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Question reference: S1W-09822

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 27 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any representations regarding the impact on small businesses run from home of the standard of postal deliveries in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-07298

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 25 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors whether applications to bodies in relation to which it has responsibility for National Lottery funding are dealt with as quickly as possible.

Question reference: S1W-09783

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of grant can be accessed by students studying for nursing qualifications.

Nursing students on diploma courses are supported by a non-means tested grant. The basic allowances are £5,409 for those over 26 and £4,803 for those under 26. Additional means tested support is provided for students with dependants, and excess placement travel costs are reimbursed.

Support for nursing students on degree courses is by means of a means tested bursary and repayable student loan, subject to eligibility conditions. The bursary and loan each make up about 50% of the total living cost package and the maximum bursary payable is £1,825. An additional allowance for approved travel costs over the first £80 is also available. Where applicable, supplementary allowances of up to £1,000 from the Lone Parents Grant, up to £740 from the Two Homes Grant and an amount from the Dependants' Grant for students with a dependant spouse or children are also available.

Students in receipt of either type of bursary also have their fees paid on their behalf by the Scottish Executive.

Question reference: S1W-09782

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of loan can be accessed by students studying for nursing qualifications.

Question reference: S1O-02277

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 20 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what response it plans to make to the request from Glasgow City Council that it provide funds for the completion of the M74 Northern Extension.

Question reference: S1W-07561

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2000
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 8 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4663 by Mr Sam Galbraith on 31 May 2000, how much money has been awarded by National Lottery distributing bodies annually since its inception prior to 1999, broken down by Parliamentary constituency.

According to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's National Lottery Awards database, the amounts awarded in Scotland by the National Lottery distributing bodies annually from its inception are shown in the table below, broken down by parliamentary constituency:

Constituency	£
Constituency	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	Grand Total
Aberdeen Central	703,390	2,131,088	1,041,625	960,959	702290	5,539,352
Aberdeen North	299,750	261,644	696,720	29,602	2765374	4,053,090
Aberdeen South	13,900	1,025,679	741,713	99,279	35105	1,915,676
Airdrie & Shotts	14,600	367,987	79,373	724,008	452077	1,638,045
Angus	108,715	536,289	55,051	571,830	1072145	2,344,030
Argyll & Bute	1,690,023	1,341,566	1,436,325	615,490	1844954	6,928,358
Ayr	604,532	1,250,033	353,472	483,087	1124609	3,815,733
Banff & Buchan	173,738	469,030	155,317	398,348	380327	1,576,760
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross	462,774	1,667,093	650,513	1,284,536	1514195	5,579,111
Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley	392,158	549,989	152,741	1,984,989	354848	3,434,725
Central Fife	45,314	1,840,570	30,831	148,206	120018	2,184,939
Clyde & Milngavie	140,800	855,448	32,254	136,863	291902	1,457,267
Clydesdale	785,160	2,581,235	799,630	706,086	3508028	8,380,139
Coatbridge & Chryston	7,230	667,528	364,548	309,123	220621	1,569,050
Cumbernauld & Kilsyth	604,543	77,900	174,953	744935	635737	2,238,068
Cunninghame North	777,120	682,310	250,261	1,199,134	777715	3,686,540
Cunninghame South	33,690	5,660,781	111,248	98,942	1157707	7,062,368
Dumbarton	159,125	864,459	562,247	2,553,323	838587	4,977,741
Dumfries	503,710	1,483,783	773,766	2,500,339	1066273	6,327,871
Dundee East	1,720,086	243,711	543,777	15,811	337125	2,860,510
Dundee West	1,053,080	6,360,614	5,679,239	6,227,264	1265905	20,586,102
Dunfermline East	724,350	544,648	125,402	219,332	1713979	3,327,711
Dunfermline West	39,822	214,027	620,691	660,170	514894	2,049,604
East Kilbride	357,763	190,044	4,694,776	303,649	122679	5,668,911
East Lothian	107,000	246,737	121,135	1,005,824	2625797	4,106,493
Eastwood	64,238	228,418	1,322,340	339,258	531887	2,486,141
Edinburgh Central	14,789,114	29,029,848	8,317,583	10,274,106	14724384	77,135,035
Edinburgh East & Musselburgh	2,800,323	9,756,451	1,515,783	1,268,102	2289189	17,629,848
Edinburgh North & Leith	9,695,670	11,428,631	12,988,426	13,960,600	1896534	49,969,861
Edinburgh Pentlands	444,083	782,785	3,891,155	1,173,841	620111	6,911,975
Edinburgh South	304,510	545,260	348,509	2,368,906	622257	4,189,442
Edinburgh West	988,300	909,303	839,310	697,209	944709	4,378,831
Falkirk East	684,500	251,852	25,034	197,864	1498971	2,658,221
Falkirk West	539,292	839,908	38,729	462,010	836148	2,716,087
Galloway & Upper Nithsdale	1,652,778	896,620	580,666	706,419	1018449	4,854,932
Glasgow Anniesland	40,974	1,548,103	469,599	236,426	1401747	3,696,849
Glasgow Baillieston	44,781	535,923	856,209	173,211	238558	1,848,682
Glasgow Cathcart	23,109,130	4,135,568	405,875	955,998	888571	29,495,142
Glasgow Govan	910,630	1,172,341	1,337,310	3,788,508	535081	7,743,870
Glasgow Kelvin	8,381,919	18,676,644	65,222,445	14,121,772	8539153	114,941,933
Glasgow Maryhill	219,964	1,874,635	34,632,644	2,002,925	619418	39,349,586
Glasgow Pollok	35,000	148,342	62,259	2,010,879	133095	2,389,575
Glasgow Rutherglen	874,437	669,635	59,529	175,739	305035	2,084,375
Glasgow Shettleston	507,533	7,991,075	2,044,443	4,015,734	1246628	15,805,413
Glasgow Springburn	5,000	391,123	774,720	1,022,807	392092	2,585,742
Gordon	1,689,274	763,099	778,315	738,984	358996	4,328,668
Greenock & Inverclyde	942,221	349,420	327,642	67,513	1709709	3,396,505
Hamilton North & Bellshill	341,482	397,275	3,564,008	1,179,222	1383809	6,865,796
Hamilton South	114,819	37,773	88,631	673,102	464060	1,378,385
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber	763,711	44,054,297	1,633,319	1,431,551	2663933	50,546,811
Kilmarnock & Loudoun	43,800	489,732	143,388	316,587	2440814	3,434,321
Kirkcaldy	495,840	194,884	103,847	1,029,348	1338164	3,162,083
Linlithgow	188,281	230,306	410,022	929,414	1294317	3,052,340
Livingston	400,989	370,023	346,007	1,472,924	919825	3,509,768
Midlothian	325,250	305,858	4,971,058	1,184,450	1452810	8,239,426
Moray	325,327	823,071	763,860	496,891	2068624	4,477,773
Motherwell & Wishaw	368,260	240,462	206,353	492,456	3212503	4,520,034
North East Fife	1,281,865	4,877,750	492,318	1,305,098	645851	8,602,882
North Tayside	498,802	78,995	1,572,582	10,434,517	1483777	14,068,673
Ochil	539,019	665,921	628,496	750,219	3723950	6,307,605
Orkney & Shetland	3,878,119	1,505,859	1,167,782	1,706,119	1217334	9,475,213
Paisley North	100,950	234,338	59,305	381,015	1953302	2,728,910
Paisley South	91,900	1,332,868	489,405	438,803	906878	3,259,854
Perth	1,491,456	1,487,826	358,557	927,761	1658893	5,924,493
Ross, Skye & Inverness West	1,789,098	3,499,565	2,212,757	1,805,746	1290342	10,597,508
Roxburgh & Berwickshire	644,380	607,497	305,869	166,960	1514240	3,238,946
Stirling	747,700	4,516,452	852,838	4,775,610	1838786	12,731,386
Strathkelvin & Bearsden	242,257	670,652	200,176	535,107	950148	2,598,340
Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale	48,150	588,149	552,314	340,195	2707670	4,236,478
W Aberdeenshire & Kincardine	10,470,593	799,085	865,305	507,446	528987	13,171,416
West Renfrewshire	113,193	793,618	76,461	802,429	2706222	4,491,923
Western Isles	222,990	1,607,872	1,320,009	1,367,440	2374515	6,892,826
Constituency not known	0	125,738	46,954	242,450	5000	420,142
Grand Total	105,774,275	195,575,043	180,517,754	120,432,800	109538367	711,838,239

