- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will address concerns raised by Jonathan Mills, Edinburgh International Festival Director, that it was £200,000 cheaper to import Cologne Opera¿s production of Richard Strauss¿s Capriccio than to engage Scottish Opera for a new production.
Answer
The programme forthe Edinburgh International Festival is a matter for the Festival Director,Jonathan Mills. Four of the five National Performing Companies did appear atthe 2007 Festival. I understand that Jonathan Mills and the General Director ofScottish Opera did discuss the possibility of Scottish Opera appearing butdecided that this would not be possible on this occasion. I also understandthat discussions about the possibility of Scottish Opera appearing at theFestival in future are on-going.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has in place to reduce the incidence of strokes in West Dunbartonshire.
Answer
The West DunbartonshireCommunity Health Partnership is instituting a number of measures, in both the shortand long term, to reduce the incidence of stroke in its population, many of themlinked to its status as a Wave 2 ‘”Keep Well” area. These include a range of secondaryprevention services to support patients who have had a stroke, in order to reducethe risk of a further stroke.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve local primary care in (a) Clydebank and (b) Bearsden and Milngavie.
Answer
The planning and provisionof primary and community based healthcare services in Clydebank, Bearsden and Milngavie is a matter for the East and West DunbartonshireCommunity Health Partnerships (CHPs) within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Each CHP in Scotlandshould have in place a local delivery and development plan which it would have agreedwith its NHS board. This would have been based on an assessment of local need andinclude local priorities for action together with plans for service improvementto support these priorities.
CHPs have delegatedresponsibility and resources from their NHS board for all primary and communitybased health care services and are therefore accountable to their NHS board on howthese resources are used and the services provided.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether future funding for tackling deprivation in West Dunbartonshire will represent a real terms increase or decrease.
Answer
The Scottish Governmentwill decide on future funding for tackling deprivation as part of the spending reviewprocess.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what practical measures it will take to reduce the incidence of myocardial infarction in West Dunbartonshire to the Scottish average or below.
Answer
Data on the incidenceof acute myocardial infarction at council level area are produced by InformationServices Division of NHS National Services Scotland and can be viewed at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/oct06_IC4.xls.These data will beupdated in October 2007.
The West DunbartonshireCommunity Health Partnership is instituting a number of measures to address inequalitiesboth in the short and long-term to reduce the incidence of myocardial infarctionin its population, many of them linked to its status as a Wave 2 “Keep Well” area.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the value is of student debt in Scotland.
Answer
The total outstandingstudent loan debt from Scottish borrowers at the 31 March 2007 was £1,953,784,457. This figure is made up of £1,845,726,000of debt held by the Scottish Government and £108,058,457 of sold debt held by privatesector institutions.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will measure whether its national conversation on Scotland's constitutional future has been a success.
Answer
The government aimsto build support for a referendum in the lifetime of this Parliament. The governmentalso aims for widespread participation by the people of Scotland in the national conversation to discuss, and decide,the future of our country.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is envisaged that the outcome of the national conversation described in Choosing Scotland's Future: A National Conversation will be reported to the Parliament.
Answer
The government willreport to Parliament in due course.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what its objectives are in conducting its national conversation on Scotland's constitutional future.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-3313 on 12 September 2007. Allanswers 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: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many public meetings, events, workshops. roadshows, exhibitions, conferences and media opportunities have been planned for the national conversation described in Choosing Scotland's Future: A National Conversation.
Answer
The white paper invitespeople to sign up for the national conversation, and indicate how they wish to contribute.The paper also invites people to suggest how the conversation would best be structuredto ensure the greatest possible involvement of the people of Scotland. The exact form of the national conversation will dependon the responses received, but the government is determined to support a conversationthat ensures that all sectors of Scottish society have the opportunity to contribute.
