- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the working group examining the removal of Trident from the Clyde will report.
Answer
As set out in its remit, the working group will report regularly to ministers. It will do so via the Minister for Parliamentary Business, who chairs the group.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the members of the working group examining the removal of Trident from the Clyde.
Answer
The list of members of the Working Group on Scotland without Nuclear Weapons is available on the Scottish Government website at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/swnw-working-group/membership.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning applications currently under consideration by ministers or determined by ministers since June 2007 involve developers who it is aware have made a political donation to the SNP in the preceding 36 months.
Answer
This information is not held.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning applications have been publicly supported by ministers since June 2007, what those planning applications consisted of and the support provided, and whether it has any information on any of the applicants having made a political donation to the SNP in the preceding 36 months.
Answer
This information is not held.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the work programme of the working group examining the removal of Trident from the Clyde.
Answer
The work programme of the Working Group on Scotland without Nuclear Weapons will be published on the Scottish Government website once finalised, and within three months of the first meeting.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration has been given to the impact that the removal of Trident from the Clyde will have on jobs and the economy in the surrounding areas.
Answer
The Scottish Government asked the Working Group on Scotland Without Nuclear Weapons, as part of its remit:
In the event of a decision to remove nuclear weapons from HM Naval Base Clyde, to examine the economic impact and to identify options for the development of alternative employment opportunities.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers consider it their role to expedite planning applications under active consideration by planning authorities and independent statutory consultees to the planning process and, if so, what criteria they use to assess which applications to assist.
Answer
Scottish Government ministers at all times discharge their planning functions fairly and responsibly, having regard to all relevant planning legislation and the Scottish Ministerial Code.
Paragraphs 6.7 “ 6.12 of the code are particularly relevant to the handling of a planning application. The code is available on the Scottish Government website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/08/17996/25267
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executivewhat guidance is available to people with learning disabilities to help them to opt out of the local authority tendering process for community care services and seek a direct payment to purchase their own services instead.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-11705 on 23 April 2008. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what rights people with learning disabilities have to opt out of the local authority tendering process for community care services and request a direct payment to purchase their own services instead.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-11705 on 23 April 2008. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether people with learning disabilities are able to opt out of the local authority tendering process for community care services and request a direct payment to purchase their own services instead.
Answer
Since June 2003, every Scottish local authority has had a duty to offer people with learning disabilities and other disabled and elderly people who meet local authority eligibility criteria for community care, the opportunity to receive self-directed support (direct payments). They can receive the practical help that they need to enable them to manage the care package day-to-day. The flexibility achieved is such that those with complex needs can also have self-directed support using the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 to safeguard their interests. The Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability has produced An easy guide to direct payments (2005) for people with learning disabilities which is available at
http://www.scld.org.uk/library-publications/scld-publications.xhtml.
