- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 21 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 148 responses to Assessing our Schools - Assessing our Children's needs - The Way Forward? stated that the Record of Needs system should be replaced.
Answer
In response to the consultation document Improving our Schools - Assessing our Children's Educational Needs - The Way Forward?, the Scottish Executive received 119 responses which indicated dissatisfaction with the Record of Needs system and a further 21 responses which stated specifically that the Record of Needs should be replaced.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 21 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the existing level of needs matrix set out in the Manual of Good Practice will be revised and distributed to parents and young people in co-ordinated support plans.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30910 on 19 November 2002. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 21 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive under what timescales parents will be able to appeal against a co-ordinated support plan.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30910 on 19 November 2002. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the ministerial statement by the Minister for Environment and Rural Development on 30 October 2002, what assessment it has made of the impact of a ban/limitation on white fish catches should white fish vessels switch to nephrops fishing; what assessment it has made of the impact of the potential increase in nephrops fishing on stocks of nephrops, and what economic data it has on the impact of a loss of nephrops fishing on communities such as Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is currently conducting assessments of all of the implications of the recent scientific advice from International Council for Exploration of the Seas.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the ministerial statement by the Minister for Environment and Rural Development on 30 October 2002, which EU countries still permit industrial fishing; what scientific data is available regarding the effect of industrial fishing on young fish stocks, and what representations it is making at the Council of Ministers in this regard.
Answer
Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands have quota entitlements to fish for industrial species in the North Sea. Various studies have been carried out on the effects of industrial fishing; results tend to vary depending on which industrial fishery is being assessed. The Executive is studying carefully the scientific advice to ensure that the impact of these fisheries is properly taken into account in future decisions on Total Allowable Catches.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 12 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Her Majesty's Government on the impact on the environment of CO2 emissions and, in particular, on publicity given to regulations relating to reductions on vehicle excise duty levied on private vehicles to reflect reduced CO2 emissions, on whether garages selling second-hand vehicles or issuing MOT certificates have been made aware of these regulations and on whether these regulations should apply retrospectively.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues, including emissions of CO2.CO2emissions are widely recognised as the main contributor to climate change. The UK strategy for tackling emissions of greenhouse gases, including CO2, is the UK Climate Change Programme of which the Executive's Scottish Climate Change Programme forms a part. The Executive is working in partnership with the UK Government to deliver greenhouse gas emissions reductions required by the Kyoto Protocol and in moving toward the domestic goal of a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2010. Whilst recent reforms to encourage the use of less polluting vehicles support our environmental objectives, Vehicle Excise Duty is a matter reserved to the UK Government. Any publicity on this is therefore a matter for the Department for Transport.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 12 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visits have been made to the (a) Roxburgh and Berwickshire and (b) Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale parliamentary constituencies by ministers in each year from 1999 to date and how many are planned until the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament, detailing the ministers involved.
Answer
Information on the number of visits made by ministers since 1999 is not held centrally. With respect to future meetings, I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30344 on 22 October 2002. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30079 by Mr Jim Wallace on 16 October 2002, whether it supports the conclusion of the Secure Accommodation Advisory Group that there is no evidence to support the claims of a lack of secure accommodation given that it cannot provide data on the number of 14- to 16-year-olds held in adult prisons and what action it plans to take to compile such data.
Answer
A wide range of information is collected each time a 14- to 16-year-old is held in a penal establishment, as listed in the answer given to question S1W-30452 on 24 October 2002. 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/webapp/search_wa. The only information which cannot meaningfully be supplied is a distinction between young offenders in adult prisons and those in Young Offender Institutions. This is because many young offenders will pass through an adult prison on their way to reception in a Young Offenders Institution or may be transferred to a Young Offenders Institution after reception in an adult prison. As Young Offenders Institutions and adult prisons are all penal establishments in the Scottish Prison Service, this distinction is not relevant to the consideration of the need for secure accommodation.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many parliamentary questions on prison issues are currently awaiting a substantive answer and when each question will receive such an answer.
Answer
There are currently no parliamentary questions on prison issues for which a substantive answer is outstanding.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29261 by Mr Jim Wallace on 14 October 2002, whether it will, as part of the costing of the proposed new 700-place private prison, include costings for all aspects involved in the transportation of remand prisoners to the prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:We do not anticipate that the contract for the new prison will include transport of prisoners, as that will be subject to our separate contractual arrangements for prisoner escorts.
