- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many student (a) nurses and (b) midwives are due to qualify in 2010.
Answer
Higher education institutions are currently being asked to provide estimates of the number of students likely to qualify in 2010. That information is not yet available.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the potential impact on the job prospects of student nurses and midwives of the estimated 1,523 reduction in whole-time equivalent nursing and midwifery posts contained in the NHS workforce projections.
Answer
We are liaising with all NHS boards who have been asked to provide information on the recruitment of newly qualified Nurses and Midwives to vacant posts created through staff turnover.
We have in place a national One Year Job Guarantee Scheme, which is intended to ensure that every newly qualified nurse and midwife receives the offer of a job either through their own means or with assistance.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many student (a) nurses and (b) midwives are due to qualify at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.
Answer
Higher education institutions are currently being asked to provide estimates of the number of students likely to qualify at the end of the 2010-11 academic year. That information is not yet available.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the 2010-11 student intake numbers are for (a) nursing and (b) midwifery.
Answer
Higher education institutions have been asked to recruit 2,876 student nurses and 184 student midwives in 2010-11. Exact intake numbers will not be known until after the second intake in March 2011.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 10 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether free school meals, free prescriptions, NHS distinction awards or any other of its policies are protected under the expenditure analysis of the Independent Budget Review.
Answer
The remit for the Independent Budget Review, which has been published, makes clear the scope of the work to be undertaken by the review.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will fully assess the likely carbon balance of future works required to deliver carbon capture and storage, including on-site works, transportation and long-term storage, when assessing applications for new thermal generating plant and whether it will provide an explanation for its position on this matter.
Answer
As stated in the answer to question S3W-28764 on 9 November 2009, any new coal-fired station in Scotland would need to demonstrate carbon capture and storage on at least 300 megawatts of its net capacity from day one of operation and to retro-fit for those stations by no later than 2025. As the technology develops, we expect new coal stations built by 2020, to be 100% fitted with carbon capture and storage.
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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many objections and expressions of support have been received regarding the application to construct and operate a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston.
Answer
Over 1,000 public representations opposing the proposal have already been received by the Scottish Government prior to the application itself being formally lodged. These representations will be considered alongside any further public representations subsequently received.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to make a decision on the application for a new coal-fired power plant at Hunterston.
Answer
Due to the size and complexity of large-scale s36 applications it is difficult to accurately predict processing timescales however, Scottish ministers have set an aspirational target to determine any new application submitted under s36 of the Electricity Act within nine months. Given this Scottish ministers would expect to be in a position to either make a determination or call a public inquiry some time in the second quarter of 2011.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will fully assess the technical feasibility of future works required to deliver carbon capture and storage, including on-site works, transportation and long-term storage, when assessing applications for new thermal generating plant and whether it will provide an explanation for its position on this matter.
Answer
The position of the Scottish Government on new thermal power stations was stated in the previous answer to question S3W-28764 on 9 November 2009.
Any new thermal power station application will be subject to statutory consultation under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989, when specialist advice from the Planning Authorities, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the Health and Safety Executive, Scottish Natural Heritage and other interested parties will be considered as part of the overall decision making process.
Scottish ministers will then consider all material issues before determining each application in accordance with the relevant environmental and planning obligations.
In respect of existing coal fuelled power stations, a rolling review of the technical and economic viability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be undertaken with the aim of taking a final view on retro-fitting by 2018.
Officials are also working closely with regulators and DECC officials to assess the effectiveness of existing legislative regimes for the efficient processing of thermal applications and to ensure the careful and thorough consideration of the capture, transport and storage elements of the application.
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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27218 by Jim Mather on 24 September 2009, whether it plans to gather information on the amount of coal (a) produced, (b) imported to or (c) exported from Scotland and whether it will provide an explanation for its position on this matter.
Answer
Information on coal movements throughout the UK or Scotland are not held centrally. However, Information on the production of coal in Scotland can be found on the Coal Authority website at
http://www.coal.gov.uk/publications/miningtechnology/index.cfm.
Import and export figures are also available at UK level on the DECC website at http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/source/coal/coal.aspx.
The Scottish Government has no immediate plans to gather information on the amount of coal imported to or exported from Scotland.
