- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 5 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in Grampian are waiting to register with an NHS dentist.
Answer
Individual general dental practitioners who are independent businesses may hold lists of patients wishing to be treated in their practices but no lists are held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 5 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dentists in Tayside provide an emergency service and where these dentists are located.
Answer
Dentists throughout Tayside who have patients registered with them under NHS capitation or continuing care arrangements are required to provide emergency cover to these patients under their NHS terms of service. Details of emergency dental services available to unregistered patients may be obtained from Tayside Primary Care NHS Trust.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 30 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received the review on the safety of the A90 between Balmedie and Tipperty and whether it will publish the review and any plans for implementation of any of its recommendations.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has now received the safety review report. The immediate and short-term measures recommended have been accepted and will be progressed within the current financial year. The report was not commissioned for external publication.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied with the current procedures for monitoring the compliance of offenders taking part in the pilot schemes for electronic tagging.
Answer
The recently published independent research,
An Evaluation of Electronically Monitored Restriction of Liberty Orders, by David Lobley and David Smith concluded that the electronic equipment used to monitor offenders' compliance with their orders had worked well and that contractors' staff responded promptly and efficiently in response to violations of the restriction requirements.
Violation of any of the terms of an order is detected promptly by the monitoring equipment and notification sent immediately, via a phone line, to the monitoring centre. Contractors are required to follow up any such violation and to follow agreed procedures in reporting violations to the court for further action. The effectiveness of contractors in carrying out these procedures is monitored carefully by the Executive.
As with any other community disposal, it is for the court to decide how to deal with any offender who has not complied with his Restriction of Liberty Order.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the pilot schemes for electronic tagging of offenders and whether it will provide details.
Answer
Following the recent publication of an independent evaluation of the pilot Restriction of Liberty Order schemes, The Scottish Executive will publish a consultation paper shortly on the electronic monitoring of offenders. Decisions on the future of the pilot schemes, and any wider use of electronic monitoring will be informed by the views expressed in the consultation, and by the evaluation.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 17 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail offices which it currently owns or leases.
Answer
Details of the 19 leased offices in which the Scottish Executive has staff are set out in my reply to Mr Adam's Question of 16 June 2000 (S1W-07546). The
Scottish Executive has staff in the 24 Crown owned offices set out below:-
| Greyfriars House | Aberdeen |
| Balivanich | Isle of Benbecula |
| 161 Brooms Rd | Dumfries |
| 132 Seagate | Dundee |
| Bankhead Ave | Edinburgh |
| Governors House | Edinburgh |
| James Craig Walk | Edinburgh |
| St Andrews House | Edinburgh |
| Saughton House | Edinburgh |
| Victoria Quay | Edinburgh |
| 16 Waterloo Pl | Edinburgh |
| Thainstone Court | Inverurie |
| 83 East High Street | Forfar |
| Tweedbank | Galashiels |
| Cadzow Court | Hamilton |
| Longman House | Inverness |
| Tankerness Lane | Kirkwall |
| Cameron House | Oban |
| Jeanfield House | Perth |
| Scorrybreck | Portree |
| 2 St Ninians Rd | Stirling |
| 10 Keith St | Stornoway |
| Station St | Stranraer |
| Strathbeg House | Thurso. |
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 7 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any advice has been sought from it on the implications of the European Directive on Working Time for night-time wardens in sheltered housing.
Answer
The European Directive on Working Time is regulated by the Department of Trade and Industry. It is a reserved matter for which the Scottish Executive has no general responsibility.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any contact or correspondence with representatives of beekeepers about the implications of any possible GM contamination of pollen, honey-dew or honey and, if so, whether it will make the details of such contact available.
Answer
We have received a number of representations from the President of the Scottish Beekeepers Association about these issues. In our responses we have been able to give reassurance to beekeepers about the safety and the legality of any honey or honey products found to contain material from a GM trial site.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether beekeepers can legally sell honey and pure pollen products where some of the pollen may have come from a GM trial crop.
Answer
Our legal advice is that any trace amounts of material derived from the trial crop which might be found in honey and honey products do not require a marketing consent. Under the terms of the relevant Directive, some dispersal of GM material beyond the trial site is envisaged. The safety of that dispersed material is one of the factors given careful consideration by our independent expert advisers before a consent to grow is approved.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been carried out to determine the safety to honeybees and other pollinating insects of pollen from GM trial crops, who carried out any such research and whether it will make any such research available for peer review by the Scottish Beekeepers Association.
Answer
The Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment takes account of existing research into this aspect of a proposal to release a genetically modified organism. This is one element of the process which it completes when undertaking its environmental impact assessment of a proposed release. I understand that the Scottish Beekeepers Association has been in contact with ACRE about the factors which it took into consideration in reaching a conclusion that pollen from these particular crops does not pose a threat to pollinating insects.
