Former Member of the Scottish Parliament

Derek Brownlee

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At a glance Derek Brownlee was a Member of the Scottish Parliament.

Questions680 tabled

Derek Brownlee has tabled 680 questions in the Scottish Parliament.

To ask the Scottish Executive what its projected underspend is for 2010-11. 17 Nov 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what its projected underspend is for 2010-11.

Answer · John Swinney · 25 Nov 2010

The expenditure is being closely monitored and managed so that there will be a very small underspend by the end of the financial year, in line with recent performance. HM Treasury has advised that it has abolished the existing end year flexibility arrangements. This means that we will not be allowed to carry forward any underspend from 2010-11 to a future financial year. This will be after our budget for 2010-11 has been reduced by the sum we are planning to carry forward to 2011-12 to support the capital programme in that year.

To ask the Scottish Executive what environmental criteria Scottish Natural Heritage assesses prior to the installation … 11 Nov 2010 · General Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what environmental criteria Scottish Natural Heritage assesses prior to the installation of onshore wind farms.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham · 11 Nov 2010

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is a statutory consultee in relation to all developments which are subject to environmental impact assessment and in relation to all strategic environmental assessments. In addition, SNH may offer comments or advice to local planning authorities on other smaller scale developments where there are significant natural heritage issues. In formulating its advice in all these cases, SNH will consider the likely impacts on flora, fauna, landscape, visual amenity, recreation and access.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of absence due to sickness was in days lost per full-time equivalent employ… 23 Sep 2010 · General Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of absence due to sickness was in days lost per full-time equivalent employee in each NHS board in the last year.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon · 23 Sep 2010

NHSScotland does not gather data on the numbers of days lost due to sickness absence, but does monitor the number of hours lost, as this is a more accurate measure of the impact of sickness absence on the service. For the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010, NHSScotland had an absence rate for the year of 4.75% of the total available contracted hours. This rate represents a 0.2% reduction in sickness absence over the 2008-09 rate of 5.95% and a 0.8% reduction compared with the 2006-07 rate of 5.55%. Percentage rates for each NHS board are published yearly by the Information Services Division (ISD). Further information on sickness absence rates in NHSScotland can be found at the ISD website.

To ask the Scottish Executive in what circumstances being subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scot… 21 Jul 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive in what circumstances being subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 would lead to an organisation being classified as public for national accounting purposes.

Answer · Bruce Crawford · 16 Aug 2010

The classifications of organisations as public under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and for the UK National Accounts are determined separately. The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 provides a definition of a Scottish public authority as: (a) any body which, any other person who, or the holder of any office which “ (i) is listed in schedule 1, or (ii) is designated by order under section 5(1), or (b) a publicly-owned company, as defined by section 6. The United Kingdom National Accounts adopts the broad framework and principles for deciding classifications determined by the European System of Accounts 1995 (ESA95). It is a legal requirement of European Union countries to compile statistical returns on the basis of ESA95. The UK National Accounts are produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on this basis. The ONS is the final arbiter of National Accounts classification decisions in the UK.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has provided in support for Scottish Water borrowing in each financial year s… 24 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has provided in support for Scottish Water borrowing in each financial year since the formation of the organisation.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson · 4 Aug 2010

Scottish Water''s level of borrowing is published in its annual report and accounts for each year. The Bib. numbers for each year are: 2002-03: 28754 2003-04: 33541 2004-05: 36848 2005-06: 39906 2006-07: 43566 2007-08: 46506 2008-09: 48596 2009-10: 51154

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question to S3W-34268 by John Swinney on 8 June 2010, whether a… 17 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question to S3W-34268 by John Swinney on 8 June 2010, whether any civil servants were eligible to receive a bonus for reducing the cost of public services without affecting service outcomes in the last financial year for which figures are available.

Answer · John Swinney · 22 Jun 2010

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34268 on 16 June 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx">http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx</a>.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants were eligible to receive a bonus for reducing the cost of public … 8 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants were eligible to receive a bonus for reducing the cost of public services without affecting service outcomes in the last financial year for which figures are available.

Answer · John Swinney · 16 Jun 2010

This information is not available. All staff in the Scottish Government have a range of objectives which are agreed on an individual basis and against which their performance is assessed. Any performance payment which may be due will depend on an individual''s performance across all of their objectives.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants were eligible to receive a bonus in the last financial year for w… 8 Jun 2010 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants were eligible to receive a bonus in the last financial year for which figures are available.

Answer · John Swinney · 21 Jun 2010

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34266 on 21 June 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx">http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx</a>.

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Motions lodged44 lodged

19 Jan 2011	Protecting Public Services	0 sig.
24 Nov 2010	A Budget for Scotland's People	0 sig.
16 Nov 2010	Prescription Charges	0 sig.
3 Nov 2010	Managing Scotland’s Finances	0 sig.
27 Oct 2010	Support for Business	0 sig.
28 Apr 2010	Living Wage	0 sig.

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Seat & career2 seats held

South of Scotland (region) Regional MSP · Dissolution 3 May 2007 – 22 Mar 2011
South of Scotland (region) Regional MSP · Dissolution 17 Jun 2005 – 2 Apr 2007

Source: this MSP's profile on parliament.scot.

Source: this MSP's official Scottish Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.