- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have established quality partnership schemes with bus operators.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27513.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of claims was made and how much was paid out in compensation payments in cash terms in each of the last five years in respect of deficient road maintenance on roads maintained by local authorities.
Answer
This is a matter for individual local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 5 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26355 by Lewis Macdonald on 17 June 2002, what level of claims was made in cash terms in each of the last five years in respect of deficient road maintenance on trunk roads.
Answer
The level of claims made in cash terms in each year is as follows:
| Year | Level of Claims(£000) |
| 1996-97 | 92 |
| 1997-98 | 236 |
| 1998-99 | 93 |
| 1999-2000 | 136 |
| 2000-01 | 93 |
It should be noted that some claimants did not indicate the level of claim in cash terms and some compensation payments included in my answer to question S1W-26355 related to claims made prior to the year in which payment was made.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to progress the recommendations made by the Transport and the Environment Committee in its 4th Report 2002, Report on Petition PE327 by the Blairingone and Saline Action Group on Organic Waste Spread on Land.
Answer
The Scottish Executive's response to the recommendations made by the Transport and the Environment Committee in its 4th Report 2002 on Organic Waste to Land can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/official_report/cttee/trans-02/trp02-22.pdf.The committee made further representation to the Executive in its letter of 3 July calling for an immediate ban on the spreading of untreated blood and gut content on land. The Executive is currently considering its response to this.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what allocations have been made within Forth Valley, Fife and Tayside NHS Board areas under the Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative.
Answer
The main objective of Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative (RARARI) is not direct support for particular remote and rural areas but the testing of proposals which might be generalised throughout remote and rural Scotland.The RARARI invited bids for project support in two bidding rounds held in 2000 and 2001. Details of the projects for which it has agreed to provide funding are available direct from RARARI or from its website at:www.rarari.org.uk.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any incidents recorded by Central Scotland Police as "suspicious circumstances" should instead have been included in crime figures.
Answer
I have been informed by Central Scotland Police that in instances where a report of a suspicious incident is made to officers of this force, and there is evidence of a crime being committed, such acts will be recorded in the crime statistics in accordance with current ACPOS guidelines.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it cost to produce, publish and print the NHS publication Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative Mid-term Report.
Answer
This is a matter for the Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative. The chairman Mr Stewart Whiteford will be happy to provide the information requested.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 31 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many anti-social behaviour orders have been granted in Stirling, Clackmannanshire and Fife in each of the last four years.
Answer
The Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland has been commissioned by the Executive to undertake an annual exercise to determine the use being made of anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs), which came into force on 1 April 1999.The first two reports, covering 1 April to 30 November 1999 and 1 December 1999 to 30 November 2000, did not break the figures down by local authority area. Additional investigation has shown that for the period 1 December 1999 to 30 November 2000 no ASBOs were granted in Stirling or Clackmannanshire; seven were granted in Fife. The latest report, covering the period 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2001, is expected to be published by the Chartered Institute later in the summer. Copies of the report will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 31 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what support is available for the provision of facilities for skateboarders and BMX riders.
Answer
The responsibility for the provision of recreational and leisure services is primarily a matter for local authorities. However, applications for the provision of such facilities can be made to sportscotland under the Lottery Sports Fund's Sports Facilities Programme and the recently launched Social Inclusion Partnership Programme. Another possible funding route is the PE and Sport in Schools strand of the New Opportunities Fund also launched earlier this year. Funding may also be available from the Awards for All programme though the maximum level of award is £5,000.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Health and Community Care retains the ultimate decision over the location of the proposed new single site hospital for the Forth Valley.
Answer
Decisions about the organisation and location of health services for an area, including hospital services, are matters for the relevant NHS board. Proposals for major changes to health services, such as those contemplated by Forth Valley NHS Board, require the approval of the Minister for Health and Community Care.
