- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what costs it has incurred in respect of (a) local authority and (b) the Scottish Parliament elections in (i) 1999, (ii) 2003 and (iii) 2007, broken down by the relevant categories on the returning officer's forms.
Answer
The cost of administering and running local government elections is met by local authorities from their general allocation. The UK Government provides funding to local authorities for costs associated with administering and running the Scottish Parliament elections.
As a result the Scottish Government has not incurred expenditure against the categories on the returning officer''s forms for these elections.
The Scottish Government did, however, contribute approximately £4.8 million to the cost of the electronic counting system for the 2007 elections.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will require a public local inquiry to be held into the proposal for the Viking wind farm on Shetland and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
Given the role of Scottish ministers in determining this application it would be inappropriate to comment on its specifics at this stage. A decision will be made on this application in due course.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what action its directorates have taken in liaising with stakeholders on the future of beekeeping since May 2007.
Answer
Scottish Government officials met with stakeholders on 5 March and 17 June 2008, and on 2 April, 20 July, 5 August, 19 August, 11 September and 17 November 2009. Issues discussed at these meetings included a survey of bee colonies to determine the presence of Varroa mites showing resistance to pyrethroid treatments, the Bee Health Strategy for Scotland and the European and American Foulbrood outbreaks.
The Minister for Environment, Roseanna Cunningham MSP, met with stakeholders on 6 January 2010 to discuss developments in bee health. The Minister made it clear that the Scottish Government was not in a position to offer financial support for European Foulbrood control or compensation to businesses. The Minister agreed that we would look at spend under the EU Apiculture programme; stated that we had committed additional resources for bee inspectors, and that we would develop and enhance our existing resources while working with the industry on a disease control plan for 2010 and on the issue of antibiotic residues. The Minister also stated, without making firm commitments, that we would consider how to support working groups for the Bee Health Strategy and consider the issues raised in the paper tabled by the Bee Farmers Association at the meeting. The Scottish Government will also continue to develop the Bee Health Strategy within the resources available.
In addition the Scottish Government funded full time apiculture specialist at the Scottish Agricultural College liaises with stakeholders frequently during the provision of training, education and advice.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether patients in Scotland suitable for transcatheter aortic valve implantation have been referred to centres in England to undergo the procedure.
Answer
Yes. NHS boards in Scotland, through individual patient treatment requests panels, have referred patients with severe aortic stenosis to centres in England for transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been referred to centres in England to undergo a transcatheter aortic valve implantation, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not available centrally in the format requested.
The UK Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Registry shows that, in 2009, 12 people were referred by NHS boards to a centre in England for transcatheter aortic valve implantation TAVI.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to supporting speed awareness courses in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Government has given a commitment in the Road Safety Framework to consider if the introduction of a speed awareness course would be an appropriate contribution to road safety in Scotland. This is a medium term commitment with a timescale of between two and five years from the publication of the framework which was in June 2009.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scots have been offered places on speed awareness courses in England after being caught speeding in England and unable to attend such a course in Scotland in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many speeding offenders have been detected at speeds that fall within the parameters of eligibility for the Speed Awareness Course in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason Scotland is the only part of the United Kingdom that does not offer drivers speed awareness courses as an alternative to prosecution for low-end speeding offences.
Answer
The Scottish Government has given a commitment in its Road Safety Framework to consider if speed awareness courses would be an appropriate contribution to road safety in Scotland. As part of this process it will consider research which has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of such courses. Notwithstanding this, the decision on whether a speed awareness course would be an appropriate means of case disposal would lie with the Lord Advocate.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an itemised breakdown of how its Marketing Unit budget has been spent in each of the last five years.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-38966 on 3 February 2011. 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.
An itemised breakdown of the Marketing Unit budget by topic is shown in the following table.
List of Campaign details
| Campaigns 2009-10 | Campaigns 2008-09 |
| Active Nation Scottish Cup | Ageism |
| Additional Support for Learners | Alcohol |
| Ageism | Care Information Scotland |
| Alcohol | Cashback |
| Big Freeze | Children''s Hearings |
| Breast Feeding | Climate Change Adaption |
| Care Info Scotland | Climate Challenge Fund |
| Cashback | Community Safety Policy |
| Child Internet Safety | Curriculum for Excellence |
| Children''s Hearings | Diffuse Water Pollution |
| Climate Challenge Fund | Domestic Abuse |
| Climate Change | Drugs |
| Community Safety | Early Years Strategy |
| Curriculum for Excellence | Fire (Domestic and Setting) |
| Domestic Abuse | Firearms |
| Drugs | Flu |
| Early Years (Play, Talk and Read) | Greener |
| Firearms | Hand Hygiene |
| Fire Domestic/Setting | Healthy Living |
| Greener | Hepatitis C |
| Hand Hygiene | Homecoming Scottish Cup |
| Hepatitis C | Home Report |
| Home Report | Mutual NHS |
| JP Recruitment | National Care Standards |
| National Care Standards | Organ Donation |
| Omnibus Survey (New Year Behaviours) | Prescription Charges |
| Organ Donation | Protection Vulnerable Groups |
| Prescription Charges | Race |
| Protection of Vulnerable Groups | Road Safety |
| Race | Science (Choose Life) |
| Road Safety | Sex Offenders |
| Science | Sexual Health |
| Sexual Health | Stakeholder Audit |
| Take Life On | Take Life On |
| Wellbeing | Teacher Recruitment |
| World Skills | Wellbeing |
| Zero Waste | World Skills |
| | Youth Health Project |
| | Zero Waste |
| Campaigns 2007-08 | Campaigns 2006-07 | Campaigns 2005-06 |
| Additional Support for Learning | Air Discount Scheme | Alcohol |
| Ageism | Alcohol | Antisocial behaviour (standing up to) |
| Alcohol | Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) | Career opportunites within NHSScotland for the 25+ |
| Better Health Better Care | Career Opportunities within NHS | Children''s Hearings |
| Broadband | Children''s Hearing | Domestic Abuse |
| Career Opportunities | Choices for Life | Drug Misuse - Know the Score |
| Cash Back | Domestic Abuse | Environment |
| Child Protection Line | Drugs misuse | Fire Safety Domestic (Don''t Give Fire a Home) |
| Children''s Hearing''s | Fire Safety (Domestic) | Flu/pneumococcal (integrated) |
| Domestic Abuse | Fire Safety (Legislation) | Healthy Living |
| Drugs | Flu | Mental Health |
| Fire | Hepatitis C | Organ Donation |
| Flu / pnuemococcal | Healthy Living | Race: One Scotland Many Cultures |
| Greener | Lay Justice Appointments | Smoking |
| Healthy Living | Mental Health | Road Safety |
| Hepatitis C | Older Persons Consultation | Teacher Recruitment |
| Knife Crime | Organ Donation | Violence against Public Sector Workers |
| Licensing Act (2005) | Race | Volunteering |
| National Care Standards | Road Safety | |
| Organ Donation | Salmon Parasite | |
| Older Persons Help Line | Single Transferable Vote | |
| Prescription Charges | Smoking | |
| Race | Social Care | |
| Road Safety | Sustainable Development (environment) | |
| Scottish Science Strengths | Teacher Recruitment | |
| Street Prostitution | Violence Against Public Sector Workers | |
| Teacher Recruitment | Volunteering | |
| Violence | | |
| Vote Scotland | | |
| Well Being (previously Mental Health) | | |
| World Skills Competition Funding | | |
