This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The same information for the years 2000; 2002; 2003; 2004, and 2005 are also available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre the Bib. numbers are in the following table. The information for the year 1999 is available for Scotland as a whole only, and can be found in the 2000 bulletin.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 December 2008
At its annual review on 23 September 2008, the Scottish Health Council identified the following approaches it is taking to ensure that patients, carers and the public are able to make their views on health services known: Support the development of Public Partnership Forums; Support boards to develop mechanisms that will help them to hear the views of se...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 December 2008
Scottish ministers have asked the reporter to consider the following issues: The relationship of the development to Scottish Planning Policy 6 in relation to the proximity of the proposed wind farm to existing dwelling houses; The relationship of the development to the provisions of the Caithness Local Plan in relation to areas with a presumption against ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what factors explain an increase in the number of referrals to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration in the south of Scotland and elsewhere. The following table shows those local authority areas which saw an increase in the number of children referred between 2006-07 and 2007-08: Local Authority Area ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how local authorities will be incentivised to deliver the waste management targets in single outcome agreements. Following the completion of the Strategic Spending Review and the signing of the concordat with local government, the Scottish Government provided local authorities with record levels of funding over the period of t...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 November 2008
A list of the (a) 13 consented renewable energy projects in the north of Scotland awaiting connection to the grid and (b) dates on which consents were granted, are given in the following table. (a) Renewable Energy Project Capacity (MW) (b) Date of Consent A''Chruach, 50 Ma...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all occasions when a Government Car Service car has driven the First Minister or any other member of the Cabinet to or from the Glenrothes UK parliamentary constituency. The following table covers all journeys arranged and driven by the Government Car Service to and from the Glenrothes UK Parliamentary con...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 November 2008
The schools and health projects which have reached contract signature using PPP/NPD structures since May 2007 are provided in the following tables: Schools Projects where Contract Signature has Been Approved Since May 2007 Project Date Falkirk Schools NPD May 2007 East Dunbartonshire Schools PPP ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 November 2008
Fourteen local authorities, in their role as event owners/organisers, bid for and are receiving funds from the £3 million Homecoming programme budget. The following local authorities are in direct receipt of funding to support specific event activity: Local Authority/Applicant Funds Direct to LAs % of total Programm...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 November 2008
There have therefore been increases and decreases within the decade in question, as the following table shows: Year Area of Cereals Treated with Insecticides (ha) Amount of Insecticides (kg) 1996 64,501 7,330 1998 81,448 10,583 2000 71,...