- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Friday, 24 October 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 19 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a cap, based on geographical area, on the number of central heating installations under the central heating programme.
Answer
There is no cap based on geographical area.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 18 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-17299 and S3W-17300 by Stewart Maxwell on 6 November 2008, when the statutory guidance and regulations for local councils will be placed before the Parliament.
Answer
The Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (Scheme of Assistance) Regulations 2008 were considered by the Local Government and Communities Committee on 12 November 2008, which recommended to the Parliament that they be approved. Draft statutory guidance accompanying the draft regulations was the subject of a 12-week consultation process between April and July 2008. I expect the guidance to be finalised, in the light of the Parliament''s consideration of the regulations, early in 2009. The guidance does not require to be considered by the Parliament, but will be made available to members through the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. (Bib. number 46960).
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Friday, 24 October 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance is available to allow housing associations to access the £100 million to be brought forward under the Affordable Housing Investment Programme if their local authority is unable to match fund by 40%.
Answer
There is no requirement for match funding from individual local authorities to be available to allow housing associations to access the accelerated £100 million funding.
I refer the member to the answers to questions S3W-15759 on 16 September, S3W-16452 on 26 September and S3W-17424 on 11 November 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that patients’ clinical needs are not comprised as a consequence of the proposal to utilise routinely only one paramedic on air ambulance night-time flights, particularly on long flights required in some parts of the Highlands and Islands.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17784 on 17 November 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what clinical factors were taken into account when considering the proposal to utilise routinely only one paramedic on air ambulance night-time flights.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17784 on 17 November 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: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial savings it expects the Scottish Ambulance Service to make as a consequence of the proposal to utilise routinely only one paramedic on air ambulance night-time flights.
Answer
Decisions taken about the crewing arrangements for the air ambulance service are operational ones for the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS). As such, the information sought is a matter for them and is not held centrally.
The SAS have provided the Scottish Government with an assurance that every air ambulance mission is evaluated to ensure no adverse effects and all mission performance is monitored on an on-going basis. This issue was most recently discussed at public annual review of the SAS on 24 September 2008.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the result was of any consultation with the farming industry to assess the potential impact on Scottish farmers, in terms of cost of reduced exports, of undertaking a compulsory bluetongue vaccination scheme.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17468 on 14 November 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial factors were taken into account when considering the proposal to utilise routinely only one paramedic on air ambulance night-time flights.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17784 on 17 November 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that safety, both in-flight and on the ground, is not compromised as a consequence of the proposal to utilise routinely only one paramedic on air ambulance night-time flights.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17784 on 17 November 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how long the Bull Hire Scheme operated by the Crofters Commission has been in existence.
Answer
Cattle improvement measures have been available since the end of the 19th century, operated under powers provided by the Congested Districts (Scotland) Act 1897. Records from that time are not readily available, though information may be held in the public archives. The Crofters Commission took over management of the Bull Hire Scheme and stud farm at Inverness on 1 April 1996.
The purpose of the existing scheme has been defined as: Through support for livestock improvement measures, to retain livestock in these remote areas in order to maintain and enhance the environmental benefits associated with undertaking grazing by cattle on natural pastures as well as to promote collaborative working in crofting communities; thereby helping to maintain population in these remote areas.
