- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 9 January 2001
To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body follows any guidelines when contracting recruitment agencies and what factors, other than cost, are considered in such decisions.
Answer
When contracting for recruitment agency services the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body follows the guidelines set out in the Scottish Parliament Procurement Policy Manual.
Factors other than cost taken into consideration when reaching contract award decisions include capability, technical ability and financial viability. In the evaluation for recruitment agency contracts, the following criteria were used:
Organisation | Length of time established |
| | Number of employees & organisation structure |
| | Membership of relevant associations etc. |
Administration | How performance of placements are monitored |
| | Type of management information available & quality procedures |
| | Support & guidance available to the placement and the Scottish Parliament |
Placements | Previous experience of placements similar to our requirements |
| | How many suitably qualified candidates they currently have |
| | How they envisage resourcing the service required |
| | Contingency arrangements e.g. cover for sickness |
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 9 January 2001
To ask the Presiding Officer which recruitment agencies the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body uses.
Answer
The principal recruitment agency used by the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to fill temporary vacancies is Pertemps. The SPCB also uses Kelly Services and Office Personnel but to a much lesser extent.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what grants each industrial heritage museum has received in each of the past five years from national bodies, government bodies, local authorities and the National Lottery.
Answer
The grants made by the Scottish Office/Scottish Executive, including Historic Scotland, and by the Heritage Lottery Fund are set out in the following table. Information on grants made by other bodies is not held centrally.
| | 1995-96 (£) | 1996-97 (£) | 1997-98 (£) | 1998-99 (£) | 1999-2000 (£) |
| Almond Valley Heritage CentreSO/SE Arts & HeritageHistoric ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | | £ | £ | £ | £ 354,000 |
| Dunaskin Open Air Industrial Museum, DalmellingtonSO/SE Arts & HeritageHistoric ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | 23,738 | | | 5,891 | 12,475 |
| Grampian Transport MuseumSO/SE Arts & HeritageSO/SE Historic ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | | 104,400 | | | 43,000 |
| Scottish Fisheries MuseumSO/SE Arts & HeritageHistoric ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | 100,000 | 35,800 | 676,000 | | |
| Scottish Lead Mining Museum- WanlockheadSO/SE Arts & HeritageSO/SE Historic ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | 27,700 | | | | |
| Scottish Maritime MuseumSO/SE Arts & HeritageHistoric ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | | | | 55,000 | 15,000 |
| Scottish Mining MuseumSO/SE Arts & HeritageHistoric ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | 16,243 200,814 | 3,450 353,600 | 202,792 3,574,000 | 182,092 15,300 | 100,000 198,106 |
| Scottish Railway MuseumSO/SE Arts & HeritageHistoric ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | | | | | 275,000 |
| New Lanark Conservation TrustSO/SE Arts & HeritageHistoric ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | 95,507 | 33,300 1,832,520 | 33,925 | 34,965 | 35,835 |
| Verdant Works and Discovery Point, DundeeSO/SE Arts & HeritageHistoric ScotlandHeritage Lottery Fund | 17,282 | 52,686 469,700 | 471,929 | | |
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 4 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that policies to improve public transport for commuters and to reduce their use of cars do not reduce the amount of local community transport in socially excluded urban areas.
Answer
The Executive has recently issued guidance to local authorities to assist them in preparing full Local Transport Strategies which highlighted the need for them to consider how the potential of voluntary or community transport can be maximised as part of an integrated transport network.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 1 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was paid by the Scottish Office to consultants in each year from 1995-96 to 1998-99 and how many separate contracts were involved.
Answer
The table below gives details of estimated expenditure on external consultants from 1995-96. Information on the number of contracts involved is not held centrally. Arrangements are, however, being introduced to collect this data in future.
(£ million) |
1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 |
£5.4 | £3.0 | £2.1 | £1.7 | £2.6 |
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 1 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it paid to consultants in 1999-2000 and how many separate contracts were involved.
Answer
I refer Mr Gorrie to the answer given to question S1W-6883
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 24 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions have been secured as a result of CCTV evidence in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
This information is unavailable.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to respond to the letter from the editor of Scottish Licensing Law and Practice dated 20 December 1999 raising an anomaly in Scotland in the law governing all cash amusement with pri'e machines.
Answer
The issuing of permits for all cash amusement with prizes machines is governed by the Gaming Act 1968. The legislation is reserved and the Scotland Office has been asked to consider the alleged anomaly.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 30 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to extend the categories of care which qualify for financial assistance so that care by a nurse includes care by a nursing assistant supervised by a nurse.
Answer
The Minister for Health announced in her Statement to Parliament on Older People on 5 October that the Executive accepts the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care that nursing care should be made free in residential care. We will work closely with the nursing profession to ensure that the arrangements for assessment and delivery of care are effective and are based on need. Scotland's Chief Nursing Officer will lead this work and is to report to Ministers by the end of the year.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 30 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the model forms in Planning Advice note 48, on notifying neighbours of planning applications, conform with those specified in the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 and, if not, what plans it has to ensure that they do.
Answer
The purpose of the model forms in PAN 48 was to provide the stimulus for planning authorities to improve the content and layout of their planning application forms to make them more user-friendly. It is for individual planning authorities to ensure that the forms they use, or which applicants submit, satisfy statutory requirements.
