- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason ScotRail services do not have the same cancellations and significant lateness regulated measure as rail operators in England and Wales.
Answer
The CaSl measure for Scotland is calculated in the same manner as England and Wales.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06432 by Humza Yousaf on 1February 2017, whether it will provide a breakdown of the elements of the CaSL measures that are captured within PPM, and what additional indicators of this performance are available to rail users.
Answer
The CaSL (“Cancellations And Significant Lateness”) performance measure works as follows. A train is counted as being a CaSL failure if:
• It is cancelled at origin.
• It is cancelled en route.
• The originating station is changed.
• It fails to make a scheduled stop at a station.
• It is significantly late (i.e. it arrives at its terminating station 30 minutes or more late).
This performance measure is thus a subset of the Public-Performance-Measure (“PPM”), which measures all ScotRail services within 5 minutes of lateness at the trains’ final destination. CaSL does not include trains which arrive at the final destination between five and thirty minutes late.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06432 by Humza Yousaf on 1 February 2017, whether it will prove a breakdown of the elements of the CaSL measures that are not captured within PPM, and what indicators of this performance are not available to rail users because of this.
Answer
All the elements of the CaSL measure, are captured within the PPM measure.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06432 by Humza Yousaf on 1 February 2017, in which railway control period the PPM was introduced; what preceded it, and what changes have been made since its introduction.
Answer
The Public Performance Measure (“PPM”) is a composite measurement which combines punctuality and reliability. The former Strategic Rail Authority introduced the PPM measure in 2000, during the second rail Control Period. By-period measurements for the Scottish franchise are available from April 1997.
The definition for the PPM measure has not changed in Scotland since it started.
The Scottish Government does not hold records of previous performance measurement systems.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what statistics are published regarding (a) cancellations and (b) significant lateness by ScotRail services and how this compares to other rail operators.
Answer
The Office of Rail Regulation publishes the CaSL data for ScotRail’s services on its Data Portal, which can be found at this URL:
http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/browsereports/3
Specific information for ScotRail can be found in Table 3.18, and data comparing ScotRail’s performance in this respect with other operators can be found in Table 3.7 (by quarter since 1997/98:Q1) and Table 3.55 (by four-week period since April 1997).
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2018
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 6 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of information provided by SPICe that NHS Grampian has received the lowest share of public funding of any NHS board for each of the last nine years, how the new health secretary plans to reimburse NHS Grampian for a funding shortfall totalling £165.6 million over that period.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 6 September 2018
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Christina McKelvie on 21 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish its plans to promote equal opportunities (a) for women and (b) generally in the public sector, and what action it is taking to improve equal opportunities (i) for women and (ii) generally in (A) Police Scotland and (B) the NHS.
Answer
The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (as amended) place a number of specific duties on listed public authorities including a duty to report progress on mainstreaming the equality duty, a duty to publish equality outcomes and a duty to gather and use employee information.
The Scottish Government published its Equality Outcomes and Mainstreaming Report ( http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/04/4384 ) in April 2017.
The 2012 Regulations apply to Health Boards constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; a Special Health Board constituted under that section; the Scottish Police Authority; and the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland. Therefore as listed public authorities they are required to report under the 2012 regulations (as amended).
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/8/schedule/5
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 July 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 16 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many farm businesses in (a) Shetland, (b) Orkney, (c) the Highlands, (d) Aberdeenshire and (e) each parliamentary region are still waiting to receive 2016-17 CAP basic payments.
Answer
The number of farm businesses still to receive 2016 or 2017 payments under the CAP Basic Payment Scheme is set out in the following tables. The numbers will fluctuate as applications are processed and some found to be ineligible.
Scheme Year 2016
Local Authority Area | Number of Businesses |
Aberdeenshire | 1 |
Parliamentary Region | Number of Businesses |
North East Scotland | 1 |
Scheme Year 2017
Local Authority Area | Number of Businesses |
Shetland | 30 |
Orkney | 15 |
Highland | 79 |
Aberdeenshire | 43 |
Total | 167 |
Parliamentary Region | Number of Businesses |
Central Scotland | 3 |
Glasgow | 0 |
Highlands and Islands | 217 |
Lothian | 6 |
Mid Scotland & Fife | 37 |
North East Scotland | 67 |
South Scotland | 149 |
West Scotland | 13 |
Total | 492 |
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the higher than expected workload required by the Beef Efficiency Scheme and the additional challenges faced by participating farmers from the exceptional weather in 2017 and 2018, whether it has considered paying participating farmers for years four and five of the scheme.
Answer
The exceptional weather of course did not only affect the participants in the Beef Efficiency Scheme, but we have where required dealt with any issues BES participants had in carrying out their commitments as a result of the exceptional weather. The commitments for participants have not changed over the period of the scheme and we will not be introducing payments for years 4 and 5 of the scheme.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 July 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on any farm businesses that have been a victim of email/online fraud regarding the roll-out of annual CAP Basic Payments; how many cases it is aware of, and what information it has on the total value of any such fraud.
Answer
As indicated in our response to S5W-17523 on 30 July 2018, the Scottish Government takes the threat of on-line fraud very seriously and has taken steps to alert farm businesses to the dangers of on-line fraud in relation to CAP payments.
The Scottish Government will continue to remind customers of the threat of on-line fraud and the action they might take to prevent fraud occurring.
Rural Payments and Inspections Division area offices are not aware of any such incidents of on-line fraud in relation to CAP payments having occurred. However there is no requirement for farm businesses to report such incidents to the Scottish Government.
All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.