Parliamentary questions

Claire Baker

1,724 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.

15 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reasons the project to dual the A92 around Glenrothes was not in the Scottish Transport Projects Review.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19005 on 8 January 2009. 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/Apps…

15 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reasons the Leven to Thornton rail link project was not in the Scottish Transport Projects Review.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR) has recommended 29 transport interventions over the next 20 years that will let us plan for the delivery of an efficient, integrated transport network fit for the 21st century.</p> <p >The Leven to Thornton rail…

15 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be consequential funding from the new £6 million Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Greener Living Fund and, if so, how these funds will be spent.

Answer · Michael Russell: There will be no new consequential funding from the new £6 million Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Greener Living Fund. When consequential funding occurs, those consequentials accrue to the Scottish block as a whole and do not fall to the S…

15 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the institutions that failed to spend their (a) Higher Education Childcare Fund, (b) undergraduate Discretionary Fund, (c) postgraduate Discretionary Fund and (d) any other discretionary funding, in each of the last three years.

Answer · Fiona Hyslop: Any unspent funds from the Higher Education Discretionary Funds are returned by institutions to SAAS. These funds are then redistributed on the basis of applications from institutions with pressure on their current discretionary funds.</p> <p >Therefore, the…

12 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been on the waiting list for a free central heating system in the KY postcode area in each month since, and including, July 2008 for which information is available.

Answer · Stewart Maxwell: Information provided by the managing agent, for the KY postcode area, on the number of applicants on the waiting list in each month during the period requested, is shown in the following table:</p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <thead> <…

12 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many new applications have been received for a free central heating system in the KY postcode area in each month since, and including, July 2008 for which information is available and how many have been considered eligible.

Answer · Stewart Maxwell: Information provided by the managing agent, for the KY postcode area, on the number of applications and the number accepted, subject to survey, in each month during the period requested is shown in the following table:</p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cell…

8 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive on what basis the £7.5 million of accelerated capital spend for further and higher education will be distributed and which capital projects will benefit.

Answer · Fiona Hyslop: The basis on which the £7.5 million of accelerated capital spend for further and higher education will be distributed and the detail of which capital projects will benefit are operational matters for the Scottish Funding Council. I have asked the Scottish Fun…

5 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many students (a) applied for and (b) received funding through the Higher Education Childcare Fund in each of the last five years and what (i) average and (ii) total amount was received.

Answer · Fiona Hyslop: The table below shows the number of applications for support from the Higher Education Childcare Fund, instances of assistance from the fund, the total amount of funding distributed and the average amount of support per instance of assistance. The Higher Educ…

5 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people (a) applied for and (b) received a Lone Parent’s Grant in each of the last three years.

Answer · Fiona Hyslop: Information on the number of students who applied for Lone Parent''s Grant and Lone Parent''s Childcare Grant is not held centrally.</p> <p >The following table shows the number of higher education students who received Lone Parent''s Grant and the number re…

5 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many lone parents it estimates have been studying for higher education qualifications in 2008 and how many did so in each of the last three years.

Answer · Fiona Hyslop: This information is not held centrally.</p>

5 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was distributed through the Higher Education Childcare Fund in each of the last three years, broken down by institution.

Answer · Fiona Hyslop: The following table shows the amount of funding distributed through the Higher Education Childcare Fund by each Scottish institution in academic years 2005-06 and 2006-07. The childcare fund was introduced in academic year 2005-06. Prior to this funding was a…

5 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has plans to make childcare funding a legal right for college and university students rather than it being provided on a discretionary basis.

Answer · Fiona Hyslop: Full-time higher education lone parent students currently have an entitlement to apply for Higher Education Lone Parent Grant and Higher Education Lone Parent Childcare Grant.</p> <p >The Scottish Government currently has no plans to make other child care fu…

4 Dec 2008 · General Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage increase there was in emergency in-patient admissions in Fife in 2007-08, broken down by age group and community health partnership area; what the reasons were for this increase, and what measures the Scottish Government will take in response.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Between 2006-07 and 2007-08 there were increases in the number of emergency in-patient admissions of 3.4 per cent in Fife, 5.7 per cent in Dunfermline and West Fife and 6 per cent in Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth. There was a 1.4 per cent reduction in Glenrothes a…

27 Nov 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to tackle the number of pupils being suspended or expelled for alcohol-related issues from schools in mid Scotland and Fife, broken down by local authority area.

Answer · Maureen Watt: At a strategic level, the Scottish Government published a discussion paper in June, setting out a wide ranging set of actions and proposals to tackle alcohol misuse amongst young people and the wider population.</p> <p >Action includes supporting schools and…

27 Nov 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils have been suspended or expelled for alcohol-related issues in mid Scotland and Fife in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

Answer · Maureen Watt: The available information on the number of pupils of temporarily excluded from school in each Local Authority area for Substance misuse “ alcohol from 2003-04 - 2006-07 can be found in the answer to question S3W-18241 on 11 December 2008.</p> <p >There were…

20 Nov 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17443 by Shona Robison on 13 November 2008, how many premature babies were born and what percentage of births this represented in each of the last five years, broken down by community health partnership area.

Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested is given in the following table</p> <p >Number and Percentage of Premature Babies<sup>1,2,3</sup> by Community Health Partnership (CHP) Area Year Ending 31 March</p> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <thead> <tr > …