Linda Fabiani

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Hamilton South constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Hamilton North and Bellshill constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Falkirk West constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Falkirk East constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the East Kilbride constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Coatbridge and Chryston constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

23 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Airdrie and Shotts constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

12 Oct 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive (a) what organisations which do not provide clinical services it funds to provide sexual health advice and (b) what level of funding each organisation has received in each of the past three years.

Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: Details of funding to such organisations are set out in the table.<P><TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=423><TR><TD WIDTH="44%" VALIGN="TOP" ROWSPAN=2><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2><P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Organisation</FONT></TD><TD WIDTH="56%" VALIGN="TO…

27 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive why the performance specification section of the motorway and trunk roads maintenance tender documentation cannot be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (SPICe); whether it will place in SPICe a copy of the performance specification and key performance indicators which it requires…

Answer · Sarah Boyack: Some of the tender documentation is specific to the operators submitting bids, and therefore is commercially confidential. However, I have now placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre the part of the specification which does not contain contract specific i…

24 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Housing Improvement Task Force is the only group looking at the issue of sellers' surveys and, if not, whether it will give details of any other such groups, including their remit, membership and meetings held to date, and details of when the task force and any other groups ar…

Answer · Jackie Baillie: The remit of the Housing Improvement Task Force includes consideration of the likely effect of providing better information about the condition of the property as part of the house purchase process, taking account of proposals for sellers surveys and sellers …

24 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail all secondary legislation provided for under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 and the timetable for such legislation coming into force.

Answer · Jackie Baillie: The powers to make secondary legislation under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 are summarised in the Memorandum submitted to the Subordinate Legislation Committee at the time of the introduction of the Bill into Parliament on 18 December 2000 and the suppleme…

21 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the second supplementary question to question S1O-3689 by Mr Jim Wallace on 6 September 2001, what action it will take in relation to any leaflets distributed by Scottish Natural Heritage which are based on the provisions of the draft Land Reform (Scotland) Bill …

Answer · Jim Wallace: Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), produces a wide range of publications relating to natural heritage and to outdoor recreation. Editorial responsibility for these publications rests with SNH. However, where any reference is included to Executive policy, SNH wo…

21 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16469 by Jackie Baillie on 24 August 2001, what provisions are likely to require to be made in secondary legislation in order to protect any existing entitlement to the right to buy on the part of tenants whose houses are transferred to a registered …

Answer · Jackie Baillie: Secondary legislation will be required based on the provisions of section 11 of Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, to ensure that all tenants with secure tenancies or with assured tenancies with a preserved right to buy, before the introduction of the Scottish secu…

21 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15671 by Sarah Boyack on 19 June 2001, whether the statement that the police would initiate a road closure means that it is the police who are responsible for taking the decision to close a section of motorway or trunk road due to a road traffic acci…

Answer · Sarah Boyack: The police, who are normally first at the scene of a road traffic accident, have the power to close a section of motorway or trunk road if they deem there to be a hazard to other road users. They also have a duty to do so in certain circumstances to protect l…

21 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what standards of performance are specified in the contracts for the management and maintenance of motorways and trunk roads in relation to closure of a motorway or trunk road due to a road traffic accident.

Answer · Sarah Boyack: The Scottish Executive contracts with the new trunk road Operating Companies (OCs) contain procedures to address incidents that result in trunk road and motorway closures. <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The contracts require OCs to record all incidents where a trunk road…

21 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria children of asylum seekers and refugees have to meet in order to access pre-school education.

Answer · Jack McConnell: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-18396.

21 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what provision there is for pre-school education of children of asylum seekers and refugees.

Answer · Jack McConnell: The children of asylum seekers and refugees have, in principle, the same access to pre-school education as other children of pre-school age, resident in a local authority area. In academic year 2001-02, pre-school year children will be eligible for grant-fund…

21 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive who the members of the Housing Improvement Task Force are; what its remit is, and how many times it has met to date.

Answer · Jackie Baillie: The Housing Improvement Task Force is chaired by me and details of the membership and remit are given in the Scottish Executive News Release issued on 14 March (SE 0637/2001). Councillor Sheila Gilmour, Convener of Housing, Edinburgh Council has since joined …

20 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff will be transferred from the employ of Scottish Homes to the executive agency being set up to replace Scottish Homes.

Answer · Jackie Baillie: Around 470 full-time equivalent staff are expected to be transferred to the executive agency being set up to replace Scottish Homes.<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Some Scottish Homes staff will remain with the Scottish Homes Residuary Body.

20 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff are currently employed by Scottish Homes.

Answer · Jackie Baillie: Scottish Homes currently has an establishment of 567 full-time equivalent staff.

20 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff the executive agency being set up to replace Scottish Homes will require.

Answer · Jackie Baillie: The current expectation is that Communities Scotland, the executive agency being set up to replace Scottish Homes, will require around 500 full-time equivalent staff.

20 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff it has had on secondment from other organisations since May 1999; from which organisations these staff were seconded; at whose cost the relevant salaries were paid, and how many of these secondees were given employment by the Executive having left the employment of the orga…

Answer · Angus MacKay: The total number of staff on secondment to the Scottish Executive from other organisations during the period stated is 119. The organisations are as follows:<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Aberdeenshire Council<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Angus Council <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Argyll &am…

20 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff it currently has on secondment from other organisations; from which organisations these staff are seconded, and at whose cost the relevant salaries are paid.

Answer · Angus MacKay: The total number of staff currently on secondment to the Scottish Executive from other organisations is 66. The seconding organisations are as follows:<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Aberdeenshire Council<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Angus Council<P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Argyll and Bute C…

20 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17548 by Angus MacKay on 6 September 2001, how many of the staff on secondment from it to other organisations at any time in the period from May 1999 to date have been taken into the employment of the receiving organisation and have left the employme…

Answer · Angus MacKay: During the period May 1999 to date, five seconded staff have been taken into the employment of the receiving organisation and have left the employment of the Scottish Executive.

20 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17547 by Angus MacKay on 6 September 2001, how many of the staff on loan from it to other organisations at any time in the period from May 1999 to date have been taken into the employment of the receiving organisation and have left the employment of …

Answer · Angus MacKay: The number of staff on loan to other organisations from May 1999 to date who have left the employment of the Scottish Executive to take up permanent employment with the receiving organisation is six.

7 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17548 by Angus MacKay on 6 September 2001, which organisations the 126 staff who were on secondment during the period May 1999 to July 2001, and whose salary costs the receiving organisation met, were on secondment to.

Answer · Angus MacKay: Further to the answer provided to question S1W-17548, I can confirm that the organisations of the 126 staff on secondment during the period May 1999 to July 2001 whose salary costs were met by the receiving organisation are as follows:<P>Audit Scotland<P>Cair…

7 Sep 2001 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17548 by Angus MacKay on 6 September 2001, which organisations the 27 staff who were on secondment during the period May 1999 to July 2001, and whose salary costs it met, were on secondment to.

Answer · Angus MacKay: The organisations of the staff on secondment during the period May 1999 to July2001, whose salary costs were met by the Scottish Executive, are as follows:<P>Community Learning Scotland<P>COSLA<P>Fair Play Scotland<P>Glasgow Employer Coalition<P>Lloyds TSB Fo…