- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 18 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider as part of its planning reform restrictions on new housing developments in the vicinity of airport runways and areas where overflying routinely happens at less than 1,500 feet by aircraft taking off and landing.
Answer
Circular 8/2002:
Control of Development in Airport Public Safety Zones already contains a general presumption against new or replacement development, or changes of use of existing buildings, within Public Safety Zones, such as the ones at Aberdeen airport. In particular, no new or replacement dwelling houses, mobile homes, caravan sites or other residential buildings should be permitted.
Circular 10/1999 Planning and Noise contains the Executive’s general policy on this issue. Additional advice on the impact of aircraft noise is provided for Scottish local authorities in Planning Advice Note: PAN 56 Planning and Noise, issued in 1999. This sets out recommended noise exposure categories when assessing the suitability of new residential development near to existing transport related noise sources, including airports. These range from noise levels where noise need not be considered as a determining factor in granting planning permission to where planning permission should generally be refused.
The Executive has no plans at present to review these documents.
Copies of Circulars 10/1999, 8/2002 and PAN 56 are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. numbers 34898, 24687 and 1153 respectively).
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many boys participate in football in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will seek additional funding from HM Treasury for overtime payments for police officers covering for colleagues on G8-related duties.
Answer
The UK Government has already agreed that extra funds will be made available to help meet the agreed additional policing costs incurred in connection with this year’s G8 summit. These costs are currently being assessed but will allow for overtime costs as appropriate.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any patients with haemophilia who contracted Hepatitis C from contaminated blood products have been offered anti-viral treatment and, if so, how many.
Answer
I would refer you to the answer to question S2W-13558 on 31 January 2005. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how future funding for community wardens will be allocated.
Answer
On 28 February I announced ScottishExecutive funding to tackle antisocial behaviour up to 2008. It is for local agenciesworking with local people to identify priorities in their area where the fundingshould be spent. Councils can use this funding for community wardens if this isdeemed to be a priority for their area.
From 2005 funding will be tiedto antisocial behaviour outcome agreements. Allocations for future years will bemade upon ministerial approval of outcome agreements and satisfactory progress towardsoutcomes.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any input into the choice of body armour to be procured for Scottish police forces.
Answer
This is an operational matterfor Chief Constables.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any concerns have been expressed in respect of changes in standards for police body armour as a result of new procurement procedures.
Answer
I am not aware of any concernshaving been raised with the Scottish Executive on this matter.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will have regular reviews of the police funding formula and, if so, how often.
Answer
We concluded a review of thefunding formula for police grant aided expenditure in 2004 and published a reportin October 2004. It is intended that the information on which the model is basedwill be updated in alternate years in linewith the spending review cycle.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many fixed penalty notices have been issued for dog fouling since the Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003 came into force, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The number of dog fouling fixedpenalty notices issued by local authority area is not held centrally. However, basedon information submitted by those local authorities who responded to a recent surveyundertaken by the Executive, the local authorities who have introduced the provisionscontained in the Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003 and the number of fixed penalties they haveissued during the first year of its operation are shown in the table.
| Local Authority | Fixed Penalty Notices Issued in Year to 22 October 2004 |
| Aberdeen City | 14 |
| Angus | 21 |
| Argyll and Bute | 12 |
| City of Edinburgh | 325 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | Nil |
| Dundee City | 86 |
| East Dunbartonshire | Nil |
| East Lothian | 11 |
| East Renfrewshire | Nil |
| Fife | 29 |
| Glasgow City | 88 |
| Midlothian | 10 |
| North Lanarkshire | 67 |
| Scottish Borders | Nil |
| South Lanarkshire | Nil |
| Stirling | 2 |
| West Lothian | 3 |
Note: In addition to those localauthorities listed above, a further seven of the 26 local authorities who respondedto the Executive survey indicated that they intended to introduce the provisionsby April 2005.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will become mandatory for police boards to take out personal injury insurance for (a) on-duty police officers and (b) off-duty police officers who attend incidents.
Answer
Police boards are required tohave appropriate employers’ liability insurance to provide them with cover in theevent of an employee (which for this purpose includes a police officer) seekingcompensation for an injury brought about as a result of their negligence or default.The Police Pension Scheme makes provision for the payment of benefits in the eventof an officer sustaining an injury in the execution of his or her duty. This includesoccasions when an officer is off-duty but dealing with an incident in his or hercapacity as an officer.
