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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-25039

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Elaine Murray on 9 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives directly and through sportscotland for the establishment and running of websites by sports governing bodies.

Sportscotland give advice to individual governing bodies on website and hosting issues and work with the Scottish Sports Association in considering proposals from companies who wish to provide websites to governing bodies. sportscotland are currently working with Young Scot to help provide content for the Sport Channel of their recently launched national youth information portal. In developing the sport-specific content, sportscotland will work with the governing bodies giving them the opportunity to provide information and contact details, including website addresses, for articles pertaining to their particular sport. This will present a new opportunity for these bodies to reach a broad youth audience. So far, sportscotland has received a positive response from governing bodies on this.In addition, over the next few months and as part of an enlarged information team, sportscotland expect to appoint a new information manager, whose responsibilities will include considering the needs of governing bodies in this area.

Question reference: S1W-25350

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients at Stirling Royal Infirmary, whose discharge had been delayed, were there on (a) 31 March to 1 April 2002 and (b) 4 to 5 April 2002.

Question reference: S1W-25352

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements (a) Stirling Royal Infirmary and (b) Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary have in place for occasions when they are unable to accept admissions.

Question reference: S1W-25255

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mike Watson on 3 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport (a) was invited to and (b) attended the recent tourism summit hosted by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.

I was invited and decided against attending. The meeting is for Whitehall Departments that have a tourism interest. The proposed agenda was almost exclusively related to England. While the work of the BTA was briefly touched on, I had met with the BTA Chair only a few weeks before, and fully discussed issues relating to the BTA's role in Scotland. Both my Deputy minister, Elaine Murray, and I are in regular contact with our counterparts both in the UK government and in other devolved regions.I have been invited to attend a meeting of Tourism Ministers from the UK Government, and the devolved administrations, to discuss issues of common concern. At present a mutually convenient date is being sought.

Question reference: S1W-25159

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the full costs were of publishing, printing and distributing its draft Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill.

Question reference: S1W-24732

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 1 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff, showing inspectors and support staff separately, will be employed at the headquarters and each regional and sub-office of the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care.

The numbers of staff currently employed by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care at its headquarters and in each of its regional offices are detailed in the following table. Decisions have yet to be made by the Care Commission as to which of those currently assigned meantime to the regional offices will ultimately be attached to the local resource centres currently being set up.The Care Commission currently regulates only those care services already regulated prior to 1 April 2002. It will be reviewing its staffing levels in each location as other care services start to be regulated from later dates.

Location	Professional Staff	Administrative Staff	Total
Headquarters	29	18	47
North - Aberdeen	55	18	73
Central East - Dundee	76	24	100
Central West - Paisley	71	23	94
South East - Musselburgh	62	19	81
South West- Hamilton	78	25	103
Total	371	127	498

Question reference: S1W-25158

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 1 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24371 by Allan Wilson on 12 April 2002, what the amount is of each EU grant received by the Forestry Commission and what each grant has been spent on in each of the last three years.

The amount of each EU grant received by the Forestry Commission in each of the last three years, for work in the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, is shown in the following table, together with details of what each grant has been spent on.

Year	Grant Type	Total Grant	Work Carried Out
1999	Life 97	£36,275	Restoration of native broadleaf woodland on the eastern side of Loch Lomond
2000	Life 97	£8,631	As in 1999
2000	ERDF Objective 2	£15,509	Improving forest environs at key visitor destinations
2001	Life 97	£42,844	As in 1999
2001	ERDF Objective 2	£95,883	Construction and upgrade of 8.3 km of paths, new toilet block on Forest Drive and buildings work at QEFP Visitor Centre. Also environs work to create viewpoints or visually diverse forest structures along some 10.5 km of paths

Question reference: S1W-25184

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are plans to upgrade the Balfron ambulance station in West Stirlingshire so that it provides round the clock 24-hour cover, and if so, when any such plans will be implemented.

Question reference: S1W-25186

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SEHD012/2002 on 16 April 2002, how the priority based dispatch system will affect the Scottish Ambulance Service in the Forth Valley.

The Forth Valley area will become one of the first areas of Scotland to receive the benefits of priority based dispatch. The relevant call categorisation and call handling software is due to come online in the Scottish Ambulance Service's Edinburgh Control Room in the autumn. This will support the implementation of priority based dispatch into the Forth Valley area, as well as into Lothian, Borders, Tayside and Fife.

Question reference: S1W-25185

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to upgrade the ambulance stations in Callander and Killin in Perthshire so that they provide 24-hour cover, and if so, when any such plans will be implemented.