- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 3 June 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to assist the dairy farming industry.
Answer
I was pleased to host Scotland''s first ever Dairy Summit on 27 May in Edinburgh.
A clear understanding emerged on what Government can and cannot do in a de-regulated market. I announced funding for a dairy carbon foot-printing project and reiterated our support for the early establishment of a supermarket ombudsman, as well as for clearer labelling of food produce to allow consumers make more-informed purchasing decisions.
A further meeting is planned to take forward some the issues discussed at the summit.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 26 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, in developing the details of the Town Centre Regeneration Fund, whether it will include plans to inform local communities about how they can apply for funding.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0326-01.htm
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to encourage the deployment of junior doctors to work and train in Ayrshire and Arran.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0319-01.htm
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Salmond on 12 February 2009
To ask the First Minister what impact new UK visa rules for international students will have on Scotland’s universities.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0212-01.htm
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been fined for littering offences in each of the last five years for which information is available, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table. The number of fixed penalty notices for littering, issued by police and local authorities under their respective powers in Part IV of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, is not held centrally.
Persons Fined for Litter Offences1 in Scottish Courts by Approximate Local Authority Area2, 2002-03 to 2006-07
| Local Authority Area | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Aberdeen City | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Aberdeenshire | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Angus | - | - | - | - | - |
| Argyll and Bute | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Clackmannanshire | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| Dundee City | 3 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| East Ayrshire | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| East Lothian | - | - | - | - | - |
| East Renfrewshire | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Edinburgh, City of | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Eilean Siar | - | - | - | - | - |
| Falkirk | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Fife | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glasgow City | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| Highland | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Inverclyde | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | - |
| Midlothian | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Moray | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| North Ayrshire | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 |
| North Lanarkshire | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| Orkney Islands | - | - | - | - | - |
| Perth and Kinross | - | - | - | - | - |
| Renfrewshire | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Scottish Borders | 2 | - | 3 | - | 1 |
| Shetland Islands | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Ayrshire | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 8 |
| South Lanarkshire | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Stirling | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| West Dunbartonshire | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| West Lothian | - | 1 | - | 2 | - |
| Scotland | 31 | 23 | 38 | 30 | 51 |
Notes:
1. Where main offence.
2. Incorporates an approximate mapping of sheriff courts into local authority areas. Some sheriff courts will deal with cases from more than one local authority area. Four local authority areas, namely East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Midlothian and North Ayrshire, do not contain a sheriff court.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 5 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made regarding its commitment to provide humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0205-01.htm
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital beds were available in each of the last 15 years for which figures are available, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The numbers of available staffed hospital beds in Scottish NHS hospitals are shown in the following table.
Average Available Staffed Beds1 by NHS Board Area2; Financial Years Ending 31 March 1994-2008
| | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
| Scotland | 45,263 | 43,587 | 41,790 | 39,668 | 37,998 | 36,376 | 34,696 | 33,160 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 2,692 | 2,575 | 2,408 | 2,259 | 2,234 | 2,163 | 2,147 | 2,149 |
| Borders | ,845 | 822 | 807 | 781 | 754 | 734 | 688 | 654 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1,287 | 1,226 | 1,183 | 1,105 | 1,076 | 1,104 | 980 | 835 |
| Fife | 2,577 | 2,455 | 2,322 | 2,228 | 2,097 | 2,029 | 1,979 | 1,914 |
| Forth Valley | 2,598 | 2,504 | 2,349 | 2,260 | 2,106 | 2,028 | 1,862 | 1,735 |
| Golden Jubilee National Hospital | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grampian | 4,661 | 4,442 | 4,304 | 4,135 | 3,892 | 3,732 | 3,589 | 3,464 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 12,742 | 12,119 | 11,616 | 11,063 | 10,932 | 10,289 | 9,732 | 9,335 |
| Highland | 2,431 | 2,391 | 2,297 | 2,168 | 2,153 | 2,088 | 2,049 | 1,992 |
| Lanarkshire | 4,307 | 4,112 | 3,994 | 3,882 | 3,726 | 3,661 | 3,590 | 3,421 |
| Lothian | 6,557 | 6,532 | 6,253 | 5,717 | 5,117 | 4,819 | 4,525 | 4,376 |
| Orkney | 152 | 150 | 150 | 153 | 147 | 131 | 102 | 95 |
| Shetland | 142 | 137 | 136 | 127 | 116 | 100 | 101 | 100 |
| Tayside | 4,005 | 3,857 | 3,720 | 3,557 | 3,374 | 3,235 | 3,106 | 2,842 |
| Western Isles | 266 | 265 | 250 | 232 | 274 | 263 | 248 | 248 |
| | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008P |
| Scotland | 31,930 | 30,793 | 29,886 | 29,069 | 28,311 | 27,678 | 27,103 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 2,137 | 2,114 | 2,068 | 2,044 | 1,976 | 1,906 | 1,872 |
| Borders | 643 | 625 | 658 | 623 | 626 | 634 | 616 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 808 | 766 | 806 | 828 | 811 | 806 | 754 |
| Fife | 1,822 | 1,771 | 1,738 | 1,760 | 1,673 | 1,647 | 1,634 |
| Forth Valley | 1,630 | 1,493 | 1,366 | 1,338 | 1,284 | 1,254 | 1,295 |
| Golden Jubilee National Hospital | - | - | - | 61 | 84 | 66 | 69 |
| Grampian | 3,303 | 3,106 | 2,973 | 2,915 | 2,875 | 2,889 | 2,810 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 8,947 | 8,558 | 8,372 | 8,015 | 7,842 | 7,682 | 7,595 |
| Highland | 1,979 | 1,892 | 1,780 | 1,764 | 1,739 | 1,677 | 1,598 |
| Lanarkshire | 3,182 | 3,058 | 3,000 | 2,835 | 2,634 | 2,547 | 2,488 |
| Lothian | 4,455 | 4,445 | 4,249 | 4,131 | 4,117 | 4,051 | 3,939 |
| Orkney | 94 | 94 | 94 | 94 | 77 | 70 | 68 |
| Shetland | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 92 |
| Tayside | 2,606 | 2,549 | 2,455 | 2,332 | 2,272 | 2,146 | 2,085 |
| Western Isles | 224 | 224 | 227 | 229 | 200 | 203 | 187 |
Source: ISD Scotland [ISD(S)1].
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it anticipates each local authority will save as a direct result of the abolition of ring fencing in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
Answer
The significant reduction in ring fencing under the concordat has been of substantial benefit to local authorities. The change has given them greater flexibility to manage their resources more effectively and efficiently for the benefit of their service users. While it is too early to make a reliable estimate of the resulting savings, we will be considering the impact of this change in due course.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-14772 and S3W-14773 by Shona Robison on 15 July 2008, whether it accepts the Parkinson’s Disease Society’s estimate of around 10,000 people with Parkinson’s disease in Scotland, based on estimates derived from the results of published prevalence studies undertaken in the United Kingdom.
Answer
We are advised on these issues by the Information Services Division (ISD) of NHS National Services Scotland. We are pleased that ISD and the Parkinson''s Disease Society have reached agreement on a figure of around 10,000 people in Scotland with Parkinson''s.
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- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual energy output is of wind turbines.
Answer
This information is not held centrally in the format requested. Electricity output from wind turbines will vary depending on factors such as the design, size and location, including whether onshore or offshore, of the turbines in question. All of these elements will affect the capacity factor of a wind turbine.
Output from individual turbines at commercial sites is usually a matter of commercial confidentiality.
