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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.

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Question reference: S1W-26204

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 June 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what further targets have been set in respect of reducing waiting times at North Glasgow and Yorkhill NHS Trusts.

The national waiting time standards for NHSScotland are set out in Our National Health which was published in December 2000. It includes a commitment to reduce the national maximum waiting time for in-patient/day case treatment to nine months, from the current 12 months by 2003, as well as a number of specific waiting times standards for coronary heart disease and cancer. The National Waiting Times Unit is currently undertaking a programme of visits to all mainland NHS boards and trusts for discussions with senior management about their plans for ensuring delivery of national waiting times standards, and on the development of local standards which will tackle the longest waits for out-patient appointments and diagnostic tests.

Question reference: S1W-26217

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 5 June 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, how many overseas students, other than asylum seekers and refugees, undertake English language courses and what further information is available on such students in regard to (a) how many studied (i) part-time and (ii) full-time, (b) their country of origin, (c) their length of stay, (d) how many progressed to further education and higher education courses, (e) how many are also in part-time employment and what the nature of that employment is and (f) an estimate of their contribution to the economy through course fees, accommodation costs, living expenses and leisure pursuits, in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S1W-25868

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Elaine Murray on 28 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what role the contemporary music industry will play in its recently announced cultural co-ordinators programme.

The schools cultural co-ordinators pilot programme will seek to maximise the contribution to children and young people's education of the full range of arts and cultural activities. The pilot programme will allow the local authorities participating to determine the ways in which this is done, reflecting local circumstance. Contemporary music has a special ability to engage and enthuse the young and I expect it to play an important part in the pilot activities.

Question reference: S1W-24804

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 22 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what financial incentives and support will be made available to private house owners to assist with repairs in the light of Issues in Improving Quality in Private Houses: The first report of the Housing Improvement Task Force.

Improving Quality in Private Housing set out the views of the Housing Improvement Task Force on the main strengths and weaknesses in the way private houses are maintained and repaired as well as the house buying and selling process. It makes no recommendations for action at this stage and is intended to provide the basis for stage two of the task force's work which will look at future policy options including what, if any, changes should be made to the housing improvement and repair grant system and other possible ways of supporting and encouraging owners to maintain their homes.

Question reference: S1W-24806

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 22 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what timescale has been set for its stage two proposals referred to in Issues in Improving Quality in Private Houses: The first report of the Housing Improvement Task Force.

Question reference: S1W-24808

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 21 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-23664 and S1W-23665 by Ms Margaret Curran on 18 March 2002, what information is required on planning application forms relating to the address and location of the site of the planning proposal.

The statutory requirement in this regard is set out in The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992, which requires that "the application shall be accompanied by a plan sufficient to identify the land to which it relates...". In addition, Planning Advice Note (PAN) 48: Planning Application Forms provides advice on best practice on the content and layout of local authority application forms. The guidance notes on model forms contained in PAN 48 suggest that information about the address or location of the proposed development should include the postcode where possible.Copies of PAN 48 can be ordered on: Tel. 0131 244 7066 or viewed on the advice section of the Executive's Planning internet site at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/planning.

Question reference: S1W-26050

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mike Watson on 21 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken on its National Cultural Strategy commitment to work with Glasgow City Council to examine the circumstances of museums and galleries in the city.

The National Cultural Strategy recognised the particular position of Glasgow and committed the Executive to work with Glasgow City Council to examine the circumstances of the museums and galleries in the city. Ministers have had a series of meetings with Glasgow City Council to hear their plans for development of the city's museums and galleries and I am pleased to say that the Executive has now awarded one-off funding of £1 million to the Kelvingrove Refurbishment Appeal Trust and £2 million towards Glasgow's Museums and Galleries Service towards realising its full educational and tourism potential.

Question reference: S1W-24809

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-23664 and S1W-23665 by Ms Margaret Curran on 18 March 2002, what access planning authority officials have to the Scottish Parliament website MSP list and postcode search facility.

Question reference: S1W-24807

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-23664 and S1W-23665 by Ms Margaret Curran on 18 March 2002, whether it will give a breakdown by planning authority area of the 830 planning applications that have been referred to Scottish Ministers since May 1999.

The breakdown by planning authority area of the 830 planning applications referred to the Scottish ministers since May 1999 is as follows: Cases Notified to the Scottish Ministers since May 1999 by Council

Council	1 May 1999 - 28 Feb 2002
Aberdeen City	12
Aberdeenshire	39
Angus	21
Argyll and Bute	26
City of Edinburgh	56
City of Glasgow	98
Clackmannanshire	7
Dumfries and Galloway	18
Dundee City	14
East Ayrshire	14
East Dunbartonshire	14
East Lothian	21
East Renfrewshire	22
Falkirk	15
Fife	41
Highland	49
Inverclyde	9
Midlothian	42
Moray	26
North Ayrshire	16
North Lanarkshire	63
Orkney	8
Perth and Kinross	12
Renfrewshire	21
Scottish Borders	14
Shetland Isles	15
South Ayrshire	20
South Lanarkshire	32
Stirling	16
West Dunbartonshire	6
West Lothian	59
Western Isles	4
Total	830

Question reference: S1W-24810

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-23664 and S1W-23665 by Ms Margaret Curran on 18 March 2002, what resource implications prevent planning authority officials from informing MSPs representing constituencies contained within a planning authority area that a planning application from within that area has been referred to Scottish Ministers.