- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what facilities exist in each health board area for the diagnosis of developmental dyspraxia and how many adults have been assessed as suffering from developmental dyspraxia in each health board area in each of the last five years.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many adults diagnosed with developmental dyspraxia are currently (a) awaiting treatment and (b) undergoing treatment in each health board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to legislate to treat incitement to sectarian violence as a crime in the same way as incitement to racial violence is dealt with in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Answer
No. Existing criminal law is sufficiently robust and flexible to respond to crimes of violence and incitement to violence. In addition, guidance has been issued that any evidence of religious motivation or hostility should be brought to the attention of the Procurator Fiscal and the court. The court can consider this as an aggravating factor in sentencing.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it or the Scottish Office issued guidance relating to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to parallel the guidance issued in England by the Home Office.
Answer
The Scottish Office issued guidance on the Scottish provisions on racially aggravated offences in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in September 1998, prior to the Act coming into force. Further guidance on the main Scottish provisions in the Act was issued in October 1998.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will include, in the guidance given to schools about their curriculum, guidance in support of lessons about personal financial planning and debt avoidance.
Answer
The Scottish Executive in partnership with Learning and Teaching Scotland, the Financial Services Authority and The Royal Bank of Scotland has already provided education authorities and schools with advice and teaching materials on a range of issues relating to personal finance, including financial planning and debt avoidance.This existing guidance will be supplemented by the launch later this month of a CD-ROM, Facing up to Finance, for use in S3/S4 classes.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many poinding applications have been made by or on behalf of each local authority, in each of the last five years.
Answer
Poindings proceed on the authority of the extracted warrant. No applications for poinding are therefore made. The table sets out the number of poindings effected under the summary warrant procedure for Council Tax arrears and Community Tax arrears for the years 1995 to 1999 in Scotland which are the latest available. The data collected does not specify the numbers of poindings effected by each local authority.
| | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
Council Tax: |
| Poindings effected | 5,115 | 6,850 | 12,046 | 10,260 | 10,029 |
Community Charge: |
| Poindings effected | 2,193 | 946 | 916 | 747 | 587 |
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will arrange to visit and assess the 44 private training providers which were not visited as part of its Study of the Full-Time Education and Training Option in Scottish Colleges and Private Training Providers.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing organisations.There are no plans to extend the study to the 44 private training providers.To build on the strengths identified in the Full-Time Education and Training (FTET) Report, three regional good practice dissemination events are being held in Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh this month to enable the expertise established by private training providers and FE colleges to be shared between New Deal specialist staff in both sectors. These will be workshop-led events. Each workshop has an identified theme which will maximise the opportunity to highlight good practice in key areas related to the New Deal programme.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 12 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what asbestos-related guidelines were in place in 1990 when the Scottish Office evacuated New St Andrews' House on the grounds of the presence of asbestos.
Answer
The guidelines on asbestos current in 1990 were contained in the Department of the Environment Booklet (Asbestos Materials in Buildings) issued in Scotland under Scottish Development Department Circular No 32 in 1986.The asbestos present in New St Andrew's House was stable at the time staff moved to Victoria Quay in 1995. The projected cost of the removal of asbestos from New St Andrew's House was a factor in the decision to give up three central Edinburgh buildings (New St Andrew's House, Brandon Street/Perth Street and Jeffrey Street) with staff moving to a new building at Victoria Quay.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many warrant sales have been carried out on individuals in domestic residences by each local authority in each of the last five years.
Answer
Warrant sales are normally conducted in auction houses. They can only be carried out in domestic premises where the occupier thereof and, if he is not the occupier, the debtor gives consent in writing. No records are kept centrally of the number of occasions such consent is given.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider recognising Citi'ens Advice Bureaux as official training providers and ensuring they are recompensed for the training and qualifications provided for volunteers in addition to any New Deal arrangements.
Answer
The enterprise networks are responsible for procurement and contracting for the national training programmes. The Scottish Executive does not recognise training providers directly.
