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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S1W-29354

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive why the health indicators for target 3 of the social justice section of its 2003-06 spending proposals do not include teenage pregnancies among 13- to 15-year-olds in line with milestone 11 of the Social Justice Annual Report Scotland 2001 - A Scotland where everyone matters

Question reference: S1W-29346

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether stock transfer is the only way to deliver warm, damp-free and structurally sound homes.

Question reference: S1W-29347

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what spending commitments in its 2003-06 spending proposals will assist in meeting the jobs indicators of target 3 of the social justice section of its proposals.

Spending on a wide range of Executive programmes will impact on the jobs indicators of target 3 of the social justice section of Building a Better Scotland. Some of the Executive's spending plans will have a direct effect. For example, we will spend an additional £20 million from 2004 to help people in deprived communities through child care. Other spending plans will have a less direct, but nevertheless important effect. For example, we will spend an extra £34 million on rolling out the Educational Maintenance Allowances from 2004 to allow young people from less well-off families throughout Scotland to remain in school and in further education.

Question reference: S1W-29356

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive why the health indicators for target 3 of the social justice section of its 2003-06 spending proposals do not include mortality rates from coronary heart disease among older people in line with milestone 22 of the Social Justice Annual Report Scotland 2001 - A Scotland where everyone matters.

Question reference: S1W-29396

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people from deprived areas are currently prevented from entering work because of an absence of child care.

For parents living in deprived areas, the absence of affordable child care is one of the barriers to entering employment. The absence of appropriate skills, ill health, and/or access to places of employment are also impediments to entering work.The Scottish Executive is committed to removing the range of barriers that parents face to entering employment, and I recently announced an additional £20 million over 2004-06 to tackle some of these barriers in deprived areas, including access to child care.

Question reference: S1W-29400

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what form the training announced in its press release SESJ055/2002 will take.

Question reference: S1W-29398

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people will be helped back into work by the provision of #20 million for child care over three years as announced in its press release SESJ055/2002.

Question reference: S1W-29404

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs it will create through the measures announced in its press release SESJ055/2002.

Question reference: S1W-29339

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive why the education indicator for target 3 of the social justice section of its 2003-06 spending proposals does not include the target of every teacher having access to a classroom computer.

Question reference: S1W-29341

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive why the justice indicator for target 3 of the social justice section of its 2003-06 spending proposals is restricted to house-breaking.