- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 9 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-18835 and S3W-20234 by Stewart Stevenson on 8 January 2009 and 10 February 2009 respectively, what percentage of the £6.6 million budget for Transport Strategy and Innovation the Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland will receive in 2008-09.
Answer
In 2008-09, the budget for the Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland (MACS) is part of the wider Transport Strategy and Innovation budget. The Transport Strategy and Innovation Budget is a Level 3 figure. Current Scottish Government Finance Guidelines are that we do not publish figures below those shown in the Level 3.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 4 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it proposes that local authorities measure success in meeting national indicator 37 to increase the proportion of adults making one or more visits to the outdoors per week.
Answer
Single outcome agreements between the Scottish Government and each local authority set out how the authority''s activities will contribute to delivery of the national outcomes and indicators included in the National Performance Framework. The Scottish Recreation Survey includes information from respondents on visits to the outdoors for leisure and recreation during the previous 12 months. Progress on this and other national indicators is reported on the Scottish Government website
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/home.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 3 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S3W-12579 by Alex Johnstone on 6 May 2008, whether the scoping exercise on what was involved in setting up a Cycle to Work Scheme has been completed and, if so, whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body plans to implement this scheme in the near future.
Answer
We are currently carrying out some research into what would be involved in setting up a Cycle to Work Scheme. The results of this scoping exercise will be available in April, when a decision will be taken on whether to develop and implement a scheme and, if so, when the resources will be available. In the meantime, the SPCB offers interest free loans of up to £400 to purchase a bicycle.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of people meets the recommended levels of physical activity through walking.
Answer
The official source of statistics on physical activity is the Scottish Health Survey. The most recent results currently available are for 2003, although the survey is in the field again now and results for 2008 will be available in September 2009 and annually thereafter.
The guideline levels of physical activity for adults and children are as follows:
Adults “ 30 minutes or more of moderate to vigorous activity on at least five days in the week prior to the survey, and
Children “ At least 60 minutes participation in physical activity on all seven days prior to the survey.
The calculation of total physical activity levels sums responses to individual questions about participation in all different types of activity in the week prior to the survey (including walking, activity at work, sport participation). It is possible that some respondents meet the physical activity guidelines through moderate to vigorous walking alone, but Scottish Health Survey figures on this are not held centrally.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of people meets the recommended levels of physical activity.
Answer
The official source of statistics on physical activity is the Scottish Health Survey. The most recent results currently available are for 2003, although the survey is in the field again now and results for 2008 will be available in September 2009 and annually thereafter.
The guideline levels of physical activity for adults and children are as follows:
Adults “ 30 minutes or more of moderate to vigorous activity on at least five days in the week prior to the survey, and
Children “ At least 60 minutes participation in physical activity on all seven days prior to the survey.
Table 1: Proportion of adults and children meeting the physical activity guidelines in 2003, Proportion Meeting the Physical Activity Guidelines (%)
| Adults (aged 16+ years) | Male | 42 |
| Female | 30 |
| Children (aged 2-15 years) | Boys | 74 |
| Girls | 63 |
Source: Scottish Health Survey 2003.
Breakdowns of adults and children meeting the physical activity guidelines are also available by age, social class, income and Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation from the Scottish Health Survey 2003 report:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50251 [Chapters 4 in both the adults and children reports].
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce a Cycle to Work Scheme in all government organisations in order to encourage cycling and set a precedent for good environmental practice among employers.
Answer
There are plans to introduce a Cycle to Work Scheme for Scottish Government staff. Details of the scheme will be announced in early March.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 27 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list any meetings between civil servants and representatives of the Scottish Green Party to discuss policy matters since May 2007 at which Scottish ministers were not present, also showing the (a) dates of the meetings, (b) topics discussed and (c) departments represented.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many kilometres of core paths have been planned by local authorities.
Answer
The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 requires the 32 local authorities and the two National Park authorities to draw up a system of core paths sufficient to give the public reasonable access throughout their area. This work is not yet complete for all access authorities and it will only be possible to provide data on the total length and nature of the paths when all plans have been adopted.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the core paths in local authority plans are new paths.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20980 on 26 February 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 23 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the 22% efficiency savings required by the Office of Rail Regulation and the announcement by Network Rail to defer 28% of planned track renewals across the United Kingdom will have an impact on track renewals, inspection and maintenance programmes in Scotland.
Answer
Network Rail''s acceptance of the Office of Rail Regulation''s Final Determination for the delivery of Scottish Ministers'' High Level Output Specification for Control Period 4 (CP4 April 2009 “ March 2014) was announced on Thursday 5 February 2009. Transport Scotland will look to the ORR to ensure that Network Rail meets all the outputs for which it will be funded in CP4, including assurance that any re-profiling of works will leave a deliverable programme.