Question reference: S1W-09052

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 7 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7963 by Susan Deacon on 13 July 2000, what the nature is of the training for the three surgeons in the cardiac transplant unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

All three surgeons have spent periods of training in transplant centres in the past and therefore have some experience of heart transplantation. The purpose of the latest training, tailored to each surgeon's needs, is to provide an update on recent developments in the techniques used in the assessment of patients for surgery, in the surgery itself and in the ongoing post-operative surveillance and immunosuppression treatment which is so critical to the success of transplantation surgery.

In parallel, a number of nursing staff are also attending the Freeman Hospital to undertake refresher or additional training to ensure skills are maintained or enhanced.

Question reference: S1W-09051

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 7 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7963 by Susan Deacon on 13 July 2000, what the nature is of the nurses' training in the cardiac transplant unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Question reference: S1W-09111

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2000
Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 30 August 2000

To ask the Presiding Officer whether the contracts to supply the Scottish Parliament with IT equipment and stationery were put out to competitive tender and, if so, whether best value was a criterion in this process.

Much of the original IT infrastructure for the Parliament was bought through the services of the former Scottish Office Purchase and Supply Division, using a combination of existing contracts and specific competitive exercises. Subsequently, IT equipment has been bought through the Parliament's Procurement Office following procedures set out in the Scottish Parliament's Procurement Policy Manual.

The Policy Manual reflects established Public Procurement Policy which requires that goods and services are secured through competition unless there are convincing reasons to the contrary, and with the primary objective of securing best value for money. The Policy Manual currently requires that any requirement whose value exceeds £600 is subject to competition. Exceptionally goods and services may be procured through non-competitive action in accordance with procedures set out in the Policy Manual which ensure that appropriate approval has been given and that best value for money is still achieved.

Provision of pre-printed stationery incorporating the Scottish Parliament logo is made available through the Printing and Electronic Information Services (PEIS) contract, which was awarded to The Stationery Office after a competition under EC procurement rules, where value for money and delivery of services required were component parts of the contract award.

Question reference: S1W-08441

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 30 June 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what importance it places on proper archiving and records management in public bodies in the delivery of freedom of information policies.