to the tables I gave MSPs after my statement of 6 October, which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Donald Dewar on 9 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of ministerial time is allocated for constituency business broken down by minister.
Answer
No such formal allocation is made. Individual Ministers manage the competing demands on their time appropriately to fulfill their duty to Parliament, to the Executive and to their constituents.
