- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 2 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals were waiting to have a tonsillectomy at (a) Vale of Leven Hospital and (b) Royal Alexandra Hospital as at 31 August 2001.
Answer
Information on the number of patients waiting for in-patient and day case tonsillectomy treatment is not available centrally. Information on the number of patients waiting for in-patient and day case treatment is collected at specialty level only.
On 30 June 2001, the numbers waiting for ENT inpatient or day case treatments of all kinds at the Vale of Leven Hospital and at the Royal Alexandra Hospital were 151 and 311 respectively.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 September 2001
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 1 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-14840 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 18 April 2001, how long it will be before details of meetings with the Defence Diversification Agency can be made publicly available.
Answer
Discussions between the Scottish Executive and the UK Government are conducted on a confidential basis. No set deadline can be given for the release of any information arising from such confidential discussions. Under the Scottish Executive's Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information, information whose disclosure would harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion, including internal opinion, advice, recommendation, consultation and deliberation is not released.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 1 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to question S1W-18001 lodged on 7 September 2001, what the greatest scale of nuclear emergency is in preparation for which drills have been carried out; what the nature of the supposed emergency was in this case, and what the outcome of the drill was.
Answer
There is a comprehensive programme of exercises undertaken by MOD and civil agencies which are intended to test a range of scenarios. The largest scale exercise in Scotland in recent years took place at Faslane in November 1997. This involved over 7,500 participants over three days and postulated a fire leading to a radioactive leak from a submarine berthed at Faslane. A number of learning points emerged, as is the purpose of these exercises, and were referred to the appropriate organisations for follow-up action.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 1 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Her Majesty's Government to establish how much is currently invested by it in Scotland through defence research contracts and what action the Executive is taking to encourage Her Majesty's Government to place further defence research contracts in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the Ministry of Defence and its agencies on a range of issues, including defence research contracts. Figures for expenditure in Scotland from defence research contracts are not available.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is represented on the committee that vets Healthy Initiative Living Centre project proposals.
Answer
The Scottish Executive Health Department has observer status on the New Opportunities Fund's Scotland Healthy Living Centre Committee, which considers and makes decisions on applications from Scottish projects.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Healthy Living Centre Initiative project proposals have been submitted, where these proposals are based and which proposals have been successful to date.
Answer
The Healthy Living Centre application process consists of two stages, the first of which had a closing date of December 2000. There were 165 first stage applications in total. The New Opportunities Fund believes that these applications provide good geographical spread, both by health board and local authority areas. There have been 15 projects approved to date and details of these are on the fund's website at www.nof.org.uk.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when the planned guidelines on home schooling will be available and how prescriptive they will be.
Answer
Draft guidance on the circumstances in which parents may choose to educate their children at home is being issued to interested parties for consultation shortly. The draft guidance will address a wide range of issues that were raised by education authorities and by home education organisations during initial consultation on the scope of the guidance. It will offer clarification of the legislative position and general advice on principles and procedures.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many anti-social behaviour orders have been applied for to date by each local authority.
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). In the period from 1 April 1999, when ASBOs came into force, to 1 December 1999, some 15 ASBOs had been applied for, of which nine had been granted.
Figures for the period 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2000 were published in May 2001. They show that the number of ASBOs applied for had risen to 96; 52 of these were granted. The study did not break the figures down by local authority area. Copies of the report, entitled Monitoring the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, have been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 14116).
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to secure the location of the proposed Army Foundation College in Dundee and what form these representations took.
Answer
I understand that consideration of these matters within the Ministry of Defence is at a very early stage. My officials will be keeping in touch with developments.
- Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Answered by Sarah Boyack on 27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17501 by Sarah Boyack on 28 August 2001, when it expects to be in possession of the study into the alleviation of flooding at Blackstone Roundabout, Newark, Port Glasgow.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is now in possession of the study undertaken by Inverclyde Council. The study confirms that the main cause of flooding at this location is due to upstream problems with local watercourses that are the responsibility of Inverclyde Council. It also confirms that there are no defects in the road drainage system.
Measures to relieve flooding in the area have been identified and the council has confirmed that when completed these measures should reduce the likelihood of any encroachment of floodwater onto the A8 trunk road at Blackstone Roundabout, Newark, Port Glasgow.
