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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S1W-20489

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 12 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17603 by Mr Jack McConnell on 14 September 2001, what progress has been made with the review of swimming provision available to school pupils with particular regard to any findings in respect of such provision in the Aberdeenshire Council area.

Question reference: S1W-20075

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications have been (a) received and (b) approved for (i) Objective 2 and (ii) Objective 3 funding and how many payments have been made in respect of successful applications in each month since January 2000.

The information requested is as follows:

Western Scotland
Objective 2 Programme
Projects received 185		Projects Approved 128
East of Scotland Objective 2 Programme
Projects received 240		Projects approved 199
South of Scotland Objective 2 Programme
Projects received 91		Projects approved 59
Objective 3 Programme
Projects received 1,492		Projects approved 941
Payments made to successful applicants
2001	Objective 2		Objective 3
March	2		66
April	0		56
May	0		47
June	3		152
July	0		102
August	7		72
September	15		42
October	4		84
November	23		74
Total	54		695

There were no payments made on these programmes before March 2001

Question reference: S1W-20426

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19630 by Angus Mackay on 26 November 2001, whether (a) it or (b) the Scottish Prison Service awarded any contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers in relation to the Prison Services Estates Review.

Question reference: S1W-20201

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 5 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs will reply to my letter of 17 October 2001 regarding my constituent Ms S MacDonald of Mintlaw.

Question reference: S1W-20200

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 5 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs will reply to my letter of 17 October 2001 regarding my constituent Mrs M Buchan of Peterhead.

Question reference: S1W-19960

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 29 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the number of households within the Banff and Buchan constituency currently living in fuel poverty.

Question reference: S1W-19665

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 26 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior management staff are currently employed at the headquarters of the Scottish Prison Service and how many of these have had work experience within a prison in the last (a) one, (b) three and (c) five years.

Question reference: S1W-19630

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 26 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what contracts with a value of #100,000 and over it and the Scottish Office placed with PricewaterhouseCoopers and their predecessors, Price Waterhouse and Coopers and Lybrand, in each year since 1993.

Since 1 April 1996 only two contracts with a value in excess of £100,000 have been placed with Price Waterhouse, Coopers and Lybrand or PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 1996 a contract was awarded to Coopers and Lybrand to provide financial advice on the Kilmarnock Prison PFI project. In 2000 a contract was awarded to PricewaterhouseCoopers in respect of a feasibility study of broadband connectivity for schools. Information for the period prior to 1 April 1996 is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Question reference: S1W-19616

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2001
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the total capacity of the whitefish fleet is represented by (a) the total number of applications made and (b) the qualifying offers for entry into the ranking list received under the fishing vessels decommissioning scheme.

There is no fixed definition of, nor is the UK fleet segmented separately into "the whitefish fleet". It is also possible to interpret the question in a number of ways.In determining eligibility for access to the Scottish decommissioning scheme, we took account of actual and potential whitefish capacity (based on the category of fishing licence held) alongside EC requirements relating to decommissioning grant. Using the resulting catchment of eligible vessels as the baseline, the total number of applications received and qualifying bids received under the scheme represent, respectively, 40% and 36% (based on the tonnage of the vessels concerned.)

Question reference: S1W-19538

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2001
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Deputy Minister for Rural Development will reply to my letter of 24 September 2001 regarding my constituent Mr R Stephen of Cairnbulg.