- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of it and its agencies' advertisements were placed in national print media from 1 August to 30 September 2002, excluding recruitment campaigns and the publication of statutory notices; what the subject was of each such advertisement; how often each advertisement was placed; how much it cost to make each advertisement, including advertising agency costs, and how much it cost to place each advertisement.
Answer
The information requested is detailed in the table.
| Campaign | Production Costs (£) | No. of Ads | Media Costs (£) |
| Children's Panels | 7,640 | 21 | 105,000 |
| Drugs | Repeats | 26 | 28,346 |
| Environment | Repeats | 12 | 15,803 |
| Fire Safety | 3,940 | 2 (supplements) | 36,795 |
| Flu | 2,722 | 2 | 2,580 |
| NHS Helpline | Repeats | 35 | 22,334 |
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of it and its agencies' advertisements were broadcast on commercial television from 1 August to 30 September 2002; what the subject was of each advertisement; how often each advertisement was broadcast, giving the total number of broadcasting slots and the duration of each slot; how much each advertisement cost to make, including agency costs, and how much each broadcast advertisement cost.
Answer
The information requested is detailed in the table.
| Campaign | Production Costs | No of Spots | Duration (seconds) | Media Costs |
| Drugs | Repeats | 304 | 30/40 | £282,037 |
| Environment | Repeats | 191 | 30/40 | £211,382 |
| Foolsspeed | Repeats | 149 | 40 | £203,074 |
| Travel Awareness | Repeats | 149 | 30/40 | £183,019 |
| Fire Safety | nil | 54 | 30 | £ 44,289 |
| Race | £150,000 | 47 | 40 | £ 72,721 |
| Flu | £170,000 | 3 | 30 | £ 8,887 |
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedure it and its agencies follow to purchase print space and air time for advertising and how much it and its agencies spent on buying air time on television and radio and print space in national and local newspapers for advertisements that ran between (a) 1 August and 30 September 2002 and (b) 1 July 1999 and 30 September 2002.
Answer
The Media Communications Group discusses the need for a campaign with the commissioning department. It then manages a further meeting with its media buying agency, advertising agency and the department. A full briefing is given and the media buying agency is asked to come forward with a set of media proposals. Once these have been refined and agreed with the appropriate departmental minister the media buying agency is given approval to proceed and the media is subsequently booked.The information requested on media spend is as follows:(a) Media spend on press, television and radio for the period 1 August 2002 to 30 September 2002 was £1,649,811.(b) Media spend on press, television and radio for the period 1 July 1999 to 30 September 2002 was £14,177,400.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a procedure for ensuring that its advertising campaigns are scrutinised by the Minister for Finance and Public Services before approval of the use of advertising media is given; when any such procedure came into effect, and which advertisements run (a) on television, (b) on radio, (c) in the national newspapers and (d) in the local newspapers between 1 August and 30 September 2002 were subject to any such procedure.
Answer
Budgets are held by Executive departments who seek their responsible ministers authority before running any advertising campaign. I am regularly updated on all campaign planning but under current arrangements, ministers are not required to seek central approval.I have been asked by First Minister to review the current practice and this review is now under way.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what national standards of care apply to the provision of warden services in sheltered housing and whether any such standards contain information on the minimum acceptable levels of staffing and hours of provision of the service.
Answer
Scottish ministers, prior to the establishment of the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (Care Commission) on 1 April 2002, published national care standards covering a wide range of care provision. The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 defines the services to be regulated by the Care Commission against the National Care Standards.While sheltered housing provision is not defined specifically within the act if they met the definition of, for example, a housing support service or alternatively a care home, the relevant national care standards would apply. It is for the Care Commission to make decisions on registration and other issues such as staffing levels based on the statement of function and purpose and other information provided by the services as part of the application process.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what restrictions it places on the future employment of special advisers when they leave its employment.
Answer
Under the terms of the Model Contract for Special Advisers (Bib Number. 22440 in the Parliament's Reference Centre), Advisers are required in certain circumstances to obtain agreement before accepting an offer of employment outside the civil service which would start within two years of leaving Crown employment. It is the personal responsibility of all former special advisers to ensure that they comply with these requirements.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what contact John McTernan has had with civil servants or ministers since leaving his post as a special adviser to the former First Minister Henry McLeish MSP and what subjects were discussed during any such contact.
Answer
Comprehensive records of contacts are not held centrally. However, I am aware of two contacts on official business since John McTernan left his post as a Special Adviser to the First Minister. The first of these was a meeting with an official for a general discussion on the work of the Scottish Council Foundation. The second was contact with the office of the Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services to make necessary arrangements relating to the Deputy Minister's participation in a seminar entitled "Choice in Public Services" aimed at NHS senior managers and practitioners in Scotland. Mr McTernan subsequently attended the seminar as did the Deputy Minister.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards freight forwarding and logistics companies will be able to apply to ensure that goods handled by them but in the ownership of third parties will not be liable to poinding during actions for recovery of commercial debt.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-29971 today. All answers to written parlliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements it is making to ensure that goods in the ownership of third parties are not poinded during actions for recovery of commercial debt.
Answer
The Executive is not making new arrangements in relation to existing safeguards for third party articles in actions for recovery of commercial debt. In this respect, the procedure proposed in the Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Bill is essentially the same as that set out in the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987. The procedure for recovery of domestic debt, however, is radically different from that in the 1987 act.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what proof of ownership will be required to exempt third party goods from poinding during actions for the recovery of commercial debt.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-29971 today. 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/search_wa.The Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 does not prescribe what will be acceptable as proof that articles belong to third parties. All that is required is that the sheriff officer is satisfied with the corroboration. If the proof of ownership is not available at the time, the 1987 act provides for the articles to be released on the sheriff officer being later satisfied. If the proof of ownership does not satisfy the sheriff officer, either at the time or later, then there is provision for an application to the sheriff.
