Kenny MacAskill

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7659 by Henry McLeish on 20 June 2000, what fuel costs have been incurred by Scottish Enterprise in each year since 1999.

Answer · Nicol Stephen: This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise. The information requested is not held by the Executive.</p>

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7663 by Angus MacKay on 20 June 2000, what fuel costs have been incurred by the Scottish Prison Service in each year since 1999.

Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p> <p>The information is as follows: </p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td> <p align=center>Year</p></td…

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7664 by Mr Jack McConnell on 18 July 2000, what fuel costs it has incurred in each year since 1999, broken down into (a) electricity, (b) gas and (c) liquid fuel.

Answer · Tom McCabe: The fuel costs incurred by the Scottish Office from 1 April 1999 to 1 July 1999 and for the Scottish Executive from 1 July 1999 to 31 March 2005 are as follows:</p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width="100%"> <thead> <tr> <td> <p>Yea…

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7661 by Sarah Boyack on 13 September 2000, what fuel costs have been incurred by each water authority in each year since 1999.

Answer · Rhona Brankin: This is an operational matter for Scottish Water, and I have asked the Chief Executive to write to you on this.</p>

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15476 by Iain Gray on 14 May 2001, what the cost of fuel for fire service vehicles was in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03, (c) 2003-04 and (d) 2004-05, broken down by fire board.

Answer · Hugh Henry: This information is not held centrally however we have been provided with the following information from fire and rescue services:</p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td> <p>Fire and Rescue Service</p></td> <td> <…

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15477 by Mr Jim Wallace on 14 May 2001, what the cost of fuel for police vehicles was in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03, (c) 2003-04 and (d) 2004-05, broken down by police force.

Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-16906 on 2 June 2005. 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/wa…

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15475 by Angus MacKay on 5 June 2001, how much has been spent on fuel for ministerial cars in each month since May 1999.

Answer · Tom McCabe: I refer the member to the answers to questions S1W-30356, on 22 October 2002 and S2W-19095, on 21 September 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="…

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30356 by Mr Andy Kerr on 22 October 2002, what the cost has been of the government car service in each month since September 2002, showing the fuel, vehicle purchase or leasing and staff costs and the cost of conversion of any cars to liquid petroleu…

Answer · Tom McCabe: The monthly expenditure on fuel, vehicle purchase, and staff costs for the Government Car Service (Scotland) (GCS)⁴ since September 2002 is shown in the following table:</p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td>…

8 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-3027 by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 October 2003, what the fuel costs were for ambulance services in each NHS board area in 2003-04 and 2004-05.

Answer · Andy Kerr: The Scottish Ambulance Service does not collect this information by health board area, but by operating division within its service. Health board area boundaries are not relevant to the ambulance service as they provide a national service.</p> <p>Ambulances a…

7 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any bodies listed under Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 are no longer operational and, if so, which bodies these are and why the Act has not been amended to reflect this.

Answer · Margaret Curran: A number of changes have been made to Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 by primary legislation. These changes include deletions of, additions to and amendments of the descriptions of the listed bodies.</p> <p>Eight bodies which are …

1 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been on a methadone programme in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) NHS board area.

Answer · Hugh Henry: There is no national information that reports the number of people in Scotland who are receiving methadone hydrochloride mixture for opiate dependence. However, in July 2005, National Services Scotland published estimates of the number of people receiving met…

1 Sep 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many premises with off-sale liquor licences there have been in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority area.

Answer · George Lyon: The available information is given in the following table.</p> <p>Premises with Off-Sales Liquor Licences in Force, by Local Authority Area, 1997-2004</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td> <p>Local Authority</p></td> …

29 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many air weapons have been handed in to the police since the airgun hand-in scheme was introduced in March this year.

Answer · Cathy Jamieson: Nine hundred and thirteen air weapons were handed in during the scheme, which ran from 10 March to 3 June 2005.</p>

26 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18181 by Tavish Scott on 24 August 2005, what the duration is of the lease agreements, including start and end dates.

Answer · Tavish Scott: NorthLink leases its three roll-on/roll-off passenger/vehicle vessels from Royal Bank Leasing Ltd under chartering arrangements signed by them on 22 December 2000. Those arrangements provided that, subject to detailed terms and conditions, each charter would …

24 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the use of jet-skis should be limited on (a) the Firth of Forth and (b) rivers and lochs in general and, if so, what additional resources would be made available for such action.

Answer · Tavish Scott: It is the responsibility of local authorities and harbour authorities to consider whether the use of jet-skis needs to be limited. If necessary this can be done using local byelaw powers.</p> <p>On the Firth of Forth there has been co-ordinated action involvi…

24 Aug 2005 · SPCB Written Question

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it is considering registering appropriate .eu top-level domains for itself and the Parliament in phase 1 of EURid's sunrise period and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

Answer · John Scott: The Scottish Parliamentintends to register a number of appropriate .eu domain names. The registrationof .eu domains will be undertaken to protect the Parliament’s interests from activitiessuch as cybersquating and to provide a redirection service to the Parli…

24 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it would support the creation of a geographic second level domain for Scotland as part of the .eu top-level domain that is administered by EURid.

