- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 31 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what analysis it has made of the impact on the economy of bundle services.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no function in relation to the condition inserted in BT's licence that mandates Local Loop Unbundling.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 31 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much financial assistance was made available in each of the last three years for road improvements in (a) Aberdeen, (b) Dundee, (c) Edinburgh, (d) Glasgow and (e) each Scottish parliamentary region and what percentage of the total transport budget for the relevant year each of these figures represents.
Answer
Central government funding for expenditure on local roads forms part of the annual local government settlement. It is for each local authority to decide how much to allocate to local roads. Spending on motorway and trunk road schemes is recorded by individual project and by network management area, not by city or council boundaries. Similarly, data is not held centrally on roads budgets and expenditure by parliamentary region.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 31 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Transport intends to visit Aberdeen to observe recent traffic problems; if so, when and with whom she intends to meet while in the city.
Answer
I have a commitment to visit Aberdeen to meet representatives of the North East Scotland Economic Development Partnership to discuss further their proposed Modern Transport System for the city and its hinterland. That meeting will take place as soon as is mutually convenient.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 31 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many official visits the First Minister has undertaken in (a) Aberdeen and (b) the North East of Scotland parliamentary region since his appointment and when he next intends to visit these locations.
Answer
I will be visiting Aberdeen on 1 and 2 February.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 31 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the communications received from Aberdeen City Council since 1 January 2001 in connection with current traffic problems in Aberdeen, specifying the date each such communication was sent.
Answer
The Scottish Executive received communications from Aberdeen City Council on this issue on the 3 and 15 January.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 31 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times Aberdeen City Council have requested meetings with the Minister for Transport since 1 January 2001, specifying the date of each such request.
Answer
I received a request from Aberdeen City Council on 15 January to attend the public meeting on traffic congestion in the Bridge of Don area planned for 18 January.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 30 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out any investigation into any implications for patient care of NHS Trusts using medical equipment that is deemed to be beyond its standard life and, if not, whether it has any plans to do so.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not carried out such an investigation. It is for NHS Trusts to ensure all medical equipment is safe for use by patients and staff and to ensure that appropriate arrangements are in place for maintenance and replacement.The Executive is committed to increasing the resources available for capital expenditure in the NHS in Scotland to improve equipment and facilities to improve patient care.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of EU fishing quota, listed by species, is allocated to Scottish producers' organisations.
Answer
Final allocations of this year's quotas to producers' organisations are not due to be issued until 30 March. The following table (which excludes the non-sector and under 10 metre fleet) shows information relating to last year's total allowable catches for those stocks of relevance to UK fishing (sea areas IV, VI and VII).
| | Total EU quota (tonnes) | Scottish PO's allocation (tonnes) | Percent Scottish PO |
| Whitefish | 692,000 | 170,000 | 25 |
| Pelagic | 2,310,000 | 265,000 | 12 |
| Total | 3,002,000 | 436,000 | 15 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is for implementing a stocks regeneration plan for the waters fished primarily by the Scottish fleet.
Answer
Details of recovery plans for North Sea and West of Scotland cod stocks are currently being developed by the European Commission in consultation with member states and industry representatives. It is hoped that certain conservation measures can be established as early as next month.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHSiS patients each NHS Hospital Trust has had treated privately in each of the last three years and what the cost was of such treatment.
Answer
The independent healthcare sector in Scotland has some 670 beds, compared with over 36,000 beds (1998-99) in the NHSScotland. NHSScotland Boards and Trusts make limited use of these beds when necessary to address particular pressures. Boards and Trusts are required to ensure that they secure value for money from these arrangements. The amounts spent by NHSScotland in each of the last three years on referring patients for independent healthcare are set out in the table:
| Year | Health Board Purchases £000 | GP Fund Holders Purchases2 £000 | Total Purchases from Private Sector £000 | Total Expenditure on HCH1 £000 | Purchases from Private Sector as % of HCH |
| 1995-96 | 23,367 1 | - | | 2,804,2781 | 0.83% |
| 1996-97 | 26,748 1 | - | | 2,857,3251 | 0.94% |
| 1997-98 | 30,871 1 | 1,457 2 | | 2,966,0421 | 1.09% |
| 1998-99 | 32,995 1 | 2,213 2 | | 3,092,6451 | 1.145% |
| 1999-20003 | 33,198 | - | | 3,377,5271 | 0.98% |
Notes: 1. From the NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts 1995-96 to 1998-99, copies of which are available in SPICE.2. From the published Annual Accounts of individual health boards and included in the total GP Fundholders and Primary Care providers line as reported in the NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts 1995-96 to 1998-993. From the published Annual Accounts of individual health boards as presented to Parliament.
