- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the use of single-crewed ambulances will now be ended, following the change of ministerial personnel for the health and community care portfolio.
Answer
The policy remains as that which was set out for the member in the answer given to question S2W-10201 answered on 29 September 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses were built on land owned by the Forestry Commission in each of the last five years.
Answer
Forestry Commission Scotland built one house on the national forest estate in the past five years. This was in Dornoch in 2002. Forestry Commission Scotland does not hold records of houses built after national forest estate land has been sold.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures the Scottish Ambulance Service takes with regard to the safety of ambulance crews, particularly in relation to single-crewed ambulances, and whether such measures offer protection for the safety of staff in single-crewed ambulances, in particular female staff.
Answer
Frontline ambulance staff are issued with personal protection equipment and receive training relevant to their operational requirements in various health and safety subjects from manual lifting and handling to managing information. In relation to single crewed working, the ambulance service’s lone working policy is currently under review. The policy details the processes through which the service will ensure, as far as is reasonably practical, a safe working environment for operational ambulance staff, officers and management who are required to work alone.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 2 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that Network Rail should be required to seek planning permission for the erection of microwave radio masts; whether it will define “permitted development” in terms of planning law, and whether it will take any action to change planning law in order to require permission for such masts to be sought.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to S2W-10263 on 16 September 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost of its “Tsars”, has been in each year since appointment, broken down by “Tsar”, and what annual savings would be made if all “Tsars” were to be abolished.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-8056 answered on 21 July 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a proper application of the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Code was followed in the recruitment of “gifted amateurs”, as referred to by the Minister for Finance and Public Services (Official Report c 10409).
Answer
The Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Code is applied to all recruitment to permanent posts in the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Finance and Public Services was referring to specific civil servants when he used the phrase “gifted amateur” (Official Report c 10409) and, if so, to which civil servants he was referring.
Answer
The Minister for Finance and Public Services was not referring to any specific civil servants when using the phrase “gifted amateur”. The minister was referring to the changes being introduced more generally to the civil service in Scotland, based on the lessons learned from the Holyrood Inquiry Report.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that money saved by local authorities from reducing the council tax discount on second homes will be spent on affordable housing.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is currently consulting with COSLA and Communities Scotland as to how local authorities’ actual spend on affordable housing should be monitored and compared, against the additional income generated from reducing the discount.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the proposed funding and procurement arrangements are for completing the M74.
Answer
The project will be funded jointly by the Scottish Executive, Glasgow Council, South Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Councils, with 1.22% of the total cost being funded from other public and private sector funding. Subject to Scottish ministers’ decision following the Public Local Inquiry, the new motorway will be procured through three design and build contracts.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the light of the planned completion of the A78 three-town bypass in December 2004, the M77, Malletsheugh to Fenwick and the A876, Kincardine Eastern Link Road in March 2005, the A80 Auchenkilns Junction in September 2005 and the large proportion of early spending committed to land acquisition for the M74 Completion, it will bring forward other major trunk road projects or large management and maintenance projects to sustain Scottish road builders during a possible period of low activity.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-11170 on 1 November 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