Answer · Tom McCabe: The Scottish Executive has registered the domain name <a href="http://www.scotland.eu/">www.scotland.eu</a> under the EC public policy rules for .eu. There are no plans to create a geographic second level domain.</p>

24 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what input it has had, and will have, into the United Kingdom's governmental verification points and validation agents, as referred to in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 874/2004.

Answer · Tom McCabe: The Scottish Executive has appointed a government verification point to check Scottish public body applications for .eu domain names.</p> <p>The Executive has been working closely with the UK Cabinet Office and the Department for Trade and Industry, who are t…

24 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will encourage other public bodies to register their appropriate .eu top-level domains.

Answer · Tom McCabe: The Scottish Executive wrote to Scottish public bodies on 18 June 2004 to raise their awareness about the .eu top level domain name. However, it is for each individual public body to determine whether or not to register an .eu domain</p>

24 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering registering appropriate .eu top-level domains for itself in phase 1 of EURid's sunrise period and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

Answer · Tom McCabe: Under the public policy rules for .eu top level domains, these have allowed member states to request domain names directly related to their country name. The UK Cabinet Office, in consultation, has reserved a number of geographic names including <a href="http…

18 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people aged (a) 18 and over and (b) under 18 regularly participated in sport or exercise in each year since 1994.

Answer · Patricia Ferguson: The information requested is set out in the following table using three year averages and was collected through a household omnibus survey undertaken by TNS every second month in Scotland. The total sample is normally 6,000 adults and 1,500 young people per a…

18 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) sports halls, (b) grass football pitches, (c) artificial grass football pitches and (d) swimming pools there have been in (i) total and (ii) each local authority area in each year since 1994.

Answer · Patricia Ferguson: This information is not held centrally. I have, however, asked the Chair of <b>sport</b>scotland to write to the member with the information that they have available.</p>

9 Aug 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-17655 by Mr Andy Kerr on 2 August 2005, what the reasons are for the discrepancy in the number of recorded injuries between the “STATS 19” returns and the recorded injury number in the answer to the question for the same period.

Answer · Andy Kerr: The response to S2W-17655, answeredon 2 August 2005, related to admissions to hospital resulting from roadtraffic accidents. The STATS 19 report publishes data that cover all injury roadaccidents (i.e. accidents in which one or more people are injured) which …

29 Jul 2005 · SPCB Written Question

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, in light of the security level in the parliament building being raised to amber, whether it will consider making provision for constituents and other interested parties to hand deliver correspondence and packages to the building and what the reasons are for its positio…

Answer · George Reid: <p class=MsoHeader>In normal circumstances,i.e. when there is not an enhanced state of security alert, hand deliveredcorrespondence and packages from unexpected sources are normally accepted atthe security gatehouse where they are screened in an area which pr…

29 Jul 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what annual charter and leasing costs are incurred by NorthLink Ferries in respect of the ships acquired from their joint venture with the Royal Bank of Scotland and, if the costs are not available, what the reasons are for such unavailability.

Answer · Tavish Scott: NorthLink currently leases three roll-on roll-off ferry vessels from Royal Bank Leasing Ltd under arrangements made between those parties and the Scottish Ministers in preparation for NorthLink’s provision of the Northern Isles ferry service. Under those arra…

28 Jul 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-17650 by Cathy Jamieson on 26 July 2005 which asked for the Executive’s view on whether Scottish courts ought to be able to make applications to the European Court of Justice for preliminary rulings on the validity and interpretation of framework dec…

Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The making of a declaration under Article 35(2) is a matter for the UK government. The Scottish Executive would be fully consulted on any proposal by the UK government to make a declaration and that would be the appropriate context for it to make its views kn…

28 Jul 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-17650 by Cathy Jamieson on 26 July 2005, if the UK Government were to make a declaration under article 35(2) of the Treaty of the European Union accepting the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in justice and home affairs matters, what obl…

Answer · Cathy Jamieson: No implementing legislation would be required to give effect to a declaration under 35(2) of the Treaty of European Union.</p>

14 Jul 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-17356 and S2W-16495 by Cathy Jamieson on 27 June and 23 May 2005, whether the implementation of framework decisions in general is reserved to the UK Government and, if so, what provision within the Scotland Act 1998 reserves such responsibility.

Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-17908 answered on 5 August 2005.All answers to written Parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk…

14 Jul 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-17356 and S2W-16495 by Cathy Jamieson on 27 June and 23 May 2005, whether the reservation in respect of the framework decision relates only to the negotiation of the framework decision or whether its subject matter and implementation are also reser…

Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The reservation relates tothe negotiation of the framework decision as stated in the question S2W-16496answered on 26 May 2005 The responsibility for implementing framework decisionsrests with Scottish Ministers only for subject matters in areas of devolvedco…

4 Jul 2005 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what work has been commissioned of civil servants by special advisers since the inception of the Parliament.

Answer · Tom McCabe: A special adviser can only commission work of a civil servant on behalf of his or her minister as required by the Special Adviser Code of Conduct. Ministers regularly commission work from civil servants either directly or through their special advisers as par…