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Business Bulletin No. 188/2001 |
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Tuesday 18 December 2001 |
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Section E : Written questions lodged on 17 December 2001 |
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S1W-21147 Richard Lochhead: To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of police officers to special police constables was in each quarter since 1 April 1997, both nationally and broken down by police force area. S1W-21148 Richard Lochhead: To ask the Scottish Executive how many special police constables there were per 1,000 of the population in each quarter since 1 April 1997, both nationally and broken down by police force area. S1W-21149 Richard Lochhead: To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to offer salaries or other new payments to special police constables. S1W-21150 Richard Lochhead: To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to change the status or role of special police constables. S1W-21151 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive under what specified climatic conditions Amey Highways and BEAR (Scotland) Ltd are expected to grit trunk roads; what the amount of salt is per square metre with which they are expected to grit trunk roads and how this amount varies under different specified climatic conditions, and how frequently they are expected to grit roads and how this frequency varies under specified climatic conditions. S1W-21152 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive what the role and remit of the Performance Audit Group is in the monitoring of the trunk road maintenance contracts; what its membership is; what its annual budget is, and whether any contractors or consultants have been employed by the group over the past year and, if so, what payments were made to them. S1W-21153 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive what changes have been made to the formula used to determine the grant aided expenditure allocations for (a) roads maintenance and (b) winter roads maintenance following the removal of the maintenance contracts from local authorities. S1W-21154 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of any additional costs to local authorities as a consequence of the privatisation of the trunk road maintenance contracts. S1W-21155 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive what grant aided expenditure allocation was made to each local authority for (a) roads maintenance and (b) winter roads maintenance in each financial year since 1998-99. S1W-21156 Mr Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has issued to local authorities regarding the use of classroom assistants. S1W-21157 Mr Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what qualifications or experience classroom assistants require before entering the classroom environment. S1W-21158 Mr Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any guidance issued to local education authorities regarding the use of a Record of Needs. S1W-21159 Mr Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any guidance issued to educational psychologists regarding the follow-up action after diagnosis of a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the use of a Record of Needs in this situation. S1W-21160 Mr Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive how many educational psychologists have specific training in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, broken down by health board area. S1W-21161 Mr Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive how, and to whom, it promotes the use of Records of Needs. S1W-21162 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what analyses have been made of the volume of unsolicited faxes sent to schools and any problems which they cause. S1W-21163 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government in support of a publicity campaign being conducted to inform people living in poverty, those in debt, pensioners and other vulnerable members of the community of the implications of using premium rate phone calls to respond to unsolicited faxes. S1W-21164 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual estimated cost is to businesses of using premium rate phone calls to respond to unsolicited faxes. S1W-21165 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Her Majesty's Government to ensure that it is consulted over those issues that fall within its responsibility which are being considered by the European Parliament related to the sending of unsolicited faxes. S1W-21166 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what analysis it has made of the volume of unsolicited faxes which it and non-departmental public bodies receive; how many times officials have responded to the premium rate phone numbers in such faxes, and what the estimated cost of this has been. S1W-21167 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned into the costs to it of unsolicited faxes. S1W-21168 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring it carries out into the volume of unsolicited faxes it and its non-departmental public bodies receive and any associated costs incurred. S1W-21169 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to set standards for local authority websites as part of its modernising government agenda. S1W-21170 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to link general practitioners in urban regeneration areas to the new broadband technology. S1W-21171 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to link schools in urban regeneration areas to the new broadband technology. S1W-21172 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to identify those voluntary sector partners in urban regeneration areas who wish to access cable and satellite broadband technology. S1W-21173 Helen Eadie: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to identify the business needs for new broadband technology in Social Inclusion Partnership areas. S1W-21174 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the chairmen and members of the Studentship Advisory Committee of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland were consulted about the recent decision to transfer the agency’s functions to the UK-wide Arts and Humanities Research Board. S1W-21175 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive whether a UK body such as the Arts and Humanities Research Board, based outside Scotland, is in a better position to evaluate applications for research funding into topics relating to Scottish culture than the Studentship Advisory Committee of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland. S1W-21176 