- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 25 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what lessons have been learned from the electronic tagging of young offenders scheme in England.
Answer
A report prepared for the Home Office into pilot schemes for electronic monitoring of young offenders under 16 is available at
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/occ-tagging.pdf, as well as from the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 28276). The consultation paper
Putting our communities first considers how best to introduce electronic monitoring as an additional disposal for children's hearings in specific circumstances.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 23 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how children's organisations will be consulted on proposals to electronically tag young offenders.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has already sent copies of the consultation document Putting Our Communities First: A Strategy for Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour (Bib. number 28038), which includes proposals to electronically tag young offenders, to a wide range of children's organisations inviting written comments. We also held informal discussions with various children's organisations prior to the publication of the consultation paper, and we will have further discussions with a range of stakeholders, including children's organisations, in the course of the consultation period.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to support the Glasgow Harbour Development in light of the liquidation of Scotdem Demolition Ltd.
Answer
The Executive has no involvement in this project.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how quality bus contracts will protect bus services for communities located on non-profitable bus routes.
Answer
Quality contracts are part of the "toolkit" of options provided in the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 to allow local authorities to enhance the provision of bus services. Under a quality contract, a local transport authority can determine what bus services are provided in the area covered by the contract, the standards to which they are provided (including frequencies and fares) and additional facilities or services to be provided, for example bus shelters.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to address the increase in violent crime caused by binge drinking in light of comments made by the Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2O-280 on 26 June 2003 which is available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/sch/search.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of mothers giving birth are in need of immediate acute care.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of babies are in need of immediate paediatric care when born.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-109 by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 June 2003, how many maternity hospitals meet the Expert Group on Acute Maternity Services' recommendations that consultant-led maternity units dealing with low- to medium-risk pregnancies should have on-site paediatric facilities and that tertiary referral centres dealing with more than 3,000 deliveries per annum should have access to neonatal surgery.
Answer
Consultant-led maternity units dealing with low- to medium-risk pregnancies and labour are described, within A Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland, as providing level IIb intrapartum care. There are three consultant-led units providing IIb care and all have access to on-site paediatric facilities. All four tertiary referral centres in Scotland have access to neonatal surgery.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 20 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-190 by Nicol Stephen on 3 June 2003, what plans there are to introduce statutory obligations on bus operators to plan bus routes to serve key public services.
Answer
None. Bus operators plan routes to key public services according to their commercial judgement. The statutory obligation to secure the provision of any additional services to meet public transport requirements for socially necessary services rests with local transport authorities.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what its proposals are to curb neighbourhood noise.
Answer
The Scottish Executive believes there is a need to tackle the issue of neighbourhood noise. In that light, the Executive intends to issue a formal consultation before the 2003 summer recess on its proposed Anti-Social Behaviour Bill, which will include proposals to curb neighbourhood noise.
