- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 29 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-18839 and S1W-18840 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 1 November 2001, what action it is taking to assist the Scottish Further Education Funding Council to ensure that individual further education colleges in financial difficulty can secure long-term financial viability.
Answer
In October this year I made available an additional £7 million to the Scottish Further Education Funding Council, to be used to support colleges which have shown a determination to take the necessary action to secure their long-term financial viability. Allocation of the £7 million to individual further education colleges is a matter for the council.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18669 by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 October 2001, when it will announce arrangements for publishing the report on chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and when will it publish its response to that report.
Answer
It will be for the Chief Medical Officer in England to announce arrangements for publication of the report. The Executive will then decide whether to adopt or adapt its good practice guidelines.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2001
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Answered by Iain Gray on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in the consultation on Protecting Our Rights: A Human Rights Commission for Scotland and when it expects to be able to inform the Parliament of the outcome of the consultation process.
Answer
I am currently considering the outcome of the consultation exercise and options for the way forward. I will be discussing the issues with my ministerial colleagues, and intend to make an announcement around the end of the year.An analysis of the responses to the consultation exercise will be published on the Executive website shortly.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 November 2001
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Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18922 by Susan Deacon on 23 October 2001, what plans it has to target the promotion of better dental care specifically at 12-year-olds.
Answer
The Scottish Executive have no specific plans to target 12-year-olds with health promotion programmes beyond those already offered in health services throughout Scotland. 76% of children in this age group in Glasgow are registered with a general dental practitioner. Through targeting younger children from six years of age onwards and making payments to dentists for preventive treatments will reduce dental disease in 12-year-olds considerably. Research would suggest that programmes such as the enhanced capitation and preventive scheme recently introduced into NHS dental services this year, could reduce dental disease in 12-year-olds by up to 50%.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2001
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Answered by Jackie Baillie on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18237 by Jackie Baillie on 8 October 2001, how many local authority and housing association tenants in the Glasgow Kelvin constituency will qualify for the central heating and insulation installation.
Answer
The information contained in the reply to question S1W-18237 on 8 October 2001 cannot be shown on a constituency basis.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16820 by Susan Deacon on 26 October 2001, whether a timetable has been set for the Scottish Ambulance Service to develop a business case including proposals for the implementation of priority-based dispatch.
Answer
I understand from the Scottish Ambulance Service that the board is scheduled to consider the full business case for priority-based dispatch at the beginning of 2002. The Executive expects to receive the full business case following that meeting, and will reach a final decision as soon as possible thereafter.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 November 2001
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Answered by Jackie Baillie on 20 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19123 by Jackie Baillie on 26 October 2001, what methodology is used in one-night street counts of people sleeping rough in Glasgow.
Answer
The current approach to the monitoring of the RSI target is detailed in my reply to question S1W-18044 on 11 September 2001. Full details of the methodology being employed are contained in the report referred to in that reply, which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 15838).The gender and age breakdown of the people found to be sleeping rough is also provided in that report at an all Scotland level. The second set of quantitative data was collected in October and the next report will include a breakdown by gender and age at local authority level for both the May and October exercises.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 20 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19123 by Jackie Baillie on 26 October 2001, what the gender and age breakdown was of people sleeping rough in the one-night street counts in Glasgow in each year from 1997 to date.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-19708.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 November 2001
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Answered by Jackie Baillie on 19 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17971 by Jackie Baillie on 1 October 2001, how the #0.5 million funding to boost college provision specifically for asylum seekers will be spent, broken down by individual colleges, over the current financial year and over future financial years.
Answer
Allocations to individual colleges, for the current and future financial years, will be made by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council.The additional resources are intended to cover the cost of waiving course fees, providing essential books and assisting asylum seekers with the costs of travelling to college.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 November 2001
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 15 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-3935 by Mr Alasdair Morrison on 25 October 2001, whether the system of additional support to students currently arranged through access and hardship funds can be simplified and brought within the new arrangements for student financial support.
Answer
Hardship funds, formerly known as access funds, are an integral part of the new support arrangements for further and higher education students. These funds are administered by individual colleges and universities under guidance provided by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland.