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive how many members of the Arts and Humanities Research Board will be required to be experts in the field of Scottish culture and what representations it has made to the board on this issue. S1W-21177 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the assessment of the advice given by the Principals of Scottish universities on the transfer of the functions of the Studentship Advisory Committee of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland to a UK-wide body included an assessment of any consultation carried out by individual Principals and their research staff. S1W-21178 Brian Adam: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it proposes to take in response to the proposed European directive COM (2001) 035 on market access to port services. S1W-21179 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive when it will give a decision on the notified planning application P/PP/75/96/LA/55 referred to it on 16 July 2001 in respect of the sports ground in North Meggetland, Edinburgh. S1W-21180 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the total costs of providing information under the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information have been in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001-02 to date. S1W-21181 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost per hour of retrieving information under the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information has been in respect of each body named in Schedule 1 of the code in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001-02 to date. S1W-21182 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive what bodies that do not fall within the definition of Scottish public authority in section 3(1) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Bill as introduced it intends to designate as Scottish public authorities by order under section 5(1) of the Bill as introduced. S1W-21183 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19197 by Iain Gray on 16 November 2001, what the total cost was to it of the tender process in respect of HM Prison Kilmarnock. S1W-21184 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19196 by Iain Gray on 16 November 2001, what the cost to it has been of the office of the Scottish Prison Service Controller at HM Prison Kilmarnock in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99, (c) 1999-2000, (d) 2000-01 and (e) 2001-02 to date in (i) cash terms and (ii) real terms at current prices. S1W-21185 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many members of staff the Scottish Prison Service Controller at HM Prison Kilmarnock has and what the role is of each S1W-21186 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost to it of ensuring contract compliance at HM Prison Kilmarnock has been in (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99, (d) 1999-2000, (e) 2000-01 and (f) 2001-02 to date in (i) cash terms and (ii) real terms at current prices. S1W-21187 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the contract for the provision of general practitioner services subject to the deletion of matters that are commercially confidential. S1W-21188 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many social workers provided social work services at (i) HM Prison Edinburgh, (ii) HM Young Offenders Institution Glenochil, (iii) HM Young Offenders Institution Dumfries and (iv) HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont in (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000, (c) 2000-01 and (d) 2001-02 and what the ratio of social workers to prisoners has been in each case. S1W-21189 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of social work services in (a) HM Prison Edinburgh, (b) HM Young Offenders Institution Glenochil, (c) HM Young Offenders Institution Dumfries and (d) HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont has been in (i) 1998-99, (ii) 1999-2000, (iii) 2000-01 and (iv) 2001-02 to date in (1) cash terms and (2) real terms at current prices. S1W-21190 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the expected cost of social work services in (a) HM Prison Edinburgh, (b) HM Young Offenders Institution Glenochil, (c) HM Young Offenders Institution Dumfries and (d) HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont is for 2001-02. S1W-21191 Michael Matheson: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20324 by Mr Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001, what outputs are specified in the Medacs contracts with the Scottish Prison Service. S1W-21192 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive what level of subsidy it allocates to Caledonian MacBrayne and what percentage this figure is of Caledonian MacBrayne’s annual turnover. S1W-21193 Janis Hughes: To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the reports and recommendations of the NHS Pay Review Bodies. S1W-21194 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it takes to verify that outline business plans for Public/Private Partnership projects submitted by local authorities have in each case been discussed fully and approved by the members of the local authority. S1W-21195 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it takes to verify that financial information supporting outline business plans for Public/Private Partnership projects submitted by local authorities has in each case been seen and approved by the members of the local authority. S1W-21196 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it takes to ensure that commercial confidentiality issues do not impede full democratic discussion of proposed Public/Private Partnership business plans when they are discussed by local authority members prior to being submitted to the Executive. S1W-21197 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position would be with regard to any plan for a Public/Private Partnership project submitted by a local authority that permitted departments of the authority to bid for part or all of the contract. S1W-21198 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will implement a "winding down" scheme that allows mature teachers to reduce hours whilst continuing to base pensions on the final full-time salary, as outlined in Section 3 of the report A Teaching Profession for the 21st Century. S1W-21199 John Farquhar Munro: To ask the Scottish Executive what document sets out the public comparator for the Skye Bridge bidding process and whether it will place a copy in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. |
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