Parliamentary questions
Brian Fitzpatrick
529 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available for drug-specific treatment services for users resident in the East Dunbartonshire Council area in each year since 1996.
Answer · Hugh Henry: Funding for treatment services is allocated to NHS boards. East Dunbartonshire falls within the Greater Glasgow NHS Board area. The following table details the funding made available for drug-specific treatment services allocated to Greater Glasgow NHS Board …
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households in the East Dunbartonshire Council area are being provided with personal computers and access to the internet under the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund.
Answer · Margaret Curran: East Dunbartonshire Council is not one of the 12 councils participating in the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund.
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been (a) sought and (b) made available under the (i) public transport, (ii) integrated transport or (iii) rural transport funds to support projects in the East Dunbartonshire Council area in each year since 1996.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: Allocations have been sought and resources awarded to East Dunbartonshire Council as follows:<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=616><TR><TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="TOP" ROWSPAN=2> </TD><TD WIDTH="11%" VALIGN="TOP"><P>1998-99</TD><TD WIDTH="13%" …
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the provision has been of NHS hospital-based or community-based chiropody services for older people in the East Dunbartonshire Council area in each year since 1996.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The information requested is not held centrally. The provision of chiropody services is the responsibility of local NHS systems who will consider the needs of older people when planning and developing local services.
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of domestic house-breaking is per 10,000 people in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Edinburgh, (e) the East Renfrewshire Council area and (d) the East Dunbartonshire Council area.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33076 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: <A HREF="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/sear…
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of vandalism is per 10,000 people in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Edinburgh, (e) the East Renfrewshire Council area and (f) the East Dunbartonshire Council area.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33076 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: <A HREF="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/sear…
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of serious assaults is per 10,000 people in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Edinburgh, (e) the East Renfrewshire Council area and (f) the East Dunbartonshire Council area.
Answer · Jim Wallace: The information requested is given in Table 8, page 26, of the statistical bulletin <I>Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2001</I> published by the Scottish Executive in April 2002, a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 20798…
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of non-sexual crimes of violence is per 10,000 people in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Edinburgh, (e) the East Renfrewshire Council area and (f) the East Dunbartonshire Council area.
Answer · Jim Wallace: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33074 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: <A HREF="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/sear…
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of recorded crimes is per 10,000 people in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Edinburgh, (e) the East Renfrewshire Council area and (f) the East Dunbartonshire Council area.
Answer · Jim Wallace: The information requested is given in table 7, page 25, of the statistical bulletin <I>Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2001</I>, published by the Scottish Executive in April 2002, a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 2079…
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the population density per square kilometre is in (a) Scotland, (b) the East Dunbartonshire Council area and (c) the East Renfrewshire Council area.
Answer · Jim Wallace: The information requested is published by the Registrar General for Scotland in Table 7 of his 2001 <I>Population Report</I> published on 30 September 2002. A copy is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 24442).
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much vacant and derelict land there has been in (a) Scotland, (b) the East Dunbartonshire Council area and (c) the East Renfrewshire Council area in each year since 1993.
Answer · Des McNulty: The information, which is published in the Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey (SVDLS), is set out in the tables. <P>Area of Vacant and Derelict Land (ha), 1995-2001<SUP>1-2</SUP><TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=595><TR><TD WIDTH="33%" VAL…
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of asymetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) capacity is currently taken up in (a) Scotland, (b) the East Dunbartonshire Council area and (c) the East Renfrewshire Council area.
Answer · Iain Gray: Currently ADSL take-up, as a percentage of lines available, stands at just over 3% in Scotland, and 2.3% in East Renfrewshire. There is no ADSL availability in East Dunbartonshire.
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of households are covered by asymetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) in (a) Scotland, (b) the East Dunbartonshire Council area and (c) the East Renfrewshire Council area.
Answer · Iain Gray: Currently ADSL coverage of households stands at about 40% in Scotland, 0% in East Dunbartonshire and about 32% in East Renfrewshire.
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will support the roll-out of information and communication technologies and approaches to core skill development training currently applied in social inclusion partnerships.
Answer · Des McNulty: The Executive has already put in place a range of national initiatives to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and approaches to core skills training across Scotland. The Executive is committed to achieving universal access to t…
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates the likely percentage change will be in school rolls by 2011 in (a) Scotland, (b) the East Dunbartonshire Council area and (3) the East Renfrewshire Council area.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The projected decline in mainstream local authority school rolls in Scotland, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire is set out in the following table: <TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=538><TR><TD WIDTH="27%" VALIGN="TOP"> </TD><TD WIDT…
10 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the take-up rates were for participation in the New Deal for Young People from its inception to date in (a) Scotland, (b) the East Dunbartonshire Council area and (c) the East Renfrewshire Council area.
