- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18587 by John Swinney on 12 December 2008, how many senior civil servants have registered financial interests on the e-HR self-referral IT facility.
Answer
As of 13 January 2008 five Senior Civil Servants have recorded financial interests on the e-HR self-referral IT facility.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior civil servants there are in the Scottish Government.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-18838 on 14 January 2009. 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: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive which agencies, local authorities or other public bodies had investments in a vehicle under the control of Bernard Madoff and what the total amount was of those investments.
Answer
The Scottish Government, including its executive agencies, do not invest resources outside the public sector. Bodies sponsored by the Scottish Government, essentially non-departmental public bodies, are not permitted to make investments of a speculative nature. Details of investments made by local authorities or other public bodies are not held centrally.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the financial limit is beyond which it considers that the cost for answering a written parliamentary question would be disproportionate.
Answer
The disproportionate cost limit is currently set at £600.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive which of the Scottish Prison Commission’s recommendations it considers to have been implemented.
Answer
The Scottish Government published on 17 December 2008 its plans to deliver a coherent offender management strategy
Protecting Scotland''s Communities: Fair, Fast and Flexible Justice at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/12/16132605/0.
This plan includes the Scottish Government''s response to the work of the Scottish Prisons Commission.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it made and to whom concerning the closure of the Sun Microsystems operation in Linlithgow.
Answer
Sun Microsystems announced that internal manufacturing would be brought to a close at Linlithgow affecting approximately 15% of its Scottish workforce. Officials at Scottish Development International and Scottish Enterprise are now working with senior Sun Management in both Scotland and the USA to mitigate the impact of this decision and offer any assistance that they can.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects to convert the Scottish Futures Trust into a non-departmental body and, if so, when this will take place.
Answer
There are no intentions to change the status of the Scottish Futures Trust.
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-18112 on 3 December 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.
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- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much is owed to the Public Works Loan Board for construction and how much interest is paid to the board.
Answer
Information in respect of Scottish local authorities is not held centrally. The only information held centrally is for Scottish Water. As at 31 March 2008, Scottish Water owed £259.87 million to the Public Works Loan Board and the interest payment due in 2008-09 is estimated at £25 million.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many snow ploughs and gritters are available to keep trunk roads open in the event of severe snow conditions and what change in those numbers there has been since May 2007.
Answer
There are currently 276 snow ploughs and gritters available for winter maintenance of trunk roads, motorways and special roads in Scotland, as against 280 in May 2007. The change in numbers is mainly due to modernisation of the fleet and does not affect service delivery.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been since May 2007 for the discharge of pollution into rivers and how many have been successful.
Answer
Twenty-one prosecutions have been concluded, 20 resulting in convictions.
