- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 9 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish (a) the minute or other document of 10 May from the Scottish Qualifications Authority and (b) the subsequent Scottish Qualifications Authority paper to a committee meeting referred to in the Ministerial Statement by the Minister for Children and Education on 6 September 2000.
Answer
Copies of these documents have been submitted to the Education, Culture and Sport Committee.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 9 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether end-producer testing will be introduced as the sole precondition for allowing scallops to enter the market.
Answer
There are no plans to introduce end-product testing as the sole precondition for allowing scallops to enter the market.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 9 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Food Standards Agency has provided any examples of processing companies who were ordered to recall scallops which were tested following processing.
Answer
There have been no recalls of scallops by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) due to samples failing end product testing. In the event that a commercially processed product fails end-product testing, it is the responsibility of the producer to ensure that products which could pose a danger to public health are not placed on the market. The FSA are not informed of the results.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 5 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans and resources it has put in place to allow (a) local authorities, (b) health boards, (c) police forces, (d) fire brigades, (e) the Scottish Ambulance Service and (f) other government agencies to convert their vehicles to use liquid petroleum gas, in particular those organisations which are ineligible to receive Powershift Scheme funding.
Answer
Spending decisions are for the agencies concerned.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 5 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8302 by Sarah Boyack on 22 August 2000, in respect of which lifeline air routes a public service obligation has been imposed; whether it considers that there are any other routes in respect of which a public service obligation should be imposed, in particular whether the Inverness to London Heathrow should be so designated, and, if so, what representations it has made or intends to make, in particular directly to the European Commission, in respect of each such route.
Answer
The lifeline air routes on which public service obligations have been imposed are as follows:
Glasgow-Campbeltown-Tiree |
Glasgow-Barra |
Stornoway-Benbecula-Barra |
Kirkwall-North Ronaldsay |
Kirkwall-Papa Westray |
Tingwall-Foula |
Tingwall-Papa Stour |
Tingwall-Out Skerries |
Tingwall/Sumburgh-Fair Isle |
It is for local authorities to consider whether public service obligations (PSOs) should be imposed on any air routes and to approach the Scottish Executive with economically and socially necessary cases for new PSOs in accordance with the criteria contained within EC Regulation 2408/92. The Scottish Executive has not made, and has no plans to make, representations to the European Commission in respect of new PSOs on any air routes.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 5 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Scottish public bodies spent on consultancy services in each of the last five years and how much they expect to spend in the current year and the following two years.
Answer
There are a variety of categories of public bodies including Executive, Advisory and Tribunal Non-Departmental Public Bodies, NHS Bodies, state-owned companies and public corporations. They operate at various levels of delegated responsibility, including the way in which they use consultancy services. Information on the use of these services is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations were cancelled in each health board area between: (a) 31 July 2000 and 4 August 2000; (b) 7 August 2000 and 11 August 2000; (c) 14 August 2000 and 18 August 2000; (d) 21 August 2000 and 25 August 2000; (e) 28 August 2000 and 1 September 2000; (f) 4 September 2000 and 8 September 2000; (g) 11 September 2000 and 15 September 2000; (h) 2 August 1999 and 6 August 1999; (i) 2 August 1999 and 6 August 1999; (j) 16 August 1999 and 20 August 1999; (k) 23 August 1999 and 27 August 1999; (l) 30 August 1999 and 3 September 1999; (m) 6 September 1999 and 10 September 1999 and (n) 13 September 1999 and 17 September 1999.
Answer
Information on the total number of operations cancelled by the NHS in Scotland is not available centrally.
Details of cancellations of planned admissions to hospitals are collected centrally and are published annually in Scottish Health Statistics. The latest edition is available in SPICe (Bib. number 6937).
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 4 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the recommendations by the Scottish Council for Development in Industry to Scottish Trade International that the latter set up special groups to consider the e-market place and the Eastern European market place has been accepted.
Answer
Scottish Trade International is already actively addressing e-business in close consultation with Scottish Enterprise's e-commerce team and has undertaken a number of activities in the Eastern European market place. These will also be key areas in the new international strategy which is currently being developed by Scottish Trade International and has involved extensive consultation including with the Scottish Council Development and Industry. The new strategy will be launched early next year and will follow on from the present five-year Export Development Strategy for Scotland launched in 1995.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-emergency ambulance journeys were cancelled in each health board area between: (a) 31 July 2000 and 4 August 2000; (b) 7 August 2000 and 11 August 2000; (c) 14 August 2000 and 18 August 2000; (d) 21 August 2000 and 25 August 2000; (e) 28 August 2000 and 1 September 2000; (f) 4 September 2000 and 8 September 2000; (g) 11 September and 15 September 2000; (h) 2nd August 1999 and 6 August 1999; (i) 9 August 1999 and 13 August 1999; (j) 16 August 1999 and 20 August 1999; (k) 23 August 1999 and 27 August 1999; (l) 30 August 1999 and 3 September 1999; (m) 6 September and 10 September and (n) 13 September and 17 September.
Answer
This information is not held centrally by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 4 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will withdraw the proposal in the Transport (Scotland) Bill which enables a levy on workplace parking to be introduced following recent reports that Edinburgh City Council would not introduce such levies.
Answer
No.