Answer · Iain Gray: Participation in the New Deal for Young People (NDYP) is mandatory for all aged 18 to 24 years, unemployed for six months or longer. From the start of the programme in April 1998 to the end of September 2002, 100,100 young people have participated in NDYP in …
8 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the funds announced by the Minister for Social Justice in the ministerial statement on housing on 7 November 2002 will be made available to East Dunbartonshire Council
Answer · Margaret Curran: My statement referred to the potential funding arising from the Prudential Regime and changes to the arrangements for funding local authority expenditure on private housing. In relation to the Prudential Regime it will be for individual local authorities not …
8 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds will be allocated to East Dunbartonshire Council and Greater Glasgow NHS Board in each of the next three years to alleviate delayed discharge from hospital of patients resident in the council area
Answer · Frank McAveety: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32998 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at <A HREF="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc…
8 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much non-recurring funds have been allocated since 1996-97 to Greater Glasgow NHS Board to alleviate delayed discharge from hospital of patients resident in the East Dunbartonshire Council area and how many such patients have been discharged as a result
Answer · Frank McAveety: The specific information requested is not available centrally. Allocations are made to health board areas without any specification of how this should be shared with local authority partners.<P>Prior to 2000-01, no additional funds were allocated to health bo…
8 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what acute specialities will be introduced on an out-patient or day-case basis at the new ambulatory care and diagnostic unit at Stobhill Hospital
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The £60 million Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre planned for the site of Stobhill Hospital will encompass a full range of diagnostic and imaging services together with facilities to support day surgery for people living in the Stobhill catchment area. A …
8 Jan 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds have been made available in each year since 1996-97 to East Dunbartonshire Council for the development of respite services and what funds will be made available in each of the next three years
Answer · Frank McAveety: All councils in Scotland, including East Dunbartonshire, have received above inflation increases in grant funding in each year of the current spending review, 2001-04. Such increases will continue over the period of the next review. The total revenue grant su…
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to set targets for reducing morbidity caused by excess alcohol consumption.
Answer · Mary Mulligan: We have no plans at present to set targets to reduce alcohol-related deaths but we say in Plan for Action on alcohol problems that we want to see the current upward trend reversed over time.
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are proposed or are being considered regarding the marking of cases by members of the procurator fiscal service for trial by sheriff and jury, in the light of the arrangements for the prosecution of serious crime in the High Court set out in Modernising the Effective Pro…
Answer · Colin Boyd: The paper <I>Modernising the Effective Prosecution of Serious Crime - Appointment and Role of Advocate Deputes: Proposals for Change</I>, published in September 2002, provided details of the proposed arrangements for the marking of sheriff and jury cases: par…
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are proposed or are being considered to ensure equality of treatment among the pool of eligible candidates from which advocates depute might be selected and appointed, in relation to their terms and conditions and any pension entitlement, in the light of the arrangements…
Answer · Colin Boyd: We will put in place arrangements which ensure that Advocate Deputes are engaged on terms which ensure equality of treatment, including the remuneration of Advocate Deputes and Senior Advocate Deputes. Only Advocate Deputes who are employed by the Crown Offic…
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are proposed or are being considered regarding the terms of appointment and eligibility for reinstatement at the end of the term of appointment for persons seconded from the Crown Office and the Procurator Fiscal Service, in the light of the arrangements for the prosecu…
Answer · Colin Boyd: Members of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service appointed as Advocate Deputes will serve for a similar length of time as those appointed from the Faculty of Advocates. Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service staff will return to the department at…
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether procurators fiscal appointed as ad hoc advocates depute will be required to hold extended rights of audience before the High Court, in the light of the arrangements for the prosecution of serious crime in the High Court set out in Modernising the Effective Prosecution of Serious C…
Answer · Colin Boyd: Members of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service appointed by the Lord Advocate to prosecute in the High Court will have, or will have to obtain, rights of audience before the High Court.
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards will be put in place to protect the independence of solicitors advocate appointed on an ad hoc basis and to ensure that solicitors advocate appointed as ad hoc advocates depute are not appointed in respect of cases emanating from any region in which they undertake criminal…
Answer · Colin Boyd: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32753 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at <A HREF="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc…
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards will be put in place to protect the independence of solicitors advocate appointed on an ad hoc basis and to ensure that solicitors advocate appointed as ad hoc advocates depute are not in partnership with, employed by, consultants for, or hold any other interest in a lega…
Answer · Colin Boyd: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32753 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at <A HREF="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc…
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards will be put in place to protect the independence of solicitors advocate appointed as a senior advocate depute or an advocate depute and ensure that such solicitors advocate are not in partnership with, employed by, consultants for, or hold any other interest in a legal fi…
Answer · Colin Boyd: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32753 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at <A HREF="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc…
18 Dec 2002 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards will be put in place to address any perceived lack of independence of procurators fiscal appointed on an ad hoc basis and to ensure that a fiscal appointed as ad hoc advocates depute are not required to act as an ad hoc advocate depute in any case in which they had any pr…
Answer · Colin Boyd: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32753 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at <A HREF="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc…