- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19287 by Tavish Scott on 28 September 2005, what emerging conclusions from the lessons learned report have been communicated to either the promoters of the Waverley Railway (Scotland) Bill or to the Parliament and on what dates.
Answer
All relevant emergingconclusions from the draft lessons learnt report have been discussed with thepromoters of the Waverley Railway (Scotland) Bill during the development of the project over thepast six months.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2006
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 14 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reported cost overruns on the electronic patient record project in England and Wales will have any impact on the costs, timescale or feasibility of the single patient record proposed in the Executive’s eHealth strategy.
Answer
There is only one major contractfor electronic patient record-related IT services which we have in common with NHSEngland – telecommunications from BT – and on our contract there have been no delays,cost overruns or other negative impacts to date or expected. We do not expect progresson the actual electronic patient record IT systems which will deliver our ElectronicHealth Record to be adversely impacted by developments in other parts of the United Kingdom.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24460 by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 April 2006, what action it will take to increase the uptake of Rural Home Ownership Grant in Dumfries and Galloway.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
Communities Scotland istaking the following steps to increase the uptake of Rural Home OwnershipGrants (RHOGs) in Dumfries and Galloway:
We have been working with Dumfries andGalloway Council to jointly commission housing market analysis in the ruralareas of Dumfries, and this will identify priority areas for targetingour affordable housing programme including the use of RHOGs.
We are in discussion withthe local Shelter Rural Housing Project about appropriate mechanisms foraddressing housing need, and subsequent to a recent seminar we are now dealingwith an increased volume of enquiries about RHOGs and Rural Empty PropertyGrants.
We intend shortly to holddiscussions with local housing associations and with a new Small CommunitiesHousing Trust being formed in the area, about their potential role in handlingRHOG applications, similar to arrangements in Highlands.
We will continue topublicise RHOGs through distribution of our brochures which explain the scheme.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Answered by Tavish Scott on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-25705 by Tavish Scott on 18 May 2006, when the Strategic Transport Projects Review will be completed.
Answer
Transport Scotland iscurrently in the process of appointing aconsultant to carry out the detailed technical analysis and transportappraisals required as part of the Strategic Transport Projects Review. Thefinal report is planned for submission in the summer of 2008.
Transport Scotland hasthe operational responsibility for this area, and can be contacted for moreinformation if required.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2006
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any element of the projected £30 million overspend in Scottish Enterprise’s Budget for 2005-06 arose due to factors other than the “deliberate strategy to encourage new project proposals in each local enterprise area” and the “identification of a growing number of projects of national significance” referred to by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning on 30 March 2006 (Official Report c. 24611) and, if so, what these factors were and how much of the overspend each factor accounted for.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-24922 on 1 June 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the projected £30 million overspend in Scottish Enterprise’s budget for 2005-06 related to the “identification of a growing number of projects of national significance”, referred to by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning on 30 March 2006 (Official Report c. 24611).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-24922 on 1 June 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24926 by Nicol Stephen on 4 May 2006, how many matters of concern it raised with Scottish Enterprise in 2005-06 and what those matters were.
Answer
In 2005-06 the Executivereceived two reports from Scottish Enterprise detailing overall performanceagainst objectives. The first report was for the year end 2004-05 and thesecond report covered the period April to September 2005. These reports are notconcerned with financial performance. For these particular reports, no mattersof concern against achievement of objectives were raised.
The year end report for 2004-05is reproduced on pages 38-39 of the Scottish Enterprise annual report for2004-05, which is available at:
http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/publications/scottish-enterprise-annual-report-2004-05.pdf.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2006
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 8 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any increases in cost which would require funding additional to that shown for eHealth in table 5.03 of its Draft Budget 2006-07 in order to meet the original objectives in the stated timescale.
Answer
The Scottish Executive isnot aware of any such increases in costs. The objectives which these budgetsunderpin are as set out for eHealth in Delivering for Health.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the first supplementary question to question S2O-9833 by Lewis Macdonald on 18 May 2006 (Official Report, c. 25824), when a detailed assessment of progress against each milestone, target and impact set out in An Action Plan for Improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland will be published.
Answer
I have placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre an assessment of progress against milestones andtargets for the first year (2005-06) set out in An Action Plan for ImprovingOral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services, 2005-2008 (Bib. number39730).
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the statement by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning on 30 March 2006 that Scottish Enterprise will continue to invest over £500 million per year in Scotland's economic future (Official Report c. 24609) mean Scottish Enterprise's annual budget will be fixed at that level or above, whatever the outcome of further discussions between it and the Executive in respect of the 2006-07 budget position.
Answer
I wrote to Sir John Ward on11 May confirming that Scottish Enterprise’s resource budget for 2006-07 willbe £550 million. A copy of this letter has been placed in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number. 39557).
